Blog 25- Chelsea Southworth

You know what? I'm going to do it. I'm just going to ramble about Shrek. Oh my gosh it was utter perfection; thank the Lord Jesus that Olivia wanted to audition and convinced me to go along for the ride as well. Auditions, yeesh. That monotone man completely unconfident singing voice, though. But outside the orchestra room, with all of us budding little thespians together, I felt it. I felt that instant connection that lets you know "hey, these are some really cool people that you're going to have so much fun with." Oh, Mr. Logsdon/anyone who wasn't back stage; if only you saw us. My favorite dance memories have to be pole dancing with the ladder and grinding on the wall during Jared's "Big Bright Beautiful World" solo (how else we were supposed to loosen up for the show?) and interpretively, storytellingly (it's a word, shh) dancing along to "The Ballad of Farquaad" (Jade was usually the mom, but sometimes we switched. Everyone was involved in the BBBW dancing). AND the two lines in Ballad would make faces and dance at once another before we went out; composing ourselves was always the struggle.