Little update about this techie wannabe.

Been uber busy with thesis lately, because we have less than a week left. Artistically, things are finally falling into place. But financially? Well, that's another story. Hopefully the ticket sales will help us with that.

And to add to the stress, I've got this migraine that won't go away, plus my left ankle hasn't been the same since last week, and I can't figure out why.

Hahaha, funny thing about the other day was that Sir Jay held our Tecthe4 class at the Onstage theater. I guess because he was busy with a show, he took us there so we can explore everything on our own and ask the techies about the lighting, sound, and video equipment. Ahahaha, most of the tech manongs there were the same guys I was with for the Akafellas stint. When Kathy, Anthony and I went to the dimmer racks, we looked for the someone to ask about it, and the first person we found was Kuya Boy, the guy who was with me at the lighting console. Then when we were just sitting around at the audience area when our 3 hours were up, the guys at the tech booth with Sir Jay decided to play around and got the 2 intelligent lights hanging over us to shine on Kathy, Anthony (with girlfriend Cha) and me, complete with gobos and different colors. Then ayan, when we went back up to Sir Jay, medyo nabuking ako when the guys said that I was working with them for the concert. Ahahaha.

I managed to squeeze in some quality time with friends yesterday, though. Lunch with Ari (hahaha, I had a craving for pesto, so good thing we decided to go to the Venue), and then I met up with Maika, whom I haven't seen in months. Teeheehee, and now without her braces, blooming sya! Wahahaha... I had a craving for blueberry cheesecake when we stepped into Red Ribbon, but there weren't any slices left, darn.

What is it with all these cravings? I'm still craving for the cheesecake. Maybe lunch with Rosa before rehearsal this afternoon will help.

Our thesis opens in 3 days.

And I don't feel ready.

Today was our day off. I took advantage of the free day and spent most of it sleeping, because I doubt I'll ever get some sleep starting tomorrow.

Good luck to Four's Company!

I'm so harassed. I've never felt so stressed in my life.

For the past couple of days, I almost felt like breaking down because of some screw-up that I or someone else made.

"You're lucky you're not working with Bibot right now, otherwise you wouldn't be smiling..."

Gak.

The run-throughs are getting better. But still needs more improvement. I always feel like I can't breathe every time I sit next to Miss Cindy.

And here's a bit o'news. While we were having dinner this evening, Rosch finally confirmed that she really can't perform on Thursday. Then all heads turned to me. Gak (again). Here comes another huge challenge.

To the entire cast and crew of Four's Company's Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, BREAK A LEG!

Four's Company's Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat closed last night. Finally.

This week has been so crazy. Raised voices, muttered snide comments, laughter, and tears.

I once heard Anthony tell me backstage, "Never again." No more full-scale productions as producers. It does show how much our group enjoys the artistic part rather than the production side.

When we opened last Wednesday afternoon, much to our disappointment, the audience were so few. Yet, our classmates who came to support us were laughing their asses off in the front row when they found out that it was Sir Manolet singing "Canaan Days" as his cameo appearance. The evening was better, the audience more responsive. Including my parents. Hahaha, because Sir Jethro had to leave for the evening, I had to do the voiceover at the beginning of the show. And my mom was so amused at Rian as the Pharaoh and Robert as one of the Narrators that she came up to them after the show to introduce herself.

As for our Josephs... Ryan was feeling sort of sick already during the morning, so when he opened the show in the afternoon, I heard a piyok during one of his solos. Altair naman, he was finally hitting all the right notes, much to our relief. But during the big solo ("Close Every Door"), we all heard this uber I-can't-help-but-notice-that piyok. Oh well.

It was so surprising to hear some words from Miss Cindy after the evening show... "You did me proud." Do my ears deceive me? Hahahaha.

Yesterday, the cast did so much better. But Ryan was sick and was already losing his voice, so not only did Henry had to play Joseph during the afternoon, but he also had to take over as Joseph for the closing show. Personally, among the 3 Josephs, judging by voice, he has my vote. Altair has this tendency to go flat, and Ryan's voice is too overpowering. But of course, when it comes to Henry's enunciation, it sounds sablay at times. "Guards! Sez him! Lock him in a cell!" Wahahahahaha! Oist! It's SEIZE, not SEZ!

Then there was some conflict between our director and some cast members before the evening show started. Some people were already ready to lash out because of some attitude problems, even Rain, so I was took aside by one of the cast because he said I could be more calm and level-headed for the confrontation. CALM? LEVEL-HEADED? I was almost in tears even before the problem started because I was sort of anticipating it already.

But of course, "the show must go on." Someone didn't go on as planned, but we had to remedy it by getting the brothers to strut their stuff. And to think that the EVP was watching. But the audience actually loved it. I myself was pounding the platform with my hand to keep myself from laughing out loud backstage.

To keep myself sane, I just goofed around backstage while the cast was performing. Danced along to the music with the crew on stage left, nyahahaha... Even attempted to crawl along with the cast during "Close Every Door" because I was already wearing my black hooded jacket. But of course, I couldn't do any real playtime because the show was being documented by the LRC.

After the show, strike as usual, counted our money, talked about debts. Then I hung out with some of the cast, along with Anthony and Cris at House Blend afterward. When the place closed, Anthony, Cris, Drei and I went to Jarrdy's, but then the rest wanted to go to a videoke somewhere in Malate. I opted not to go because I felt drained that I needed to go home.

During the ride back home, I remembered what Cris said while we were walking to Jarrdy's. "Now what am I going to do from 6:00-9:00 every evening?"

Exactly.

I fell in love with the entire cast. Now it's all over.

May I return to the beginning
The light is dimming, and the dream is too
The world and I, we are still waiting
Still hesitating
Any dream will do...

To the cast and crew of Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, CONGRATULATIONS! Four's Company's thesis wouldn't have been such a blast without you guys!

Heeheehee, I love my new usericon.
*points to the left*
It's all because of Robi and Caisa's influence that I got hooked on Avenue Q, hence the Kate Monster pic.

And thanks to Ernest, I'm getting my own copy next week! Woohoo!

Hahahaha, I"m still wondering what I'd do during my evenings for the rest of this term. No matter how much time-consuming evenings were for thesis, I'm gonna miss those evenings.

We had a little cast get-together last night at Greenbelt, hopping from one place to another. Food Choices, Cafe Bola, Uva, Club V (though we only made it to the parking lot because some of us didn't want to go to loud places, including me), and finally settling at Starbucks 6750.

Hard to believe that it's all over.

But here's something. We might restage the whole production in September at St Scholastica! Restaging is cool, but I sure hope we'll just be doing all the artistic stuff. I'm tired of production work.

Hahaha, I still can't get over what we did at Starbucks at 3 in the morning. Because some of the cast sang the entire Act 1 the other night while they were at a karaoke place, we decided to sing Act 2 then. Hahaha, some of the guys even imitated how Henry sang his lyrics, so we had to laugh when we came to the ending of "Who's The Thief?" because we still imitated his "SEZ him!"
Henry: Canadian version nga yun eh!

Wahahahaha...

I'm gonna miss this crazy bunch.

I just want to thank everyone who congratulated and supported us. This thesis wouldn't have been possible without you guys.

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