Piece, Love, and Happiness by Emily Franklin

Author:Emily Franklin [Franklin, Emily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4804-5219-0
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2013-09-27T21:34:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Pre-Thanksgiving — In Which I try to feel grateful but in reality feel annoyed, stressed, and hormonally challenged

This is the time of year when, all across the Hadley campus, shampoo and soap consumption drops way low. Exams are an excuse to sleep fifteen minutes longer before the later morning assembly, therefore negating shower time, therefore increasing the wafting scents of the collective student body. Suffice to say that though we’re all padding around in sweats (everything from Juicy to Old Navy to Hadley track pants and last night’s pajamas) no one’s getting any bedtime action. The library is jammed with people cramming for midterms and I, sadly, am not one of them due to the fact that during the insanity of academics I still have to be a Salvation Army good girl in the play. I have to do “I’ll Know When my Love Comes Along” for the fifth time, and sit backstage with Chris as Sky Masterson/Dan Dearborn struggles with his own songs.

Chris and I are writing the program notes together (he volunteered us) so we include tidbits for The Dramatics (the group of Hadley students who are, like, totally sure they’re gonna make it to Broadway and walk around singing “Seasons of Love” from Rent like it’s the national anthem and consider Sondheim their personal hero).

“We should say that the show is based on “The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown,” Chris offers while lighting fucks up their cue again.

“Do you think people care about Damon Runyon’s short story?” I ask. I’ve become disenchanted with the production lately — possibly preshow jitters but, more likely, this is my realization that I am not a dramawannabe. I’m just a singer trapped in a musical.

By the time lighting has their mark, we’ve jotted down:

Guys and Dolls revolves around Nathan Detroit, the organizer of “the oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York”, who makes a bet with fellow gambler Sky Masterson that he can’t make the next girl he sees fall in love with him. The girl he spots happens to be Miss Sarah Brown, a pure-at-heart Salvation Army-sort of reformer, and the stage is set for a variety of complications and misunderstandings — all tied up with a bow at the end.

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