My plays are both cast!!!

What a big relief and what a wonderful feeling. I'm VERY excited about the shows, and am looking forward to working with this crew. Every year there's a few people who are great actors, but either I don't connect with them, or they're egomaniacs, or they have a bad attitude or something - this year, I feel like that may not happen on this cast. This is a NICE cast of generally humble and compassionate people, which is really good. Anne's cast is also good, which is a very great feeling.

So - I'm blessed as of right now, we'll see if I feel the same at the end of the month, or February, but for now, I'm very excited about the people I'm going to be working with.

YAY!

School Play Auditions are HARD...

It's really tough in a play where the parts aren't terribly specific to pick people for roles. Whomever you put in a certain role, that person will add such a flavour in Flowers For Algernon that I could have an entirely different play depending on who gets put where. And when I have a number of strong candidates, and few who REALLY stood out, suddenly things become rather interesting.

SO...my job this year is not enjoyable, and is taking longer than usual as well, which also isn't fun. BUT I think that the PEOPLE I have are good people, and that's going to make for a more enjoyable play than having good actors who are full of themselves or not team players. With the content of the play, they'd better be good people.

Pray for me as I make these decisions. BLAH - the least fun part of my job.