That's become my motto pretty much every night when I go out to practice and take on the role of Horton. We're now a couple of weeks into practices, and things are coming along pretty well. All the main roles are double cast, so I'm only Horton half the time. The rest of the time I'm just a creature in the Jungle of Nool. We've pretty much blocked out the whole show now, although we still have some dance numbers to learn. This week we will start going through the whole show once per night, so that will be fun to see it all coming together. We're taking reservations for anyone who wants to come up and see the show. Don't forget, I'll cook you an omelet too.
Life goes on otherwise. I'm still employed so far, and we're plenty busy, although they just announced that orders are down quite a bit. The company has a pretty good chunk of cash in the bank, so hopefully they will decide they can keep us all gainfully employed through the downturn.
Last night we had a Chinese New Year's party, at Erin's instigation. We invited Delmar Gray, who I served as counselor to in the bishopric of our old ward, and who is also a Taiwan return missionary and his family, and also Pres. Cambron, counselor in our stake presidency and who is another Taiwan return missionary, and his family. Then Erin invited a whole bunch of young single adults from her ward. The Cambrons had to cancel at the last minute, but we had a house full anyway. I was out building sets all afternoon, so I wasn't much help, but Erin and Liz worked hard and made lots of great food and put up some fun Chinese decorations. It was a lot of fun. We also set up the ping pong table in the garage and I schooled all the young adults.
We've also managed to squeeze in watching a few movies over the last month or so, so I thought I'd give a quick movie review. We watched "Wall-E" over Christmas vacation, and we all enjoyed that one. We also saw Get Smart a little while back. That was one of my favorite TV shows as a kid, so I liked that one a lot, too. Then there was the movie about Emma Smith. It was fun to see that after having been in Nauvoo this past summer. They did a really good job on it. We also thought "Prince Caspian" was really well done, and we're disappointed that they've decided not to make the rest of the series. A couple of weeks ago we saw "Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium." It was pretty crazy, but it was a lot of fun. Then, this last Friday we watched "Horton Hears a Who." I had to watch that as research for my role in the play ;-). It was a good flick, and some of the lines were exactly the same as ones I have to say in the play, so that was fun. There's a pretty good list if you're looking for something to watch. Of course, we're always kind of behind on this stuff, so you've probably all watched all of these before.
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Don't break a leg but best wishes on your play! (A girl at the jr. high broke her leg in Seussical)!
As I posted before Tim doesn't have any vacation days right now--he doesn't even know when he will. They don't get President's Day off. So he doesn't have a holiday until May unless they start giving him some around spring break. Sorry:(
When exactly is the play again? We'd love to come but don't know if we could pull it off--job situation is interesting right now. We'll see what happens.
Well, I do have to spend most of the play riding around in a nest that's up in a tree about 7 and a half feet off of the ground, so I suppose breaking a leg is a possibility. Hopefully we'll build it sturdy enough that that doesn't happen.
The performances are the last two weekends in February. My cast will be performing on the 20th and 21st, and then on the 27th in the evenings at 7:30.
We must be more behind than you--the only one we've seen is Prince Caspian.
Horton is so right, as a matter of fact a person is a person especially if they're small. No bias on my part there.
Wow! Horton! That's almost as good as being Giselle! (Just kidding!)
Where did you hear that they aren't making the rest of the narnia series? They announced Monday that Dawn Treader will be released in December 2010.
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