Dress Rehearsal and Pub Quiz

This is long long ago. I'm sorry its so late.

We had our dress rehearsals in Kitajima. 30 minutes north of James in Tokushima city. The first dress rehearsal went well and pretty orderly. Our show was in a good shape and was being finally put together and fine-tuned.

After first dress, everyone went to P's Paradise for Tokushima's first Pub Quiz. (Trivia Night at a Bar with prizes for the winners.) Of course we had been planning our costumes for this event more enthusiastically than the musical. It was weeks, if not months in the planning. We had decided that our costumes would be in the theme of several things. Clue. We each were to bring weapons like the board game Clue. Sluts. Just for fun, we were to dress scandalously to freak out the other teams. and Ninjas. We each had our ninja masks from bowling, plus one for James since there were 5 at the shop and we only had 4 the first time. The final decision was we were to dress scandalously in the color of our ninja mask, and have a weapon in that color as well. I had been making a pink knife in school (receiving several funny looks) the week before. James had red ninja stars, Louise had yellow medicine, and a yellow heart monitor (she was a nurse). Terrina had a green futon beater, garden spade, and ice pick. Sean had the notorious Blue fist from bowling.

We had been posting on the message board about our costumes, trying to get the other trivia teams to come in costume as well. Most poo-pooed the idea. They gave us a lot of crap for it, saying that they "plan to be dressed in intelligence and didn't need a costume." Hah! So needless to say we were the only ones in costume. Claire joined us at the last minute, and acted as our manager. Our team was first called the Clue Sluts Clan, but realizing that it could be offensive to some people, we censored it to the Clue Sluts Ninjas. Whoops. At the pub quiz. Everyone was shocked/horrified at our get-ups. The quiz was tough and the questions were next to impossible. But surprisingly... we WON. This shocked everyone else as well, but we made sure to rub it in their faces, showing them exactly what "intelligence" dresses like. It was cash prizes and we each received just under $20 when it was split between the 6 of us. Nice! Although we did deserve it, to pay for our costumes.

The next morning was dress rehearsal again. We were all feeling rough from the night before. Louise insisted that she did not go to the dress rehearsal, and instead pretended to be an imaginary sea creature, a Trollop, wrapped up in her sleeping bag. (James makes us bring sleeping bags now when we visit his apartment because hes tired of doing wash for the bedding we use.) We managed to get her out of bed and head over to the rehearsal.

They were having a yard sale in the building we had practice in so Louise Chris and I went to see if there was anything we could use for the show. We found a carpet to cover the table where the boy is born from inside the peach, but there was nothing else worthwhile. Meanwhile Christine was inflating a rubber glove to its maximum capacity. The original intention was for her to blow it up until it burst, but as it got to enormous proportions, she was afraid popping it would injure her. So we tied it up instead. This was the first rehearsal where everyone was all at (pretty pathetic since it was the 2nd dress rehearsal) but we made due and it all came together.

After rehearsal Claire Louise James and I went to a really tasty Italian Restaurant. Unlike the chain Italian near James' house this was real tasty food with perfect proportions. While it was a bit expensive (not too expensive) it was just what the doctor ordered!

We went home exhausted. As usual. Another weekend wasted by getting up early and "working" all day. Sigh. Where is my free time?!

Pictures!!! (Warning, they contain very embarrassing/horrifying pictures of me... Please don't think less of me, it is costume...)

posted by Living and Teaching in Tokushima @ 10:49 PM Comments: 0