What Show Week Means to Me

Tech is over, and tonight starts dress rehearsals. 

50% Yay!! 50% yay. 

So here’s a little bit about what show week means to me.

Late nights at rehearsals, meaning not even getting home until 10, which is usually when I’m asleep.

Yes I know I sleep early, but I love my sleep. 

Lots of weird food. There ain’t no time for normal meals!

Show week consists of lots of snacking, not a ton of real food. 

Show week means ripping out your hair. Literally. With mic tape. And man it hurts like crazy. 

Show week means a room full of disorganized buckets, filled with food, clothes, hairspray, lipstick, fake hair, and toothbrushes. 

Face wipes, bobby pins, cotton swabs, 

Show week means literally running out of school as the final bell rings, trying to make it home by at least 3:45. 

Then having 45 minutes to get into full costume, makeup, and hair, and make your dinner, and then leave at 4:30 so you have time to drive to rehearsal and make it there on time. 

Show week means being exhausted, sitting in class having no idea what’s going on because you’re either too tired to think, or your just thinking too much about the rehearsal or show you have that night. 

Show week means your face breaking out. Because no matter how many times you wash your face, it almost always manages to happen. 

Show week means sometimes losing your temper, and having people ask, “Dude what’s got you in a mood?”

Show week means trying to get energized without caffeine because you want to keep your voice healthy. 

Show week means getting in your car, giving yourself eye massages, and blaring your music as loud as it can go so that you don’t fall asleep on the half hour drive home. 

Show week means giving lots of grace and lots of support.

Though show week can be pretty rough, it’s totally worth it.