Don't blame me for taking the iMac's opening line for its MacWorld announcement. I'm reading Steve Jobs. The question is, are you? It's quite a book. But anyway.
Last week, a couple hours ago from now, I finished my third and last performance for the drama production at my school, "It's a Wonderful Life." As George Bailey, the main character. I found out later, or well, a couple hours before our first performance, that I had 333 lines in the script. Don't bother asking why I don't write it out completely. But anyway, quite a shock. . . Not. The people who I told were shocked, but with all the rehearsals I had done over the past months, I felt fairly good about the whole thing. Of course, the last performance was the best. Most of the errors we had made before were fixed, most of the lighting was still the same (It's on you Robs :) ), and although I wasn't able to punch Bert for all three performances, that last performance had been our quickest performance yet. With the cast also in charge of moving the props AND taking care of the turn table (yes our stage has a working turn table! It's pretty freakin awesome. Totally.) AND making sure of their costumes and make-up AND just about everything else, they did a incredible job. To everyone who helped to make the whole play work. I'm sincerely thankful for everyone and everything that was part of our play, and also am thankful for the audience. The audience is what the play is aiming for and can also be the actors' source of energy. When I saw the numbers we had in our auditorium and compared it to the first day...well, I was actually jumping up and down, just exhilarated about the amount of people already sitting down. I'm just sad I wasn't able to work with the whole acting team as a good leader. I think I showed myself being tired way too much. It was my first experience handling as much stress I had during the rehearsal periods, with all the homework and due dates being mixed in. But thinking back, it truly was a growing experience.
Sadly, our good friend Eric left us that day, on the last performance, transferring to another school in north Seoul. He was a dear friend, even though he was two grades higher than me. He was my Uncle Billy (but does the name 'Billy Bailey' seem right?). His acting debut in GSIS was the first play I saw, which was called 'Who Poisoned His Meatball?,' a mystery drama production that involved the murder through, yes, a meatball. That was two years ago. Last year, we made the comic duo of the March Hare and the Mad Hatter in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and together, we enjoyed drinking out of over-turned tea cups. We definitely bonded through our experiences. It's very sad to see him leave...he was the nicest person on the planet. The uncle of our play. Our great uncle. I am honored to have known and met him. I sincerely hope everything goes great for you, Eric!
I'm still having second thoughts about joining the next production, which is around March. It's supposed to be a musical called "Joseph and the Technicolor Dream Coat," and it's about the story of Joseph from the bible, and how the coat of his given by his father was ________________ (c'mon, you don't expect me to dish out spoilers, do you?) and he was sold to slavery (Okay, I have no idea about the plot. Cheers.). It's still pretty way off, but I'm hoping to see June, who did a fantastic job performing with an Italian accent as Luigi in 'Who Poisoned His Meatball?' and the stripe-faced Chesire Cat in 'Alice in Wonderland,' act, sing, and dance in the new play. I also hope to welcome lots of new actors and actresses and give the position of the main character to someone new for him or her to experience (even if I would keep my namesake when Mr. Blanck calls me by our character names). I think it's important to try many different roles, and it's not fair to hog the role of the main character two times in a row. Also, I do want to try singing on stage, since it will be the first time I've sung while acting. I anticipate quite a challenge...but I'm definitely excited for it.
PS: I use apostrophes.
Quote of the post?
I think it would be pretty nice to have a quote on each post. If I keep my resolve to continue posting.
"I'm changing the world one keyboard at a time." - Steve Jobs.
I found it pretty funny. And encouraging in a way.(From his bio, word by word:)
[Jobs's] frustration with Apple [after he was ousted from the company] was evident when he gave a talk to a Stanford Business School club at the home of a student, who asked him to sign a Macintosh keyboard. Jobs agreed to do so if he could remove the keys that had been added to the Mac after he left. He pulled out his car keys and pried off the four arrow cursor keys, which he'd once banned, as well as the top of F1, F2, F3… function keys. “I'm changing the world one keyboard at a time,” he deadpanned. Then he signed the mutilated keyboard.
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