Sunday
Today, a boundary I had always seen as an impenetrable mantle of perfection was thinned enough for me to step through. From this encounter a mutual appreciation for different races was created. The orchestra broke free from its untouchable bubble and escaped from its isolated stereotype, finally willing to join my world. I had never felt more in sync with everyone around me as if I knew what was going more than ever, yet less and less about how I’d gotten there. Everything fell into place so easily; aside from the vibraphone, of course. Haha. (Y) The part of me that screamed cast meshed so well together with the part of me that was built to be crew.
It all started during musical of course, it always does. As Robyn was working with the leads, I had time to burn with the crew we brought out the barbeques and was sent to liaison with the percussionists by Mr. Weiss. A closer bond to both the crew and orchestra was forming. They needed:
- A glockenspiel (plus a stand)
- A xylophone
- A drum kit
- Gongs
At first it was awkward, but then I think we reached a mutual understanding that we were out the help each other. The year 10 girls were really nice, dumbing everything down to my level. It was very considerate. xD The heavy lifting was my end of the bargain and I left J Block to extract some instruments from underneath the stage, where the wild things exist in NSB. I had to be was quiet, very quiet, so quiet that no one would care whatever the heck I was doing. I worked my way from right to left as I didn’t really know what was what on the far side of the stage. There was no glock(enspiel), but then I made one very terrible, but likewise terribly great mistake. I thought the VIBRAPHONE was a GLOCKENSPIEL (musicality win! LOL) Meanwhile, the principles were doing their thing with the Epilogue and it was sounding great. :) (Many kudos)
Post-chorus run through the Epilogue, we went upstairs to join Ivan and meanwhile, Ness and Simon brought out the vibraphone. (Wrong on my behalf as I’d told Simon to take it out) We ran through the end of Epilogue, At the End of the Day, The Docks and turned to the performance space to practice the waltz. The last part of my task was to confirm everything with the orchestra kids and indeed they needed not the vibraphone xD and I’d actually found the glockenspiel stand without even noticing. [Awesome ;)] Meaning that I’d now hit the terrible realisation that I was going to be the one wrestling the instrument to where it’d been found. De Jian, Lawrence and I were enjoying the brotherly love of each other whilst Robin had excluded himself from the brotherhood of shirts (from the fact the he did not know the secret handshake and was on his period).
When we were released for lunch, clearly that was the perfect time to do it, right? :D A majority ignored me despite the fact that they were right next to me [Orchestra encounter in 3, 2, 1...] but the orchestra kids were really helpful. Directing the correct way to treat a vibraphone, one guy even offering to help me despite the fact that he hadn’t eaten yet (and suffering Rickey’s wrath later on. Haha) and with Nancy (<3) supervising my raging at the vibraphone box more than the actual instrument, but taking it out on both none the less.
Underneath their intimidating and seemingly elitist exterior there wasn’t really all that much different from everyone else to the orchestra. My previous fear of being in their presence had been unjustified and they were the only people who cared what I had doing as everyone was too busy dealing things they had in their hands...and eating. We practically tried every logical position to put the damn vibraphone in and ALL of them were WRONG, except the last one. What are the bloody chances? Haha.
It was the most annoying processes and I wouldn’t have done it (without messing up the vibraphone) without Nancy and orchestra violin guy, Andrew. Shout out to these two awesome people. Thanks a million. I will shower you in chocolate or something. Haha. With that done, lunch was up. Beef patties! :) YAY! Nancy, Andrew, Rickey and I hadn’t eaten either and Rickey was nice enough to let me eat before him even though he had raged at Andrew for not giving his space up in the line to help me. It was well appreciated, all the help from my non-eating friends.
I spent my time looking for Reapy munching on the vegies I’d stacked on to my plate heading in the direction of J Block. I didn’t find Reapy, but Major Domo/William was up there playing his piano piece. It was very well learnt, but not as emotional as it needed to be. (A problem many people possessed in this musical) With no luck with finding Reaps it was back to the B Quad for me. That was where I found her frolicking with Eddy and Beddy. The area our year always sat had attracted a large number of followers compared to what we had in the beginning. It displayed the true pulling power of a strong NSG.
I wasn’t the type to spend time not in the presence of the company I enjoyed the most so I joined Reapy and Beddy. Behind us, Kwan was putting on the little show of what he’d learnt (probably the fireman hold) for Steph which made us all give him the thumbs up when Steph had left for a little break. (A signal of brotherhood as if he’d done the right thing, which he certainly did by choosing Steph) He signalled back. The idea and gesture he was “doin’ it right” was obviously reciprocated by Kwan. Lunch was interrupted by “Maddy’s birthday” despite the fact that very few children cared about whom Maddy was, let alone that it was her birthday.
I sat back down after singing her a happy birthday when Jono walked past lacking companionship, prompting us to tell him to join his friends. My friends had their own game of ninja destruction going on, meaning that Kenna would leave Elena, with me chasing back for her participation. Rickey approached Kenna and it was only appropriate to let them be together so I was about to leave. Before he offered to tell us a musical joke, one I was not about to understand. It was about a musical pandemic and I’ve got “acatturian” (?) what does that even mean? Kenna and I both failed to understand, though Rickey got chased for telling it to us.
It was back to ninja destruction for me after the awkward “I don’t get it” moment. I did suspect that embarrassing me was the slight intention, but I was glad that we’d said anything at all. The exclusion from everyone and orchestra was being to fade in my eyes. I was finishing my Solo can whilst playing ninja destruction and lost almost immediately. When lunch was over, we got our costume sheets. The stock of the paper was very high quality and I was laughed at for noticing. 120 gsm, bro. What’s wrong with that? After lunch was the run through. It went well; boring, but well. The staging was all so questionable for the entire musical.
The Final Battle was where we finished. Everyone was dead. It was kind of sad. They didn’t even get up to the Cafe, one of my favourite songs. Vin took the bus away, unlike to usual. Home was simple, I got driven from Stratty, Bella had a bad headache and Elena went to Auburn for mother’s day.
