Yesterday moved along at a hellacious pace that left me in its dust, and I never caught up until the beginning of the 2nd Act. After school was over, I ventured to Mr. Harris's room to discuss with him the finer points of my make-up design. He has conjured up this amazing vision of some killer Maori tattoo that he wants put onto my face. The complexity of the original design was impressive. We enlisted the help of Talmadge Hiram Quillin's wife to aid in the inaugural application, and decided to document the entire process with a digital camera so I would have no problem re-applying the make-up myself for every show. I told her I was going home to shave and grab the camera, and that I would be back in a hour. After an adventurous ride home, during which I almost fell asleep three times, I arrived home and allowed myself 15 second of leisure to sit down with my dog. I woke up 45 minutes later. I arrived at Lee at 5:40, instead of 4:30 as originally planned, and we eventually got my make-up done, going through about 4 different designs. The worst part was that, instead of taking off the previous rejected design and then applying the new one, we just put the new one over the old one. I ended up with about 2 1/2 inches of gold gunk on my face. All that make-up was completely distracting and got onto EVERYTHING I was near. I was lucky enough to remove about an inch of it during intermission, and I was much more comfortable during the 2nd Act. I also was severely dehydrated during the 1st Act, so I downed four bottles of water during intermission, also. The entire cast rebounded from a horrible opening to the show with a fairly decent 2nd Act. It instilled hope in us all. Thats about it. World's longest paragraph.
PLEASE COME SEE THE SHOW! It would mean an awful lot to me and rest of the cast. I can promise you an amazing show. The make-up, costumes, and talent of a Lee High show are unparalleled in the State of Alabama and the Southeast. It will be worth your ten or twelve dollars to support our program. Dates for the show are April 8-9 and 14-16 at 7:30 PM, and also the 10th at 2:30 PM.
That's all for now. See you at the show.
Agwe (John) and Papa Ge (Myself)
