Life is full of coutdowns at the moment. 4 is the number of school days I have left until spring break. 2988 is the number of Children's Theater tickets I have sold (that would be 75% of my total seats for the school performances). 88 is the days until graduation. I've always liked numbers... I can't think of a math class that I haven't liked (well, until I got up here to MLC, but I don't really count those as math classes...) and I really enjoyed teaching geometry last semester. But as I changed my MSN screen name today to reflect a few more tickets sold and one less day to graduation, it just seemed weird. I want the tickets sold number to keep increasing... all the way up to 5292 if possible, but I have mixed feelings on the graduation number. So strange.
My two weeks of insanity are over, thank goodness! The play was amazing. It does confuse me, however, how a simple comedy can be so sucessful on stage and yet people still feel the need to "test the waters" with other random productions. Honestly, I do know that it's not a good idea to do a comedy every year. Even things that work can be over done. However, sometimes I think it takes us too long to go back to what works. The same can be said of Children's Theater. The choice of a fairy tale couldn't be better. I believe that choice, along with a quality production from last year, are why the ticket responses are so quick and numerous this year. I've been producer for a little over 3 weeks I think... and nearly 4000 tickets sold. That's quite a response. I am so proud of our cast and crew from last year -- they really set the bar pretty high, but I'm ready to jump! I got a peek at my first (and when I say my, I really mean our, but will continue to use my) set piece yesterday. At the moment it's just a concrete form with a door cut out and some hinges... but it has such amazing potential. I absolutely love seeing something that I thought up in my head take full form on stage. I can't think of much better.
