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The background for this dream is that C., friend and ex-coworker, never comes to lunch when I have lunch with T., other friend and ex-coworker. It's almost becoming a running joke, where I tell T. that I no longer believe C. ever existed -- he's just a product of my fevered imagination. Or that T. murdered him and is afraid to tell me. Heh. Anyway, yesterday T. and I made plans to meet for lunch today, and I almost said "tell the phantom C. to come along too" but then I didn't. (Someday he *will* show up for lunch and I'll fall over in shock. Heh.)
So, in the dream, my mom and brother and I (along with some other people?) were in an a-capella singing group together and we were about to perform for the very first time. So we were standing backstage waiting to go on, and arguing about how many copies of the set list to take onstage. I was saying that we shouldn't all have copies because that would look dumb, we should just take one copy and all share it. The set lists were printed on little cards of fancy thick paper, like you might print wedding invitations or graduation announcements on -- white paper, with a ribbon of red going around the edges. And because the cards were small and the set list long, each set list took up several cards.
Also, I knew that my friends F. and D. were going to be in the audience, and I had invited the above-mentioned T. and C. but wasn't sure whether they would show.
Anyway, the emcee announced us and we went out onstage. It looked like Sanders Theatre (the place where, in RL, my recent choir concert was performed) and the place was PACKED. Huge audience. So we got onstage and started singing our first song, which was "Do, a deer" from The Sound of Music. And the people in the audience immediately started getting up and leaving in droves. We were standing there singing and watching them clear out, and at first I thought it was just a couple of people leaving, so maybe they had to be somewhere, but then I realized the entire audience was leaving in small clumps. And we didn't know why; we had the sense that it wasn't because we completely sucked (at least, we hoped not) but we couldn't figure it out.
So as we finished our first song and started our second, I looked up at the balcony and saw F. and D. sitting there, not leaving because they were my pals and would stick it out. And directly behind them I saw T., and next to him was C. whom I didn't see right away because he was lying down on the bench (the seats at Sanders are all just wooden benches). He had his head at the aisle end so he could see the stage, and as I looked up there, he sat up a bit so I could see him. And I went, "aw, you're so sweet!" (for coming to the concert) and ran up to the balcony to hug him, not caring that I was abandoning my fellow singers, because by now the place was basically deserted except for us and my friends.
And then they explained that they couldn't hear us singing at all; the microphone wasn't working or wasn't turned on. That was why everyone had left, because they couldn't hear us and were disgusted that we weren't even professional enough to realize that the mike wasn't working.
So, in the dream, my mom and brother and I (along with some other people?) were in an a-capella singing group together and we were about to perform for the very first time. So we were standing backstage waiting to go on, and arguing about how many copies of the set list to take onstage. I was saying that we shouldn't all have copies because that would look dumb, we should just take one copy and all share it. The set lists were printed on little cards of fancy thick paper, like you might print wedding invitations or graduation announcements on -- white paper, with a ribbon of red going around the edges. And because the cards were small and the set list long, each set list took up several cards.
Also, I knew that my friends F. and D. were going to be in the audience, and I had invited the above-mentioned T. and C. but wasn't sure whether they would show.
Anyway, the emcee announced us and we went out onstage. It looked like Sanders Theatre (the place where, in RL, my recent choir concert was performed) and the place was PACKED. Huge audience. So we got onstage and started singing our first song, which was "Do, a deer" from The Sound of Music. And the people in the audience immediately started getting up and leaving in droves. We were standing there singing and watching them clear out, and at first I thought it was just a couple of people leaving, so maybe they had to be somewhere, but then I realized the entire audience was leaving in small clumps. And we didn't know why; we had the sense that it wasn't because we completely sucked (at least, we hoped not) but we couldn't figure it out.
So as we finished our first song and started our second, I looked up at the balcony and saw F. and D. sitting there, not leaving because they were my pals and would stick it out. And directly behind them I saw T., and next to him was C. whom I didn't see right away because he was lying down on the bench (the seats at Sanders are all just wooden benches). He had his head at the aisle end so he could see the stage, and as I looked up there, he sat up a bit so I could see him. And I went, "aw, you're so sweet!" (for coming to the concert) and ran up to the balcony to hug him, not caring that I was abandoning my fellow singers, because by now the place was basically deserted except for us and my friends.
And then they explained that they couldn't hear us singing at all; the microphone wasn't working or wasn't turned on. That was why everyone had left, because they couldn't hear us and were disgusted that we weren't even professional enough to realize that the mike wasn't working.
