So much has been happening lately. So much so that this post could not possibly contain it all. The Easter Performance is done. It turned out wonderfully with the exception of the sound. Techs had problems at each performance.. sigh. But the Ballerinas performed beautifully. As far as the stick dance.... well.... Saturday night the photographers were out. Somehow I managed to keep the hard stoic look on my face needed for the part while Hanna (next to me) commenced to beating, poking, and jabbing a photographer that would NOT move out from in front of us. Goodness, if I could have had a video of THAT alone.. it would have been a performance masterpiece. Palm Sunday and Resurrection scenes went smoothly though. Jeremy video taped Friday night for me and put it on DVD. Now I ACTUALLY get to SEE the whole thing. As a cast member I was disappointed that I could not EXPERIENCE each part. When I saw it on DVD, I understood what a cool presentation it truly was.
Once upon a time there was a serpent who was badly injured in a fight with another animal. It managed to slither away to safety but would have surely died if a benevolent man had not seen it suffering by the side of the road. The goodly man carefully wrapped the snake up and took it to his house, where he bestowed the kindest and gentlest care on the snake until it was healed and could return to the wild. Just as the man was releasing the serpent back into the grass, the ungrateful snake turned and bit him on the hand. "What did you do that for?" cried the man, who knew that the bite of this particular snake was usually fatal. "Didn't I take care of you when no one else would?" The snake shrugged (no small feat for a snake!) and replied to the benevolent--and now doomed-- man, "What did you expect? You knew I was a snake when you picked me up." We certainly know without any question that they are snakes. Time will tell if the moral of the tale is appli...
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