The fans here are really intense. The Gaijin (foreigners--so Americans, Australians, and British) are practically celebrities to them. They follow us to the subway platform. They find out our names and facebook friend us. They get the dancers email addresses and try to turn them against their OTHER fans, making up lies about them and claiming that T
HEY, indeed, are the number one fan... They even have a website that posts who was in
what show, usually calling us by name. One of the sites knows my name, but the other one calls me the dark haired girl or something like that.
I take off my make up and let my weave fro out before I go home a
s to not attract too much attention (i wear a short wig in the show). Although it WOULD be nice to get pictures of the show, if someone took some bootleg style, apparently Kasey had an obsessed fan one year who left her husband and kids for him (he, who is gay, btw), after never having said a word to him in person. He had to be driven home in a company car. She'd show up at EVERY show, sometimes so happy, and sometimes BAWLING in the front row... they were CERTAIN she'd just hop on stage one day, in which case the plan was to just EVACUATE the stage mid-show. In the end, she may have taken her own life when she realized it wasn't
going to happen bet
ween them... all he knows is she went from coming every day to all 5 shows, to never again...
While most of the fans are just enthusiastic, it only takes that one crazy
to ruin it, so I'm not adding any of them on facebook. I'm going through a friend purging anyway, I've just got too many acquaintances and people I don't care to be connected to.
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Do check out the Cherry Blossoms, they are just BEAUTIFUL! Plenty more mischief to come... and maybe some sites... you know.
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ENGRISH OF THE DAY!
(I'll throw in a few since I've been absent)
This is the poem for the 3 coins store... it's essentially the $3 store... wow.
"The English Custom of taking afternoon tea was invented by the Duchess of Bedford."
Wow, now THERE'S a fun fact I could have lived without...
And this isn't so much Engrish as it is just awkward. Only in Japan would my serve ware wink at me...
yes!
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