4/01/2004 09:22:00 AM|||Andrew|||Yet another play performance to more than 750 high school students awaits, though hopefully this one will go better than last week's ridiculousness. Because they got their late (but had to be back in time for their precious schoolbusses to take them home) we had to cut the production short...on the fly. Boy was that fun. Worse, the audience was less than polite. They didn't laugh at what I consider the funnier parts, laughed at strange bits, and generally made it known one way or another that they didn't want to be there. Worst of all was at the emotional and romantic climax of the show: the two main characters embrace, their nerves settled just before their wedding, and a guy near the front yells: "Give her the tounge!" I'm pretty sure everyone was pretty flustered after that.

Well, we've cut some stuff from the show, so we ought to get through it all with plenty of time. And hopefully someone will instill holy fear into this new group coming in as regards acting up when watching a serious play. Though, knowing high schoolers (especially 11th graders) that might just make things worse. I think I feel worst for those kids that actually appreciate what we're doing but have their experience ruined (or at least dampened) by those around them. Wait. No, I feel worst for me and my fellow castmates. ;)

In other, somewhat related news, I didn't finish my research paper prospectus, despite staying up late into the night. So now not only am I tired out and possibly unable to give my best performance, but I will have very little time between now and the due date (3:55) to finish it. Ah well. It will get done, as always, somehow. Then I have to write the Actual research paper. Egads.

More for later, I suppose, but not until tonight sometime. An early sleep is looking good about now.|||108084013414189639|||Oi, Busyness