A/N: I realize this is short. It's 2:30 in the morning. I'm tired, but I wanted to start this before I went to bed. I actually have this one planned. I know what's going to happen, so I should be somewhat quick on updates. Hopefully.
P.S. I don't own NCIS, I wish I did. Or Wicked either… :(
Coastline Academy was like any other off-base Marine boarding school, except that it was a Fine Arts school. The entire campus was in an uproar; tonight was the closing night of the musical. It was tradition that family either tuned into a video feed or came to the last night's performance.
Lilian Reganold sat in the dressing room she shared with her co-stars Sabrina Welch and Vanessa Greyson, who were finished putting on their costumes. Lily, a senior who played Elphaba Thropp, ran through the end of the song Defying Gravity.
"Ooh, Elphie that was off," giggled Sabrina, a junior, already in her character Galinda.
Lily stuck her tongue out. "Not all of us have 'perfect pitch,'" she said, making air quotes when she said perfect pitch. "Remember, this is Elphaba's musical, I'm the star. Not you," she said in a sarcastically joking manner.
Vanessa shook her head. She was used to these two fighting every night; it was their way of getting into character for the first scene. She did a few jumping jacks and jogged in place for a few seconds. "I hate sitting in that stupid chair for nearly two and a half hours," she sighed.
Suddenly a voice called over the loudspeaker, "Mike packs on. Mike check Elphie."
"Hands touch, eyes meet. Sudden silence, sudden heat," sang Lily into her mike.
"Good. Mike check Galinda," announced the speaker.
"Popular, you're gonna be popular. I'll teach you the proper poise when you talk to boys, little ways to flirt and flounce. Ooh!" sang Sabrina, her blonde curls bouncing.
Lily checked her mike to make sure it wasn't hot. "Just because you're Galinda doesn't mean you're Kristin Chenoweth," she replied while Vanessa, who played Nessarose, did her mike check.
The girls continued to get ready as the boys and other roles went through their mike checks. Finally the speaker said, "Coastline Cast of Wicked, this is closing night. Let's make this the best performance ever! Remember, for you juniors and seniors, Julliard has scouts in the audience. Break-a-leg people. 10 minutes till show, 5 minutes till places."
Lily shivered with excitement. She was in Wicked, her favorite musical, and her dad, a captain on a naval submarine, would be there to see her!