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#1

How do you preserve memories from a show?

I mean, I do the whole scrapbook thing, but there must be something more creative than that to remember something you put so much blood, sweat, and tears into... I mean, in my last play, I was in a burlap sack for hours on end... Any suggestions?
#2

re: How do you preserve memories from a show?

I take a big shoebox and I paint it with craft paint, then I write the name of the show on top of the lid. I also take one flower from a boquet and I hang it upside down to dy it out. Then I'll take things from the show like a piece of the set, programs, small momentos from backstage, and I put in something that represents my part. I was recently in Beauty And The Beast and I played a wolf. In my box I put a piece of the castle set that the whole cast signed, a plastic rose, a dried flower, a program that everyone signed, an empty bottle of hairspray(from backstage), a minature statue of a wolf, a notebook with Belle on the front, a pen in the shape of a rose, a picture of all of the wolves, and a small bag that all of the wolves got that had chocolate in it. It was called "Wolf Food", but I ate the chocolate first. Doing something like this will make it last forever. Every time you come across the box and open it up and find all the stuff, you will remember all those practices and inside jokes that went on backstage. This way you will never loose any of the memories from the show that you worked so hard to perform. Good luck
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#3

re: How do you preserve memories from a show?

I was gonna say scrapbook. I have a great scrapbook (filled up now, I need to start a new one) of all the shows I have done. I love looking back at it. As for the burlap sack... sit in one every once in a while? re: How do you preserve memories from a show? What show WAS that?
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#4

re: How do you preserve memories from a show?

Hahaha. Burlap sack? I'm intrigued. The worst I ever had to do was curl up in this little box for the first two scenes of a show. The box was an egg that I "hatched" out of later on.

Anyway, I've tried scrapbooking. I'm just not good at stuff like that. I take a bunch of pictures backstage and save all those. That's my way. Heh. Not quite as nice as a scapbook, but...
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#5

re: How do you preserve memories from a show?

Surely if you've put all your blood, sweat, and tears into something, you don't need a lot of things to remember that memory? Sure you might forget the dates of something, or a few names, but as long as you can recall the feeling...it will be a special memory.

That or yeah, a scrapbook will do! lol
#9

re: How do you preserve memories from a show?

I tend to put absolutely everything in photo albums
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#10

re: How do you preserve memories from a show?

to preserve my memories i would try and have sex with as many people in the cast as possible, preferably backstage during the show.
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#11

re: How do you preserve memories from a show?

This is relly bad, but I steal a prop from every show that I have been in. (Yes, I know..)
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#12

re: How do you preserve memories from a show?

I second zannadont. There will always be that one person who taped it, or their parents just HAD to have a copy or something to the effect. They probably don't want to say anything, but, if you ask around, you could probably get your hands on one. Schools/companies are allowed to tape a copy for educational purposes, their library, etc. So, you might not even have to get one illegally!

Pictures, signed shirts/sweatshirts are always amazing. If you have a cast retreat - buy/find some little token. I wish it was possible to preserve a show in all of it's wonderness, but alas, it isn't. Get together with cast member and sing the songs over.

It would be pretty nifty if you asked to keep the sack and/or bought our own and asked everyone to sign it.

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