Moving away from a show, and into another.

Well, I think that Tony really pulled through for me. I've gotten some great responses to the show. Seems like it really made people think about it and was interesting to watch. I was very happy that a lot of the humor in it came out. It's funny, I think I just had this thing towards the end (when I started to get a little nervous about the show going up) and I just decided not to care what anyone else thought, including the faculty. Tomorrow I'm going to start "making the rounds" for feedback from the faculty but from the response I've gotten so far, people have reacted in a very positive way to the show. I was so ready to be on the defense and brush off any harsh comments or lack of any comments at all and now I feel overwhelmed in a sense by all of the good things I've heard. It was nice...reaffirming, to be told things that make me think, "Looks like I'm doing the right thing", "Looks like maybe theatre is the place for me to be after all". It's not that I doubted theatre itself but I think we all have doubts sometimes about where we are and our paths and it always good to have someone say something to you that makes you feel like you took the right turn somewhere down the road.
Now it is onto rehearsals for Wild Oats for me. It will feel a bit strange to drop being a director and to move into the role of acting again. I'm excited to be the one on stage again. Sometimes it is hard to just sit in the seats because I love to be up there doing it too, but every time I have been in the director's seat it has still been so incredibly fulfilling in a completely different way.