When You're the Best of Friends...

For those of you who have been keeping up with my Blog for a little while I'm sure you've noticed that I am indeed one of "those" people. I hereby confess that I am a "over-dramatic-late-night-studying-showtunes-singing-attention-loving-crazy-theatre-person." This last show I've been privy to serve in was titled "Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog" and I was blessed to be able to work costumes for this student-run show. This show was absolutely wonderful and filled with amazingly talented people on and off the stage who were not strangers to the idea of servant leadership.

For those of you who have not darkened the doorway of a theatre, let me attempt to convey what happens. A group of partial to complete strangers get cast or agree to help with a show. They attempt to do the script justice and in the process are forced to jump through some awkward hoops and just plain shennanigans in order to achieve the afore mentioned goal. In this process they become closer than they were at their point of casting/recruiting. Then the show opens. They make theatrical magic and the crowd loves it, and all of a sudden they're your family. This is the part I can't explain, because although you may not know any more about them than you did before opening night, you'd gladly spend the next month performing (and basicly living) with them (or most of them.) Then you have several days of chaotic bliss as the show runs its course. And then the curtain falls and you push the anxiety to the back of your head so that you can take care of cleaning up the mess of art you've all made on stage. But once you're all back in your respective places it doesn't feel right. There's nothing more to clean, place, say and you know that you will never get back that show ever again.

But there is some comfort because the majority of your cast and crew feel the same way. We theatre types call this "actor's remorse." And then of course the pictures go up on facebook and everyone gets excited to see each other again at the cast party. But nothing will ever be the same because you've been there and you will always have that cast/crew as a sort of extended family.

This is not someting I want to live without. Nor something I ever plan on living without. I'd like to thank the Dr. Horrible cast and crew for being so great and showing me (even though you didn't know it at the time) that my place is here with you crazy people. I may not know where I'm going but I know what I'll be doing. I love you all and I am impatient for the next time that we can work art together again.

I'll miss you so incredibly much this summer!
here's lookin at you kids,

~Elyz~