West Side Story

If it was a year ago from now, Les Mis would still be running. While I have been thinking a ton about Les Mis, something brought me back to reality. It was West Side Story at BHS. Obviously, it informed me that I was not longer in musical. It was an amazing show! It was so fun to see people shine in the spotlight while I had seen many of them start out as little sophomores who didn't show that much potential quite yet. I was expecting to start crying because I wanted to be on stage, and hated being in the audience. Well, I did cry, but for completely different reasons. First of all, it was joy! I loved the show! Everyone was so amazing. Plus the show is just very emotional to begin with. But during and after the show, events happened that reminded me of past experiences that were amazing at the time, but remembering them now brings me pain because they have drastically changed since them. If you are close to me, you'll know what I'm talking about. If not, you wouldn't be interested . Anyway, Laura, Breanna and I decorated the dressing rooms for the cast. They looked so cute and it took us like three hours! After the show everyone said that it brought them joy and they really appreciated it. It was a great day! One of the best, yet it was probably one of the biggest emotional roller coasters I've ever experieced. So what I decided to do was show some pictures from other shows and compare them with the Pictures I took at West Side Story. I took a million more pictures but I chose these ones because they were the most similar to other pictures I have taken.
Aticus and Me in Les Miserables (not in our costumes, obviously)

In Annie Aticus as Tony in West Side Story

Nick and I in Annie

West Side Story. Notice the height difference from the first picture!

Devin and I in Millie

Dev as Bernardo

Becca and Me: Cosette and Fantine

Annie

Becca as a shark girl.

A lot has changed, and while some of the changes have ripped my heart out, some of them have also been good. Most especially great is the fact that me leaving musical didn't automatically end these friendships, which is usually the case. I have seen how resilient these friendships are, and if we have stayed friends while going to different schools, having different activities, never seeing each other, and being at different stages in our lives, then I'm sure that these friendships will continue for eternity. Seriously. It seems to me that a lot of us were friends before we came to earth, because we all clicked extremely fast, faster and closer than I've ever seen or thought possible. I love my friends!