gala night!

well we just finished our gala night show. it was fun.. but kinda ended on a eh... note. i knew what was coming! i knew just knew it. i've been in enough shows to know what is one of the uncle sonny sinag-tala golden rules of theater... no cheering after the bows! maybe it was drummed into my noggin my first year back in 1995 when we got either the speech or it was during rehearsals, which is more so the case. but yeah, when i looked down (not like the snobbish look down) but when i saw the cast celebrate, i knew we were in for it! i take some of the responsibilty for it cuz i should. being that it seems like a lot of new people in the cast, i kinda knew that would happen with a really good reaction from an audience post-performance. for some reson i remember one year after a performance and not a peep was heard, we just walked off stage. i kinda even remember not even hearing the footsteps of the cast walking off. it MUST'VE been after one of those speeches for us to be that quite... however i think that it was right before that gala night performance.

so for the last couple of blogs i've been saying that this would be the LAST performance with Sinag-tala. after all that we've been through... i'm like at 90% sure that this will be my last show... for a while... maybe. i do want to keep writing even though... 90% was junked... maybe not junked but "not used/recycled". i'm still learning, plus i'm trusting that the changes made the show better, and it did! at least i came up with the "premise" and the monologues for FREEDOM. at least something came out of the labor. it really made me proud to hear someone say your words. it's always the best high if you will. and sis and the day before wednesday made those words come to life. more than words, but feelings and emotions, the interpretaion of the words that was put behind them to hopefully add to the song. thanks usa for the assignment of writing those two very short monologues. i'm on my way. baby steps, nonetheless, on the way!