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You look MAHVELOUS!

January 16, 2009 By Marta Darby 4 Comments

I have spent the last few months in drama. (And I'm not even talking about my real life here.)
I've been in high school, working with the Midsummer Night's Dream set crew.

Lucy's classes are all online, except for drama, which requires she be on campus for 3 hours a week. 

And okay, so my daughter was playing a lead, people, which was a pretty compelling reason for me to volunteer to help, but that's not important right now.   😉

Which is how I ended up I coordinating and dressing 24 budding teenage thespians and helping them with sets and props and all that stuff that happens behind the scenes to bring a production to life. (I also wove flower headpieces for 8 fairies, which was completely out of my personal realm of experience, but they turned out pretty cool, if I do say so myself. =D)

So this is where I've been and what I've been up to:

Giving orders to my tech crew (in this case, Adam) on where to hang the moon.
Midsummer tech crew

Letting fairies express their personalities, yet making them look uniform by giving them crowns and wings, and saving them from themselves so they wouldn't look skanky (yes, I actually had to use the word "skanky.")
Midsummer fairires

And I got to costume the Royal Boy-mortals appropriately so that they would look halfway decent when pitted against those gorgeous Royal Girl-mortals.
Midsummer mortals

I was delighted with the challenge of dressing The Wall:
Midsummer wa;;

Of course, the Fairy Royals had to look wonderful because, well, (ahem) my Lucy played the Fairy Jester, Puck. 😉
Midsummer fairy royals

And I'm still from the old school of thinking. I believe that when you look good, you feel better.  And I knew from experience that once they were all on stage and in costume and make-up, they would turn in a wonderful performance, which is exactly what happened.

I really do think that's how it works in real life.

Yes, I know this isn't anything like real life….it's High School.  =D

Midsummer cast

"It is better to look good than to feel good, and you look MAHVELOUS!"
                                                                 ~ Billy Crystal as Fernando Lamas

(Isn't she just absolutely adorable?? I'm right, aren't I?  sigh)

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  1. class-factotum says

    January 16, 2009 at 12:40 am

    Omigosh it is so nice to know there is a mom of teen girls who doesn’t WANT the girls to look skanky. Why am I pretty sure Lucy doesn’t own a single pair of shorts/pants that say “Juicy” across the butt?

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  2. mario says

    January 16, 2009 at 7:27 am

    stellar!!

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  3. Kikita says

    January 16, 2009 at 1:28 pm

    CF,I HAVE been tempted to get her a pair though simply because my nickname for her is Lucy Juicy . . . Lucy herself wouldn’t appreciate it though. Mami has taught her well.

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  4. Marta Darby says

    January 23, 2009 at 1:43 pm

    C-F,There is no danger of Lucy allowing herself to be caught DEAD in anything that has any kind of writing across the butt.
    (I’m really quite proud of that. =D)

    Reply

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