Ask not what Amber's Sweets can do for you. Ask what you can do for Amber's Sweets... I wake up between Felicity and Elyse (before you leap to conclusions nothing happened...with Elyse anyway) before by brain can focus and all the happy recollections can return to me Elyse's phone rings. it's Jessica, she's been up all night and is panicked. not the best way to wake up after less then 4 hours of sleep. from what I can here from this side of the conversation I decide it might be coffee time. you know just in case I need to do any driving in a hurry. I stumble out of my bedroom only to realize Tristan is between me and the coffee maker. time for the ninja skills. coffee procured I wander back in to the bedroom to find out that Elyse has calmed things down, and everything will be ok so long as we bring some breakfast for Jessica.
crisis one averted.
Tristan need to get to the theater early so the Trevor taxi makes it's first trip of the day while felicity does some last minute stitching. I return home for breakfast, gather supplies(food for Jessica) and rally the troops. Felicity, Elise, Elisabeth, and I pile in to my clown car for now my second trek to the colonial. it's chaos. techies are building sets, people are running around in a panic, and I really have nothing to do. Elise makes her way to the sowing circle in the dungeon, since some people hadn't arrived yet and run troughs seemed hours felicity and I set off to target for last second costumes and advill for Tristan (apparently I was mixing drinks a little heavy the night before.) arriving back we realized that the food we had brought for Jessica was in our trunk. doh!! in the end it was just as well because she was to nerves to eat. I left snacks in the care of Elise, and now that I was once again just an extra body I wondered around looking for a way to be useful. I found the techies working on sets and though I could be of some use... I couldn't but I told them about the power drill I brought (ok so actually it was felicity's and we brought it the day before and had neglected to tell anyone.) as it turns out an extra drill was welcome, so even if I wasn't able to help my drill could. but this meant I had nothing to do but sit around. before long what luck what luck they needed extension cable so it was off to home depot for me.
by the time I got back noon had come and gone, and still no run through insight. the slave labor stitching party in the dungeon was furiously trying to get the last minute costumes done. Before I can think what next felicity tells me we're going home so she can finish a few things on the sewing meshan. yay 10 minute nap and lunch for me!! Ashly gave us strict instructions to call when we finish so she can call 15 min to places.
I should point something out at this point I was only a few hours away from being hung upside down by my ankle, and we had yet to test the rig with my costume on over it. so when I arrive for I think the 7th time I grab the rig guys and get one full costume test seconds before places for the first full runthrough. big plus no death. it turns out I have a lot of time off stage, and there wasn't any one in the wings to help with costume changes. I finally found what I had been looking for all day, a chance to be useful. and my internal 12 year old found what it had been looking for constantly since it was my external 12 year old BOOBIES!!!! some of my efforts were more successful then others. I believe the phrase pregnant reptile has been mentioned. but more then one sweet was squeezed in to a corset by yours truly.
run through begins and the pressure is on. out of curiosity I see if the harness fits under my costumes. it does, which means that the changes I had been worrying about will take half the time. thank god. rig works I live and Art and celebrated by rocking out in animal suites... oh wait that was part of the show.
performance comes along and the sleep deprivation starts to catch up with me. I'm just about to conck out with my eyes open when a blood splattered largo family come running up the stairs. turns out no one warned them blood pack were live. but now we have an unforeseen problem. how do you clean up blood and still make it to your scene on time? I help as best I can, but this does add one more concern to my impending stunt. will the blood get in my hair when my spine is removed? before long I have my answer. no because there was no blood in my spine. go figure. but then it was time for my moment of glory LION TIME!!! we rocked seventeen and the crowd loved us.
from my moment of glory to my moment of tragedy. in my self appointed role of costume aid I'm helping Camille change before cromagia and oh fuck she has no talons. some one must have moved them. the time we waist looking for them is time not changing, and Camille goes out with boots unziped and only half her feathers. but thanks to our idea to put the harness on during intermission and but her costumes over it she is still safe to fly. and fly she did. from what I understand it was the most impressive moment of the whole show.
the certans close on a kiss god knows we can tell the end is near. oops wrong musical. but the epilogue ends and we all take a bow. relief and bed
my only regret is the loin didn't get any fan girls. sigh
congrats everyone on an awesome show. thanks to Tristan and Camille for bringing me in to the sweets fold. thanks to Tim, Ashly and Jessalyn for being awesome, and putting on such an amazing event. My love to all the sweets and Testify
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