Tuesday night was the long awaited Cabaret, "Cha-Zam!"
After rehearsal got out at about 4 (early so that everyone would have time to go home and go to the Cabaret), Katherine, Darío, and I headed over to the Monteverde Institute to set up the "auditorium" for the show. After a while we got dressed into nicer attire, and when Lisa arrived we warmed up by singing our various numbers and some other random songs we found in Darío´s Broadway sheet music book.
Slowly but surely an audience arrived. We opened the show with the entire cast of Oliver! singing the classic song "Consider Yourself" to give our audience a little taste of what the show would be like. Quite successful if it weren´t for the mosquito that bit Katherine and me during the song and the fact that Kaz was jabbing me in the back with his elbow. The rest of the show consisted of several different numbers including:
1. One of Anna´s original songs with her incredible voice and acoustic guitar
2. "2 AM" originally by Anna Nalick - A duet between Hannah and Anna again with the guitar
3. "Purpose" from Avenue Q - Performed by the incredibly talented Darío with his back up singers, Katherine, Lisa, and me doing some rather tricky harmonies. We got a shout out before he started the song :)
4. "I Could Have Danced All Night" from My Fair Lady - Performed by the queen of vibratto, Katherine.
5. "Astonishing" from Little Women - Performed by the belter extraordinaire, Hannah Richter
6. "There´s a Fine, Fine Line" from Avenue Q - Performed by the dancer who pretends to sing (me!)
7. A couple of songs by Darío´s friend Jackie and her guitarist friend
8. "Giants in the Sky" from Into the Woods - Performed by the one and only, Kaz Felix-Hawver
9. "All I Ask of You" from The Phantom of the Opera - Performed by my two loves, Katherine and Darío
10. "What is this Feeling?" from Wicked - Performed by the girls practically attached at the hip, if only our hips were at the same height from the ground, Katherine and me
11. "Suddenly Seymour" from Little Shop of Horrors - Performed by yours truly and Darío, the guy born to play all nerdy roles (Seymour, Princeton...)
12. "Colors of the Wind" from Pocahontas - Performed by the lovely young lady playing Nancy, the beautiful Fiona
13. "Seasons of Love" from Rent - Performed by Hannah, Anna, Kaz, Katherine, Darío, and me with all the solos divied up and harmonies nowhere near perfect, but still in the same chord :)
It was a very successful evening - we made over 50,000 colones! And to top it all off, I did not feel any nerves while singing in front of a crowd for the first time in my life. Maybe it´s because I´ve gotten to be very good friends with some of the people here, and while we were rehearsing for the cabaret they were all very supportive and helpful. That´s one thing I love about the people I have become close with here, particularly Lisa, Katherine, and Darío. Everyone is so supportive of each other and generous with their knowledge and talents.
Hannah and Anna left us last night, and after having a very fun night of salsa dancing and hanging out for the last time before their return to the States, we said our goodbyes. I have to admit that it wasn´t the most sorrowful of goodbyes, just because they weren´t here for very long and were not as immediately involved in my life here as most other people are, but as I walked away I began to think that in less than two weeks, I will have to say my goodbyes. But let´s leave that for ten days from now, shall we?
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