Mulan! The Review...

Hey!Long time no chat you guys! This week was up,down,to the side,to the other side and every where else.It was a emotional roller coaster.Drama was to the max.Not the acting but the cat fights,rumors, and gossip.I tried to stay out of it and did an alright job doing so but it wasn't a full proof plan.Plus I had a lot of drama of my own.Luke was paying a lot of attention to me and Michael(who is going with as my date to the formal in a week.) was blowing me off and ignoring me for this other girl,or so it seemed,etc.It wasn't pretty. then I get the shock of my life when I Find out that I.....Guess I better rewind and freeze from the top of the week before I pile everything on you guys at once.I had a week to soak all this up and I'm still absorbing most of it.lol.

Sunday-Move in day.We move all the props and sets to to the theatre from the studio.I stepped on the stage and I had a show flash back."Iowa Stubborn" from Music Man."Verb" from School House Rock."The Mutiny" from Treasure Island."The Final Battle" from Snow White and the "Biggest Blame Fool" from the recent Seussical:The Musical. I was over whelmed with joy and memories. It hit me that my sister has not been at Youth Front for a year.After Treasure Island was when she left for Pennsylvania.It was a typical rehearsal and move in.*I'll skip alot of little stuff and to the highlights.*

Also I did not have any time to write this week and have already forgotten alot due to my days slurring together and everything feeling like one big blur.

Monday-Wednesday-rehearsal.Michael was fine at first but every time I tried to talk to him about plans for the formal, coming up he would answer,"Sure.Yeah.We'll talk more later."That was all he said, or it would be he would be constantly hanging out with this other girl.There was one day I saw them just in time to see him pick her up,spinning her around,cuddle up,and,hold hands.That upset me.If he's spoken for I'm not meddling and don't want to look like the "boyfriend stealer." I called Sara crying.I don't know why it hurt so bad to see them together that way but it did.When she was talking about having fun in the avalanche scene and "being dead" her told her,"But I don't want you to die.I don't want you to go any where.Ever!" Then I found out later that night when she wasn't feeling well he carried her out all the way to her car. I felt so stupid and was clueless if I even wanted to remind Michael that he had even yet to get his ticket from me.Sara brought her spike ring to slap some sense into him if need be.I barely talked to him for the rest of the week. Like I said.Had no idea why but when I saw him with her.It hurt.A Lot!

Thursday-Was opening show and we had a kinda small crowd.Luke however always made a point okay hey to me and give me a hug.I talked to him often during the week and it was a nice distraction. There wasn't really any problems with the first day of shows,but things just needed to be sharper overall.The fight scenes,were excellent and were the definitely
highlights of the show.Phillip the music director was given a shield to protect himself from the flying swords.The funny thing...It worked perfectly, and often.

Friday-was a the big drama day.It started out with it was the first play my Pastor has ever seen and I was very nervous whether he would enjoy it or not,cause him and his wife are very conservative.Some emotions was rising and there was people getting mad at fellow cast members. There was bout 2-3 fights going on. One of them carried over to Saturday and came to the point where other cast members were gossiping about it,taking sides and getting involved even though they has nothing to do with it. Also,Friday night Sara's guy showed up..With his ex-girlfriend! It upset Sara really bad.She pulled me out of the theatre to the parking lot to talk.

Saturday-It was last day and as I said some fights carried over and had gotten out of control. The girls who started it apologized to the cast and settled it,but some of the cast members were still mad about it.Saturday night was the night they taped for the DVD and was the best performance and crowd.


Saturday evening after the play we had our strike party and award ceremony.My friend Shawnie got the watch dog.I knew she would.The watch dog is just that.
Someone who watched out for fellow cast members,directors, and a real helper.Camille,the girl who played Mulan,got screwball,cause she had some great saves and was always thinking on her feet when things in the play went wrong.There is also Tech,backstage,leap frog and few others.Well they got to the Rose Award.The award for most Christ-like girl in the cast and is voted on by the cast.Jen-the choreographer said,"The rose is someone with a Christ like attitude,a smile,a hi,a pat on the back, and this award goes to Megan Higginbotham." It didn't even dawn on me that she said my name till she got to the "tham" of my last name,even though everyone was already out of the seats and cheering.I sat there like a deer in head lights.Not sure what to do.Just shocked out of my mind.It took till SAra finally pushed me out of my seat.I was stumbling all over my feet so I just kicked my flip-flops off.The moment I was out f my chair I was mobbed by everyone with congrats and hugs.It felt like a big blur.I walked up to accept the award from Jen and made my way down the line of directors and all the other award winners giving everyone a hug.My head director,Chris,took the microphone and said some words about me but all I could do was stand there and stare at the award in my hands.I couldn't concentrate on anything else but the sound of my heart racing in disbelief.He then went into the Brave heart which in the most Christ like guy.It was given to Preston Babbit.A awesome guy who is so sweet and will do anything for the under dog.See Preston is a big guy who does weight lifting and when he heard what Logan did to Sara he wanted to pound Logan's face in.Just cause he wasn't treating a girl right. He totally deserved it. The show ended with us singing a praise song then it is tradition that the Rose and Braveheart award close the evening with a prayer. It was the greatest. Alot more to write but I am tired and that's it for now.I'll upload pictures as soon as possible!

"A flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all."-Chinese Emerpor from Mulan

Always,Megan Renee