December 11, 2006--Last night of the play

Last night was the last night of the play. Before the play, I asked one of the guys who runs the sound if they were going to be pulling any pranks with the sound, and he assured me that although they were going to pull one on somebody, it wasn't going to be me. Another girl who works with the sound told me that that wasn't entirely true--they were planning on doing something again with the moonlit path, but it wasn't going to be a big deal. They were just planning on having it not break the first time, and that I should encourage George to throw the rock again because it will break the second time he throws it.

We got up there to do that part, and George threw the rock. Again, we heard the cat wail. I was glad I was at least somewhat prepared this time, so I wasn't completely taken off guard, but I did distinctly remember the sound man saying they weren't going to do the cat sound on us again. I just shook my head and grinned, and George said, "Oh, I must have hit the cat." He picked up a second rock and threw it. A man's voice said, "Hey you guys! Stop throwing rocks at my window!" Okay, that caught me off guard a little, but I still wasn't completely surprised. I said, "I don't know if you should throw any more rocks, George!" "

"One more time!" said George. He reached down to pick up the rock...and the glass broke. He hadn't even thrown it yet. He looked up in surprise, and I said incredulously, "How did you do that?" He just shook his head and said, "I don't know!" Then I modified my next line a bit and said, "So, what'd you wish for, anyway?"

Then after his lines, I went to throw my rock, and just like the last two nights my glass broke right away. I turned to him, smiled, and said, "That's the way you are supposed to do it."

Afterwards, I tracked down that sound man and said, "you LIED to me!" He said, "It wasn't me, it was (the director)!" I didn't believe a word of it, but I went and asked her anyway, and she said that the others had it all planned out, she just modified it a bit. It was her idea to have the glass break as he was picking up the rock, but the rest of it she swears wasn't her idea. I believe her--after all, she's the pastor's wife and I'm sure she doesn't lie. The sound guy says that he felt really bad because after he told me that they weren't going to pull anything on me, the other girl in the sound booth came in and said that the director wanted them to mess up the sound effects. My guess is she's the one who was at the root of all of it.