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thedan wrote a list of 50 things he remembered about his time at MIT. In that spirit, I present:
65 things I remember about my time with MTG
1. Little Shop: Having the crap scared out of me by Jamez's performance.
2. MTG Open House/Activities Midway: Seth and his keyboard; Chris McEniry (I think) taking me on a tour around Little Kresge.
3. Evita: Bonk, as the CRB rep, teases me, the scared new freshman, during auditions. The start of a long and glorious tradition.
4. Evita: Tree shows us her wedding pictures. I have no idea who any of these people are, but I look at them anyway.
5. Evita: "Student Center stinks, Evita doesn't." The rotten Rosco smell that permeated *everything.*
6. Evita: Substituting as the "flashback Evita" during the matinee. Scary as all hell but incredibly satisfying.
7. Company: Being called back for Jenny and April, then googling madly trying to figure out who they were, since I was completely unfamiliar with the show.
8. Company: The cast rebellion vocal rehearsals-- our attempt to learn the music in spite of our completely incompetent vocal director.
9. Company: The evil toaster that puffed baby powder ALL OVER Dave's outfit.
10. Company: "Knock knock." "Who's there?" "Interrupted hack night." "Interrupted hack night wh--" *Tree falls down the KLT stairs*
11. Guild Day: I show up late, walk in the door, and the first thing I hear is "I nominate Caitlin!" The start of...uh...two and a half? three? years on the board.
12. Planet: Arthur convinces me to produce the show. "Oh, it's not that hard! I'll help you!" Yeah, screw you, Fitzmaurice! *g*
13. Planet: Sheri the director quits halfway into the rehearsal period. Well, at least we have an assistant director. Then Brandy the costume designer quits. Well, at least we have an assistant designer. Oh wait, the assistant director and assistant costume designer are the same person. ...oh well!
14. Planet: ChrisFrosh misses an entrance in rehearsal because "I can't come out, I'm tied to a chair."
15. Planet: 'Twas a run-by glittering! My glitter hairspray gets on everyone and everything. I still found it in my sheets months later.
16. Children of Eden: I get cast as Yonah! Hurray! I wake Amy up to tell her the good news (and by "wake up" I mean "pound on her door yelling 'AmyAmyAmy!!!'") then go downstairs to celebrate with Sara Jo, who'd been cast as Eve.
17. Eden: "I mock your waffles!" Steph: "It's not a dik-dik!" Dan: "Pirates of Eden, where is your booty?"
18. Eden: Dan: "If you love me, if you love this family, you will never use that voice again!" Jesse: "Get out of my way, OOOOOOLD MAAAAN!", "In what world do you live!?"
19. Eden: "Stones! It's a ring of muslin stones!"
20. Eden: My first real costuming experience: I made green cummerbunds for the five members of the snake, and gave us top hats.
21. Cabaret: I'm on the wrong side of the stage! I did run crew for this show, working for Mark the slavedriver.
22. Cabaret: Fascinating set changes like collecting balloons in the dark, trying not to step on them and pop them, and picking up Sheffi's droppped cigarette.
23. Cabaret: The final scene, dead silence onstage, and the run crew (behind the set and completely unable to see what's going on) wondering what on earth Pete and Welkin could *possibly* be doing that's taking so long!
24. Cabaret: Hack night: "A cucumber for me!"
25. You're a Good Man Charlie Brown: Yay! Good show choice! Directed bythedan-- even better! But why does Charlie Brown have a beard?
26. YaGMCB: That damned survey scene was so hard for me to get into, but once I finally got it, it was incredibly rewarding.
27. City of Angels: The crushing disappointment of not being cast at all. It was an experience I needed, though. (I ended up being in the show after all after the original Angel City Soprano dropped out.)
28. Angels: Trying desperately to make costumes (and people) look black and white onstage. We finally got hold of a grey trenchcoat for Pete, but the damn thing looked pink under the lights!
29. Angels: Gaff-taped into two separate dresses. Not particularly an experience I'd like to repeat.
30. Angels: Hurray! The set doesn't kill anyone. Mostly.
31. Anything Goes: We had planned on doing Guys and Dolls, and then were told three weeks before auditions that we couldn't do it after all. Fabulous.
32. AG: Holding auditions on September 11, which I had to go to, because I couldn't go to the Wednesday auditions.
33. AG: Spin a wheel, pick a choreographer! I think we had something like four, total.
34. AG: Opening night starts an hour late while the paint dries on the set. Somehow, Chris Toepel, the house manager, keep the audience from killing us all.
35. Once Upon a Mattress: Thank God for Elise and Diane, who helped me keep my sanity (and also did a lot of sewing, too). *g*
36. Mattress: Nervous breakdowns during prod week are a bad thing, to be avoided if at all possible.
37. Mattress: I'm finally cast opposite someone who doesn't scare the crap out of me! I love you, Greg!
38. Tomfoolery: I'm just returned from my andschneck128's spring break trip to Italy, jet-lagged beyond belief, and I go to rehearsal to see Rogue. Jax corners me in the women's bathroom and asks if I'd like to be the production stage manager for the show. I blink a few times and say, "Uh, okay?"
39. Tomfoolery: But it turns out to be a good thing, because the cues are uncomplicated and I get to sit in the booth withthedan! We have entirely too much fun singing and dancing along.
40. Tomfoolery: If Camilo wags his eyebrows any higher, they're going to take flight!
41. Assassins: I agree to be CRB rep for auditions.lemurtanis and I have far too much fun reading the Squeaky/Sarah Jane KFC scene. I kill Cinda with "Yeah, but at the bridge, you always get whopped by the Balrog."
42. Assassins: "Oh my God, who is John Proctor?"
43. Assassins: Why is it quiet onstage? Oh, that's just Rogue acting. This leads to the "raise your hand when you're acting" joke.
44. High Society: "Die again, swan!"
45. High Society: I'm blocked to actually climb inside a piece of furniture, a buffet. Daddy and Proven build it for me and name it Jimmy. Jimmy's kind of mean and gives me quite a few bruises and scratches-- Jimmy bites.
46. High Society: "Who's your daddy?" "You're my daddy!" "Does Daddy's makeup look okay?" Bonk and I have far too much fun being father and daughter. It scares Beth and Cinda.
47. Star Wars: Musical Edition: My Amy is cast as Leia!!!!
48. SWME: I spend $6000 on costumes and finally get my own Guild award!
49. SWME: Nervous breakdowns during prod week are *still* bad. No more costuming and acting at the same time for me.
50. SWME: Kimmerie is a goddess who saves my ass more than once. And so is Brie, and Steph, and Jenn, and Elise, and Beth, and hell, ALL the rest of my costume staff!
51. SWME: Stormtrooper armor is actually rather painful to wear when you're a 5'5" girl.
51.5: SWME: Nori coins "upstaging bitch!" in reference to R2-D2. It sticks.
52. SWME: Chewbacca visits MIT charm school and makes a great impression. Derek buys himself platform sandals so Chewie can be taller. They're not *quite* as cool as the Big Gay Vader boots.
53. SWME: Every time Bonk smirks, God kills a kitten. Please, think of the kittens.
54. Clue: "This is not a door. This is also not a door."
55. Clue: The ad-libs save the show. "I mean she wears two trenchcoats, who *does* that?"
56. Into the Woodz: I enter auditions/callbacks completely confident that I'm going to be cast as Little Red, and wonders who's going to be the Baker's Wife, since Cinda's not auditioning. Then I get my call. "...I'd like to offer you the role of Baker's Wife." "*blink* *blink* ...um, sure!"
57. Woodz: Colleen is also not a door. Sorry about that, Colleen.
58. Woodz: Bonk gets the brilliant idea that my baby should look like Baby Stewie from Family Guy. Brie then follows through on this. So Pete, Nori, and I spent the whole second act keeping the baby's face hidden from the audience and trying not to look at the damn thing ourselves, lest we burst into giggles.
59. Woodz: Other Caitlin and I have far too much fun singing "Agony" to each other while she's in her tower and I'm hiding behind a tree.
60. Woodz: "And four, I...I...uh-- corn! Hair!" Pete had all the best screwed-up lines. Probably for a reason. *g*
61. Woodz: There are midgets in the sky! There are giant gay pirate midgets in the sky! Hack night is fun and scares Nori.
62. Woodz: Yellow Heather uses every light we have and BAKES us all with the sidelights. Everyone sweats through their costumes. Febreeze is our friend.
63. Woodz: Steven is an UPSTAGING BITCH COW! But we love him anyway.
64. Woodz: "Good idea, birds, and well-expressed through interpretive dance!" "Here, take my kidneys. You'll run faster."
65. Woodz: Intermission means it's time to get naked and eat bread! Woohoo!
Wow. That was a long list. But then, it was a lot of shows, and a lot of memories. *hugs MTG*
thedan wrote a list of 50 things he remembered about his time at MIT. In that spirit, I present:65 things I remember about my time with MTG
1. Little Shop: Having the crap scared out of me by Jamez's performance.
2. MTG Open House/Activities Midway: Seth and his keyboard; Chris McEniry (I think) taking me on a tour around Little Kresge.
3. Evita: Bonk, as the CRB rep, teases me, the scared new freshman, during auditions. The start of a long and glorious tradition.
4. Evita: Tree shows us her wedding pictures. I have no idea who any of these people are, but I look at them anyway.
5. Evita: "Student Center stinks, Evita doesn't." The rotten Rosco smell that permeated *everything.*
6. Evita: Substituting as the "flashback Evita" during the matinee. Scary as all hell but incredibly satisfying.
7. Company: Being called back for Jenny and April, then googling madly trying to figure out who they were, since I was completely unfamiliar with the show.
8. Company: The cast rebellion vocal rehearsals-- our attempt to learn the music in spite of our completely incompetent vocal director.
9. Company: The evil toaster that puffed baby powder ALL OVER Dave's outfit.
10. Company: "Knock knock." "Who's there?" "Interrupted hack night." "Interrupted hack night wh--" *Tree falls down the KLT stairs*
11. Guild Day: I show up late, walk in the door, and the first thing I hear is "I nominate Caitlin!" The start of...uh...two and a half? three? years on the board.
12. Planet: Arthur convinces me to produce the show. "Oh, it's not that hard! I'll help you!" Yeah, screw you, Fitzmaurice! *g*
13. Planet: Sheri the director quits halfway into the rehearsal period. Well, at least we have an assistant director. Then Brandy the costume designer quits. Well, at least we have an assistant designer. Oh wait, the assistant director and assistant costume designer are the same person. ...oh well!
14. Planet: ChrisFrosh misses an entrance in rehearsal because "I can't come out, I'm tied to a chair."
15. Planet: 'Twas a run-by glittering! My glitter hairspray gets on everyone and everything. I still found it in my sheets months later.
16. Children of Eden: I get cast as Yonah! Hurray! I wake Amy up to tell her the good news (and by "wake up" I mean "pound on her door yelling 'AmyAmyAmy!!!'") then go downstairs to celebrate with Sara Jo, who'd been cast as Eve.
17. Eden: "I mock your waffles!" Steph: "It's not a dik-dik!" Dan: "Pirates of Eden, where is your booty?"
18. Eden: Dan: "If you love me, if you love this family, you will never use that voice again!" Jesse: "Get out of my way, OOOOOOLD MAAAAN!", "In what world do you live!?"
19. Eden: "Stones! It's a ring of muslin stones!"
20. Eden: My first real costuming experience: I made green cummerbunds for the five members of the snake, and gave us top hats.
21. Cabaret: I'm on the wrong side of the stage! I did run crew for this show, working for Mark the slavedriver.
22. Cabaret: Fascinating set changes like collecting balloons in the dark, trying not to step on them and pop them, and picking up Sheffi's droppped cigarette.
23. Cabaret: The final scene, dead silence onstage, and the run crew (behind the set and completely unable to see what's going on) wondering what on earth Pete and Welkin could *possibly* be doing that's taking so long!
24. Cabaret: Hack night: "A cucumber for me!"
25. You're a Good Man Charlie Brown: Yay! Good show choice! Directed by
thedan-- even better! But why does Charlie Brown have a beard?26. YaGMCB: That damned survey scene was so hard for me to get into, but once I finally got it, it was incredibly rewarding.
27. City of Angels: The crushing disappointment of not being cast at all. It was an experience I needed, though. (I ended up being in the show after all after the original Angel City Soprano dropped out.)
28. Angels: Trying desperately to make costumes (and people) look black and white onstage. We finally got hold of a grey trenchcoat for Pete, but the damn thing looked pink under the lights!
29. Angels: Gaff-taped into two separate dresses. Not particularly an experience I'd like to repeat.
30. Angels: Hurray! The set doesn't kill anyone. Mostly.
31. Anything Goes: We had planned on doing Guys and Dolls, and then were told three weeks before auditions that we couldn't do it after all. Fabulous.
32. AG: Holding auditions on September 11, which I had to go to, because I couldn't go to the Wednesday auditions.
33. AG: Spin a wheel, pick a choreographer! I think we had something like four, total.
34. AG: Opening night starts an hour late while the paint dries on the set. Somehow, Chris Toepel, the house manager, keep the audience from killing us all.
35. Once Upon a Mattress: Thank God for Elise and Diane, who helped me keep my sanity (and also did a lot of sewing, too). *g*
36. Mattress: Nervous breakdowns during prod week are a bad thing, to be avoided if at all possible.
37. Mattress: I'm finally cast opposite someone who doesn't scare the crap out of me! I love you, Greg!
38. Tomfoolery: I'm just returned from my and
schneck128's spring break trip to Italy, jet-lagged beyond belief, and I go to rehearsal to see Rogue. Jax corners me in the women's bathroom and asks if I'd like to be the production stage manager for the show. I blink a few times and say, "Uh, okay?"39. Tomfoolery: But it turns out to be a good thing, because the cues are uncomplicated and I get to sit in the booth with
thedan! We have entirely too much fun singing and dancing along.40. Tomfoolery: If Camilo wags his eyebrows any higher, they're going to take flight!
41. Assassins: I agree to be CRB rep for auditions.
lemurtanis and I have far too much fun reading the Squeaky/Sarah Jane KFC scene. I kill Cinda with "Yeah, but at the bridge, you always get whopped by the Balrog."42. Assassins: "Oh my God, who is John Proctor?"
43. Assassins: Why is it quiet onstage? Oh, that's just Rogue acting. This leads to the "raise your hand when you're acting" joke.
44. High Society: "Die again, swan!"
45. High Society: I'm blocked to actually climb inside a piece of furniture, a buffet. Daddy and Proven build it for me and name it Jimmy. Jimmy's kind of mean and gives me quite a few bruises and scratches-- Jimmy bites.
46. High Society: "Who's your daddy?" "You're my daddy!" "Does Daddy's makeup look okay?" Bonk and I have far too much fun being father and daughter. It scares Beth and Cinda.
47. Star Wars: Musical Edition: My Amy is cast as Leia!!!!
48. SWME: I spend $6000 on costumes and finally get my own Guild award!
49. SWME: Nervous breakdowns during prod week are *still* bad. No more costuming and acting at the same time for me.
50. SWME: Kimmerie is a goddess who saves my ass more than once. And so is Brie, and Steph, and Jenn, and Elise, and Beth, and hell, ALL the rest of my costume staff!
51. SWME: Stormtrooper armor is actually rather painful to wear when you're a 5'5" girl.
51.5: SWME: Nori coins "upstaging bitch!" in reference to R2-D2. It sticks.
52. SWME: Chewbacca visits MIT charm school and makes a great impression. Derek buys himself platform sandals so Chewie can be taller. They're not *quite* as cool as the Big Gay Vader boots.
53. SWME: Every time Bonk smirks, God kills a kitten. Please, think of the kittens.
54. Clue: "This is not a door. This is also not a door."
55. Clue: The ad-libs save the show. "I mean she wears two trenchcoats, who *does* that?"
56. Into the Woodz: I enter auditions/callbacks completely confident that I'm going to be cast as Little Red, and wonders who's going to be the Baker's Wife, since Cinda's not auditioning. Then I get my call. "...I'd like to offer you the role of Baker's Wife." "*blink* *blink* ...um, sure!"
57. Woodz: Colleen is also not a door. Sorry about that, Colleen.
58. Woodz: Bonk gets the brilliant idea that my baby should look like Baby Stewie from Family Guy. Brie then follows through on this. So Pete, Nori, and I spent the whole second act keeping the baby's face hidden from the audience and trying not to look at the damn thing ourselves, lest we burst into giggles.
59. Woodz: Other Caitlin and I have far too much fun singing "Agony" to each other while she's in her tower and I'm hiding behind a tree.
60. Woodz: "And four, I...I...uh-- corn! Hair!" Pete had all the best screwed-up lines. Probably for a reason. *g*
61. Woodz: There are midgets in the sky! There are giant gay pirate midgets in the sky! Hack night is fun and scares Nori.
62. Woodz: Yellow Heather uses every light we have and BAKES us all with the sidelights. Everyone sweats through their costumes. Febreeze is our friend.
63. Woodz: Steven is an UPSTAGING BITCH COW! But we love him anyway.
64. Woodz: "Good idea, birds, and well-expressed through interpretive dance!" "Here, take my kidneys. You'll run faster."
65. Woodz: Intermission means it's time to get naked and eat bread! Woohoo!
Wow. That was a long list. But then, it was a lot of shows, and a lot of memories. *hugs MTG*
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Date: 2003-10-01 02:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-01 03:10 pm (UTC)And about something more specific than just MIT.
All right, I'm gonna have to one-up you... coming next week: "80 things I remember about, um, last Thursday, yeah, that's it."
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Date: 2003-10-02 11:13 am (UTC)