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Whew! It's been a week since I was a rehearsal, thanks to the fact that I was packing my apartment up to move to a new one. I don't know why I wind up scheduling these things like thise. It makes me feel like I don't have time to breathe. But for the show, I think it was a good think. For seven days straight I didn't think about the show once. Well, maybe once, but there wasn't anything I could do about it because I was up to my eyeballs in packing tape and cardboard.
But boy, what a difference a week makes. Where as I was a crank-ass last week, this week I just want to give the world a big ol' hug. Starting with The Cast of this show. They rock. There was a full run-through on Tuesday night. I came prepared to take pictures, but wound up just sitting and watching almost the entire time. The second act has really come together nicely and by the time they got to the end I could have cried. But that seemed like it would be maybe just a touch too dramatic at this stage of the game. I'll wait until we're in the space, with lights and costumes before I start blubbering like a little kid with a skinned knee.
The Costume Designer showed up Wednesday night with treats for everyone. Some were more excited than others to see what came out of the garment bag, but I think everyone's going to look pretty f-ing good, if I do say so myself.
I'm headed out of town again this weekend, so I'll probably miss a couple more rehearsals. I can't wait to see how good they are when I get back. No pressure guys.
There are more pictures over under "Photos", duh. We tried to take a few with Nathan and the ladies. Trying to make them look semi-candid, as if he was at a party or something. I'm not sure what sort of party he's at with Terra, but I want to go next time.
All right. Bear with me here. I'm new to this sort of thing.
This is going to be the place where I keep people up to date about the going's on of a play that I wrote called "The Past's Present". A play I've been working on, more or less, for the last four years. Well, it's finally getting produced by the wonderful folks at Speaking Ring Theatre Co. (full disclosure: of which I am a company member www.speakingringtheatre.org)
Here's a current tagline for the postcard: "What happens when your current girlfriend, 9 ex-girlfriends, "the one that got away", and your alter-ego hijack your fantasy world? Nathan is about to find out. And all the John Hughes movies in the world could not have prepared him for this."
Intriguing, no?
Hopefully, the hard part is finished. The writing. The re-writing. The re-re-re-writing. The staged readings. The casting. All that remains is rehearsal and, God willing, sold-out performance after sold-out performance. But since she's a new play and no actor has yet to climb into her skin and walk around, there might be some tinkering here and there that needs done. Plus, there will be fund-raising and marketing and envelope stuffing, all in the name of putting butts in seats and trying to earn back much of the money that will go into producing this.
Producing theater is not for the faint of heart. It's frustrating, stress-inducing work. If you're out there thinking of all the money you're going to make as an actor or director or playwright, buckle down and get your law degree. Because there ain't buckets full of cash to be had in the creation of live theater in America. Well, there are buckets full of cash for some people in live theater, but those people have been toiling away for years and years and years and could probably tell you plenty of stories about eating nothing but stale dinner rolls they swiped from whatever diner they were bussing at the time. For the vast majority of artists in the theater world, there is no other payment than the satisfaction that comes with creating something new and sharing it with others. While a pat on the back from your peers feels good, it don't put potatoes in the pot. But I digress...
This humble, little journal will, perhaps, also give you a little insight into how a play goes from lying on the page to living on the stage. Of course, if I'm as disciplined with keeping this updated as I was writing Past's Present this might be the only entry. Only time will tell. But for the moment the future is full of possibilities.
And with that, I leave you with the words of Honest Abe Lincoln; "The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time."
