Senior Year of Musical

Well, so far so good!

The show is going to be phenomenal if we can keep this up.  In less than a week's time we have almost finished staging the entire first act (total of nine songs completed), and have sung through the entire thing.  People are already starting to get the feel of the show, we sound good.  Everyone loves this show already, it's just so much fun to do.  Already those special funny moments are starting to pop up here and there, and the energy is really high!

Chaos may be on the horizon.  Especially with the unfortunate necessity that "When the Foeman..." is going to be staged without the lead policeman (with the guilt resting entirely on me here).  And the fact that Act One isn't going to be looked at in earnest for a long time.  And the fact that people are going to have to accept the fact that they will have to study the music outside of rehearsal.  I'm not terribly worried though.

Today in rehearsal was quite possibly the experience that I have been waiting for.

Even though it was a music rehearsal today, it was my songs that we were working on, "When the Foeman..." and "When a felon...".  I sat up front, did my thing (which I made sure I had prepared coming into rehearsal), and the rest of the cast sang their part of the songs.  It was a little splash of reality when that portion was finished and we went back to the Act One Finale where I was just a part of the ensemble.

Some people just don't understand that the moment like this has been in the waiting.  I got tastes of it all through middle school, between Drake and Lumière, but I haven't had anything like this since then.  A song I can almost call my own.  So many people I know have, and I've watched then do it.  For me, I feel like it's always been just out of reach.  I finally caught it today.  And it was a great feeling.

-NM