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“I’m sorry, I’m a dance kid...”

—me, whenever shit goes down in musical theatre...

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“Oh, it’s definitely not...”

— Our Musical Director after opening night Katherine told them that me and her had never had a first kiss before and said that she didn’t know if love was real...

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Kid with four necessary parts got sent to the ER for stitches cause we fucked up a stage fight, I got a bone bruise on my hand/wrist and had to tie it up with a handkerchief for the night, our crutchie was profusely bleeding from her good leg while singing letter from the refuge, we dropped so much nuns bread and had so many kids get hurt that we had to mop the blood and butter off the stage the next day, our Albert/ Medda flashed the audience on accident WAY TOO MANY TIMES, we accidentally brought out the desert backdrop during the “it’s just a bunch of trees” line, our Katherine had to play both katherine AND Wiesel cause it was normally played by ER kid, one of our giant ass buildings CAME UNBOLTED RIGHT BEFORE I HAD TO CLIMB UP THERE FOR SANTA FE AND IT TOOK MONTHS FOR ME TO STAND THERE COMFORTABLY CAUSE IM DESPERATELY AFRAID OF HEIGHTS, a hinge on one of our set pieces broken and cut a bunch of kids in the ensemble, one girl sprained a wrist, another sprained an ankle- and we all fucking

C H A R G E D Noah after the show...

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My bro is a senior... R I P

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Order from left to right: Albert, Off night Crutchie (she’s Morris/ Snyder that night) Specs(/Romeo, we were very short on people), Jack(me), Off night Elmer (who is Bunsen, Teddy Roosevelt, a police officer, and Oscar that night- she fuckin V I B E S), Jacobi (who also plays Wiesel, stage manager and mayor that night), Race, and Les

And this isn’t even counting everyone’s opening night roles- were so understaffed, but we made it work and love what we do...

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Opening night Medda and Jack: fucking beautiful

Closing night Medda and Jack: straight up V I B I N G

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I just wanna say how fucking cool it is that our local newspaper actually put us into the paper for advertising and even ran historical copy to set the scene (all names and locations had to be crossed out for safety and privacy reasons...)