After opening another show.
Things have been busy this past week, yet I feel as if there's not much to blog lately. But of course, I have to say that Wedding Singer the Musical has officially opened at the Meralco Theater this weekend, and yes, that was what's keeping me occupied this past week.
I figured things would be pretty easy considering 9 Works made changes
with the front-of-house and ushering after a few little disasters in Rent early this year. I have to say that I'm glad that they finally got
regular ushers, most of which are graduates from their first summer
workshop. They're pretty eager, and at least I've worked with some of
them before. Everyone has their own quirks, and this group has no
exception.
One thing that I'm still not used to is not getting that much sleep.
When I got home last Friday night after the preview show, I just lay
down on my bed and didn't sleep, because if I did, I would oversleep and
won't wake up in time for work in the early morning. So by the time I
was on the floor at 6am, I was running on 2 cups of coffee and no sleep,
but at least I was quite perky during my calls, ahahaha. Thank goodness
I wasn't bouncing off the walls, though.
To be honest, I'm still getting used to how their company works, as I'm
used to a particular system. It's not really negative really, but one
comment that I can't but say is that they really should have designated
more people to particular things, considering some of the people in
charge of particular departments are also part of the cast.
Mika and Dante watched the show yesterday. Patton couldn't make it
because he was busy with work. But it was pretty amusing for each of us
to discover how small the world is. I only knew Mika from Patton, but
she's from Ballet Philippines, which means I could have seen her a lot
but never really knew who she was. It's nice to see one more familiar
face whenever we pass by each other in the CCP artists entrance or in
the buffeteria. Then when I passed by them in the audience area during
intermission, she tried to introduce me to Dante. Hahaha, she didn't
know that we already knew each other from CSB, back when I used to call
him "Sir Dante." It wasn't until just recently that he told me to stop
calling him "sir," hahaha.
The interesting thing about how Dante and I knew each other was that he
suggested that I write for the weekly school publication back then. But
even though I love writing, I wasn't really confident writing for any
publication back then (even though I was once a student correspondent
for a magazine during that same time).
To be honest, I actually want to try writing regularly, but I guess just blogging here is just fine for now.
Some people would say I'm not that busy at all considering I'm just
juggling a couple of part-time jobs. Well, I'm also prepping up for the
entire next year. I'm still figuring things out how things will turn out
this December, then we'll see how it goes from there. But of course, it
does help to be prepared.