okay i don't know if you can tell or not, but that's Matt Smith and our very own Keith dressed up as the duke and the king from "Big River"! they did a great job in their version, but i'm not gonna lie... Tuacahn has way more funding, so they had some way cooler stuff. for instance: Tom Sawyer's "gang" came in on a zipline over the stage. whoo! and then... oh man, this part just blew our MINDS. the music started leading up to "Muddy Water" and then came WATER. like, they actually flooded the stage. with water. on the stage. don't worry, at the front of the stage there was like a space between it and another wall... i don't know if that made sense. anyways, no one got wet. but Dad pointed out that we did have to wonder what the people on the front row were thinking when the water came cascading down the rocks behind the stage.
the cast did a great job, though there were a few things that we weren't all that excited about. such as pap saying "daygom govet" in his song (if i didn't already know the words, i would have been completely lost) and Huck acting... well, not like a normal human being. not even for a redneck. Jim, on the other hand... wow. he was played by a guy named Jay Pierce, who is the featured vocalist for the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. just now, i was trying to think of the right word to describe his voice, and something Will Ferrell said seems about right... Jay Pierce's voice was scrumtralescent. after the show, i had to go the bathroom so i asked dad to tell him that he was my hero. apparently, Jay Pierce also worked in Chapel Hill... go figure!
anyways, i just wanted to fill y'all in on it. that play was AMAZING, even though it was really windy, and therefore reeeeeally cold. poor Jim and Huck had to sing "River In The Rain" while there were actual fire-sprinkler type things comin down on them.
Jay Pierce is my hero. Period.
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