I posted to my deviant art journal earlier today that I'd been letting everything get on top of me lately (with all these rehearsals the biggest cause of the problem, perhaps it'd seem more real if I had a huge list of things I was doing but the rehearsals alone are actually taking up about nine hours a week and with the show approaching that number is on the increase) so the prospect of giving up two hours of my Saturday (my only full free day because of Sunday rehersals) wasn't something I was looking forward to and I could have spent the time revising and doing my maths courseowrk (although to be fair I could have started my science revision ages ago but the play has got in the way) I did actually spend two hours on chemistry revision and the Physics revision will be done on Monday (no rehearsal and even if the 25% of final grade examination! Is on Wednesday I cannot revise at all on Tuesday because we're rehearsing until 7)
However today wasn't a rehersal as such, it was the schooI's christmas fair and we were singing some smaple songs from 'Little Shop of Horrors' to promote the show and to sell some tickets basically. I got into school at five to one and not many people were there so I spent the majority of my time browsing the stalls, eventually my friend Haydn arrived and we spent some time browsing before finding my friend Lauren on one of the stalls and I stood chatting to her until half past when we went in to the music room to have a quick rehersal. (People were already in the music room as we were supposed to be in there for one but they were singing solo parts and I got bored listening so I went off to talk) We managed to rehearse all three songs very quickly (usually our teacher stops every bar and spots a few thousand errors) and we were on at Three to sing four songs. First we all sang the title song and people kept forgetting the words because we didn't have a score, the lyrics are behind the cut:
I typed all of them out myself so I hope if you're reading this you'll comment because I don't spend hours on end writing to my journal (I seriously think this entry will take an hour to write) for the sake of my good health. Anyway as you can see (if you clicked the cut) all three choruses have the same tune but different words and that's why people go wrong because they all sing the first verse each time (except some people who learned the songs) but there weren't many of us there so it wasn't really noticeable, secondly we sang 'Skid Row' which is the first major song of the play but also my least favourite because I play a tramp and I have to eat out of a bin (why me?) however today Maria got to sing the solo because the person who does sing it was away and she did it really well and that song worked. The third was a duet which was the thing I reffered to as a 'solo' earlier so I was stood there getting bored in our little singing troupe, it's okay on the night when we're backstage because I sit and read, can you imagine me sat backstage on the night reading 'Eerie Queerie' Finally we sang a song from the choir which was called 'Seasons of Love' I have mentioned it before in an entry called 'The Bridges he burned' and we all did that one really well. I'm thinking of sticking with choir after the production ends (It was obligatory for 'Little Shop of Horrors') until the carol service, after that I'll have to lave because not many boys do choir and I don't want to get laughed at. So after that (it was about quarter past three) we all went shopping (well, me, Maria and Haydn) but then we found Jess and Lisa and Jess bought me a blue tinsel headband which I was hence obligated to wear and they said I should wear it on Monday but I might just get beat up so I'm saving that for civvies day (we were backstage on Friday and Chloe made me wear a dress and someone took a picture of me) and (as well as a load of cakes which is the sort of thing one buys at these occasions) I purchased a Squidward teddy for Charlie and just because Lauren was on the stall she gave me some free bath salts which I don't think I'll ever use and I also bought a Santa video of Charlie to watch so I'll give him them for Christmas I think. After going consumer whore all around we sat down and had a chat (I was tempted to buy coffee but I didn't) then we watched the cheerleaders (which has scarred me for life, partly due to scantily clad females lifting their legs so high we can see their underwear but mainly there was this one girl who looked out of place with all those slender cherleaders, in the nicest way possible.) Then I said my farewells until Monday (well Sunday for Maria because it's rehersal from ten to five!) and walked home with Jess, so all in all I had a great day. Then I came home to sit on the computer chair for two hours and I sorted out my sapce but I'm worried that all the time I spend there diverts me from LJing, DAing and most importantly right now WoMing because the site has picked up lately. I had been hoping that would happen because I had began to get bored but now all is normal and I have to thank Windy for her wonderful leadership skills in getting everyone to pull together and be active again. So If you're reading this (which I hope you are because I've told you to) then well done, you're a star! Current Location: La Petite Champignon Feeling: ecstatic Listening To: 'God is A DJ' Pink
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