We Can't Picture Being Anything But Showpeople... and Lawyers, that too...

Opening night last night apparently set the GGSS record for number of audience members on a Wednesday.  We were functionally sold out, as the only remaining seats were exceedingly crappy.  I think the final count was around 200.

The show itself went really well.  Adrenaline was high and the audience was really responsive and fantastic.  All of my fellow actors were on their A-games and turned in amazing performances.  We had been worried earlier in the day that Steph was losing her voice, but she rallied and still (as always) had the strongest sound out of the whole cast.  I am very proud to be involved in this production and I'm excited that we have three more nights.

I thought I'd take the hour I have between Civil Procedure and Torts to put up some photos that are supposedly on facebook but which don't show up on my profile and which I also don't want to lose.  The costume/set/lighting department did fantastic jobs, as you can see.

See?

Me and Steph before "Coffee Shop Nights"

I love this coat, even though I only get to wear it for five minutes...

Playing Mack the Knife during "Show People"

I love the reactions here.

 Yay kickline!

 The entire company (except for me, because I haven't been invited to be a real showperson yet).  They are all ridiculously talented and lovely people.  And they're basically all either law students, lawyers, or congressional staffers.  Who would have thought there were so many musical theater people within those groups?

Only had one relatively small mishap on opening night- at one point I pull my gun from my shoulder holster and give it to another character, but for some reason the gun was stuck in the holster.  After a few quick tries I just took off the entire holster and threw it while saying "You know what?  Take the whole thing."  Hopefully will be able to fix that tonight.  

Show people go on!