Dear LORD that was fun! We had a refresher runthrough for “Lady in the Dark” tonight, but rather than slog through another serious rehearsal, we pulled out all the stops and sang the show at warp speed with crazy, histrionic, and often sultry choreography. At one point, Michael (Kendall, Liza’s scorned love interest) came onstage wrapped in toilet paper, walking like a zombie. We ended up forgoing the ending completely when Michael reentered and bodily tackled Perry (Randy, Liza’s other love interest) to the ground when he proposed marriage in their final scene. All was madness! And with my sore throat, it was seriously painful to laugh.

I like to think I contributed to the initial downslide into wackiness, as I wasn’t able to sing tonight due to my throat (and generally tried to talk as little as possible), so instead I performed my solos through exaggerated mime. During one of the fashion office scenes, Steve (the Stage Manager) donned a red velvet dress we kept backstage as a prop and vamped with our mannequin. I bustled onstage and pretended to fuss over him. It’s a testament to the concentration of our actors that only Perry and Serena, our accompanist, even noticed our charade, out of 5 or 6 people onstage. Then in the Wedding Dream, for the song “The Princess of Pure Delight”, Steve joined Jenny (our Liza) and played the part of the Dean of Sorcerors. I left my post to play the princess, and Alex stepped up to be the minstrel (who wins the princess’ hand in marriage). Note that Alex is a head shorter than me, and female. At the line “happily ever after”, I dipped Alex, put my hand over her mouth, and “kissed” her. Hilarity. During “Tchaikowsky,” we formed a conga line. SO MUCH CRAZY FUN.

Afterwards, we discussed our cast Sondheim Cafe, to be held the last week of school, where we shall each present a song from Sondheim’s oeuvre, and perhaps stage some group numbers as well. We’re thinking of opening with the Forbidden Broadway parody “Into the Words” (that trip your lip and fry your brain and sprain your tongue…), then having the girls do “Everybody Ought to Have A Maid” from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and the boys do “I Feel Pretty” from West Side Story. I’m toying with the idea of doing “Lovely” or “That’ll Show Him” from Forum or something from West Side Story, but I’m very much open to suggestions. I know surprisingly little Sondheim, though that’s about to change, as Jill burned me practically his entire body of work last week. I’m just missing Frogs and Saturday Night, but if anyone has suggestions from one of those shows, I’m sure someone else in the cast could provide me with an mp3.

Now trying to download tonight’s Lost. It’s being quite stubborn and slow, so I probably won’t be able to watch until tomorrow morning. If only I HADN’T BEEN SPOILED BY SOME IDIOT THAT DOESN’T KNOW HOW TO USE A FRICKIN’ LJ-CUT!!! Not that I’m in the slightest bit bitter. Oh well, I just know ONE huge, honkin’ spoiler and none of the context, so please, no one post anything spoilery in the comments until tomorrow.