It has been a pretty incredible journey here, from our crazy rehearsals, and circus lessons, to our sold out performances. It has been an even more challenging experience for me taking the role of dance captain. And I wish I can say everything has gone ok, but actually I was the first one to get hurt and therefore have to be cut from my circus tricks. Yup, for a week I couldn't juggle, or do my spanish web in the finale cause I had hyper
extended my thumb playing catch with a football. It still hurts but I just where an ace bandage during act 1 now, and just pray for it every day( also 4 200 ml of Ibupropin). But the absolute scariest thing happened yesterday afternoon during our matinee.While Matt was flipping down the straps he dislocated his shoulder. Talk about one of the most scariest things to be watching on stage. Usually it is a very disctinct 3 slow flips down that goes with the music. There was only one flip and then pretty much him just twirling,spinning, or more like unravelling down to the ground. Everyone on stage knew something was wrong. I was backstage getting into my stilts, and could only see the straps, and from the specific change of movement I saw in them, I knew something had happened. Everyone was running around back stage trying to help and figure out what was going on, and everyone on stage wast trying to perform there best improving off the top of there heads, and fill in His scenes. It was pretty scary. The paramedics came and took him to the hospital, and we had a cast meeting during intermission to figure out how to do the second act. This was the other challenge for me, now I had to step up and figure out who would do what in his stead. And all on the spur of the moment. Well it all worked out fine, but we had to have a meeting after the show with the musical
director, stage manager, st mgn ass, Crew chief, circus captain, and me to figure out how we would work the show out, it ended up being alot smoother then we thought. But while they were all done and resting I had to specifically go over dance numbers, so I was on the stage going thru choreography, and trying to make the show look good again. We had to call everyone in a half hr earlier to go over all the changes and to make sure things worked out. To my surprise I ended up having to run everything, and Praise God it all worked out, and everyone was attentive. Matt came back to the theatre and hes doing just fine, he'll be back in th show next week, though his circus tricks are cut. We almost made it thru. Just one week left, darn it!!!!
