This is rediculous! What am I doing here? I'm in the wrong story!

First rehearsals are always interesting. There's this anticipation you get walking into the room because you don't know what to expect. How will the director be? What is the rest of the cast like? Will I mesh in with everyone? So many questions.

Our first rehearsal for "Cabin Fever" was promising. The concept of the show is pretty good. Our director wants our characters to be relatable to the audience to where they could relate certain characters to those in their own family. Her idea of Pidge is interesting. She didn't necessarily say that Pidge was crazy or not, but she did bring up an interesting point. She thought that Pidge was extremely disturbed, but she didn't want to make her the stereotypical crazy person. I totally agree with this. If I turn Pidge into the comedic relief because of her off-the-wall personality then I lose any truth in the character. I have to make her a real person who is just very colorful. I think we have different images of Pidge, but I'm excited about starting the process and meshing our two ideas together.

The read through went really well. I think the show is cast (casted? cast? past form of "to cast") very well. Everyone fits their parts beautifully, which is a blessing since there were fewer people to choose from. It is kind of strange that we have one Mexican in the whole family, but we joke that she's the milkman's daughter hehe. But besides that it really does feel like a family. I was thinking about this last night, but I think it helps us that we all know each other (some more than others). I think it's extremely difficult to create a family onstage because every one's version of a family is so different. When people get together and they don't know each other, it takes a lot longer to form that bond and create that connection with each other. Sometimes they never succeed. In our case, we have less time to form this bond, but we're not complete strangers, so it should be a little easier.

I think the biggest flaw with this production will be the script. It's a pretty good script with a nice mixture of comedy and drama. The beginning is a tad slow, and there are a lot of plot stoppers, but overall it's great...until you get to the end. Now, I've done shows with "different" endings. Case in point, "We Won't Pay!" was a show with a very controversial ending. People either loved it or hated it. During my sophomore year of high school we did "And They Danced Real Slow in Jackson" and our ending was basically a mind fuck with a girl in a wheel chair internally imploding (figuratively, not literally). So I've been in my fair share of shows with controversial endings, and most of the time (if they are motivated) I enjoy them. But the ending for this show is awful. It's like the playwright didn't know how to end the show, so he decided that he wanted Pidge to all of a sudden turn into a narrator and finish the show. It's just so cheesy because I'm monologuing about what happened to all the characters....it makes me sick it's so bad.

But, I'm going to try my hardest to make it meaningful and not god awful, we'll see how that goes.