There's No Business Like Show Business, like no business I know!!! In a week and a half, the Timpanogas Valley Theater company will be opening our performance of Annie Get Your Gun. The dates of the show are November 5, 6, and 7, and the 12, 13, and 14. The first Thursday-Saturday shows are being included as one of the shows involved with Cowboy Poetry here in Heber. The following week will be a little less hectic because there won't be Cowboy Poetry stuff going on during our last performances.
I have to tell ya, I've been getting a little depressed lately because I know that we will be finishing the show soon and so I won't see my TVT friends nearly as often. This has happened every year when I've been in a show with TVT (this my third show with TVT). My TVT friends are some of my closest friends when I am home in Heber during the Fall months and I always realize about a week before opening the show that the beginning of the end of the show is drawing near. As a matter of fact, I was very upset last night. I didn't talk out loud very much and I was just kind of off in my own little world yesterday. I was trying to pinpoint why I was so depressed yesterday and it hit me last night that I am getting really sad that I won't see some of my closest Heber friends very much after November 14. In fact, I was wanting to have a good cry because I was so full of emotion last night and I couldn't think of another way to get it out.
What I like so much about this cast is that a lot of the principle actors are adults, which is the kind of cast I was first involved in with TVT (when I was in Blithe Spirit). I have known Justin since Blithe Spirit because like all the TVT productions, he's built the set for most of the shows. In 2007, I became friends with Lance when he was the lead in Pirated! and we've kept in touch really well because he teaches at the high school with my dad. I also have known all the directors (Ms. T, Duke, Josh, and Ann) for a long time before TVT even started. This year, I've gotten to know Becca, Beth, Laurie W and her daughter Erin, Ryan, Jason, Candee, Melissa G, Andy B, and a few of the younger kids.
It is the highlight of my week to go to rehearsals because I get to see my theater friends there. I don't have to worry about being 'normal' because in theater, being normal is overrated and we can all just be ourselves. I don't have a principle part in Annie Get Your Gun, but when Josh releases everyone but the principles, I enjoy just hanging out with them because they are the ones I most enjoy being around and I like watching them rehearse their scenes.
I am very sad to see the end of the Fall 09 Annie Get Your Gun show, but I am looking forward to doing Polar Express and a few other things before I head back to school.
I just hope I see Andy, Candee, Jason, and all my other cast members again after we finish because I think they shop at Smith's since the prices there are a little cheaper than Days Market. I've seen Ryan, Lance, Laurie W, Sue (Laurie's mom), Becca, and a few of the others in Days, but I never see the others and it makes me sad. :(
