Usually after a show closes, I get sick. All the stress and adrenaline that have been keeping me running for however many months of rehearsal + tech + performance take a vacation and leave my body defenseless. And my body says, “Girlfriend, you need a nap. I’m gonna zap you with a cold so you stay in bed and take long hot soaks in the tub.” Zing! Since Hedda Gabler opened last Thursday, my brain has gone numb. I had so many blog posts churning in my head when I didn’t have time to write them. Now that I have time to write them, they’ve vanished. I have them captured on my little “Future Blog Posts” list, but the creative energy required in order to bring those ideas coherently to fruition just wants to be left alone to play sudoku and read escapist fiction
We’ve been rehearsing since the last week in February. We are currently immersed in the tech/dress process and the play opens tomorrow night. I’m exhausted. The actors, the stage manager, tech director, props mistress and costumer are all ready to set this play free and let it be what it will be. I am curious to see how audiences will react. I’ve grown too close, too myopic, too familiar to be objective at this point. The actors are ready for an audience. Will the audiences laugh? Certainly there is some fun to be had. Deep breath. I am feeling a bit worn out, strung out and very emotional. I’m low on self-care and high (as in flying) on Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Opening night is just slightly more than 24 hours away
Rehearsals have started in earnest for George F. Walker’s Adult Entertainment at Theatre NXS. Last night was the first rehearsal with the entire cast and tonight will be our first run-thru. The first run-thru is also lovingly known as a stumble-thru. There’s no telling what will or won’t happen tonight. But I forgot a little piece of news. While I was in Texas, I got a call from the director, LR Hults, asking me to play a different role. I was playing Pam – a newly single mother who is still tangled up with her ex-husband, Donny, who is a drunken loser of a cop. Now I’m playing Jayne – a public defender whose given up on herself and her clients
In this post I am going to encourage you to make a mess of things, make messy things and write bad poems. Here we go: I am in rehearsal for a show called Picasso at the Lapin Agile – written by Steve Martin. We open the show six days from today. We’ve reached that point in the rehearsal schedule where we do run-throughs every night. A run-through means you start at the beginning and go to the end. It’s basically a performance minus the audience. It’s repetition. Last night all the peices finally came together and we took flight for the first time. That’s the beauty of repetition – it eventually sets you free
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