I'm through accepting limits
'Cuz someone says they're so
Some things I cannot change
But till I try, I'll never know!
We saw Wicked last night.
Wow.
It was amazing. I spent the entire show drooling. It was the best technical show I've seen in a really long time - lights were superb, costume, makeup, set were all great... the singing was good too - we saw Ana Gasteyer (not sure if I got her name right) from SNL as Elphaba. Glinda was excellent. I always go into these shows a little cynical because of the hype (Lion King, for instance, I found a little disappointing because I'd heard so much about it and because it was line for line out of the movie), but this one was really worth it. Original. The way they connect the book with the movie and the events following up to The Wizard of Oz was phenomenal, and I felt that there was such a powerful message behind the story to boot.
Leaving the theatre, I reflected that I was feeling surprisingly nostalgic. My theatre days, such as they were, were hard with weird hours but full of energy and excitement and possibility. I was also in a secure environment - a school environment with predictable, defined hours and (relatively) no worries about income or rent or board. I'm not sure I would ever realistically try to get back into it, but there is a little "what if" lurking in my heart. The "what if" deals mostly with being a scene designer, a little with lighting design. I have begun to regain some of the magic and awe I used to feel as an audience member, and I don't want to lose it again, to be honest. A lot of that disappeared with being backstage during shows - somewhat in high school, more so in college.
I will be content, for now, to be sucked into the magic of theatre. After all, it's why I wanted to study it in the beginning.
5 comments:
much ado...my FAVORITE play. i can quote it front to back. (should i say macbeth is my favorite? would that be less cheesy?)
oh caryn. can't you throw caution to the wind, move into a cracker box apartment and follow your dreams? (did i romaticize that a bit?)
SV - just a little. the beer farmer might be a little uneasy about that. and we don't want to lose his crops this year. i tend to err on the side of caution these days!! i was SCARRED, i tell you. these days i am finding other outlets for expressing myself. i'm beginning to romanticise it a bit in my head too now, something i remember everytime i think about it!
CBT - awesome. i have yet to get myself down there. i really hope to start culturising myself again. that part of me has been a bit neglected the past year.
Still jealous that you saw Wicked. Been dying to see it myself. Also often have the urges to go back into lighting design/stage management-land but at the same time, I like the security of knowing that my paycheck will be enough to cover my debt, that I'll get home at a decent hour to spend time with Steve, etc., etc. All those desires that come with age, I guess.
I will occassionally go to productions with non-theatre types and am always amused by all the things that they find "amazing"...lighting effects, how they created all the "explosions"...all things that I've set up and done a million times. To see a show and not sit there and dissect every moment, effect and lighting change...maybe someday my brain will forget all that I've learned about that world. I hope so, for the sake of purely enjoying a production again, but I also think that I appreciate highly technical shows because I do know how hard it is to get some of those effects to work.
--Elsa
Yay Caryn! I love the theatre, too. Duh.
really, Pug? I've never been sure... ;-)
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