Day 10: My friends have some WICKED awesome talent

So I watched my school's one-act plays for the third time today. When they were first playing a couple weeks ago, I went on the first day, and my respect for pretty much all of the actors went totally through the roof. Freakishly Smart Person, who is one of those people - you know, the ones that are epicly smart, play five instruments, and good at EVERYTHING - was one of the stars in one called A Little Box of Oblivion. My thoughts about 5 minutes into his being onstage?

Respect +10

He's normally this suuuper quiet guy, but not in a shy way, even though he is (according to Colombian Rice Eater) a little bit shy. More in a... "You foolish humans are so far below my intellect that I shall not speak to you, as much of what I say will be incomprehensible to your puny minds anyway," kind of way. However, I shall probably post a blog entry purely about him one day (as is the case with many of my classmates and friends), so I won't talk too too much about him at the moment. Anyways, his performance was freakin' OUTSTANDING. His character was utterly bizarre (he was never named, but was listed as "Neuro" in the program), and this quiet guy pulled it off perfectly. It's like he was BORN for the role. Jumping up and down, screaming, wiggling his behind as he sat down, making chicken noises, and last (but most CERTAINLY not least), a very sexy British accent. (Boys, keep this in mind: A British accent, more than pretty much any other accent in the world, adds instant attractiveness to EVERYONE.) Another friend of mine, let's call her Soccer Playing Curry Lover, was in it as well. Her character was called "Doom." She wore black lipstick and a super-thick pair of glasses with tape wrapped around them, played with a Rubik's Cube, licked garbage, and had a completely legit-sounding Indian accent. (Lolwut I put "brown accent" first. The rest of you Advancies are an awful influence on me. xD) I never even knew that Soccer Playing Curry Lover could act before I saw this, and I was totally blown away. Man, that girl has talent. WHY MUST EVERYONE I KNOW BE SO GOOD AT EVERYTHING?!?!

Another one of the plays, called Don't Fear the Reaper, is a day in the life of the Grim Reaper: the day he gets fired. Besides the performances, which I'll fawn over in a moment, the play was MASTERFULLY written. There are a few scenes, and each one gradually reveals a little more of the Reaper. The first scene, we just see him onstage, looking very unsettling and like Death. In the second scene, he actually talks a little, and you can see he has a bit of an ego about being Death. "Steve, I am the Omega. I am..." (here he turns to face the audience) "... Death."
"Just five more minutes, Grandma!" xD
Anyways, in the third scene, he actually gets called in to have a conversation with God, who's apparently not a big fan of the compassion he's been showing to the recently departed. This leads to him getting fired, and replaced by Jeremy, a.k.a. Bug Death. Death, now called Bill, isn't too thrilled about being replaced, and proceeds to run away as fast as he can with the scythe, leading to some rather unfortunate consequences.

On to the performances! Man oh man, these were all really epic. The married couple at the beginning was really well-chosen, and I think my favorite part would have to be the sexy pose they struck, with the husband in his underwear and the wife in a very sexy housecoat and nightgown-lingerie-thingy, right before the husband went out to try to destroy Death. All the lights but the spotlight were turned off, and they somehow managed to keep their faces straight while the entire auditorium clapped, cheered, and whistled. xD The fantastically mediocre Steve was played very adorably by someone we shall call... Curly-Haired Spock Fan! :D Didn't know he could act either. His performance knocked my boxer shorts off. Steve was SO CUTE! We also had a very sexy Satan, a very prim and proper God (who appeared to be working on some anger issues), an extremely Asian Donny Destiny (a game show host where 'contestants' decide whether they're going to heaven or hell xD), and a very loving and naive Conception (as in the woman that goes "here's a soul, you get a soul, your child gets a soul, RAINBOW UNICORNS AND GREAT BIG LOVE HUGS FOR EVERYONE!"). Jeremy was played in a marvellously nasal voice by Singing Actor And SGU Fan, who is known on the blog of World Champion Pacer as a-certain-someone-I-dislike, I believe. I knew that this dude loved acting before, but I didn't know he was this good until this play. BRAVO MY FRIENDS!

The third awesome play was called Black Comedy. The main character, Brindsley, was played by My Smexy Friend. (Better name is in the works, I promise. >3<;) Anyways, it slowly becomes apparent that contrary to the image of him presented at the beginning of the play, he is actually the biggest man-ho in existence. Carol, his girlfriend of six weeks, who he has recently become engaged to, has no idea that he's still kind-of-sort-of going out with his girlfriend of four years, Cleah (or however her name is spelled). (Man oh man, that sentence sure is grammatically correct! :D) Furthermore, once a man named Harold enters, it becomes painfully apparent that he has also enjoyed... very friendly encounters with our dear Brindsley. xD Dear lord,I never would have imagined that they could fit that much innuendo into such a short period of time! Of course, all the suggestive comments made by Harold were made that much better by the fact that My Smexy Friend really IS gay. XD He did a very good job at being a frazzled man finally stumbling over every singly tripwire that his lies had set up over the last month or so, and my friend Disturbingly Intelligent Person did a FANTASTIC job of yelling at him for the whole play, which is rather the opposite of his personality, as he's rather shy. I LOVED watching him act like this! It's such a treat to see people acting in ways that they never would in real life.

IN BRIEF: My friends have insane talent, I am SO looking forward to One Acts next year, I'm totally auditioning for One Acts next year, and Freakishly Smart Person looks very attractive in a fanny pack. LOVE!