omg Bye Bye Birdie was sooo great! on wed i went to go see it (there are two casts of it) i sat with "my daughter" Faith and "Ursula" or Paige and some other ppl. we had a great time and it was good to watch how the othwer Mrs. MacAfee (my character) did her lines and songs.
(the telephone hour song)
thursday was my first night of it. i was sooo nervous. i was seriously sweating and shaking all b4 the first scene i was in. we get on stage and i have to sit on this tiny sofa with my husband and do nothing for 5 mins. well the sofa is super small and i had to brace myself on his leg to keep from falling off. suddenly it came time for me to say my line and without even thinking i said it perfectly! it seems that my lines have become so natural that i could say them easily whereas b4 i had to really think about them.
the rest of act one went really well. i did my big speech with no mistakes. carl (my husband) didnt make me laugh. my mic worked. i song my song. it was great! i even fainted and carl caught me perfectly for one of the scenes! yay!!
scene two came and it was time for carl and mines BIG song. he forgot the words and song either nothing or strings of random words. it was embarrasing but funny so i didnt care. when the reprise of the song came later i lost all fear and literally screamed the words to drown him out. lol he thanked me later for that.
friday i had work then nick and i got a ride home from a driver and hung out till i went to Nifty Fifties with my theatre ppl. tons of us went and there was the prom that night too so the place was paked with kids. we sat a a bigger table. it was faith (my daughter) vickie (she wasnt in the show she was just a friend) and me. then across from us was andrew (my son) Paige (my daughters best freind ursula) and maddie (maude the bartender) we had the best time! we made hats with our theatre names on them (mine said Doris MacAffee) and we song grease songs and had a great time just laughing and talking.
saturday was the last show and we went CRAZY!!! at one part chris (conrad birdie) takes a can of seltzer water and he is supposed to shake it up, open it and drink the foam that comes out. well he shhok it really hard and the foam goes all down my dress and i yelped into the microphone. then my son add-libed all these lines about having a crush on Ursula lol! soooo funny! he danced with her and asked her to call him and hugged her it was great! at curtain calls my husnband son and i bow together and when carl andf i stepped back andrew was grapped by urulas and "debra sue" and kissed on his cheeks and ha a long stemmed rose put in his mouth lmao! so cute!!
anywho... during another scene conrad and my daughter are alone flirting then all these girls r supposed to appear and dance with him b/c they all want him. well the girls went crazy and messed up there hair to look "afetr sex", smeared thier lipstick, put leaves in the hair, wore things inside out, and literally punced on him screaming "lets have an orgy!!" freaking hilarious! another scene conrad passes out and we r all supposed to just stand there, well one girl runs up takes his shoe off and screams " i got his shoe! i got conrads shoe!!" and runs away!!
(my daughter and conrad when there are alone flirting)
ok none of that was prob funny to any of u but it was great! also the stage crew ppl went and bought a case of Peeps and hid them all over the stage so wed be doing a scene and suddenly there would be a random yellow peep sitting there. it was soooo funnny!
curtain calls came and after we bowed we were asked to sit. suddenly the director grabbed my hand and announced to the auidience who i was, made my mom come to the stage and handed us each a dozen roses, then everone behind me thre confetti and pulled poppers! it was soooo cute!!
i stayed and helped clean up then got changed at home and picked up my friend danielle and we went to the cast party. i hate dances i really do yet i have NEVER had so much fun at a dance! i danced for hours and hours. i literally danced for three hours straight and i had the best time ever! i made so ajmny freinds b/c i finally wasnt shy anymore. my son and i did the tango with roses in our mouths until we turned and realized that no one but us was dancing and that everyone was just standing there watching and cheering. it was great! we got t-shirts and got them signed and we danced and took pics and oooo it was great!! ive never danced so much in my life! or sang so much! they played corny broadway songs and we danced and screamed the words to them like crazy... same with every song tho lol.
afterwards i was about to leave when these two girls asked my to go to nifty's with them so we went and had fun there till at midnight we figured we better leave.
i cried at the ned of the cast party with everyone else. i hid it tho. this morning i woke up and went for a run and listened to bye bye birde and cried for the whole two miles. those ppl were my family. for months andrew and faith have been my kids and carl my hunsband. weve become so close. i cant believe i wont see them anymore. next year they will all join again. i was the only senior. im the only one who cant come back. im going to miss them so much. i love them and well hopefully i keep in touch with some of them and they want to have a second cast party in the summer. i hope it goes through. .... ugh im crying again just writing this.
my thanks and love go with all of you!
Carl: for making me laugh all the time. warm 7up!!
Andrew: for all the hugs and kisses! i love u like u really r my son! i hope if i ever do have a son hes just like u! i love u so much!
Faith: for being the first to really be-friend me. i had so much fun giggling and wispering behind carls back! fuzzy wuzzy!!
Paige: for the orgy thing! great times and the dances at the cast party. we just became really close the night it was all over
and to everyone else: i love u and wish u the best in Godspell! i promise i'll come back to see it and help out!
~*~ Mrs. MacAfee ~*~
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