Alligator Tears, and real tears too

  So this summer I was involved in a theatre group (which I'll call by it's short form, yoco- sorry uncle creepy) and we put on an original musical that was an hour and 15 minutes long that was called Alligator Tears. It was written by my amazing friend Britta, and we only had three and a half weeks to rehearse it. It was crazy, but we somehow pulled it off. I had an amazing time and made some new friends, but now that it's over I'm really upset and actually spent about an hour crying about how I won't get to see these people again for a while... so I love to reminisce about it.

So I shall now list (in order of importance) the awesome things about yoco.

1) The people
            I cannot believe how many awesome people we had this year in yoco. There were quite a few newbies (I've been in yoco for three years) and they were all pretty young. The oldest was Libby at 18, but she didn't really count since she was so awesome and outgoing that it felt as if I'd known her for years. The rest of the newbies were at least a year younger than me, with the youngest being 3 years younger. It made me feel old, but I was also happy that I had seniority for once.
           I also got to hang with some rad people I already knew (Natty, Curtis, Reuben, Haley, Katey, Liese). It was so awesome to be with everyone almost everyday for three weeks. We're like a family, and we have sooo many inside jokes. Inside jokes that no one at my high school will understand because none of them went to yoco this year. Which really sucks, because no one will understand why I'll suddenly burst out laughing after someone mentions an alligator or a pinata or anything else that reminds me of  yoco. Ah well.
          Our writer -Britta- is an amazing person to work with. She's hilarious, crazy, and sooo freaking talented. She not only wrote the entire play, but all the songs and the music, co-directed it, and did most of the choreography.

2) The Play
      This musical is hilarious. And brilliant, and sad, and scary and happy and everything you want out of a musical really. wait a few years and it'll be on Broadway, winning tons of Tony's.

3) Getting to watch 4 LEGIT plays for free
      One of the perks of yoco is that we are in a town with a theatre that has a summer festival every year. So, we get free tickets to all the shows they put on there to make us more cultured or something. It's awesome tho. We don't get great seats (usually the back of the balcony) but it's a small theatre so it doesn't really matter. The shows this year were incredible.

4) The Costumes
       The costumes we got to wear in this musical were freaking AMAZING. I wore a poodle skirt (that was hand-made by a LEGIT costume designer) a scarf, a white shirt, and a sandwich board that had different signs I had to attach to it in different scenes. It was so much better than the costume I had the year before which consisted of a yellow terrycloth jumpsuit (no joke) and a yellowish, brownish bonnet. WORST. COSTUME. EVAR. geez.

It looks awesome, but it was a pain in the neck to manoeuvre with.

          The other costumes in this play were great too. We had a lot of cross-dressing since only two guys had joined yoco, and the costumes were so awesome. The play was set in the fifties so lots of poodle skirts, dresses, suspenders and sweater vests. :D

5) The inside jokes
even though probably no one from yoco will read this, I'm going to post all the inside jokes I can remember so I don't forget them.

Petticoat petticoat? That's a bad case of petticoat.
Or in Rachel's case: That's a bad pase of cetticoat!

Crump crump crump!

WHAAAT???
THE A-TEAM?? NO I'M MORE OF A M*A*S*H* FAN!
ABOUT 5:15!!!

But maaaaaaa!! I'm twenty years old!
(Henry will always be remembered as a small english boy with a pom-pom hat and a melty chocolate bar in his hand)

Britta: You know, surprisingly enough, I'm not a good climber.
Us: WHAAAAAAAAATTTTT!!!???
Britta: I know, but don't be fooled by my rippling muscles, wind-blown hair or supple climber's body.

There is a secret gator in a racecar with sunglasses, driving gloves and a scarf on, that Jigsaw has sent to kill your family. Now start singing quietly and imagine you can see him driving his car from far away to right past you. Sing louder as he gets nearer.

Cray Cray Majay...

Totes! Ma! Goats!

I want you to go from square 1 to square crazy!

Liese: "I can never take Beth anywhere because she gets gravy all over herself."
Beth: "Hey!! Well, ok yeah, it's true."

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p.s. I LEGIT love yoco. :)