Concert Story #1
Because I knew you...I have been changed for good. The last notes of "For Good" echoed in the auditorium. The crowd broke into applause. Rachel took a break from her singing. She swung the mike and sat on the stool. After a few minutes a silence a fans yells are heard.
"I love you Rachel!" applause started again.
"I love you too!" More screams.
"So the last time I sang Defying Gravity, I didn't know it would be my last time singing Defying Gravity." The applause, turned into nervous giggles and random claps. "Aw, I had you all excited and I killed it. Don't feel bad for me." She let out a breathless giggle. "Do you want to hear the story?"
"Yeah!"
"Can it be a little catty?" The crowd laughed, applauded and screamed.
"Yeah!"
"Some bitch... I'm just kidding." The audience laughed and clapped again. "Um..." Rachel laughed. "Um...Uh. The third, the third, what was it? My third to last show, I, I feel through a hole and um it was amazing um. So it's the part of the show wear I was melting and I really melted." The crowd laughed again.
"I was like it's the dying scene and it happens behind this, this sheet thing. I guess the word is scrim, but God I always want to say script. " More laughs.
" Scrim, and uh it's behind there and every night, like how many shows, every night, 5,000 shows, you know I trusted people and I would like I go behind the thing and it would be really dark and uh I could see the floor cause there was smoke all over the floor and I would go, my thing would be like, there would be like a trap door you know like here a square thing that would always be open and there is this floor there, that gets, somebody under the stage is in charge of computers, it called something like automation or something. And it's there job at a certain point to lower the floor like an elevator and every night I would go behind the thing and I would go left, right, left, right, left and I would go like safely in between and the stage manger would see that I had both feet safely in the thing and she would go..." She made an okay sign. "Or call it or what ever and it would go down and I would be like "ahh melting" or whatever." She paused to get a breath as the audience laughed.
So this night I went left, right, left! And I feel, but I didn't fall all the way through, but like a true superhero, I feel and I feel on my side but I held myself like this." Rachel stood up and demonstrated. "You know my head was like this and the stage manger came over and pulled me out. Um and I know it was scary cause I couldn't breath and then so funny, all the crew guys came over and they know that I do yoga in between the shows and they were like "breath, Rachel. Breath! Think of the audience. Breathe!" " And I was like shut up. I was like we were having a baby. " The crowd giggled.
"And so I had the green make-up on, you know, the black wig and the full dress and as soon as I get my breath and realize that I'm not going to die, I'm in so much pain I turn to Mckayla Channel, who plays Glinda, and was like whatever you do please don't let them take a picture of me." The crowd burst out laughing.
" Then they wheel me out on a stretcher and the stupid EMS guys, are like "you don't look so good." More laughing and clapping. "Like I've never heard that one before." "Then we get to the hospital and they wont let us have any guest. You know? And the thing and Oh! I'm in the dress and they have to get the dress off and this little doctor comes into the E.R. and is like "I have to get this dress off you." "And I'm like there the fricken dress off those people made me fall through a hole!" The audience burst into scattered applause, claps and whistles.
" And she was like, um. Much did it cost?" "And I was like 20,000 dollars and for some reason they get complaints that they ruin clothing?" "So they're worried in case something God forbid happened to my neck so they don't want to move me and we haven't done x-rays yet. So had three big guys come in and turn me over, so she could get the dress off." More laughter.
"And then they wont let me have any guests, so they take me and we do x-rays and I'm waiting out in the hall and this nurse that's down there, she must have been in her early twenties or so. And she sees Jesse walk in and all of a sudden she doesn't know what to do with herself!" The crowd is hysterical.
"So she's running around and I'm like lady, if you just take care of me I'll introduce you to my husband. And then I get back to the room and everybody is visiting cause Jesse's there and there trying to take the make-up and it's not coming off, cause it's waterproof and the final thing the doctor comes in to give Jesse all the drug stuff for me, "this is what it's going to be" and she said. "You can take her home and get her clothes..." "And he was like what clothes? She came in a witches costume." Rachel hung her head as the group of people erupted into laughter.
" I had NO clothes! I had to go home in those surgeon paper pants that come up to your chin and Jesse's sweatshirt. And some paparazzi guy is literally out side the hospital taking pictures of me in the surgeon pants, high as a kite on morphine, stained green and I'm like hey."
"Honestly don't feel bad, cause the next day I went to the theater for a little closure. So it's all good! So that concludes story time!"
"What song next Scott? Of course."
"Something has changed within me..."