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Hmm.. SOOOO MANY.

The thing that first comes to mind is a great production of West Side Story I worked on. The costumes were amazing, as was the dancing.

During our 4th performance or so, my friend Lauren was in the group dance to 'Cool,' and her skirt fell straight down, but she managed to keep it around her knees or something, I suppose, and kept dancing without picking up her skirt!!! DEDICATION

I was Rosemary in H2$ this year (wow i say that alot on here =/) and we were on the "Rosemary" scene where Finch and Rosemary are confessing their love for each other. Usually we just sang through it, and avoided the kiss, but that night, our Director decided we had to get it over with. So she started the music, and he sang, and then we kissed. It was THE most awkward thing ever, because it was my first kiss (stage/real life) and I don't even know where his mouth had been or has been (he's kind of a man whore.) Then they made everyone else leave, and we had to do the scene like 11 more times. It got less and less awkward, until opening night.

We were doing the scene, and we had always broken apart at the same time. Well, on opening night, I went to pull away, and he held on. I let out this huge snort, and since we were both wearing body mics, it was incredibly loud. REALLY embarrassing.

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I had laryngitis during "Annie" and I played Miss. Hannigan. Thaaaat was interesting. I sucked on a ricola every time i was backstage.

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My favourite production would have to be when we did "Chicago" last school year in the fall. I had transferred in and asked the TD about working on crew right away to see how things were done compared to my previous university and I had the time of my life. It was a mixture of some older students and a bunch of us younger ones. I was working the flies for this one, and I only had about 3 cues the entire show, so most of my time was spent in the Green Room chit chatting with people and getting to know each other. Our props master would be getting the wheelchair ready for the beginning and do a wheelchair dance while Lip synching "I am my own best friend" while wheeling himself on the prop out to the stage. And being the goofy bunch we are, we'd dance around to the more bouncy tunes and overact the emotional ones for our own amusement. And by the end of each show, the Techs were all dancing and singing along softly for the big finale on whatever side of stage they were on. And after production its a thing to preset before leaving to cut down on work for the next day and make sure things are still working, so we'd ride the platforms to their spots like a skateboard and play with the air castors and have contests to see who could sweep the stage fastest without missing a spot. And its a custom here for all the techs after the final performance to have a couple shots of whiskey and the nicest cigar we can afford behind the scene shop if weather permits as a treat for a job well done.

When I was Jo in Little Women le musicale, we had trap doors that I used for entering the attic. Well after Fire Within Me I was supposed to go down the trap and shut the door on this big drum beat, but my head wasn't in enough and I hit myself with the trap door which then caused me to slip on the ladder, I managed to wrap my foot around a rung of the ladder and I fell backwards then causing my many giant skirts to flip over my head. And no one was there to witness it. hahaha
(I hit myself in the head a 2nd time with the trap door giving myself a minor concussion...needless to say, we cut that particular trap door.)

Choreographing 3 intense dance numbers in one night with numerous dance breaks and then not going back to it until 3 days later and expected to still know it. Yay. But I love it all. I love that the choreographer also understands that we have to be able to sing at the same time and choreographs accordingly. Now if only my partner wasn't incredibly awkward..hm.

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