lucky seven plays at muse!

The final 24 Hour Play Festival at Muse - and, most likely, anywhere in Savannah - had its stand tonight.
Going out with a bang, they were! The one line that all had to have was "Thank You, JinHi" and each had to have a secret or mistaken identity as part of the plot.
Folks from as far away as Costa Rica wanted to be part of this!
Seriously!
Kimmi insisted on writing one of the plays!
Hers was titled "I'm Not Crazy, She's Crazy" and had a bunch of kids - literally! - hanging out and munching on the snacks provided by ... you guessed it! JinHi! Into the joint walks a guy they think is one of their former classmates... but he wasn't. Hahahaha haha!
Hers wasn't the only one with kids in it. "Gods Among Us" had a little girl as Athena! Zeus' daughter (Athena) has gone missing, so Aries and Poseidon are sent to find her and bring her back. Hilarity ensues when Poseidon, posing as a man, is labeled as a creep after he follows the little girl into a toy store.
Where did the line come into play?
There was a bartender, named JinHi, and the regular patron thanked her when she brought the drink.
(smile)

My friend Thomas wrote one that actually starred JinHi as a bartender! "The Last Hurrah", it was (though it was only the third play). At first, it seems to only be about a guy (Mack) taking his buddy (Ken) out for drinks on the night before the buddy's wedding. Little do they know that the wedding may not even occur. JinHi is an alien trying to find some redeeming human act which will save Earth from the asteroid hurtling toward it.
Now, here's the real sign that a science fiction fan wrote this: the flower in the vase is an alien, too, and is named... JinHi. So we had the real JinHi as an alien talking to the named JinHi alien flower. Sah-weet!
And the redeeming act from these two fellows? Mack says "Take care of yourself" to the bartender as he is leaving.
(Knowing that the actual JinHi has an incurable cancer in Stage 4 status made that casual line even more tender than it was written to be... though, knowing the Savannah blogger as I do, I am certain Thomas meant it that very way. Good job, kid.)

Speaking of Thomas, he even served as an actor!
"Identically", written and directed by Chris Soucy, was about identical twins... played by a black man and a white woman! In the play, he is forty years old and she is thirty years old; both have the same birthday, but not birthdate. Cute, right?
But it has a nice twist!
You see, the woman has sought him out on his birthday on purpose. She is the reincarnate of his twin brother, who had died at birth and he had not even known existed. The truth is revealed when his mom calls to wish him birthday greetings... what a gift!

Thomas' lovely wife was in the next play.
Danielle plays a damsel in a movable castle tower (played by the podium) in "Unfaithful Squire". The squire in question keeps omitting important facts, preceding her corrections with "about that" - quite funny! The squire serves a knight who wields the mighty sword... "Tryptophan"!
I wish I could remember more of it... but I was too busy laughing!

The penultimate play was penned, directed, and acted by those talented peeps in the Savannah Stage Company. "The Land Where Fairies Dwell" was the tale of a wingless lass, stuck on an assembly line, bagging pixie dust. Alas! Enter an undercover gnome (named JinHi, of course!) posing as another wingless fairy, who is secretly investigating the theft of that very substance.
One of my favorite parts was the Hawaiian-style sugar plum fairy dance - very nice!

"Queen Maggie Part 1" was the finale and it had a nice zing to it! This time, a theater mom seeks professional help dealing with her son. You see, he has been taught, all too well it would seem, to be a very good evil Shakespearean villain by... JinHi! Hahahaha! I love that this even had swordplay in it!

Thanks, y'all, for this wonderful night of entertainment!
Thanks, Barbara and Sandy and Brantley for sharing this event with me!

i thank You, God, for these loving, talented friends!

i am so going to miss muse arts warehouse...
but i am grateful to have been part of this for so many years.