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The LatestUpdatedThursday, September 18, 2003I went to a small private school for three years when I was in junior high, and you could always tell when lunch was good. Normally, the lunch room was a cacophony of boys and girls in various stages of heat, but on afternoons when they served something we actually liked, the place would get quiet enough to murmur conversation and be heard at the next table. I hope my silence here of late is something like that. When you are acting in and producing a play of this magnitude, sometimes you just have to work from waking to sleeping and you can't really document the whole thing. Here's what I haven't done. I haven't written in this blog and I haven't tried to get this blog listed in any kind of permanent way on the myriad sites of friends that get tons of hits. I haven't called any of the papers or any of the media outlets to get reviews. Our show was not listed in TimeOut, despite our submission, and, I mean, what can you do about that? They list what they want. On the other hand, our opening weekend looks like it might be selling out. We have a total of about 270 seats to fill, we just might fill 80 or 90 the first weekend. So, I guess publicity isn't as important as just keeping on keeping on. Here's what I have done. I have written and recorded the tracks for the theme song, and I have found all of the sound cues we need. I have all of the cues on one CD so hopefully the S.M. can just keep hitting play and pause. I also built three platforms that will it easier on the crowds of eager audience members.  This has ruined our living room... I've built whole sets before, and God knows I have done tons of recording, but when I design a set and then build it, or write a tune and then record it, I am always amazed that it worked. If there isn't someone else there who can let me know if I have done it right, I always think that I can't possibly make something the way I want it, but this time everything has worked out the way we want it to. We had a full run-through yesterday for the first time. It was pretty obvious that we have lost a lot of the fun we used to have doing the show. We are now trying to decided what the best kind of pratfalls will work, where the accents are too strong, where the cross-dressing comes off as desperate. Tonight, I am going to try to remember how much fun it was when we first sat down and read this script. It's a hard thing to remember, and generally when actors are laughing at their own comedy it's pretty insufferable. But hopefully we will get the tone right, and we have tonight to work on it. Posted at 11:48 AM by sean williams Archives08/24/2003 - 08/30/200308/31/2003 - 09/06/2003 09/07/2003 - 09/13/2003 09/14/2003 - 09/20/2003 |
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