Fiddler on the Ruff.

Wow. So CRAAZZZZZY experience. That show, despite my distaste for its solemn nature has kind of become my baby. Why you may ask? Well I will tell you. Lets start with make up. I enjoy doing hair and make up it's definitely a blast, but you know what I do not enjoy at all? Giving men artificial facial hair. First of all, spirit gum. . . will never be pleasant. Ever. It smells awful and I felt so bad for all the guys who had to wear it on their chin all night for many nights, not just the shows, but the dress rehearsals too. Also, the shinanigans that we used to gray their hair. Was even worse. The make up room was like a pool of toxic fumes by show time. I'm amazed I didn't pass out every night. However, in my opinion the guys looked great. Particularly Will Glad who played the rabbi. People didn't even recognize him. We aged him quite a bit. I was proud of the work we'd put into it. It was definitely worth the many many hours I had to stay AFTER rehearsals to try and force decisions out of McCormick about beards and hair. Next, costumes. I didn't design them so I can't take credit for that, but boy did it feel like I made a lot of them. I spent many nights working on shirts for Kit and Brianna trying to help them out with the MASSIVE load they'd taken on. Ultimately I thought things were pretty authentic right down to the hats and the prayer shawls. Definitely worth the extra hours. Although I've officially slept through way too many physics and topics classes and have no fallen behind. Oh wait did I mention the acting part. Yeah. STRESSSSSSSFUL. I was so freaked out about the whole thing. Don't make me sing. Really. That's way out of my comfort zone. I thought Inga Swanson surpassed my comfort zone. Yeah I was wrong. Singing is way more nerve wrecking than flirting incessantly. I think I learned a lot though. Especially about character development and working with new people. Directors especially. It was definitely way different than what I was used to, but in the end I was greatful for Mr. McCormick's firm direction, because while it wasn't necessarily what I wanted to do with the character it was still a good push in a good direction. I think I've come out of this show with significantly more strength in my ability to act as well as my ability to take criticisms constructively.

So thanks to everyone who came to the show and if you came to see the show this past Thursday, let me personally apologize for everything that went wrong. Much of it wasn't anyone's fault, but still. That was a poor excuse for a show. Saturday made up for it, and I wish everyone who'd come on Thursday had returned on Saturday, because if you were honest when you said that Thursday was good, you would have been blown away Saturday.

Anyway, hopefully photos to come, because that would be neat.