Cinnamon

I’m back!!! I would like to publicly announce that I am back on the shard! I was only gone for three days, and nobody probably noticed that I was gone, but I am back! I had the most wonderful weekend that I could possibly imagine (hyperbole  @Robin Sedai) and I want to tell you guys what I did because I am just so excited about it even though it is over!

Sooooo let us begin!

Friday:

Friday was a student free day for marking our exams; so already a great day, I had finished the last of my assessment tasks for  the evening before (I’m in the Southern Hemisphere so our school year technically ended today but that is a confusing thing for another time) so I spent the entire day practicing for Beauty and the Beast, reading Oathbringer  and watching Gilmore girls (don’t judge)

Saturday:

this is where the amazingness started. I spent the ENTIRE DAY from 9am to 9thirtypm at my local theatre!! My drama school was having shows all weekend and even though I wasn’t performing on Sat I was asked to help out! They did the Wizard of Oz jr. first and that was so good! I helped out with costuming, quick changes, set moving and I sang in the wings! And then… it was time for the next show! This one was performed by the ‘Masterclass’ all of the elder performers (16-18yo) it was Little Shop of Horrors and OH MY STORMING GOSH IT WAS RUSTING INCREDIBLE!! The vocals were amazing , the lead actors? Chef’s kiss. And the set? My lord it was BEAUTIFUL. Everything was so cool and our Audrey II was rusting amazing. It was seriously the coolest version of it I have ever seen and it was huge. I helped out backstage and I LOVED IT. Also, the girl who played Audrey was my mentor when I first started doing drama, she taught me so many things and it was so awesome to see her play that role and smash it.

Ahhhh it was amazing!

Sunday: the big shabang!

I got to the theatre at 10:30 am (I had a sleep in from the night before because I didn’t get home till late)

On the agenda was Aladdin jr. and then… Beauty and the beast jr.! (Me)

for the Aladdin show I helped out backstage, helped with costumes and they got me to sing in the wings again (♪priiince aliiiiii♫) 

Then it was time for my show. Dun dun dun! I was playing Mrs. Potts and it took me a good twenty minutes to get into my costume. There were so many layers! I had a harness with a teapot skeleton, then the actual dress with a giant spout, two aprons and a shawl-y thing. I also had a wig and a hat. It was really heavy but it was totally worth it. We did a full dress tech run and everyone was freaking out because we kept messing up and props were breaking willy-nilly, but eventually we did it. And it was so GOOD. It was almost like we needed to mess up beforehand so we wouldn’t in the actual shows! 
 

so yup, that was my (long) weekend! IDK if anyone cares but that’s it! It made me really happy and theatre is what I love (and reading of course!)

note: um in case it was not clear to you , I am a ‘theatre kid’ I very much love the stage, musicals and acting.

note 2: I wrote this when I just came back to the Shard but then the editor lost it :,( and then it recovered!  . So technically I’ve been back for a few hours now, but let’s just ignore that.