This is an actual real life thing that actually happened last week and it still feels unreal 😭 frantic rambling incoming:
kevin clay was nice enough to give me a little stage tour and explain a lot of interesting technical stuff and I simply could not register half of what he said because I was so nervous having an out of body experience 💀 he’s too nice
my orchestra bestie (the violin player in the orchestra) I often talk to before the show and during intermission invited me in and we ran into kevin right inside, orchestra bestie was telling him how many times me and my fam have seen the show(me 16, parents around 8) and introducing us and he went “oh, I know them, don’t worry I know them,” which made me pass away
I was happy to just say hi to him before walking around with orchestra bestie but he just instantly said he’d show us around stage bc he is the SWEETEST! Sharpie was still in his hand because he was about to stage door, but he still took the time to do it and I am so, so appreciative
Then orchestra bestie showed me around the orchestra pit and further backstage as well, it was so cool to see the costumes and the view from the pit as well as the set up!
I also met the guitar player and I had to tell him he absolutely shreds during spooky Mormon hell dream (his response was “I try” 😭)
Walking out of the stage door after felt so funny, I was able to pretend to be a Broadway star for 0.2 seconds
I love this show and this cast SO MUCH they’re all so, so kind
I have to learn to forgive my dad for the quality of the pictures with kevin 😆 he tried!!! I also tried with the selfie but I was simply too shaky!! most of these pics are screenshots from video! I watched the vids and I sound so awkward but kevin was as nice as ever
but blurry pics aside I’m so happy and grateful it happened, the experience was absolutely incredible
I will never recover from this