Cinderella

i suppose its about time i wrote about Cinderella, the play that has been commandeering most (aka all) of my free time since June.

at first i was reluctant.

(mine and scott's phone conversation in may)
scott: "you should come audition for Cinderella with me."
me: "Cinderella?  as in, Rodgers and Hammerstein?"
scott: "yeah that one."
me: "when are auditions?"
scott: "last saturday."
me: "well thanks for the heads up.  looks like i can't audition."
scott: "you can come tonight. its callbacks but they are hearing a few auditions beforehand."
me: "i can't make decisions that fast! i need to research it, think about it, my sister is in europe and i can't ask her! and my parents--"
scott: "just come."
me: "okay."
(there were quite a few more protests, but you have humored me enough.)


even after i auditioned, i tried to quit.  after all, i had 8 credits during a spring semester, 5 of which required 3 hours spent per credit, and the other 3 were organic chemistry.  i didn't exactly have the time to fiddle around with a play.  but at that point in time, i was, well, a bit depressed. for awhile even, i just sat in my room watching netflix when i wasn't on campus. i was still in utah, my friends were not. i had new roommates (not awful by any means, but it wasn't my amber and i hadn't known them for the previous 8 months) anna was gone, there was a budding/failing romance, and i was taking ochem over.  it was definitely not my best time. but then the play happened.

and, although i had to drive for almost 40 minutes in the hot heat of desert summer, it made me happy. once i got to know diana, i knew there was no going back.  we were practically connected at the hip for the duration of the play.  we were even referred to as "counterparts."

our parts were, well, pigs. we ate during every scene we were in.  after a box of creampuffs a night, diana totaled them to be about 300 consumed in all..definitely not all by us, but we ate the majority. i'd say about 100 were given away, stolen, and/or shoved down the prince's throat. we probably ate about 9 loaves of french bread, 9 baybel cheeses, and various fruits along with that--and that was only what was eaten on stage.  we got the most laughs out of the audience by far, except for maybe the stepsisters (who even then thought they needed to be funnier when they heard the audience laughing at us).

but really, it was the backstage show that was the icing on the cake. (which we also ate on stage.) during "do i love you" diana and i would be half dressed in the dressing room for our next scene when we would drop everything we were doing and sing once brenton (the prince) sang "I WANT YOU" during one part that we thought was ridiculous. we would sing it to each other and spin around in circles, dip, and possibly twirl a few times. then there was a lovely night, where we would be literally right behind the curtains dancing--diana and brenton take the cake on this. i'm so glad there is a video on facebook.

i guess what i loved the most though was selling wands with diana during intermission. not that i enjoyed the selling part, but the little girls that would run up to us and tell us we were so pretty in our ballgowns and how we looked like princesses. we would tell them that they were the ones who looked like princesses and they would just smile & giggle. it was adorable. one mom said it was even better than disneyland.

in all, it was really just wonderful.