Houston Day 370 (1 year + 4 days) - Pink update

Nick (not Nick as in Bekah, but Sound of Music and Pinkalicious cast member) has complained that I haven't blogged enough about Pinkalicious.  Personally I suspect he just wants to read about himself, but the other non-Nick members of my audience may also appreciate hearing about this wonderful opportunity, which I really hope will be the first of many at Main Street Theater.

The auditions were months ago, so I've been looking forward to this for quite some time.  Most of the cast members got in touch with each other before the rehearsals started on facebook and meeting each other at other auditions, so the excitement has grown collectively as well.  I did an excellent job at the auditions of concentrating really hard on remembering the choreography - so much so that I didn't pay any attention to anyone and therefore returned some pretty blank looks when people said to me "I met you at the Pinkalicious audition!"
So we finally started rehearsals three weeks ago.  There are eight of us in the cast - Ashley, who I had seen onstage in the Coast of Utopia shows; Nikki & Adam, who adorably have been friends since they were little boys; Nick, who was in Sound of Music with me last year; Adrianna & Teresa, who both come from the Music Theatre program at Sam Houston State University and are really excellent chicks; Marco, who's been doing impressive amounts of theatre in Houston considering he's only 23 and he also has had some bad luck with shows getting cancelled; and me, who you know.

Teresa

Jimmy, Pat (Costume Designer) & Ashley

Nick

The music is great but irritatingly catchy (all cast members have reported inability to sleep because of tunes in the head, and the music even intruding on a couple of people's dreams).  The choreography is flashy and really fun and also really hard work.  Jimmy the director has this funny habit of asking if it's possible to do something really simple, like walk on stage to a slow count of eight, and then firmly informing us without asking that we'll be doing something really quite difficult, like finishing a song on top of someone's shoulders. All the cast members are great at what they do and working pretty hard.  We're all young and relatively new and anxious to make a good impression.

Teresa, Marco, Adrianna and Nikki

These photos are all from our costume fitting the other day.