OPENING NIGHT!

Good Morning Everyone!

Tonight is opening night and I am so excited! Last night we had our final dress rehearsal and we also had a sizable audience. It was so nice to finally get some new faces to see our work. When you perform a show after a while the people who are watching stop responding as much to what you are doing on stage because they have seen it so many times. Having an audience of people that has not seen any of your work before was great because we got so many more reactions. People were laughing and responding to the performance we were giving them. I am even told that some people were crying, which I was very happy to hear about. That may seem like a strange thing to say, but I love to hear when audience members have been moved to tears. It tells me that our show touched people emotionally and that is something that I strive to do every performance.

The show gets better every night and I'm sure tonight's opening performance will be the best one we have had yet. The more performances we do the tighter the show becomes. We get the costume and hair changes finished more quickly each time and moving the set pieces become easier with each show. Last night was the best run we've had yet and after the show a bunch of us hung out together behind the theatre on the loading dock. Then Chrissy, Aby, Melissa, Hannah, Casey, and I all headed over to Waffle House for some post-show food. I feel like I am on a very opposite schedule from most people because I stay up so late! When I do a show I become very nocturnal, but I am sure once I go home for the summer and I have to start going to class at 8am I will be going to bed a lot earlier. :)

Anyway, I am very excited about tonight's show, I hope we have a lot of people there tonight! Thanks for reading!

Suzanne

PS - The picture is of Kathryn, who plays Meg.