The standby "Witch Switch"

 Felicia and I switched roles tonight backstage. We had such a joyous time doing each others make-up. Felicia was a dazzling Glinda and I loved being Green!  Sorry I can't have pics up due to copyright reasons.

                                         

Brief backstage update

Greetings! 

Thank you for all the great comments about the blog. :) 

Since my last post, I had acupuncture for the first time to try and heal this weird pain I had in my neck. A lot of friends in the cast suggested it to me because they love it. I must say, I really liked it too. I barely felt the needles and the range of motion in my neck afterwards was pretty much back to normal. Yay! 

"Snuggie Couture" Photo by Tanase Popa

At the theatre on Tuesday evening, I wasn't on for Glinda so I worked on a "Wicked" jigsaw puzzle in my dressing room. People have been contributing their skills to help me because it's so difficult and frustrating for even the greatest puzzle master to work on. I took a break from puzzling to have a spontaneous project runway competition with cast mate, Kevin Jordan. We had to create couture fashion from the animal print Snuggies in my dressing room. We had five minutes. Clearly, it was a tie.   

On Wednesday night, we celebrated a cast member's birthday at Smuggler's Cove….dressed as pirates. Arrgh! I went shopping for an outfit with some of my gal pals in the cast. We stopped into several eclectic and bizarre shops in the Haight district, which is sort of known as "hippyville," in San Francisco. I loved it and found great pirate/wench attire in one of the boutiques. 

"Libby the Pirate" Photo by Joe Dulude

I'm a huge fan of costume parties- I think I'm just a little too theatrical for life sometimes.  I've always been that way though. When I was a child, my neighbor donated an enormous box of vintage gowns and dance recital costumes to my little sister, Emily and I. Those costumes became a popular source of entertainment for the Servais sisters. We didn't really watch television but we loved parading around the neighborhood in our hoop skirt dresses. Slumber parties at our house were always fun too. Our friends would race to rummage through the costume box to find their outfit for the evening. We would have the giggliest times putting on talent shows for each other. I typically liked to wear a blue figure skater dress with feathers and then perform my improvised ice skating routine to Beethoven's, "Moonlight Sonata" for everyone in my living room.  It sounds silly now, but I was very serious about it then. haha! Thank goodness I found a career where I can wear costumes all the time! :) 

In fact….tonight, if Felicia and I are not on for our respective roles, we are going to have a "witch switch." In other words, I am going to Galindify her and she will be painting me GREEN! We're so excited.  I'm certain that she will be a lovely Glinda and I'm so psyched to be transformed into the unnaturally green girl! :)Yes, we will be documenting the entire evening. Stay tuned for pictures and blogging about this thrillifying backstage occurrence. Talk to you soon! xoxo

Hooray for my first blog post!!

Hi everyone and welcome! 
My very first blog post. EVER! I can't believe it. I've become such a computer geek ever since I moved to San Francisco. I've created a Twitter account, a Facebook fan page, my own website, and now I'm starting a blog!! Wowza! I have to be honest, I feel like I'm talking to a room full of imaginary friends right now because I actually have no idea who on Earth would want to read my peculiar ramblings….then again…who wouldn't?!?! I am a pretty groovy gal and I'm excited to share my zany going on's with you.  :)

The birth of my blog: 

As many of you know my bestie and fellow standby, Felicia Ricci has an amazing blog, (Unnaturally Green). Last week, while the two of us were getting pedicures and reading trashy magazines about celebrities, we were also discussing how much we love journaling. It's such a therapeutic outlet. I told her how much I love reading her blog and she suggested that I start my own. My initial reaction was, "Absolutely not! Blogs are time consuming and I wouldn't know what to write about." She assured me that people would like to hear about life as a Glinda standby and as…well, Libby. So, I had a change of heart. Maybe I will enjoy blogging as much as I do journaling. Maybe people do want to hear about the bubbles and troubles of my life. So here it goes….hope you enjoy, and if not, at least my mom will! Hi Mom! :)

I held a contest to see who could come up with the best title (in my opinion) for my blog. The winner get's to have a special feature in this very post. First of all THANK YOU to everyone for suggesting such witty titles- it was actually quite a difficult decision. Drum roll please…the winner is……CARY KOH! Congratulations, Cary!! He came up with "I've heard it said…" I chose this title because these are Glinda's first lyrics in "For Good," a song that is very special to me. It proceeds to talk about friendship and life and how everyone changes us in someway, whether it be for the better or not. Bravo, Cary Koh!

Cary is the concertmaster of the orchestra here at Wicked, SF. He plays the violin AND is the Associate Conductor. Everyone in the cast loves Cary because he is a complete genius with everything he does and yet he is the most humble man you'll ever meet.  He is the real deal and we are all so lucky to have him in the Wicked family! :) 

So there ya have it. My first blogging experience. Thanks for sharing it with me. Until next time... :)