Rent... the 3rd and 4th time

Ok.... So my goal to update this more through college... epic fail. hahaha

So, I am a slight freak, and have been checking Broadway Across America at least weakly if not daily to see when the Rent tickets for Columbus, in January, were going to go on sale... On Friday three weeks ago, October 23, Rent dissappeared off of Broadway Across America! needless to say I FREAKED out. It was still listed on Siteforrent and everywhere else but I still started panicing and sending emails to everyone that could possibly help me or tell me that there was a mistake. I got a response from Broadway Across America Columbus that it had been canceled... Again with the freaking out... I then informed other people and sent a last frantic post on Rent's facebook wall. Initially they informed me that tickets hadn't gone on sale, but to keep watch on Siteforrent, and then within 5 min they changed their reply to say that it was indeed canceled and sorry for their mistake. I was online when they replied initially, so for those 5 min I was just about the happiest girl in the world, and then pretty much FREAKED out again... I then had a 2 hour conversation about it with my other RENThead friend. It's listed in my notes on Facebook, if you want to read it. It's pretty funny, now that I look back on it, we were really upset. The only thing that was good about finding out on the 23rd, was that Rent was going to be in Cinci the following week, as in it was opening in Cinci the day after I found out Columbus was officially canceled. I planned on driving down on Sunday at all costs to see it, and told my sister, well, she asked my parents and they said no... I was worried something would happen so I spur of the moment drove down Wed night after my classes were over. I got there at 5 for an 8:00 show so I entered the lottery to win the front row seats... MY NUMBER WAS CALLED!!!!! I was one of the last ones, but my number was called! I only needed 1 ticket and pretty much skipped over to pay my $20. I was shaking so bad I couldn't even use my phone to call my friends and tell them the good news. So now for my story about sitting in the front row in the 18th seat to the right...

AMAZING... I was sitting in the orchestra pitt... I can't even explain the experience... Being only a few feet away from the stage, was one of the most exciting things I've ever experienced... It was awesome to get to see their facial expressions up close! I love all of the faces Adam makes! And I could still see people when the stage went dark, so I had fun watching what people did when they weren't in the spot light. I also noticed the cast talking to each other and laughing together when they weren't being focused on and their mikes were off. ahh! It was such a good experience. There were a few parts that I couldn't see because I was so close, but I've seen most of this cast twice already, so I still imagined it. Anthony fell off of the chair when he turned around to look at benny... haha Omg it was so awesome! Caren Tackett was Maureen again! I love her so much! She is my favorite Maureen! My parents don't understand why I like seeing shows so many times, but each time is unique and different and while they're all amazing I value each individual time, each seat in the auditorium, each understudy I get the privilage of seeing preform. Broadway cares was going on and once again I got to talk to Gwen Stewart! She is so lovely! I told her I was sorry I didn't know that it was going on and that I would have brought more money if I'd known. She said it was ok and gave me another hug and told me thank you for donating in Pittsburgh. After I'd talked to her I went to the stage door, and I guess I missed Adam, but Anthony signed his book for me and I froze up... I mean it's like the 3rd time I've seen him at the stage door and I'm still slightly star struck... haha He started "What You Own" right in front of me... feet in front of me... I could almost touch him... Ahh! I can't even begin to describe. And then when he came down the line to me I froze... haha oh well. I talked to some other RENTheads at the stage door and one girl told Anthony she had a dream about him when she was 10. I guess he responded that no one had ever told him that before... hahahaha ahh so funny!

Anyways on Sat I went back to Westerville to see my old high school's play "Acts of God" which my sister was doing tech for. We managed to convince my mom to convince my dad that we should go see it. And we got an extra hour of sleep, which was good because my friends were in town from their schools and my sister was out late for the cast party.

The next day we left bright and early to try to get there to enter the lottery again... Sadly, the time change threw me off and instead of giving myself just an extra hour, I used two. But luckily We still got half price rush tickets in the loge, and as we were waiting outside the theatre, I ran in to one of the girls I'd met Wed night. We were standing talking and all of the sudden we see Adam walking towards the stage door.... haha so we casually power walk the opposite side of the street and cut him off. He had his guitar and starbucks and we were like, Adam, could we get a picture? He said he was already late, and couldn't do pictures, but that he would sign things! So there was a mad rush while everyone got everything out and he signed things and was still really nice. Then, as we walked back towards the theatre entrance, we ran into Andy Senor and talked to him breifly about how he liked Cinci and his dislike of Skyline Chili... haha As we were talking to him, Anthony walked past! He kinda gave us this look like "I'm in a hurry, don't even think of stopping me right now" and it made me smile, and one of the girls I was with went and shook his hand. Ahh it was pretty awesome. The show was brilliant as always! It pretty much went as it's supposed to. I didn't really see any flukes this time that I feel need to be mentioned. Though I am pretty sure that Anthony changes his dance in Tango Maureen every week or so. I think I've seen 3 different dances before Joanne responds "Wow" haha I wonder if he mixes it up just to see her reaction. Anyways I'm in love with him, and I'm sad that I'll probably never get to get a picture with him. Oh well. Maybe someday. haha I got a lot more of the rock feeling since I wasn't right on stage this time. The sound was awesome in the theatre in Cinci. I'm excited to see Spring Awakening there in Jan.

Well it's late, and I have to type a paper about the lecture I went to tonight... but anyways I'm going to try and update more... haha like that'll happen. I want to document my life more, so I can look back on it. I don't really care if other people read it or not. It's really just for me.

<3 Laura