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Last Thursday my school's thespian's troop went to our district's competition. We have to perform a play in 40 minutes, that includes moving the set on and off the stage. There's also 5 minutes before and after the play were the set and props must be moved to and from an 8 by 9 square outlined on the floor (set + props must fit in that lil square). If those requirements aren't filled, a group is disqualified.

The play we did was called "A Typical Atypical Day," which is basically a day in the mayors office where the mayor doesn't show up, but a reporter does, and faints. That left her assistant to find a story at the office with the mayor's secretary. Next Pasha, a play on hippie religious figures and his pregnant wifey (that was me!) get on stage, but Pasha goes into a trance within 3mins. Our next character is a hooker, and we end with a religious priest and his two "saintly assistants" coming on stage. We're all there to see the mayor about some kind of complaint. Unfortunantly for us, he never shows, instead we have two inept hispanic terrorists take us hostage. They're trying to get money + a flight home to their island nation of Puerto Ninos. However, near the very end of the play I go into labor forcing the terrorists to screw over their plans and help me give birth offstage because they are the only ones with experience -_-; During the offstage birthing it is found out that the priest and the hooker had sexual relations, she jane, he tarzan, and they exit. Then my children are run on and offstage by the terrorists, and I am wheeled offstage with a friggen bomb in my lap. Then the remaining characters leave, and the play ends.

Now about 5 days prior to our competition our lead got suspended from school for mooning 10th grade health academy students in the auditorium during a presentation. Three of the other roles also were changed due to people suddenly dropping. We had 5 days to have 4 people memorize their lines, and stage directions, and still be under time.

On the day of the perfomance our new lead (a good friend of mine) started having a breakdown because she has bad issues with stage fright, so we started singing Cotton Eyed Joe (or some song titled like that) in the dressing room 30 mins before we were onstage. It distracted her, and we went on. ...Things went wrong from the begining, we couldn't find two props and we never did, and the rolling chair, the chair for the secretary was never placed onstage! Luckily, thanks to quick thinking on the secretary's part, the chair got on stage. Lines were forgotten and flubbed, but the play was never stopped. When I was wheeled offstage to give birth, I was wheeled into a filing cambinant and a column. : cry : The last flub was the missing snake at the end, but that wasn't so bad...

When all of the cast was offstage, we waited anxiously on the side for the crew to get the set offstage. They cleared the stage, the stopwatch was stopped, and we were told our time. 38:19. We cleared the 40mins. We erupted into cheers, hopping and jumping holding on to each other, just celebrating. We had done it. After a minute or two we realized "s**t...we're still being graded" and calmed down, showing such exuberance was unprofessional and frowned upon. We then filed back onstage to be critiqued by the judges. We weren't praised, but they didn't hate us. It wasn't blatantly obvious to them that we had gone through a major cast change a few days prior, we had held it together onstage. Freaking score on that one XD

We didn't get best in show, and I don't know our grade yet, but I won't for several days. But it doesn't matter, we didn't go over time, and we freaking owned the laughter XD

And that is a freaking score in my book.