Spring Awakening and then some... :-)

I've been slacking... I've been meaning to keep up with this blog and it hasn't worked quite as planned.... So anyways there's been so much going on in my life over the last few weeks. I got my senior pictures taken and they are amazing! I'll post some at some point. I guess I'll just go by major events over the last month.

Spring Awakening- it was fantastic!!!!! I still think that my favorite musical is Rent, but Spring Awakening is only a tad behind. I saw the show Feb 5. I had dress rehearsal for competition dance from 5:15-7:15 and the show started at 8! I was like freaking out that I wasn't going to make it, but I got to the Palace at about 7:35 and managed to beat my friends to our seats. lol I was really excited for the show and after the first act went out and bought a t-shirt and key chain (I currently have SA, Rent, and Wicked key chains and a flashlight on my keys) and really wished that I had 40$ to spend on the SA: In the Flesh book. I kinda wanted a "there's a moment you know" t-shirt, but I didn't think that would go over well with my parents, and I prolly wouldn't be allowed to wear it to many places, although my hair would cover it. After the second act I was like, we should totally go to the stage door even though it's a school night, so we did. I'm really glad we did too, we got to talk to everyone and it was just us, two guys, and two girls who had driven up from Cincinnati because they were fans of Christy. We got to take pictures with a lot of cast members and didn't end up leaving until about 11. On that Sat and Sun I had a dance competition, but my friend Chelsea wanted to see the show again, so she got us tickets in the very last row for 28$. It was really exciting to see the show from two different areas. We thought that the lighting was awesome from the 10th row, but it was spectacular from the last row in the balcony. We also were able to see more of the entire picture from the last row, so that was cool. I ended up buying the In the Flesh book too, and then got some of the cast to sign it after the show. The stage door was a lot more crowded on Sun night, plus strike was going on so there wasn't as much room. We did get to talk to some people again, and everyone was really nice, but I'll never regret waiting for the cast on Thurs night, even if it was really cold and we waited for them to get done with notes. I don't have the pics from the first night (TC took them on his camera and he has yet to post them) but I do have the one of us with Andy Mientus on Sunday. Steffi D took this for us. Anyways I after the show I ended up spending hours watching all the Youtube vids on Totally Trucked, and became huge fans of all the cast members and trying to decide how I was going to get to see the show again.... lol I found out that the show was gonna be in DC from July 7 until the beginning of August, and it was gonna be at the Kennedy Center, where my aunt plays flute and piccolo in the National Symphony. I called her up and talked to her about coming down to see her play in "Capital Fourth" and then going to see the show with her. She got really excited and went and talked to the box office and found out she could buy tickets ahead of the public!!!! So anyways I get to see the show at least twice while I'm in DC. We have onstage tickets and I have one friend who's never seen the show coming with me for the first time, and two friends are driving to DC to see it the second time (they couldn't come at first because Abby is going to see Elton John and Billy Joel here in Columbus in July. Anyways I have like 4 months and I am still extremely excited! I haven't been to one of my aunt's concerts in a really long time too, so I can't wait for that.

Rent- We have 11th row tickets for the show in Pittsburgh over Spring Break!!!!! I might pee my pants! :-) I'm so excited to get to see the show with Adam and Anthony again!!! I felt so bad for Adam and the two herniated discs in his neck (it was weird, the same week that Adam was out, my physics teacher missed two days because of a herniated disc, and his daughter that weekend was doing Aida at her school...) Anyways I'm sure being home in LA has helped (hopefully) and I hope he's feeling better. Oh and get this... I took my senior pics 4 days after I saw Rent in Cleveland and I just happened to have my Rent shirt and some pics from the stage door with me, and my photographer was sooo nice she let me take some extra pics with my Rent shirt on and my tap shoes, and when we looked at the proofs it was pic number 96! wow that was ironic. Here it is, I ordered it, but this was the only one I think is cool with the proof numbers still there... :-) Also in this pic originally, I had a big ass bruise on my arm from giving blood two days before... but luckily it was easily removed by the talented people at Kent Smith in Pickerington where I had my senior pics taken. :-)

Anyways I'll post another blog as soon as I can, it should be about my senior retreat with my friends to the lovely Camp Akita, but I'm tired and ready for bed... I have to drive to Zanesville tomorrow to dance in one of the pageants that eventually leads to Miss Ohio... lol

I haven't blogged much since my xanga... this is exciting... hahaha

<3 Laura