Uni High Gargoyle Staff Blog

Life is full of choices. Easy ones (Should I have milk or orange juice for breakfast?) and hard ones (What college should I choose?). Sometimes life throws things at you that you don’t like.

I joined the cast of the Champaign Urbana Theatre Company’s production of “The King and I” with excitement. I love being in musicals, and I like performing. I like being in shows in general, because they’re always a lot of fun.

I realized a few days ago that there is a “King and I” performance on April 1 at 7:30 p.m., which is also the date scheduled for Spring Fling. I like dances a lot, too, and I really don’t want to miss Spring Fling. It’s one of the last dances of the year, after all.

So now I can either drop out of “The King and I” to go to Spring Fling, or miss the dance. And I’m obviously going to choose the musical, because I’ve spent way too much time and effort on it already to just drop out now because of one night.

Still, I wish I’d known about the conflict earlier, because “King and I” rehearsals are extremely time-consuming. I’ve been exhausted ever since practices have started, and if it’s this bad now, tech week is going to be absolutely terrible. I had no idea that I would have to put this much effort into it, because after all, I’ve been cast as a wife. I thought that I would only have to go once or twice a week, but I’ve been having to go every day.

It’s extremely tiring.

I’m not saying that I regret doing the show. I love it. I like the singing and the dancing, and I like the people I’ve met. Everyone is amazingly nice. I like the feeling of belonging to something outside of school.

But really. I’m too tired. Next year I’m probably going to do the school musical, and not a CUTC show. The fact that Mrs. Ridenour realizes that homework is an issue should help a lot.

Michelle Gao