Falcon, LOL about the hat and ceiling fans. I never even thought about that, I had enough trouble just keeping the damn thing on my head.
Keesha, never took theatre arts, but I've been singing in choral groups all my life, and had piano lessons starting at age 6, continuing until age 12, but I continued playing and studying on my own. I have never been a professional musician; this is strictly amateur. I wish we could hear you play your saxophone; I love the sound of a sax!
Granny, we do get youtube videos of our performances, but I would not post them here, as it would be violating the privacy of the other performers. I wish I could show the finale of this show, though. It was Put on Your Sunday Clothes from Hello Dolly, and the entire cast came onstage and down into the audience, wearing our hats. (Only the women wore the hats, this isn't San Francisco.) It was terrific!
The first segment of the show was a scene from Cabaret. I didn't do any singing in that, I was a customer seated at a table, having a good time with friends. We had a ball setting up that scene. We had an empty gin bottle from which we kept "filling" our beer steins and drinking, passed around a fake marijuana joint, and so on. Amazing how much we learn by watching television!
One play that I wrote that was a lot of fun was called Party Room Wars. It takes place in the party room of one of our hi-rises, and is about groups of people playing various games (bridge, scrabble, mah jong, poker) who keep yelling at each other that they are making too much noise. All are women except the poker players. It escalates and they nearly come to blows until the bingo group arrives and throws them all out, because they reserved the room first. Everyone leaves, angrily muttering that they are going to sue. That's the gist of it, anyway. We just put that one on a few months ago.
