Curtains for EJ

EJ finally closed yesterday. I had arrived at CCP right after the matinee's intermission to avoid the crowd. Ended up talking about trends in music ("nung kapanahunan ko...", pop groups that we listened to in grade school, high school and college days) with Paulo, Minette, Sir Jed and The Dawn's roadie (I forgot his name, hahaha!). It was so funny when Miss Joy jumped in, as she was also sitting at the front-of-house, and gave her input (The Beatles, hahaha!).

Well, the world of the music biz is the same as theater. It keeps getting smaller. As I talked with the roadie about gigs, record labels and producers, I found out that he also knows Tito Sunny and Tita Sherbet (shoutout!). Man, I suddenly miss the Ilacads, specially Jilliebeans.

After the matinee, I joined the cast and crew backstage for the buffet dinner, nyahaha. Hung around the dressing rooms for a while before the house opened, then I headed back to the lobby and joined Nicco, Anna, Russ and Abner while they were just standing around, waiting for the people to enter the theater. Haha, that's where I got to talk to Roeder about his workshop class and new idea for his recital, rawr. And Kyla was there as well with Mr. C. It's been ages since I last saw that girl. Teenee also came to see the show again, but I didn't get to see her until after the show.

After the chimes, we (except for Russ, who went home) entered through the other door and sat in the back row. After a while, Abner decided to leave as well, then Anna, Nicco and I moved to the 7th row for better viewing pleasure (and playtime). We spent half the time chuckling at the cast, nyahahaha. As I had found out before in Kudeta, Riki turned out to be Mayen's male counterpart when it came to onstage playtime, ahehe.

Anna had disappeared after she went to the ladies room during intermission, and as it turned out, she had fallen asleep in her car, hahaha!

Congratulations the entire cast and crew of EJ! You guys had pulled it off, hahaha!

After the show, I was back backstage again as the cast started fixing up and turned in their costumes for clearance. Huwaw, there was food (from Miss Joy?) waiting for them outside the backstage entrance. More pasta, nuts (bad luck daw yun diba?), cheese and wine. Yay!

I wasn't really counting on going to the cast party, but because of several invites, I ended up going. Tad and I hitched a ride with Mayen along with Chrome and Tex to the venue, this huge compound where The Dawn's studio was at. Holy kamote, we didn't expect such a huge spread and some people (specially JB's mom) were so dressed up to the nines.

"Ito na ba yun?"
"Ay grabe, bongga!"
"Tama ba ito?"
"Ayun sila o!"
*rolls down the window* "Mali yata ang pinasukan namin, cast party eh, hindi debut!"
HAHAHAHA!

More food, more drinks, more fun! Yaaay! Kiko was practically everywhere, clicking away with his camera. More cameras appeared, as most of these people are camwhores, haha. Sitting next to Tex most of the time, I'd forgotten how kulit she can be, hahaha. I missed those Dreamgirls days.

Well, the season's over. Time for summer to arrive.