November 7, 2004
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The Daily News
1 CONGRATULATIONS, SENIORS!!!!!!!!!!
2 What a fun Spirit Week! I totally enjoyed the Homecoming Game, the spirit, and I'm sure I'm speaking on behalf of the entire Senior Class when I say that EVERYBODY won! We all put in a TON of effort; we all bonded not only with our own classes, but with the entire school as well. And congratulations to the WARRIORS for a great game, and a great night!
3 So...Howard Keel walks into a bar...
4 Sadder still: Okay, Drama Workshop, here is a significant item for you. I just got an e-mail that was forwarded to a friend, who forwarded it to me, stating, that "Larry La Prise, the man who invented the Hokey Pokey, died peacefully at the age of 93. The most traumatic part for his family was getting him into his coffin...
5 They put his left leg in, and then the trouble began..."
6 M'bad.
7 In all the craziness of Homecoming, the excitement, the floats, the team, the noise, the agony and the ecstasy, I got to watch the Band marching proudly through the mist, pinpoint precision, looking sharp, and sounding right on the money. It was difficult really to hear, because I was driving the Seniors' eye-candy float, but the patterns and sudden turns looked spectacular, especially with the colour guard swirling around, stepping up, and everybody supporting. The drumline came in later and I was yelling out the window, "YEAH BAND!" YEAH, GUARD! YEAH DRUMLINE!!! and most importantly, "YEAH, HOOPER!!!!" You guys looked sharp and awesome, on a night that for me, couldn't have been closer to perfect!
8 And to my Seniors: AT LAST!!!!!! You know that Etta James song? AT LAST!!!
9 Amazing night; exhilarating, exhausting, but full of fun and spirit, which IS, after all, the whole point!
10 So congrats to all the kids for making it a super-victory for all four classes, all the judges, advisors, parents, and everybody else affected by it all. Just a great Homecoming!
11 This Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights the Pigeon Players are putting up Thugs, a Godfather-meets-Romeo and Juliet farce that should be a great time. We finished Spirit Week, dug through the nightmarish hotel of poster paper, chickenwire, paint, tools, clown clothes, and cardboard boxes to FIND, at last, the Theatre floor, there to begin turning the Theatre into the outskirts of Chicago, circa 1929. What fun, but what a LOT of work, the very day of the Homecoming Dance.
12 Makes me look forward to our own one-acts, A Love Letter, coming soon, in December.
13 I'm already thinking of Under-the-Clock right before opening night, the excitement, the flowers, the hugs, the makeup, and the audience...
14 Oh! AND the hokey pokey...
15 You put your left leg in...
16 I'm WAY out.
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