Post by tjaman on Nov 20, 2005 23:39:05 GMT -5
So hey guys, whazzup?
The show went really, really well. We had something like 180 people altogether, which is a good run for us. The tech/dress rehearsals leading up to the show gave us no real indication as to how well the show was going to go. Opening night was our best opening night ever. No one figured out whodunit, and the audience was suspecting all of us at any given point. And my hair stayed gray, and I looked really old, and it was just a great run.
Friday was our best show ever. The audience was drunk and they were enjoying the bejabbers out of it, and we were on fire. We had an unqualified standing ovation and people just loved the curtain call. I had the murderer come out in police custody, and then one wife slapped him, and then the other, and then the maid, and then the victim came out and hit him with her cane. People were laughing their butts off, even at the end of just an explosively dramatic ending and the cheesiest kiss. It was just ... fun.
And then on Saturday when we lost the actor at the end, it was still a good ending. One of our actors, the cop, collapsed during the second to the last scene -- he struggled to maintain consciousness til the scene was over, even though he couldn't see -- what a trooper. Our stage manager stepped on with a script and finished out the show while my actor was taken to the hospital. He wouldn't go in, and was just fine afterwards. We got a standing ovation from our executive director's table, although I really wish he'd seen one of our other ones. Even so, he saw an outstanding performance by the rest of us -- we had the lightning working and our thunder rolling during the storm scene, and everyone else did a fine job.
And then today ... wow. Even tho I was extraordinarily drunk last night, I had no hangover, and we were all on top of our game today. This despite the fact that my assistant director forgot to place the sherry bottle on stage, and one of my actresses left the stage to go looking for it, leaving one of my actors on stage to ... what, exactly? I sent her back on and they kept going. We brought it on later -- it was fine. And one of my other actresses left her cell phone on and it rang at the beginning of the show, but apart from these very minor stumbles at the beginning, the rest of it went very well indeed.
Sorry I've been so incredibly absent lately.
Hope everything's been going ... well.
The show went really, really well. We had something like 180 people altogether, which is a good run for us. The tech/dress rehearsals leading up to the show gave us no real indication as to how well the show was going to go. Opening night was our best opening night ever. No one figured out whodunit, and the audience was suspecting all of us at any given point. And my hair stayed gray, and I looked really old, and it was just a great run.
Friday was our best show ever. The audience was drunk and they were enjoying the bejabbers out of it, and we were on fire. We had an unqualified standing ovation and people just loved the curtain call. I had the murderer come out in police custody, and then one wife slapped him, and then the other, and then the maid, and then the victim came out and hit him with her cane. People were laughing their butts off, even at the end of just an explosively dramatic ending and the cheesiest kiss. It was just ... fun.
And then on Saturday when we lost the actor at the end, it was still a good ending. One of our actors, the cop, collapsed during the second to the last scene -- he struggled to maintain consciousness til the scene was over, even though he couldn't see -- what a trooper. Our stage manager stepped on with a script and finished out the show while my actor was taken to the hospital. He wouldn't go in, and was just fine afterwards. We got a standing ovation from our executive director's table, although I really wish he'd seen one of our other ones. Even so, he saw an outstanding performance by the rest of us -- we had the lightning working and our thunder rolling during the storm scene, and everyone else did a fine job.
And then today ... wow. Even tho I was extraordinarily drunk last night, I had no hangover, and we were all on top of our game today. This despite the fact that my assistant director forgot to place the sherry bottle on stage, and one of my actresses left the stage to go looking for it, leaving one of my actors on stage to ... what, exactly? I sent her back on and they kept going. We brought it on later -- it was fine. And one of my other actresses left her cell phone on and it rang at the beginning of the show, but apart from these very minor stumbles at the beginning, the rest of it went very well indeed.
Sorry I've been so incredibly absent lately.
Hope everything's been going ... well.