These Shining {Bear} Lives

Hi, friends!

I'm feeling much better! Thanks for asking! And Katie's getting better, too. I didn't MEAN to get her sick, but...........whoops.

But tonight was a good night! Katie went to see These Shining Lives. It's the first play of JSU's Drama Department's season, and Short Girl and Glasses Boy are both part of it, so of course Katie had to go support them.

Short Girl is the costume designer. Over the summer, she drew pictures of EVERY costume that the actors are going to wear! And then she colored them, and then she MADE THEM! Because not only is Short Girl a costume designer, but she's also a costume maker! (I think they're called stitchers or sewers or manual laborers or something.) And she didn't just come up with these ideas out of nowhere. She had to do research and talk to the director and then redraw some stuff and talk to the director again! But she finally came up with lots of really, really good costumes. And when she got back to college, she got to pick out the fabrics for them! (Katie's favorite is the polka dotted one, but I kind of like the orange plaid one the best!) Then she and some other people put the costumes together, and now BOOM they're done! Which is good, because the show opened last night! I think Short Girl is kind of amazing! She can design and draw AND sew! I can't do ANY of those things! I don't have thumbs! And she's put so much hard work into this show! I know Katie must be really, really proud of her, because I'M really, really proud of her. She's only a Junior (like Katie), and this is the second show that she's designed all by herself. She's, like, really talented, guys. Katie says that you should go see the show and see for yourself.

"Glasses Boy" is spelled "A-A-R-O-N" 

And then there's Glasses Boy. As you may recall, Glasses Boy is one of Katie's really good friends, and he's Tall Girl's boyfriend. He's also an actor. These Shining Lives is the first show he's been at at JSU, but he did a lot of acting when he was in high school. Glasses Boy plays THREE different characters in this show! One of them is really nice, but the other two are kind of mean. I don't like them much. I don't know how he remembers all those lines! I can't even remember his real name!! Glasses Boy is really good, though, because he can play ALL those characters and make you believe them! I think he was kind of nervous about being in his first play, but he's done so well! Katie is so proud of him that she made him a poster (also because she's nuts, but in a nice way). He's been working on this play since September, and sometimes he's out really late at rehearsal learning lines and wear to stand onstage and making sure his costume fits and stuff. Apparently, acting isn't as easy as it seems on TV. He's also made a lot of new friends, because, even though his characters aren't very nice, Glasses Boy is pretty cool, and everyone likes him. (Tbh, Katie was  a little worried that he wouldn't make friends and that he would be scared and lonely and never do theatre again, but she's overdramatic. He's fine.)

Apparently, the show was amazing, and Katie cried the whole time (but we really should have expected that!). But Glasses Boy acted amazing, and Short Girl's costumes were beautiful. Katie and I are lucky to have such amazing friends, and we're both really, really, really proud of them.

Look at them all!! From L to R, that's Roommate, Big Friend, The Baby, Tall Girl, Glasses Boy, Bearded Boy, and Curly Haired Boy! (And Katie in the front, of course!)

Ok, I told Katie not to type this part, but she has the thumbs and is doing the actual typing so it doesn't look like I can stop her, but you should check out the article she wrote for The Chanticleer about the play. Katie really likes theatre, guys, so she's really excited about this article:

Katie's These Shining Lives Article

And the Drama Department made a video about Short Girl that you can watch here!









You can still see These Shining Lives this weekend, and you should totally go!!

~Trash Bear (and Katie)~