Tomahawks and Jelly Beers
Desperately trying to find time this morning to get around to my usual haunts and say hello, but it's Production Week for the younger girls' youth theatre group and it's a nightmare. Well, lots of fun, but rehearsals every night until 11pm and then performances on Friday night and two on Saturday. I am working props and backstage, so I'm a tad weary - as are the girls!
We're doing a spoof Western (a musical) this year, and at midnight last night I was filling beer mugs with brownish gel then topping them with more gel, white and fluffed up, to look like real beers. Today I need to do the whisky shots and fill the bottles with ginger ale, repair a peace-pipe and bundle enough sticks together to roast three bar-room girls at totem poles. As you do. (Except we don't, because of course it all ends happily ever after).
Off now to get some green baize for the poker table and roll some more cigars. We're all class.
We're doing a spoof Western (a musical) this year, and at midnight last night I was filling beer mugs with brownish gel then topping them with more gel, white and fluffed up, to look like real beers. Today I need to do the whisky shots and fill the bottles with ginger ale, repair a peace-pipe and bundle enough sticks together to roast three bar-room girls at totem poles. As you do. (Except we don't, because of course it all ends happily ever after).
Off now to get some green baize for the poker table and roll some more cigars. We're all class.
posted by MargieCM at 10:24 am
15 Comments:
Margie, what a to-do list. Make sure you keep a real beer handy off-stage somewhere. Just in case the nerves go...
Geez.
I think you should have a couple of beers and maybe a good three fingers of really single malt nice scotch (I prefer Oban) waiting for you after all this!
Not too mention a nice hot bath, foot rub...
I am dying for those packages to arrive and you to tell me you've given S'mores a try!
Oops, best get the kids to model for me later to do the instructional series.
;)
Did I mention you are amazing?
Lots to do, lots to do. Hopefully when all is done, there might be a VB awaiting you somewhere?
(or a Cascade, I liked that beer, when I was there).
xx
If the Beers are fake, I dread to think what the cigars are made of!?!?
I like jelly beans...
Hope the performances went swimmingly and were a success! (they WERE this friday and saturday, right?) I admire your dedication to detail. Authenticity is important.
It's over. Am absolutely exhausted, and brutally reminded that kids have much better stamina than most adults. I slept until noon without stirring on Sunday morning! All great though.
Thankyou all for all your comments; as it happens I was feeling really shaky by the end of the show on Friday, so didn't even have a glass of bubbles at the party afterwards - bumped out the props and scenery and was in bed before the girls.
Stevie, I'm hanging out for your parcel and getting very excited at the prospect of such a fabulous new experience. I hope to get some reciprocal goodies off to you on Thursday when I have a day off work. And alas I am far from amazing - there are people who were putting in insane hours on this thing, (all voluntarily) and some of them didn't even have kids in it!
Anne Marie, Stevie and Grace, we did finally celebrate yesterday afternoon, but with bubbles of a different sort, and definitely without the gel added. Not really a beer person, which I suppose makes me a pathetic excuse for an Australian.
Gyps, you don't want to know what the cigars were made of, but there was brown fence-paint involved. Non-toxic I hope, but we told the kids not to put them in their mouths. If it wasn't and they did, well then natural selection does its thing I suppose. Showbiz is a tough game. (In case of any Occ Health & Safety readers, that was a joke).
Maria, thanks, it was fantastic. Very far from West End or Broadway standard, but great fun, all singing-all-dancing, and the sort of thing which does wonders for young people's confidence and social skills. And they did appreciate the attention to detail!
Phew!!!, thank goodness it was brown paint and not that other brown stuff..
OOH! I SAY...
All that hard work and not even a sniffter of bubbly!?..
thats just not on, you will have to make up for it M'dear..
come see come see come see!!!!!
All I can think of is when I was young and had to be abducted as an Indian mainden in Peter Pan by the whomever...
It was Martin with the dirty hands who had to slap his hand upon my mouth and drag me from the cmapfire...
God Bless Hid Soul
..."his" soul...
cnap?
i...am...digging...myself...further/farther...into...the...hole/whole...of spellcheck...
upon this i am leaping into the warm welcoming (clean) hot tub...
and the nightmare of word verification ujcfxwie
Rough day Dale?
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