Hello to my mostly, as of yet, nonexistent readers. =P I thought it would be a good idea to not have a repeat of last month, and make sure I post at least one blog in early March. Or, before mid March, anyway. Which gives me about a week.

I will start by writing about last Tuesday, which is when some friends and I went to see another friend playing Belle in Beauty and the Beast for a local theatre production. I always love seeing my friends in the theatre; it always shocks me as to how talented they really are. I mean, I know they’re talented, any fool can see that, but when I see them on stage I realise how much they actually hold back when they’re singing in school. I was especially impressed when my friend sang “A Change in Me” ((This Song, in case you didn’t know.)) We were all super proud of her. =D

However, of course, we did go and see it on opening night, and so there were a few ‘flaws’ – that is to say, my friends and I didn’t really see them as flaws, because they were hilarious while still not affecting the great standard of acting, or ruining the story, I don’t think the people involved in the production would feel the same way, though. When the Beast made his big entrance, the first thing one of my friends said was “Look! The Beast is Brian May!” and then five minutes later my other friend whispers “He looks like Brian May!”, having not heard my first friend. This, of course, meant that we couldn’t take the Beast’s costume seriously throughout the rest of the production. It was the wig, to be quite fair, although we later decided that the eyebrows and face paint also added a bit of the Grinch in there. Either way, he didn’t look 100% Beast like, more like a normal bloke with a bit of a facial hair problem, and maybe a skin condition on his hands. ((My friend who played Belle has told us that he used a mask for the rest of the nights, so we know this changed.))

This revelation caused myself and one of my friends to laugh whenever the Beast did a certain expression, or pulled a certain pose. I couldn’t stop laughing during his big serious ballad, but I don’t think I was so loud as to annoy the people around me. The Beast’s cape also fell around the front a few times, so it looked a bit like a novelty tie, and at one point his wig slipped off and my friend had to put it back on. Not to mention one of the dancing spoons nearly took out another cast member when the spoon became dislodged from his costume.

But no, this blog implies that it was a shambles, but it really was good. And it’s a difficult musical to pull off when you don’t have a broadway budget. I think they did really well. The Beast’s transformation was especially good, because you really couldn’t tell that he was… de-Beasting himself? As he was lying down. Obviously the pulling off of the wig was noticeable, but the actor sort of slipped it forward, so it looked more like the hair was growing back into his scalp than the removal of the wig. I don’t think kids would have noticed it, which is who the show was aimed at, I assume. Their Lumiere was absolutely hilarious, and there was the one scene where Belle and Lumiere are following Cogsworth around the castle, who is giving a detailed tour. Lumiere and Belle are rather bored, and begin to fidget and such behind Cogsworth’s back. I loved them all in this scene, it was so funny!

I did write two paragraphs about my art coursework deadline on Friday, but I fear that one of my teachers might find this website in the future, and I don’t think I want them to read. Long story short, I really love art, but getting so much negative criticism on things that I put so much effort into can be difficult. Especially when it’s not all that constructive.

On Friday night my group of friends all went and watched films in Elly’s basement. My mother made more cakes for the occasion, because it is her talent, lol – we got butterfly cakes with buttercream and grated flake. =D We watched Chicago and Up!, both of which were very entertaining. There was a girl with us who had never seen Chicago before, and as the rest of us had it was funny to see her reactions. She jumped so much at the shooting/hanging scenes. xD

The tables were turned when we watched Up!, because I had never seen that one before, and I was convinced the montage at the beginning was a fantasy sequence. I got awfully confused at to why a small child would fantasise all those traumatising events. Of course, it turned out that they were actually reality, which is probably worse. I enjoyed the film – lots of people quote it, and I don’t think I remember it enough to do that, but it was entertaining, so.. yeah.

Oh, and I got to eat the last rolo. Hehe. ^.^

The rest of my weekend was spent watching the Simpsons in my bed. A lot of my friends went out to a party on Saturday night but I’m such a rebel I didn’t go… And now it’s Monday. Nothing all that interesting has happened today, so I guess I’ll end my blog there. Wait! A new KFC opened in my town today. That’s what happened today.

I feel like a bit rant, or opinion would be fun. But as of yet I don’t have anything to rant of give opinions about. =o