This past week has been the big week. I've done very little homework during this time, and my life has been devoted to one of two shows, both of which went really well.
Let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start. Cats. Last Thursday was the start of our tech. The costumes were all amazing, the set was good, and everyone's makeup was fabulous except mine. The first tech day went really smoothly, although we were still missing a lot of stuff. We had no lighting yet, and the percussionist wasn't there. A lot of people left the rehearsal thinking our show was a lot worse than it really was. But things looked a lot better Friday. Things were starting to come together, and we knew that we had a really good show. It was over these two days that I started to realize how perfect of a cast we had for this show, and how good of a choice this was to do. I was really excited.
Then came show day. It went great. We sang well, and didn't really have any major screw ups for either performance. ES came to the matinee (and gave it a pretty good review), and my entire family was at the evening. It seemed as though everyone liked it, and we all had fun doing it. It had a different meaning for me, as everyone else had at least one more performance to do, but it was all great. The only complaint was the I wish more people would have been in the audience, but it seems that we always wish that.
The next morning, I left for the All-National Choir. It was a fabulous experience. It was so nice to meet people from all over the country in one setting. Literally, there were people from every state there, except maybe HI. We all got along very well, and were not afraid to talk to each other, even to the point where we were still introducing ourselves on the day of the concert.
We stayed in a five-star hotel. There were literally gardens, and rivers flowing (complete with fish and ducks), and trees growing, and sunlight shining, and street lamps coming on inside. It was amazing just to be in this hotel. The food was good, and we had a concert every night, when we weren't rehearsing. It would have been nice to have a little more time to explore, but I feel that what we had was alright. We were already being treated in amazing fashion.
And the choir sounded amazing. I won't say that we could have put on a good show the first day, because we had a lot of technique stuff to work out, but we did on the last day. There was a piece where we could rightfully say that no one had sung it that good in 200 years. It was so amazing to know that our concert was probably going to set a new standard for several of the pieces we did.
Don't ask me which one I liked better. I can't say yet. Maybe I never will. They were both fun and exciting in their own ways, and I would do both of them again if I could.
-NM
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