I'll keep the random details about my day to a minimum, but I do have to mention one thing:
I got pulled over by university police for speeding. Yeah. I was lost and trying to find a place to park and they pull me over for going 34 in a 25 zone. I almost laughed when he said that. I thought I had done something *serious*, I mean, I've never been pulled over before in my life! They ran a check on my license and found nothing, obviously, so they let me go with a warning. It was just so random. I mean, I get pulled over by rent-a-cops for going 9 miles over the speed limit when I was going 80mph down 81 on the way there. I would have been so embarassed if I had gotten my first speeding ticket for going 34 mph!
Anyway, I called jlc because I couldn't find the venue and I met up with her and her boyfriend and we went into the building. There were these giant signs by the doors that said "No flash photography, you will be ejected!"
Adam came out at 7:34 and everyone went batsh*t crazy screaming. He went over to the mic and sang in this really high voice "The hills are alive with the sound of music."
I DIED. I mean, NUNADAM! Everyone else kind of laughed, but I was too in shock to really respond. It was just, shocking as hell and my first thoughts were "OMG, the Adam thread is going to *die*!"
Then Adam said "Not what you were expecting, right?" which, only freaked me out even more because technically, we were expecting that at one point. It was just sooo random and weird. And when I told some people here about it last night, the unanimous first response was "OMG HE KNOWS!"
We were sitting 2 rows behind this...faction of the drama department, so they were a little loud. When Adam was telling his Aida tech-week story, they were all loudly agreeing with his statements about how annoying it was. One girl said something like "raise your hand if you're a musical theater major!" and like, the entire row raised both hands and screamed. It was...interesting.
Same set as before. He sang 2 of my 3 favorite songs from Civilian. I really liked the version of Maria, it was so like, laid back jazz club. It worked, especially for him. Everyone screamed like banshees when he came out and started Glory. Personally, I was in a daze during What I Did For Love. ACL is my absolute favorite show (yes, shocking I know, it's NOT Rent!) so Adam singing it right in front of me was just beyond amazing.
They had announced at the beginning that Adam had to leave directly from the show, so he wouldn't be able to sign autographs. After I left, however, I was walking across this big parking lot to get over to where I parked the car. I noticed a bunch of people kind of lurking around this one area, holding like, Rent stuff, so I figured I'd hang out. They were all in a group, so I called Em and talked to her. The girl from SUNY Cortland that was running the show came out the door and shooed people away, so I kind of hung back. Then Adam and his bald security/roadie/whatever guy came out holding cigarettes. Which was hot.
There was a group of kids hanging at the opposite end of the building and one of the guys called "I was the person that yelled 'Marry Me!'" Adam told him "That's not legal in this state!"
These two girls (women?) went over to him, so I figured it was safe, so I went over as well. They were telling him how they would have come earlier, but they had to come from Syracuse. Being the complete and utter geek that I am, I raised my hand and exclaimed "I came from Syracuse!", grinng like a total fool. Adam was like "Wooo Syracuse!" and started to sign the thing for the girl. A bunch of other people came over, like, 25ish and were taking pictures and stuff. I kind of hung back at first because I figured that I'd let them have their chance, since I'd already met him once before. One person's camera wasn't working, so they held the pose for like a minute and finally Adam said- without losing his smile/expression- "Come on, darling, let's get it together!" The girl gave up on the picture and some other people took some. Then the security/techie/bald man said something like "Okay, we'll get a few more!" and Adam repeated "Two more!" I had been standing literally right next to him the whole time, but he kept autographing stuff from the people on his right. So I didn't really step forward or anything, I just kind of held out my Rent OBC windowcard and said "Can you sign this for me?" He signed it and I said thank you and stepped back. Then he signed one more thing and went back inside.
Sorry it's so long. I have the memory of a really nerdy elephant (best line ever) so I hope all you people that hate long posts will forgive me this time.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never
knowing how
Updated On: 4/7/06 at 01:00 PM
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