One show down, three to go.

As dress rehearsals go, this show was great.

As shows go, it was a minor disaster.

The highlight reel of the night would include the following... (if you don't know Into The Woods, just bear with me here)

• Finding out Rapunzel is in the hospital and being forced to have our costume designer fill in for the role
• Cinderella knocking over a 16-foot tall opera screen backstage
• The Baker's table getting stuck onstage during the end of the Prologue, confusing the hell out of everyone and preventing any dancing
• Cinderella's Mother's tree, or rather, opaque burlap soda can with one branch. Enough said.
• Little Red Riding Hood ripping off the Wolf's glove/claw during the first verse of "Hello Little Girl"
• Bean sack exploding all over the stage (we still haven't found all of them)
• The Witch forgetting her line about stealing the cape and causing the Baker and Little Red to stand onstage in a stalemate... LR: "Pleeeease give my cape back! (pause) ...I'm going to come and get you..."
• Granny and Little Red getting stuck in the "Wolf's Stomach"/Granny's bed

• The Princes skipping half of Agony 1
• The hair and cape falling off of Milky White and lying in the middle of the stage for two scenes.
• The goblet for the witch's potion breaking onstage
• Microphones being dropped steadily, causing the audience to think giants were roaming through the land during the WHOLE SHOW
• When the witch jumped off of the platform at the end of "Last Midnight" and landed squarely on lighted floor-mounted striplights, nearly breaking her leg

Those are some of the highlights.

Wonderful show, really.

But all in all, people liked the show.

I think maybe they must have been drinking beforehand.

Hunter says the show seems to have, purely by coincidence, developed a sort of ghetto charm.

We can only hope.

Of course, I was frustrated that this audience was as dead as a doornail. Laughed like 3 times the whole show. One of those was when the birds pecked my eyes out, and I managed to convince myself it was because they didn't want me onstage. Talk about neurotic.

Afterwards, a large group of us went to a local restaraunt, and it was great fun. All that crap I said about not belonging, well...most of that is moot.

Even the voice majors (we have a pretty well-known voice department too), who are characteristically cliquish, specifically invited Hunter and I to make sure we were coming. Most of the cast ended up there. We just had a good time with good company, talking about random stuff. Just nice. :)

At one point, the conversation turned towards Rapunzel's Prince, and how funny we thought he was - and how much he was like his character. Apparently, he had been walking back to his dorm room with Brookes, and he just randomly popped out "I live in this dorm alone because I have no friends" - but as regally as if he were onstage. At the time, a bunch of rollerbladers were passing the pair, and Rapunzel's Prince continued - "Those people on the wheels seem to be following me."

I guess you had to be there. Or rather, be there when the person who was there was telling the story.

Right.

Time for bed. Call is at 3 tomorrow. Oh dear.

And by the way, I look insane. I looked like a total twit tonight - very much a spoiled bratty aristocratic teenager. With Cleopatra-esque taste in makeup.

There's nothing like washing your face and having the water in the basin turn the same color as your face.

On that note, I bid you goodnight.