Theatricals and Writing, glee all round

[pensnest]

Well, phew.

The show is done, and went very well. There's even a decent chance that it broke even, since we sold about 86% of the available tickets - excellent going for a G & S! My head is swelled with praise, even though in watching, I was able to see all kinds of things that I should have put in, and didn't. Was pretty good, though.

I spent quite a lot of last week, and *all* of Friday and Saturday, working on gifts for the cast, a completely unnecessary self-imposed task which, once started, I had to follow through. I made cards for the chorus - glasspainted (on acetate) sailors for the chaps, and lace+appropriately coloured paper or fabric, with little embellishments, for the ladies, to match their dresses. I did some painting at the pottery place last week, four mugs for principals and a platter for our wonderful MD; and six glass suncatchers for the principal couples. Quite literally finished at about 9.15 on the last night - I had to dash back home after the first stint of waitressing duty to finish a few items, then carry everything in and write notes in the last handful of cards after the interval duty!

I ended up taking an impromptu and rather untidy bow after the last curtain call - I guess that means this sort of thing should be choreographed in, another time. It's probably fair for the director to get a bow, as the MD does. Acquired swag in the form of an orchid plant and a CD, G&S selection, to help me choose my next show (!). And a rather astonishing quantity of gift vouchers for our local shopping mall - most unexpected! It is very gratifying to find that the cast really do seem to have had a good time. It's so important that they enjoy the show.

And I find I definitely want to do it again. Mad...

Should have spent all day Sunday writing my sparklyglee story, but actually, I fell asleep right after lunch and woke up just in time to see the Doctor Who finale repeat, thank goodness. Personally, I liked it - cried, and laughed, and thought, Good. Couldn't keep my eyes open after 1am, so I have been beavering away at my story since I got up this morning, and now it is done at last and sent in, and soon there will be many stories for us all to read, and I get to see whether anyone picked up my prompts, and all will be happiness and joy in popslash land.

This latest story has taken me over the 200,000 words of popslash mark. Go me! Plus, it fitted one of the fanfic100 prompts without any problem. Sixty-nine stories done for that challenge, seven more lined up to be written (ie with ideas and in some cases partially written). And these days, I don't feel the need to hoard my ideas. I can throw the words into a story, confident that the next words for the next story *will* come along, and how wonderful that is!

Oh yes, and I've made a thinky_pop community, for the pondering of meta-ish matters and such. Take a look? Any suggestions for the rules and rationale will be much appreciated. I'll start up something in the way of discussion once we've got past the first glorious rapture of the sparklyglee stories.

Comments

[ariadnem.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the play!!! Are there any pics for us to see???

[pensnest]

Thanks! Hmm. I can put up a picture of the set, probably tomorrow, but I won't have pictures of the action for a couple of weeks yet.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Those gifts sound so lovely. Congratulations on such a good run, you must have made a great impression.

So which do you prefer, directing or performing?

[pensnest]

Hmm... I don't know which I prefer, I dare say it'd depend on the show in question. It's rather more nerve-racking, standing at the back of the hall hoping everything goes right and the audience laughs and claps at the right times, than it is actually being on stage! But it was very satisfying, seeing it take shape and become pleasing.

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

I know my parents greatly enjoyed the show :D

So, does that mean you'll be directing again in the future?

[pensnest]

Thanks! I even had the chance to exchange a few words with your parents, once the suppers and drinks were on the tables.

I'm pretty sure I want to do it again, yes!

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

oh - and thinkiy_pop thought - what about wiether switching the interests list out for, or adding, is popslash, writing, meta, fictional tropes, fandom popslashery, rps, etc, rather than the boy's names?

[pensnest]

A good suggestion, and I've taken you up on it. :-)

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

wow, my tying sucked more than usual this afternoon!

[nopseud]

Still not really on LJ, but -- congratulations! Sounds like everything went spendidly :-)

We probably need to start some planning for Camp Sparkle 2008 at some point in the not to distant future. My LJ absence doesn't mean I'm not up for that.

[pensnest]

Thank you! It went very well - and I'm relieved it's over!

And I'll get back to you, I promise

[turloughishere.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on a job well done!! So cool that you sold so many tickets and that everyone (and you!) enjoyed themselves!!

I've commented on your Happyfic story elsewhere but YAY! for having written so much popslash!!! And having finished sixty-nine stories for fandom100 is just fantastic! I feel very privileged to have been able to follow your popslash writing career from the beginning.

I think what you've written in the userinfo for thinky_pop sounds very clear and to-the-point. If I wasn't feeling a bit woozy from the painmeds at the moment I might possibly come up with something to add, but I really doubt it. I think you've described the purpose of the comm in a clear and un-ambiguous way.

[pensnest]

It feels good - and I had a surprising amount of pleasure actually doing the job, too!

I'm really happy to have written so much, and indeed, to have plenty of stories left to tell. I like writing, admittedly, not quite as much as I like *having written*, and my muses are doing very nicely for me.

I hope to be able to start some actual thinking in the new comm, very soon.