September 15, 2006--Getting to be Mary Bailey

Our church does a dinner theatre every year for Christmas. This year they are doing "It's a Wonderful Life", the musical. CLICK HERE to see the one we are doing. We had auditions a couple of weeks ago, and I tried out. I've been waiting on pins and needles every since to see if I got a part! I was so surprised yesterday evening to find that I got the part of Mary Bailey! I'm still just in shock. I have a lot of singing to do, and some of the songs are really high. I am a low alto, so this is going to be a challenge to squeak that high! I don't have an overwhelming amount of lines, thankfully. George Bailey has more lines that everyone else put together I think. The guy who plays him looks like he's about 6'5" or so. We're going to look kind of odd together. The first thing I asked the director was, "I don't have to kiss anybody, do I?" She assured me they will cut out the kissing. That's good, because Erick would not be happy if I had to do that. I wouldn't do it, either. I have talked Erick into being Potter's Goon. She needed someone to do that, and I didn't exactly volunteer him, but I did mention that he might be willing to be in it if all he had to do was push around a guy in a wheelchair. So as you can see, we're going to be busy. We're already busy teaching FPU and Erick's been working on an investment house for our pastor. He's going to be applying for his license to preach pretty soon. We had to get our membership switched over, and that's nearly done. We should be official members either this weekend or in a couple of weeks.