Run is over.

I hear it was a success. It looked pretty good from the front, and sounded pretty good backstage. DB was a suitably bad boy -- many people told him during the Meet&Greet that they wanted to punch him, to which his response was "good. then I did it right." The girls (Rusty, WendyJo, & Urleen) were great -- their "Somebody's Eyes" was spooky, and the stage direction only emphasised that (the stage musical version, not the Karla Bonoff one). (I did green room all week, and did indeed do set work on Friday-- we did Ariel's "poetry wall" with Sharpies.) I still haven't figured out why Ren & Ariel had such a problem with "Almost Paradise", but DB tells me that they were shaky in rehearsals, and it got worse when they got pit and mikes -- they did fine on their duets with others, so I dunno. The usual stage mishaps were a little worse than usual -- the main curtain ripped as they were closing it for intermission at the first show, the hard drive in the light board died halfway through the second show (lighting designer/tech says that his inner monologue during the second act was "IpeIeeeeIpeEeeeekEeeeiee"), and the piano player and one of the followspot operators missed Sunday's show. DB tells me that he will be on stage for OneAct, one way or another, and Chelsea is hosting State OneAct, so I will not be at any of the January/February cons. The life of a stage mom.

So now I get something resembling my life back (well, after strike today and maybe tomorrow). But, of course, we're heading into holiday season, so I have plenty of things to do. Bell Choir on Sunday, "cello" part next Sunday, Christmas music to work on. And the garden is a mess -- when it wasn't actually raining in the last two weeks, I didn't have time, and now that I have time (FSVO), it's frozen (and snowing, and unlikely to get above freezing before the weekend). I need to water the pond before it hard freezes tonight, and put out the heated birdbath. And do laundry, and put away things I didn't put away last week. And run a couple of errands, and be to school at 3pm for strike.