{"id":89226,"date":"2014-09-03T08:20:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T12:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=89226"},"modified":"2014-09-03T10:44:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T14:44:02","slug":"backstage-at-mortified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=89226","title":{"rendered":"Backstage at Mortified"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nCousin Matt backstage, running through one of our songs we would be doing, I think the Coldplay one. “Every part of this song \u2026.” said Matt, searching for the words, “\u2026. goes on for way too long.”<\/i><\/p>\n

\nMy sister is a producer of the “Mortified” shows (now a worldwide phenomenon, with a documentary about it on Netflix). “Mortified” features people getting up and reading excerpts from their high school diaries, or reading their short stories they wrote when they were 10, or love-lorn letters they wrote in high school. (I was way ahead of the curve with my Diary Friday feature<\/a>!) It’s an amazing show (I’ve been a couple of times). It’s cathartic. The person onstage offers their awkward teenage self up for an audience, and the audience literally ROARS in sympathy and recognition. It’s strangely moving. A lot of fun. Makes you feel like, You know what? We’re all dorks out here, trying to do our best. <\/p>\n

My sister, as producer, has put together a band to sing songs in between each reading (songs that reflect or comment on the different readings). The band is called The O’Malley Family Band. Because \u2026 duh \u2026 it’s made up of all O’Malleys. So we all gathered in Brooklyn last night for our Family Band gig. My cousin Ian on drums. My cousin Matt on electric guitar. My cousin Joshua, who commutes down from West Point, on horns. My cousin Liam on guitar. My sister Siobhan on lead vocals and guitar. I joined last night as a back-up singer and tambourine player. To say it was fun doesn’t even cover it. I love my family. And singing with them means we are now the Partridge Family and it couldn’t feel more right. <\/p>\n

But what I wanted to share, for my fellow SPN fans, is the sign on the wall of the “dressing room” backstage. <\/p>\n

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I think you’ll all understand why I had to take a picture. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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