Christmas Prodigal: My First Rehearsal

This year I tried out to be in the Grace Church Christmas production, an original play called "The Christmas Prodigal". I've been familiar with the script for several months, since the initial idea was for the WIT songwriting team to write original music for it (I actually wrote a ton of somgs for it, but with the shakeup in leadership in the fine arts area I think maybe original music may have fallen through the cracks). We did some read-throughs at the WIT meetings, and I had so much fun reading the script out loud that I decided to go ahead and try out. I'm playing The Annoyed Yet Henpecked Innkeeper ("NO! THIS IS A STABLE! YOU CAN'T STAY IN THERE!") It's a rather small part, with only nine lines in one single scene, but it will be fun to just be part of the whole thing. Besides, I have more lines than Mary, who only gets to be hustled in by Joseph while saying "Joseph! Help me! The baby's coming!"

So last night was the first rehearsal I've been to. I've been working on my lines, so I pretty much have them memorized, but I forgot to work on which lines they come after (it's good to be able to say your lines, but it's even better to say them at the right time!!) so I was still a little bit shaky all rehearsal, but it was still fun. Maybe I'm wacky in the head, but it's so fun to pretend that you're someone else for a while. Or maybe it's the feeling that you know exactly what's going to happen (okay, you know exactly what's supposed to happen) and the appropriate way for you to respond to the situation. It's all planned out ahead of time! It's a lot easier than the improv that each of us does all day every day!