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| The locket I made after Mary Poppins: each charm represents one of us, there is a ruby heart which is the birthstone of July, when the show happened, in the background it says "Anything can happen if you let it" and on the back it says "remember the director's house" |
The summer of 2016 was one of the best. It was my first time
to stage manage in a decade or so and we put on a fantastic production of Mary
Poppins complete with flying. It is one of my most cherished theatre memories
and I will forever keep that summer and those people close to my heart.
During the course of the summer I gained five of the best
friends anyone could ever imagine. We spent sleepless nights talking and
laughing, then woke up went to work, went straight to the theatre for rehearsal
or performance, and then did it all again. At the conclusion of the summer we
all went our separate ways: the director back to Durant, Oklahoma, three
college kids off to Weatherford, Stillwater, and Tonkawa, our go to dancer/set
coordinator/right hand man was off on an adventure to Washington, DC, and me
bouncing back to a job I hated.
I have three photos on my desk at school: one of two of my
favorite girls, one of my best friend and I from our senior year of high
school, and a photo from closing night of Mary Poppins with ‘the director’s
house’ crew. These are my people.
We have stayed in contact since then, going to shows, doing
shows together, flying across the country…through facebook groups and snapchat…but
we hadn’t all been together since we struck the set in July 2016.
Well we still haven’t all been together, we missed one, but
we had five of the six reunited including our favorite penguin in from DC. We
spent a lovely afternoon at our favorite post rehearsal haunt: Applebee’s.
I cannot tell you how wonderful just being in the presence
of those four is. It refreshes my soul. Through the last few years the director
and I have kept in touch through an app called Marco Polo where you basically
video messages and chat back and forth on camera at the viewing convenience of
the other person. She BRILLIANTLY came up with putting together a group for the
six of us so we could keep in touch and see each other.
Now I get messages from them (well four of the five) several
times a week with something funny that happened, sickness updates, show updates
(we have a few musical theatre majors in there), kid updates, and practical
jokes. It is amazing.
I posted the first bonus photo on Instagram and said that these
were my people and if you didn’t have people like this you should find some…I
stand by this.
PS I went back blonde and started getting my nails did…just
in time for…
BONUS PHOTOS
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| My heart was so happy that day |
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| The original director's house photo, which still sits on my desk |
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