SOLC 9- The Seagull on the rocks, the true "Little Mermaid"

The Seagull on the rocks, the true Little Mermaid

Scuttle ponders over a snarfblatt

The seagulls get ready for their flying entrance cue music, and I wait patiently behind the curtain, waiting for the sound of the music. We circle around the rock one final time before settling down. When we settle down, however, we are supposed to ruff up our feathers and act like were settling down, which actually causes more of a ruckus, which is the opposite of settling down. We settle down until the annoying, extremely,  no inconceivably ubnoxiously (I don't care it's not a word) infuriating tune, the type of tune you can't get out of your head, that starts off the song. We start to nod our heads and begin the choreography. With a starting awwk! Ruth and I start our appraised Gull #3 choreography and solo, as we are the ones that annoyingly go Awwk! repeatedly throughout the song.

When the song is over and we settle back onto our rock, I realize how odd it is that we all go onto a rock, and Ariel doesn't. This is odd because one of the most iconic scenes from the movie is when the water splashes around her as she is posing on a rock. Ariel never does it in our version, although Scuttle and the rest of us all do.

Later in rehearsal, I groan at one of the lines "Yes, as real as a mermaid on the rocks." I've heard all of the puns way to many times, and it should be "Yes, as real as a gull roosting on the rocks." This should be that way because a mermaid is never on the rocks, but only gulls are.

An odd scene in the movie in which someone

took a picture at just the right time of Scuttle.

I finish the rehearsal pondering the question "So who is really on the rocks after all, the gulls or Ariel?"

Oh, and one final thing, the word "scuttle" also happens to mean "a metal container with a sloping hinged lid and a handle, used to fetch and store coal for a domestic fire." I guess it can mean many things, as it can also mean "to run furtively with short quick steps", or even "to sink One's own ship deliberately by letting water in to it." I guess why Scuttle is named will remain a mystery.

Well, I hope you come to the show, and good luck to those of you who are also in it.