Excepted for Latenight Theater

I thought to myself, well I guess we could go over it a few more times, just to make sure we have it right. In truth, at this point I just wanted to hand it over to the theater and never look at it again! It was time to let our creation go!
The night of the presentation I was extremely nervous, as I was the only one who was willing to present, The Hat,” a musical performance never before seen on stage, and never being on stage before in my life, (except as a penguin in 2nd grade) I was a wreck! We had background music that I had to read along to, hitting certain words at just the right moment. As I approached the members of the board directly in front of the stage, the music started and I began reading, swaying from one foot to the other, shaking and tripping up on my words, I finally reached the end and took my seat as fast as I possibly could! “You did good,” my partner Rob reassured me as he took my hand and squeezed it. I had my doubts, had I messed up our only moment? All these years of hard work, why didn’t I think to hire an actor to present this play! Even though I was frazzled, we left with high hopes of being given the opportunity for our play to be performed.
Now the waiting had begun. We were told that the board would not be making their decision until the end of March! So for two months we waited, and disagreed whether we needed a director or not. I thought we could do this, who else will take this play and run with it? Who else would believe in it as we did? Janet on the other hand was completely done with it! She was under the impression, that if the theater accepted our play they would provide the production company and we would be in charge of advertising, and props. She told me, “If it is excepted, you’re going to have to back away and let the director take over!” For the last week we avoided each other a bit, as we would get into heated discussions almost every time we brought up the topic, and we couldn’t find much else to talk about!
On the day I received the e-mail from The Player’s Ring, Janet just happened to be visiting. I opened the message and began reading it out loud, “We are pleased to inform you that your musical, “The Hat,” has been excepted in next seasons ”Late Night,” performance schedule! Woohoo! We jumped around the studio like a couple of kids who consumed way too much sugar. Once we calmed down, we tried to figure out what to do next? “Well we have to go to the Members Only, reception and present it once again to the media and members. Then we go to the Rehearsal Weekend, and pick the actors we want for the performance!” That sounded simple enough beamed Janet. I on the other hand, thought, this all sounds way too simple to me, I had this notion that we were in for much more than we had anticipated! I found out later, that this notion was quite an understatement!