Spring into Broadway is now finished. I'm glad because of the free nights, but sad because it'll probably be the last show I'll do in a long time. I was so much fun because the cast was awesome and I got to hang out with my family a lot. I'm going to miss them when me move to Salem in about a month.
We all were pretty worried when two members of our cast quit three weeks before we opened. In total, 5 people dropped out since we started rehearsals. We tried our best to over come the damage by adding people at the last minute (Thank you Curtis Greenfield!) and even some songs we just had to leave with an open space. So the last few weeks were kind of hairy but I think that it made us a closer cast and a better show. We literally worked our tails off at 3 hour rehearsals, six days a week. It was tough, but it was worth the laughs, applause, and impressed comments from the audience. One of the best comments I received was form Ronda Shelton. She literally dragged her husband to the first Saturday performance because he is not the theatre going type. But he had the biggest smile when I saw him after the show and the next day at church. Ronda said that he just could not stop talking about it and even started to sing some of the songs. It's comments like these and other reactions of the audience that makes me want to do theatre, and they make the hard work worth it.
I had a great time in "Spring into Broadway II" and doing other theatre at EOU. I will always miss it.
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