Rehearsal

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Rehearsal
Chapter59 of 129 (list of chapters)
PublishedNovember 15, 2010 (2010-11-15)
Page count4
Major charactersLucy, Sue, Lily, Yashy
Minor charactersMike, Jessica, Chirpy, Jordan
LocationsRoseville High School, Lucy’s house
Collected inVolume Three, Omnibus 1
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The comic bursts into full color just as Lucy digs in her heels over the one thing Sue’s play demands of her: singing in front of people. Her solution involves an empty bedroom, a pink princess dress, and absolutely no witnesses. Well, almost none.

Synopsis

At the start of Volume Three, rehearsal is under way on the stage at Roseville High School, where Lucy wants no part of rehearsing the singing in Sue’s play. “If I knew there’d be singing involved,” she tells Sue, “I woulda ditched yer ass immediately.” Sue turns on the charm, sparkles and all, and Lucy agrees to stay, so long as she can practice the singing parts at home. Mike warns her that she’ll have to sing to a live audience eventually, and Lucy storms off with a parting shot about his crappy acting.[1]

Back at Lucy’s house, her pets prove no more sympathetic. Lily asks why she doesn’t just rehearse with everybody else, but Lucy insists she’d rather sing to her pets. Lily and Yashy then dig out a pink, full-skirted dress for her, so she can at least look the part. “We’re not makin’ it any easier for ya, coward!!” crows Yashy.[2] A mortified Lucy puts it on and launches into a proper princess number, singing and twirling around the bedroom with Chirpy perched in her outstretched hand. Then her brother Jordan opens the door to call her down for dinner. He freezes, stares, and very slowly backs out of the room.[3]

At the next session, Lucy climbs onto the stage and announces she’s ready to sing. Mike has to turn around first, though, since she won’t sing with him looking at her. Then she sings, leaving everyone at the director’s table blushing and stunned. Back in Lucy’s bedroom, meanwhile, Yashy stands holding an empty dinosaur costume. “But I wanted to see her destroy the city!!”[4]

Character dynamics

Lucy sings with her eyes closed as a winding trail of sparkling pink light and musical notes rises from her, while Jessica, Sue and the dog at the director's table blush.
One home rehearsal later, the director’s table is left speechless.
  • Lucy and Sue: Sue can talk Lucy into things nobody else can. When Mike makes a perfectly reasonable case for rehearsing with the group, Lucy insults his acting. Sue gets her to stay by batting her eyes, throwing in some sparkles and asking, “Just for me?”[1] The arrangement started with Sue hurling an unwilling Lucy onto the stage in Casting Call,[5] and Lucy, for all her grumbling, holds up her end.[4]

Trivia & observations

  • “Rehearsal” opens Volume Three and is the first Bittersweet Candy Bowl chapter drawn in full color. Veronica’s commentary calls it “a bit of a test run to see if I could make the switch to drawing fully in colour”, one that “worked out okay”.[1]
  • The colors on the current pages aren’t the 2010 originals. Per Oliver’s commentary, the whole of Volume Three was recolored for the print edition, since the original RGB-based colors “become murky and unpleasant when printed”, and Veronica “really disliked her old colouring” besides.[1][2]
  • Veronica’s commentary under the final page admits the chapter “was just meant to be a comic saying YES GUYS I REMEMBER I HAVE A PLAY PLOT POINT GOING ON IN THE BACKGROUND BEHIND ALL THIS DRAMA”.[4]
  • “Elle” is Sue’s nickname for Lucy, and nobody else uses it. She’s been saying it since Mischief Night and doesn’t stop for the rest of the series.[6][1][7]
  • Sue knows exactly what she’s asking for when she demands Lucy “grace us with that beautiful voice”. The whole school heard that voice at the pep rally in A Different Side, and Lucy was every bit as embarrassed about it then.[1][8]
  • Singing for her pets is nothing new. Back in Feline Festivities, Lucy serenaded Yashy and Chirpy in Spanish when she thought nobody else was listening.[2][9]
  • Whatever she says at rehearsal, Lucy keeps a small picture of Mike on her bedroom wall, next to a grayscale rock-band poster.[3]
  • Jessica blushes at Lucy in both auditorium scenes, and she’s at it again during the next rehearsal in Carry Me.[1][4][10]

Related chapters

  • Casting Call: Sue writes the play and assembles her cast. For the lead opposite Mike, she drags a furious Lucy in from outside the detention room and hurls her onto the stage.[5] Her reasoning was simple: “The girl can sing.”[11]
  • Curtain Call: The play finally goes up in front of a live audience. Lucy sings on stage in a blue dress with her eyes closed, and this time it’s Mike who can’t take his eyes off her.[12]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Chapter 59: Rehearsal, page 1
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Chapter 59: Rehearsal, page 2
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter 59: Rehearsal, page 3
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Chapter 59: Rehearsal, page 4
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 53: Casting Call, page 9
  6. ↑ Chapter 57: Mischief Night, page 9
  7. ↑ Chapter 127: Line in the Sand, page 44
  8. ↑ Chapter 37: A Different Side, page 9
  9. ↑ Chapter 28: Feline Festivities, page 15
  10. ↑ Chapter 64: Carry Me, page 25
  11. ↑ Chapter 53: Casting Call, page 10
  12. ↑ Chapter 74: Curtain Call, page 26
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