Extend

No excuse for not blogging for a week.

Except that the Legislative Session is never going to end, it's painfully sunny outside, and we just opened [title of show] last night.

 The opening of the show has left me relieved and giddy. I was pitifully nervous just two hours before curtain, and I was convinced that I had a fever. I dry-heaved in the public restroom at the theatre, and kicked myself for being so freaked out. I hung my head low, and walked into the last minute rehearsal embarrassed that I had let myself get sick. We worked on light cues, and I held my head in my hands, breathed through my mouth, and felt my back get sweaty. The lights were making me dizzy, and I wondered if I was getting a migraine. I had just popped an Advil, and I wondered if it would ever kick in. Right when I was about to run home, to bury my head in my big pillow and cry-we sang. I don't know if it was the Advil, or the realization that I better get it together, but suddenly I felt fine. I began to belt out, and I looked at my cast mates with excitement. We were about to open our show.

The relief was palpable in the dressing room. We were ready. And the audience loved it. The crowd laughed hard from beginning to end. And my voice cracked. I tripped over my lines. I forgot to move the set. I think I even spit on someone sitting in the front row. But it didn't matter. It was a freaking blast. And I can't wait to do it again tonight.

xo

Alli