Grease

This year is my first year that I've ever had an elective other than band, at least. I was pretty sure I was going to like drama because I always loved to act. When our class decided we were going to perform the classic play, Grease, I knew it for sure. My friend Nicole and I both got the roles we wanted. She was Danny and I was her best friend Kenickie, it was perfect.

To get our play to performance quality we had to rehearse a lot. Our rehearsals went through many different stages. Our first rehearsal stage, everybody was using their scripts, and there was no acting going on. The second rehearsal stage was a little better, everyone still had there scripts, but they were acting and singing a lot more expressively. Rehearsal stage three was definitely the best of all, though. By then, everyone knew their lines and had good energy on stage. Although we were never perfect , this stage was as close as we were going to get.

One of the biggest challenges we had while preparing to perform the play was attendance. At least one person from the cast was absent every day, so we always had to use and understudy during rehearsals. I mean, Kelsey J. (Rizzo) had walking pneumonia and was absent almost two weeks! We even had to change the person who was to play Mrs. Lynch.

The biggest scare we had with someone being absent, was when Abby (Roger) hadn't come to school for a few days . She still hadn't come back on the day before the play, and when we tried to reach her , no one picked up. We then were going to use Ashley as Roger, but she did not know any of the lines.

It was the day of the play, and I was nervous, not because I didn't know my lines, though. I was nervous that someone else might mess up and ruin a part of the play. I also might have been a little bit nervous about singing "Greased Lightnin'," in front of a lot of people. Also, I was nervous that the "new" Roger might make the play seem a little unreahearsed. Suddenly, in the midst of all this worrying, someone told me something that made me very happy.

One of my fellow cast members, Libya, came rushing down the hall with a very big smile.

"What is going on?" I asked.

"Abby is here," she exclaimed.

I was so happy! Once I told my friend Nicole she was ecstatic. Well, anyways, now that we had the whole cast it was time for the show.

Our play was to start in about five minutes. I had uncontrollable butterflies, I didn't even know why. The main cast all knew that when the song "Grease" came on, it was time for us to run out, into the auditorium. So we were just waiting, and listening intently.