Part two of yesterday.
Oct. 4th, 2004 02:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xiphiasYeah, so I got up to about noon for yesterday. Let's see if I can remember the rest of the day . . .
I came home and puttered around the house a bit. Eventually, Lis and I decided that we wanted pizza and ice cream, so we walked down to a pizza place and got a couple slices and a gyro. Then we drove and got ice cream.
Then I dropped Lis off and drove down to MIT at around 4:30, 5 or so. 'Cause I'd decided to audition for the chorus of Iolanthe that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
navrins and greenlilly and folks were putting on.
I got in. I've not been on stage since high school (well, okay, I played a set or two at Cholmondely's at Brandeis, but that doesn't count, exactly). . . I'm moderately terrified. But it's only the chorus, so I'll be fine. I've got a score, so I need to start learning the music for the bass chorus.
Then I drove over togilana's Bithday Luau. Which was a blast. I didn't know very many people when I got there, but everyone was hugely nice and friendly, so I knew everyone by the time I left.
Anyway, after a couple hours,tapuz, laurens10, gnomi, and mabfan showed up, none of whom I see often enough.
(Actually, there's NOBODY on my friends list that I see enough, frankly. 'Cept MAYBEcheshyre, and that's 'cause I see her an average of 16 hours a day or so. And I could do with seeing her more. But that's besides the point.)
Turns outmabfan is a huge fan of Iolanthe -- it's his favorite G&S play. He's got the entire thing memorized, can sing most of the parts from memory. I told him he should audition, but he pointed out that he's shomer shabbat, which would make things a bit tricky. He did, however, let me know that, if we screw this play up, he's going to personally beat all of us up. 'Cause it's his favorite.
So, everybody -- if you want to be beaten up by Michael Burstein, just screw up Iolanthe. I mean, he IS cute and I'm sure SOME of us involved with the musical are kinked.
Somehow, I don't suppose that's what he meant, though.
I also got to seechanaleh and lots of other folks, whose LJ names are escaping me at the moment. I had a total blast, met lots of cool people, and think that Gilly should have birthdays EVERY year.
Gilly also has an inflatable sukkah.
She kicked us all out at 10:30 or 11 or so, because she'd been partying for over 24 hours or so by that point, and needed to work in the morning.
So, yay yesterday. Was cool.
I came home and puttered around the house a bit. Eventually, Lis and I decided that we wanted pizza and ice cream, so we walked down to a pizza place and got a couple slices and a gyro. Then we drove and got ice cream.
Then I dropped Lis off and drove down to MIT at around 4:30, 5 or so. 'Cause I'd decided to audition for the chorus of Iolanthe that
navrins and greenlilly and folks were putting on.I got in. I've not been on stage since high school (well, okay, I played a set or two at Cholmondely's at Brandeis, but that doesn't count, exactly). . . I'm moderately terrified. But it's only the chorus, so I'll be fine. I've got a score, so I need to start learning the music for the bass chorus.
Then I drove over to
gilana's Bithday Luau. Which was a blast. I didn't know very many people when I got there, but everyone was hugely nice and friendly, so I knew everyone by the time I left.Anyway, after a couple hours,
tapuz, laurens10, gnomi, and mabfan showed up, none of whom I see often enough.(Actually, there's NOBODY on my friends list that I see enough, frankly. 'Cept MAYBE
cheshyre, and that's 'cause I see her an average of 16 hours a day or so. And I could do with seeing her more. But that's besides the point.)Turns out
mabfan is a huge fan of Iolanthe -- it's his favorite G&S play. He's got the entire thing memorized, can sing most of the parts from memory. I told him he should audition, but he pointed out that he's shomer shabbat, which would make things a bit tricky. He did, however, let me know that, if we screw this play up, he's going to personally beat all of us up. 'Cause it's his favorite.So, everybody -- if you want to be beaten up by Michael Burstein, just screw up Iolanthe. I mean, he IS cute and I'm sure SOME of us involved with the musical are kinked.
Somehow, I don't suppose that's what he meant, though.
I also got to see
chanaleh and lots of other folks, whose LJ names are escaping me at the moment. I had a total blast, met lots of cool people, and think that Gilly should have birthdays EVERY year.Gilly also has an inflatable sukkah.
She kicked us all out at 10:30 or 11 or so, because she'd been partying for over 24 hours or so by that point, and needed to work in the morning.
So, yay yesterday. Was cool.
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Date: 2004-10-04 11:46 am (UTC)Gilly also has an inflatable sukkah.
Pop-up sukkah. Inflatable cactus. Easy to get them confused :)
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Date: 2004-10-04 11:53 am (UTC)Uh, yeah.
:-)
I've seen MIT do Iolanthe a few times and enjoyed it each and every time. I'm sure this one will be great.
(The Lord Chancellor is actually my favorite character in all of G&S, and I would love to play him one day. But I don't think I have the voice.)
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Date: 2004-10-04 11:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-04 11:57 am (UTC)Let me know if your LC actor gets sick... :-)
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Date: 2004-10-04 12:08 pm (UTC)Congratulations, and break a leg.
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Date: 2004-10-04 12:10 pm (UTC)That'd be me,
Oh, and, not to worry. MITG&SP isn't, mostly, Theater People. It's normal people who like theater. I mean, for some values of "normal". You know what I mean.
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Date: 2004-10-04 12:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-04 12:17 pm (UTC)Not to worry, though. Nobody will.
- the director