Ladies and gentlemen, Jack's Mother has left the building.
ha!
I did it! I survived a real, honest-to-pete musical! I didn't forget any words, I didn't miss any entrances/exits, AND, I even managed to pull an 'on with the show!' as well. Here's how it happened:
Opening night. Opening Act. Opening Scene. (Yeah, no lie.) The music we're using is recorded, and the first Scene is TWELVE MINUTES LONG. So, if you screw it up, good luck to ya, better find out where you are and hop to it. Wellll ... we're moving along, Cinderella sings her part, then lights go up on me and Jack and I start singing ... but the music is WRONG. The director had accidentally double-clicked her mouse on her computer, so the music plays for a couple of seconds, then the director stopped it. I didn't know what else to do, so I finished my solo acapella, said my lines and froze. (not like 'froze in fear' but actually I was supposed to 'freeze' at the end of my lines. So I did. I can't say that there wasn't a tiny little bit of fear in my 'freeze' though. There was.) The director then found the right spot in the music for Little Red Riding Hood to do her part, and we went onward. No harm, no foul!
I don't even think the audience noticed.
But, that's really the only hiccup that happened! So the next person who asks me, 'Hey L, you ever been in a musical?' I can go, 'Well yeah! Who hasn't?!'
Because you know I get asked that question ALL THE TIME. I do. Really.
