Eva’s Night at the METG Awards …

Eva at METG
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That night was the METG Musical theater awards. This is a really big deal event. It is like the Tonys for high school and middle school musical theater. Bishop Feehan High School was nominated for 7 awards tonight and Eva was up for Best Costume Design. The event was at Lawrence high School in Lawrence, MA. We picked up Eva’s friend Ollie and headed up there a little after 4pm. We wanted to make sure that we got there early enough and also make sure that we could have dinner before the event. We went to a burger joint that Allison found through Phantom Gourmet. It was called BE/EZ and was about 6 miles from the school.

After dinner we went over to the school to get our seats. Eva and Allison and Ollie sat up front with the nominees and Andy and I sat un the upper orchestra. We had great seats. The theater at the high school is huge. Lawrence High School performed two major musicals this year. Miss Saigon and In The Heights. They were phenomenal when they performed, too. The format was performances by the schools that were nominated for performance of the year and then a few awards. Eva’s award was second.

I continue to become more proud of this young woman’s poise and grace every day. We’re attending the METG awards tonight where Eva was nominated for Best Costume Design for Hadestown : Teen Edition. Tough competition. While the outcome was not what we were all hoping for Eva had a great night. I’m sure this won’t be her last nomination.

Striking Twice …

The family with Mr. Truckle
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I didn’t think this could happen twice but it did. I came back to the theater this past December to a play called the People vs. Frankenstein where I had to fill in as the lead on the very last show because the director/lead got food poisoning and couldn’t do the show.

Well after that show I auditioned for the show Sly Fox, a farce set in the gold rush of San Francisco where a man cheats three disreputable people out of their money. I was cast as a servant and also a policeman. However, through the course of rehearsals I ended up reading for every single other part in the show. I was basically the resident stand in.

We opened on Friday night. This morning I got a text from the director that one of the actors took sick and I’ll be taking on their role. My exact response was, “This cannot be happening”. It was no joke. So I hustled over to the theater to go over the lines with the other actors.
I was able to keep it secret from my wife and also get my kids to come to see the show today. She was shocked when I stepped out on stage. So were my Aunt Cindy and Uncle Wayne. They came up from The Cape to see the show and take us to lunch afterwards. We had a great time at House of Fortune.

“If I had a nickel for every time I had to step in at the last minute to take on the lead role in a play I’d have two nickels which isn’t a lot but it is weird that it happened twice.”

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