No Man Can Serve Two Jedis

So for the past month or so we have been (trying) to attend 8am play practices at our church for our "ward play". Our Stake decided to have a "Dramaticus" event--ie Road-Show type plays. The result...Nine LDS love stories loosely based in different movie universes/genres. For example, our assigned theme was Star Wars, another ward had a western theme, yet another ward was assigned to make a Mormon love story in the Harry Potter reality. There were aliens, cowboys, Shakespearean actors (complete with AWESOME costumes...think professional costumer help!), BYU students, princesses and wookies (OK, just wookie sound effects). It was really fun...especially since we got to have light sabers! Mimi and Buddy were in heaven.



They were on opposite sides of the conflict and were able to battle each other, as well as anyone else unlucky enough to get in their way! For me it was fun to get back into "theater", even in such a small way!


The conflict: Evil U of Y (University of Yootah) students (in red of course) invade a BKU (Ben Kenobi University) shuttle bus piloted by the drifter Han Solo. On board we find the young (recently graduated from high school) Princess Leia, on her way to BKU with five stuffed suit cases. Han, who has been sitting the fence, dealing scriptures to the U of Y and caffeinated beverages to BKU, needs to choose a side, which he does in dramatic fashion, saving the Princess from certain destruction (she is being kidnapped by a most heinous Y student...me, bwaahaahaa--that's my evil laugh) by chopping off said evil-doer's arm with a blue light saber! Cue cheesy final number to the tune of Families Can be Together Forever. And then a final dance number to We're All in this Together from Disney's High School Musical.



Add in a few eggs (blown) a big fight scene including a thrown pie and you have the recipe for success, or at least Dramaticus success...we won Best Overall! WOOHOO!