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Well, the curtain has closed, the ovations are through, and the good 'ole stage is silent and deserted again. Yep, show's over. Maybe I'm feeling it the hardest because it's my first production (Beauty and the Beast!), one that seemed to rule my life for three months, but it just seems unusually hard to get back into the swing of regular school life without the show.

Has anyone else found it particularly hard to let a show go after it was through? Are there some that you felt more attached to than others, whether because of the role you played or the exceptional cast/crew you got to work with?

YES. All the time, I just hate it when a show ends.

I can't stand saying goodbye to a show. I've been lucky enough to work with wonderful groups who manage to make me feel important, no matter what my role.
The hardest to let go was Fiddler on the Roof...simply because I made so many great friends and now we never see each other and most of them are going to college. I always rush right into a new one, because I can't stand having so much free time, lol.

I always have this problem after the show where I can't seem to get my lines out of my head. When people talk to me, my first thought is to respond with one of my lines from the play. So, yeah, I guess it's hard for me to let go of a play.

Occasionally that happens to me. I get off the stage and I'm looking over a backstage crew's sholders to see the book and to check when I come back on and I somehow I don't remember what I was doinging that last couple of minutes onstage!

The show I couldn't stand to see go was Les Miserables (man I keep harping upon this show >.<; sorry!) It's a wonderful show and even though next week I'll be doing my fith highschool show I still think Les Mis was my favorite.

Oh I know how that goes. After a show ends, and I'm sitting at home in all my free time, I feel like I'm supposed to be somewhere doing something, but I know there's nothing. I'm just so used to being somewhere all the time working on a show!
For me, I never realize just how much I don't want to let go of a show until awhile after. I'll be sitting, maybe doing another show even, and wish we were still doing that other show. For me it was Once on This Island. Lord that show was so much fun! But there are some shows that you have a lot of fun doing, but you just need it to be over. Like Meet Me in St. Louis for me. It was tons of fun, and I got to play right opposite my best friend (I was Agnes and she was Tootie. Good times!). But there was so much drama going on backstage with a lot of the underclassmen we just needed that show to be over. It was getting way to stressful on us seniors trying to keep them all in line. xp

Yeah, my school has a winter show and then a spring show. So at the end of the winter show, I'm all stressed out because my teachers let out their hate toward all kids during the winter. And then they usually start interest meetings and auditions for the spring.

But by the end of the spring show, the teachers have all given up their dreams of destroying our lives, and I have nothing to do because I didn't audition for YPTW. (It happens every year. Long story.) So I feel very empty until I go to theatre camp in the summer. **sighs**

Wow. A lot of us have done B&theB. I had the privelage of playing the Enchantress, the Lady w/Cane, and a napkin for almost all of last summer. It was so much fun! And since most of the cast was from town and the theater was up at the ski resort, there were dorms for us to stay in for the weekends. Our cast got really close. Some of us would stay up late watching tv or movies or playing poker (texas hold'em). I never played, just watched, but it was awesome. I miss all those guys!