Alice in Wonderland

Last thursday night, I was taken down the rabbit hole via the SMS Drama Department. My day started as a usual thursday, which includes work and class. Then I rushed home to start doing my brother's makeup. He is the all important (well in my eyes) Mad Hatter. We opted to do the Johnny Depp inspired look. Prior to that thursday night, which was the dress rehearsal, I had been doing hours of research to make sure I had all my bunnies in a row. I chatted with MAC artists, went to a dozen YouTube videos, and went through trial and error about five times. I even went as far as doing a face chart for the look. As you may know or not know, special effects makeup/stage makeup takes hours! My brother pretty much sat in our makeshift makeup chair for close to two hours. While the rest of his cast members show up at a 5 p.m. call time which includes doing makeup, my brother and I start doing makeup around 2 p.m. so we have plenty enough time to finish up and allow some time in case I mess up. Sadly friday nights I don't get the chance to do my brother's makeup because I'm at work, but my assistant does it for me.
For the sake of my brother's method acting, we collectively decided not to watch the movie until the closing night of his show. He wanted to ensure that he stayed true to himself and his own interpretation of the Mad Hatter. But I was so proud of him and how long he has come since his first production two years ago.
Come friday night, the opening night of the musical, my parents and I got our flowers, yelling voices ready and skipped over to Wonderland. The fun part was, we had told my brother that we were not coming, but we wanted to share with him the experience of the last opening night of his middle school career. He was pretty excited and surprised to see him and while he went out with cast mates for an after party at applebee's, we sat in the living room remembering about how much he has grown as a person and especially as an actor.
A little preview at the pictures. Being a photographer is super hard. I just have changed lenses five or six times, tripod or not to tripod, it was so confusing.