5/10/13

Friday was an interesting day.  I did a lot.

After school, I hurried over to the middle school to watch ES, PR, and BF's show, All Dolled Up.  ES wrote the script and directed, PR wrote the music, and BF did the choreography.  The actual performance was Saturday night, but there was a late dance rehearsal added at the same time, so I had to go to dress rehearsal instead.

The show itself had its good points, as well as its not so good points.  For starters, all of the leads were very good at their parts.  The show was well-cast, and you could tell there was a lot of talent on the stage.  In addition, the script itself was very well done.  At different times throughout the show, you sympathized with almost every main character, hated almost every main character, and cracked up laughing at the humor in every thing.

As for the not-so-good parts, it was clearly an issue of time.  BF even said after the runthrough, "I think if we could have had a tech week rather than a tech day we would have been able to make it fabulous by this time."  I'm sure that it was better on the night of the show, having worked out more of the kinks.  But it wasn't completely awful to begin with.

Then, I rushed home, ate a quick dinner, and got ready for Mr. QV.  This event is really the only school spirit event that people actually care about.  It is a pageant style competition that features many senior guys competing for the title of "Mr. QV", and Prom King.

Each competitor makes, which is normally a parody on some TV show, song, or movie.  Following that is the talent section, where each competitor does some sort of act, mostly music related.  Then is the mystery section, which turned out to be an audience-seeking scavenger hunt.  Then the classic question and answer section.

I won't go into the details, as most of my reading audience was there, but it was well done.  Entertaining to watch, and every body was very into it.  In the end, JP got 3rd, RG got 2nd, and JR won.  I completely agree with the judges decisions.

It was a fun day.  Two shows, both entertaining, and just the fact that it was Friday.  The only drawback was that I had a hard time getting to sleep after all the excitement.

-NM