Week 2 of Costuming: AKA Where It All Comes Crashing Down


*deep sigh* It's been a loooong week.

The first two days were pretty great; I put together some cute costumes and had my friends model them for me. When I become the official costumer next school year, that's going to become their lives. If you're a close friend of mine in theatre, you can and will become my personal doll to play dress-up with. You would have no choice in the matter.

So I've been taking home costumes every day to wash, clean, and sew, because some of those dresses have not been washing in years, if ever. And every morning, I take back the costumes to the dressing room before class starts. On Wednesday, I walked into the theatre and headed to the dressing room. The room was open and the lights were on, which I thought was strange because I always turn off the lights and close the door at the end of the day, and no one is supposed to be in there after me.

I walked in. My clothes rack with all of the costumes for the show was on the ground, the support system that held it up pried from the wall and screws scattered on the ground among the costumes and hangers. I had a heart attack.

We still aren't sure if the rack just collapsed from the weight of all the costumes or if someone broke it, since the lights were on and the door open. It's awfully suspicious. The drama teacher told me that the cleaning crew's children are allowed to run around through classrooms and play as they please, so it could have been them, but we can't know for sure unless someone confesses. We got the rack fixed by the end of the day, but it took me a while to reorganize and hang back up all of the costumes.

Honestly, I'm just getting way too stressed over this than I should be. Costumes are due officially on November 15th, and I already have most of my costumes ready to be tried on, which we'll be doing today. I've just been feeling a bit overwhelmed by this job. Maybe it's because this is just my first time costuming, or maybe I'm not cut out for this job, I don't know. I could also just be feeling overwhelmed because of the other stuff going on in my life; I got roped into auditioning for this Solo and Dessert audition for choir, which is basically a dinner and show, but with just desserts and teenagers singing solos. I didn't want to do it, but my choir director wanted me to audition and I ended up making it. So that'll be next week. I also help co-direct a children's choir at my church, and it looks like the adult director will be out for the next six weeks because of her husband in the hospital. The one other adult who "helps" with the program doesn't really do music stuff, so all of the decisions that the director was supposed to make soon are falling on my shoulders, and I'm not sure if I'm ready to assume full control of the choir, even if it's temporary.

Okay so that got super whiny and off-topic, so here's a few pictures of different costumes I've put together to make up for it

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