May 2, 2006

Gothic Raccoon to the rescue!

Tonight was the long-awaited performance of the play "Mr. Toad's Mad Adventures" at Longer Elementary School. Congratulations to Director Melissa Diminick (the better half of my fellow New Pigger Scott Diminick) and the hard-working "Drama Mamas" who produced the show. Not to mention the fine cast and crew. My favorite actor was Team EEK!'s own Emmett Eldred.

Oh, yeah, this forum is about goofs ... How about this: In a late scene, the crew and actors were scrambling to clear away furniture from the previous scene. Emmett seized a chair that someone else was dragging off, and we could tell from the body language that the other person had forgotten that the chair was needed in the next scene. Indeed, the character Rat stood up on it to address the crowd. Way to go, Emmett! You deserve all the invisible cheese you ate in that scene! (It was a party scene.)

So the chair-dragging was the goof? Yes and no. When we got home, Emmett mentioned that at when the play was performed earlier in the day, he was the one mistakenly removing it. "I was dragging along three people who were trying to stop me," he said. No wonder he remembered tonight. So ...

Emmett, Ya Goof!

P.S. Here's a picture of Emmett in his role as the judge, along with his pal Roman Drake as Bertie, a motorist. Janet wasn't happy with how she applied makeup around Emmett's eyes. But Emmett didn't mind; he was rather pleased to look like (in his words) a Gothic raccoon.

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