A Mystery

27Jul08

Have you ever realized that you’re doing an insane amount of work, and been kind of surprised at how much you can handle?  That’s been me over the past two weeks.

After opening weekend (which was fabulous), the student Apprentice Company, of which I’m a part, started rehearsals for our own show, “Love’s Fire”.  This entails music rehearsals, dance rehearsals, and rehearsals for each short play.  There are workshops that have to do with costumes, auditions, music, and Shakespearean language, and although our days are about four hours shorter, they’re still feeling pretty jam-packed.

A few weeks back, in the middle of tech week, one of our Equity actors, Jessica, was musing about how lucky we were.  We get to work with amazing professional actors and we get paid a fair amount to do it.  In most apprentice companies for summer stock, the apprentices have to pay just about what we’re all making in order to clean toilets, mop floors, cook dinners for the Equity people, and essentially be slaves for the summer.

It’s a mystery how we have all been so fortunate.

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