It's Showtime

Those Damn Yankees!

HA! We showed them!

Well anyways as you may have known, Boonville High School's Thesbian Troupe #950 presented Damn Yankees April 23 - 26, ending today. Here's how it went down!

PERFORMANCE

Thursdays

show I was so pumped. Finally all of our hard worked was going to pay off and be shown to the public. Well the first time we go out is in the song "Six Months Out of every Year" We come out in the middle of the song then freeze. I saw the audience when we where walking out and I felt the adrenaline rushing through my veins. I was like wow I'm actually doing this. So I gave it my all and it was amazing.
I screwed up on my solo in the number "The Game". It wasn't like huge or anything. Nobody noticed but me and 2 other people. I easily fixed it but I still felt bad. I got over it though. Another number we did was "Two Lost Souls" and man let me tell you, the way the audience reacted to our dancing made me more energetic. After Monday night's performance of this song it suddenly became my favorite.
That was my first show ever and I don't think I will ever forget it. Things were perfect =]

Friday

Was even beter!
I didn't screw up my solo so it was amazing, but I think I forgot a dance move during it but again it wasn't noticeable.
The audience was great and I was great and the show was just amazing, of course.

One thing did happen though.
It was in Two Lost Souls. So we are up to our freezing spot in the dance number and Kirby and Kristine had finished their tap dancing. Cam and Spence have their own little dance segment for 4 counts of 8. Well they accidently did an extra 2 counts. Well after the counts we do an 8 counts of a shimmy thing to get to our places for the next dance segment involving all of us. Well in the middle of our shimmy, the dance music started back in and we all had to wait for it to repeat again (The beggining of this dance is 3 counts of 8 that repeat so we only did it twice since th screw up. Get it? If not, too bad!). It wasn't terribly bad though. it looked like it was supposed to happen

Saturday

Was even bettererer! =]!
No screw ups, from me at least!
Great crowd reactions!
Two Lost Souls didn't get any better though! Cameron and Spencer did it right. This time it was the pit's fault. They added an extra count of 8. So by time the shimmy was over, we got to our places but the music wasn't playing. So i don't know what anyone else did but I just kinda acted drunk. My mom said that she didn't notice a screw up (until she saw it Sunday.)
It worked out I guess.

Sunday

Was perfect I must say!!!
Linda (aunt), Shannon (sister), Ashton (niece), Tristan (nephew), Trenton (nephew), Mom, and Hope (aunt) were all there.
I was kinda nervouse but got over it easily.
Now Two Lost Souls, went PERFECT! No screw up's what-so-ever!
I'm so proud!
Sunday was our best performance and I'm glad.
I'm really gonna miss this cast and this show!

Final Thoughts

I loved the show. It went way better than I expected.
I got thousands of compliments from people I know and don't know, you have no idea! If you thought I had a big head now, imagine how big it is now! Lol =]
Everyone can tell I love doing the shows and singing, acting and dancing and it's very true. I love it!
I'm never giving up this and plan on sticking with it the rest of my life.
I'm definitely gonna miss my senior friends!
I had a blast and I love almost everyone in the cast!

CAST PARTIES

Thursday

The cast party was at Steak and Shake, but most of the guys went to Bdub's, which I would have loved to have gone to. It was really fun though. I had great food and it was a blast you don't even know! We left at like 12:30. Levi took me and Kel home.

Friday

This cast party was at Nathan Beasley's! We played rock band, had lots of food, and just chilled and hung out! Afterwards, I had to take Olivia home. She only lived a few minutes from his house so I was game. Michael came with me. I got home at like 1 that day

Saturday

This cast party was the best of them all! We went to Stephanie Bolin's house and hung out there. Cody, her bpyfriend, gave me a ride. It was nice to get to know him. He has a hell of an awesome car too! He is a really cool. Well it was about 1 when Auburn, Kasey, Olivia, and I left. we went to Sharon Elementry to meet up with Stephanie Tulley and Andrea West. When we got there, they were telling us that these two high old guys were like creeping them out. They told them they were loking for a dog. yea right! So we saw flashlights and they started yelling at us from a distance telling us to be quite and shit. They ended up calling ther cops on us for some stupid reason. So three cops show up and surround us. It was really stupid but funny. We left after that and went home. Then we saw cops like all night that night. I laughed. It was fun. I got home at 2:30 that day.

Sunday

Was our pizza party at the high school. We voted for academy awards coming up, ate, and signed each other's programs and posters. We signed bats for Judy, Gail, and John. It was a lot of fun and I almost cried. I'm going to miss everybody!

Well that was how the rest of my whole week went. It was very busy and I'm very tired. Now that the musical is over I don't know what to do with all the free time I have.
I'm thinking about performing for the academy awards we are having coming up but I don't know. I do know I'm doing a skit though with friends.

We'll see what happens

Alright I need to get to bed. I'm extremely tired!

Night

HERE LOOK AT SOME PHOTOS!

Teasers Week

Okay so we finished up out teasers for Damn Yankees last Wednesday. The first night of teasers, Tuesday, I got so sore that when we were done, I ended up getting sick and had to lay in the bath tub and relax with some music.

Wednesday I felt so much better. The teasers went great and I had a blast.

Here look at some pictures from the teasers =]

Me and Kel at Loge


Kelli, Brent (my new brother), and I


Mal and I (PS Mal is cheating! She was wearing Heels!)

Greeting the students and teachers, this was Kel's pic BTW. I Don't know what that dork was doing though. =]
OH look Knee is to the left!

Later Wednesday night, I had the auditions for the summer musical. We were a bit late but that was fine. The boys there already knew the dance for auditions so I had to learn it with the girls after all the vocals. So I think my vocals went pretty good. I really wanted to show off but I barely had to sing till I was done.
Then when I learned the dance for the auditions that night, I felt so good about this. This stuff was easy compared to our dances. Well by time i got to go, I went totally blank and forgot the dance moves. It pissed me off so much you have no idea.

Thursday rolled around and it was time to start school again. Not nuch went on there, just really tired throughout the day.

Friday was our Band Contest at Central in Evansville. I was so excited but nervous at the same time. Kelli and Sam went along and were by my side almost as much as they could. Sam took pictures of course.
So we did our performance, did our sight reading, and went back to our room to wait for our results. I was amazed by what the scores were!! One the three songs we played, we got a 9, 10.5, and 11. A perfect score is a 9 and then the worse it is the higher the number. So we were close to perfect on all of them. On our sight reading piece, we got a 12, which is really good for sight reading. So we got a football to put on our gold plaque that we received.
I was so happy!!!!!!!!! :D

Oh and the bus rides were so fun it wasn't even funny!




We got home at 12AM. I didn't go to bed till 1 though. I had to get up at 7 to be at the high school at 8 for dress rehearsal.

Dress rehearsal went really good today as well. The pit was kinda tired but that was reasonable since we just had contest. I was like, dead in the morning but kinda got over that.
Afterwards, Kelli, Sam, Brent, Terri, Denise, and I went to go get Sam a tux for prom and to go eat. Then we went to Terese's new house to see how it loo ks. After that, we go pick up Brandan and hang with him for a while at Kell's house. Finally Sam and Brandan leave and I stay at Kells.


Tomorrow I am actually going to get to sleep in!!!!! YESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You have no idea how happy I am about this!!!



Alright well I'm outta here.
Lata'

After School

Alright, school is over now and I've had like 3 showers today. One this morning, one during gym, and one after school because we took character pictures today and my hair was all gelled up with product.

But yea school sucked kinda. It was just another average day!

Some things that are going good:

1. I'm doing great on my facial expressions for Damn Yankees. Thanks Judy!
2. Me and a close friend whom I lost are getting back to normal
3. My grades are good, can be better, but I'm happy
4. My face is clearing up
5. My penis has grown even bigger! HAHAHA JK! I'm running out of things to say.

All right well next week are the days of our teasers for our musical. I'm so excited and I get to miss school. Contest for band is also next week and so are auditions for the summer musical "Oklahoma" I'm so excited for all of this!!!!!

So wish me luck on everything that is going on!

Well I will post some fun stuff in a bit, right now I'm going to go eat, and watch my favorite TV show One Life To Live.

Peace Out!

Those Damn Yankees

Soundtrack Image

So as you may know, Boonville High School is doing Damn Yankees for the Spring Musical this year. I got the part of Mickey, he's a baseball player. I also get to do a lot of dancing.

Damn Yankees is about an old man named Joe Boyd who would just love to see the Washington Senators beat the Yankees. He wants it so much he is willing to sell his soul to the devil, Applegate. Applegate doesn't like it, but made a deal to turn Joe into the greatest ball player so he can play for the Senators to beat the Yankees, and changes his last name to Hardy. The part that Applegate doesn't like is that he gave Joe an escape clause. He has until a certain day to wim the penant. If he doesn't win by then, he will be forced to work for Applegate.

So during the show, games go on, and Lola, Applegates seductive assistant, tries to convince Joe Hardy to fall in love with him so that he will be stuck to work for Applegate also.

Another event going on is that the reporter, Gloria, starts of kind of suspicious of Joe Hardy. Later on in the show, Applegate "accidentaly" tells Gloria a false rumer about Joe which leads them into court, on his last day of being Joe Hardy until he is stuck as Joe Hardy forever and working for Applegate. This causes alot of difficulty for Joe.

To see more and to find out how it ends, go see the show.

The days are:

• Thursday, April 23
• Friday, April 24
• Saturday, April 25

The showtimes for these day are at 7 PM

• Sunday, April 26

The time for the show for this day is at 2 PM

You can either reserve your tickets or order them at the door. Contact Boonville High School to find out how to reserve tickets and for for information if you need it.


Here are snapshots from the original movie

Me at Rehearsal =]