ღ LisaAngel ღ

I have had the most amazing week. Not only did it start with the awsome show of a midsummer night's dream, we ended it with Shakespeare Competition Friday and Saturday. Ok so we all panicked this wednesday because we had almost no blocking done for the high school ensamble scene and we were going to compete with it Saturday. Rushing through the blocking, we actually had it all blocked two days before competition. Sadly we didn't have rehearsal on Friday (dooh, we were at competition all day...) so all we could do was practise the ensamble on the bus to and from Cedar City on Friday.

Friday...

Left school in normal time to drive up to Cedar City, and everyone was very excited. We all screamed and practised on the bus all the way up. After a workshop about improvising at 11, we had "lunch" at the cutest little place (actually all we did is that everyone got chocolate coke which turned out to be disgusting (i tried Krystal's) and so me and Lana shared a chocolate shake ^^ Yummie



Tech Olympics were during the day, and at four a clock our IEs started. So me, Kyndal and Jennifer got to our first round with our directors McKenna and Sharissa. They were awsome, taking good care of the three of us though they were both there volunterily ^^ love

During our first round I was so nervous, but the judge didn't say anything, just wrote on our ballot and then when everone was done she just said bye. No comments. Gaaah -_- Before the second round we had a lot of extra time, about 45 min, so we just hung out outside the classroom where the round would be held, and had lots of fun taking pictures...

 

The second round was probably the best we've ever done with the scene, everything went awsome. The judge liked it a lot, and he's done the play 7 times and still thought that we beautifully expressed the music in the words... or something like that. Well he liked it a lot and we were the only ones not getting fix notes :D

Being all hyper, and having about halv an hour before our third and last round, we decided to have some fun. We spent our hyper energy on jumping around taking awsome pics around a pretty waterfall set.

 

Then all of a sudden we found this cute little bench that was soo romantic. So Jenn grabbed a guy who happened to walk by (the SUU - Southern Utah University - was full of students/actors walking around) and she got a cute picture with him on the bench. He was a little shocked when Kyndal stopped him from running away and so she got a picture too.. Cuuuute ^^

 

After he left three other guys came up to us and asked if they could be in our pictures too. So Jenn had some fun with them.. Haha random lovely Jenn :P



The third round was our least best that day, though I still think we did great. Heading back to the group, we met the middle schoolers who had just done their Ensamble Scene. We finally got on the bus after a long time of waiting for a group that was in a postponed round, and got back to Hurricane. Driving home I managed to stay awake, but the minute I got home and realised I would be back again in school - on a Saturday - within seven hours, I fell asleep.

Saturday...

Luckily we didn't do the IEs today, because Jennifer got sick along with her sister Sara, so it would have been hard to do our trio scene without Jenn as Oberon. Anyway, we met at school at 7 am, which was way to early for some people.. for most people. Everyone was tired, but there is nothing to wake you up like Rich full of energy and some crazy warm ups with the team. Gosh I love this team... <3

So, we left for Cedar again, and arrived in time to let the middle schoolers off to their IEs, since it was the opposite way from Friday today, and we did a few run throughs of the Ensamble Scene in an empty parking lot, the whole high school cast. I must say, for not having had the blocking for more than two days, we did pretty awsome ^^

 

Watching some other ensamble scenes before lunch, we saw (among others) Tuacahn's playing a really creepy scene. Scary, oh yes. Then more run throughs and at 2 we went to get ready for the preformance.

We did good. We actually did good. The judges liked it and we had fun, and that's all that counts. At one point, Gareth shouted "Cupid" at the wrong place, but since he did it with confidence it didn't matter. It sounded right. And at the end Courtney didn't get any sticks so Gareth who happened to be sitting next to her according to colour of our shirts gave her one of his so they both had one each and that melted the judges' hearts. Big Gareth helping little adorable Courtney out of trouble... cute ^^

We got good feedback, some critique, but mostly good. Hahaha the best part was when the woman judge said that Brian was a little too into it, and that she had been thinking "C'mon and blink, Obe baby, blink!" x)

Also, we had the funny moment of Rich saying that Gareth's beat for the first line was to be sexier than Brad Pitt xP hahaha



All in all, to sum it up. It's been a wonderful two days though our school only made like 9th place and the best we did was 3rd for the middle school ensamble. But still, I think that's awsome because there were A LOT of schools there and we had the most fun, no doubt :D

I have like a billion of pictures from there, but I can't fit them all here. Gonna create an album on Facebook tomorrow so you can all see everything from the Shakespeare Competition, the Show of the Play in school, and everything else that's got to do with Shakespeare...


Love to Lana for being totally awsome ^^

Now I have to sleep. Love to you all <3