I Defied Gravity 8-3-06

Julia Murney and me
All right so basically I’ve been grinning like an idiot for hours now =) I went to see Wicked and it was amazing! Though I must admit it was a bit disheartening when I was the only one who clapped when Fiyero came on. Sad stuff. Anyways. We started off the evening by buying everything we could carry away from the frightened merchandise ladies, though we did hold back a little… I got a tank top, bracelets, and a poster that they apparently didn’t give me… meh… I’ll get it off the Internet later I suppose, though the $15 down the drain doesn’t seem to think that’s fair compensation. I made scarves for Julia and Kendra… pink and green, and made in quite a panicked state (I didn’t think I would finish Kendra’s in time so I knitted like a mad woman, holed up in my hotel room, looming needle in hand, pink yarn flying everywhere) it was lovely. They were so soft I didn’t want to part with them but I did, with the aid of a card and gift bag picked out by my mom. I gave them to the stage manager who mom so cleverly wooed into taking them back to the girls for me. After we inhaled a quick hot dog we went into the theatre and took our seats, which had a surprisingly good view. I bounced around in my chair for a while, scheming up ways to get videos of defying gravity without getting kicked out… sadly I came up quite empty handed. Then the show started and I smiled… for a long long long time. Needless to say, my face is in a great deal of pain. Everything was amazing! Julia has an incredible voice and Kendra is so cute! During intermission I read my grimmerie while mom scoped out the bathroom situation. I yelled at her to hurry back since the “Thank Goodness” costume is the best one in the whole play. Yet again… I wore a stupid grin on my face the whole time though I must admit; they didn’t even get through the first note of “For Good” before I started crying. It was amazing and the finale gave me chills. Right when the curtain calls started I bolted… didn’t even wait for Julia and Kendra to take their bows, just leapt down the stairs, five at a time, so that I could get to the stage door before Kendra made a run for it. Once I got there I met two very nice people. A woman and her daughter Molly. Molly was so cute. She’s like who I wish I was at her age (She’s 11 I believe). She was definitely the stage door queen. We schemed for a while about how to get back stage while we waited for Kendra. After a while Kendra came out with her little dog and I asked her if she had gotten my scarf. She said she had and that she and Julia had been modeling them backstage. I got a picture with her and had her sign my Grimmerie, then she went off to be attacked by other ravenous fans. After her came Jennifer, who played Nessa. She seemed a bit preoccupied but she signed my Grimmerie and was very polite.

Sebastian and me
After her came Sebastian… wow… beautiful man, and sadly my moms camera didn’t work the first time so I had to get my picture taken with him twice… pity… or not. He was so funny and he and Molly talked like they were old friends, it was cute. After that we waited for a while, Julia takes longer then the rest because she has to wash her green paint off but she did come out eventually. She had a scarf around her head, probably to hide some stubborn green paint. I asked her if she got the scarf I made her and she was so cute… this is basically our conversation:
Me: Did you get the scarf I made you?
Julia: You made that? I loved it! It was so soft. (Yells to her friends) This is the girl who made the scarf.
Her friends: Oh that scarf was beautiful. It’s good to be Elphaba huh?They were all so nice and it made me happy she liked my scarf. She said once its cold again she would be done with wicked so she could finally wear green again. While Julia signed other autographs I asked her friends if Victoria Matlock (Julia’s understudy) had left but they said she had… I was pretty sad but at least I met everyone else! All in all I’d say it was pretty amazing. I’ve never been happier and I now have a Grimmerie full of signatures to prove it. =)
Kendra and me