Zeigen

Saturday night was another of Jennie’s amazing CNY parties. Every year we perform a little play (one of my few creative outlets), and this year the theme was a parody of American Idol. I procastinated a bit worse than usual this year, and despite an early start we were still making script changes the night before. Moses played the part of Why-Yen Seacrest, but had a wedding gig during the afternoon, so I got to be in that role during the afternoon kids performance (aka dress rehearsal), which was fun, although I overdid the excitement a bit and started losing my voice midway through. People kept coming up behind me to pass me glasses of water mid-scenes.

The evening performance went well. Our goal was to keep it at half an hour (Moses having felt strongly that we were too long the year before), but we came in over an hour anyway. I was proud of it overall, especially some of the parody commercials that we put in between scenes.
Jennie always does a great job with the food, and the site for our play, a genuine Chinese noodle factory, adds a genuine ambience that can’t be beat.

Last year I put the script in here but it was a bit too long for a blog post; if there is interested, I can post the script separately.

Sammy and Kimi came up for the afternoon performance (joined by John and Yvonne), so they got to see it in action. Afterwards, during the break between the two parties, we wandered through Oakland’s Chinatown and picked up some bakery items while taking in the eve of Chinese New Year ambience.

Greg said something which I feel to: During the preparation for the play, it’s a bit of a pain, and you wonder to yourself why you do it and resolve to make this your last year. But then performing really ignites your enthusiasm, and you end up energized and looking forward to next year.

We have four more animals left to do (Rat is next year), and after that I’ll take a step back and think about what we want to do next.

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