I know...this is a really stupid worry...but it is gnawing on me...and yeah I know there are people out there with so many more problems than I , but I tried to talk to my friends about this and their answers just don't seem right!
Ok, here is the scoop...
Firstly I am in a musical production of Damn Yankees. The director is a really really strict lady, nice at times, but strict. Somes she can get a bit b*tchy, but I know it is for our own good, almost like tough love, you know? But any way, she scheduled a All Cast Dance rehearsal for September the 20th from 9 am-2pm...
Second of all, my friends are in a punk band who are performing at a really cool club in Milwaukee...this is a once in a high school life time opportunity to see my friends play there...but it is on September the 20th at 12 pm in the afternoon....
So, bascially I really want to go to see my friends compete in this Battle of the Bands contest in Milwaukee, but I know my duties lie in going to the All Cast dance rehearsal...
My good friend is the drummer of the band, he got a bit vexed at me for "not wanting to go" see them play in Milwaukee...but the thing is, I do want to go, but I am afraid that the director will cut me out of the musical if I skip the rehearsal...or worse keep me in the play, but make my life miserable for the remainder of the year (she holds grudges like no other)...my friends tell me to lie and tell the director that my grandma died or some bs like that, but I really feel that lying will only make the situation worse if she should ever find out where I really went, you know???
The worst of the situation is that the scheuled date says "All Cast Dance rehearsal" when really my character has no dances at all, so I would probably just sitting there for the whole time, unless they made some dance up that isn't in the script...so I would be sitting in the auditorium doing nothing while I could be in Milwaukee jamming along to awesome music! Arrgghhh....
One kid in the musical with me says I should just ask the director for a reprieve for the rehearsal, because I do admit , I am one of the directors "favorites", yet I am really scared of what she'll say. I mean the things she said to my friend AJ, when he went out for the football team and the musical were horrible (she claimed that in his action for not making the musical his number 1 priority would make the whole cast hate him; which did not happen)...I mean that was doing two school related activities...what would she say to me, wanting to skip a school related activity for a rock concert...I feel so horrible for letting down my friends because I won't be there to cheer them on, yet I feel not right about skipping out on rehearsal...
What is a kiddo to do??????
Yeah, I know that wasn't a huge problem, but it was still bothering me...when my two cliques of friends are either going to the concert or in the musical so they either say "You'd better choose to see us in concert" or "You'd better choose to go to rehearsal" respectivly, and I would really value an out sider's opinion...