I finally get a break from all my work and I'm back from my short hiatus
! Handling two musicals was hard on it's own, but my drama class put on this production of Frankenstein and I was cast as a quite verbose rendition of the creature. Tonight was actually opening lines, and the guy who was supposed to be Walton literally forgot all his lines and cues, and besides him I'm the only one who really shows the passage of the scenes as Victor is up the whole time. The first time he slipped up we assumed it was a one time thing and I easily improved out of it, but the second time we realized how dire it was. We were doing this scene where he was supposed to come in but yet again he didn't, so Victor made the executive desicion to skip over to a scene that would connect fluidly into the one we were doing, which happened to be three scenes down in an already short play. However, we didn't know how exactly to end this scene and we have this epic face off here we're like touching foreheads and we stand there and realize we have no clue what we're doing. So, we start talking out the sides of out mouths opposite of the mics whispering "where is he" and "please god cut to black" until eventually my drama teacher picked up on it and it faded to black.
The next scene was one Walton was supposed to be in but he was late and left early, so victor was trying to do a personal monologue to cover the whole scene and meanwhile me and the girls playing Elizabeth and Justine had to, in one minute, decide how we were going to formulate a whole new ending. Elizabeth and Justine's ghosts and I tormented Victor and since he knew that Walton had no clue what was going on, he went a long with it.
As they were doing their ghost stuff as this was after I killed them I told him Walton was dead and immediately made a mad dash to the other side back stage in 4 inch platforms to tell Walton to not come on the next scene, but it came out more as "SBHADVJBDASK DONT YOU DARE GO ON" and then I ran out and did Victor's death scene. After he dies Walton is supposed to help me carry him to the "grave" which is actually like some 3 foot tall wooden nesting blocks, but he is dead and I told him not to come on and he wouldn't do so anyways. So I lean over Frankenstein and do my best prolonged cry waiting for my drama teacher to cue the bows, but she DIDNT. Frankenstein taps me repeatedly and whispers "Grave" and I was like. Okay. Chill. But the thing in, this is a senior in high school and I am the scrawniest being imaginable so I kinda just grab his hands and like drag him and he is not helping me AT ALL and Walton can't because I had to say he was dead because he just WOULDNT COME ON AFTER WE SCREECHED HIS NAME (in character) MULTIPLE TIMES so I just stand there for a few seconds but then my saving grace Elizabeth and Justine walk on as ghosts and help me carry him to the grave and we stand behind it for a few seconds until I decide to repeat the opening scene which is sorta just words that have symbolic meaning to close it out and I think at this point my drama teacher gets the memo to black out and go to bows.
