It has been a long time since I did a show with a smallish cast and few teenagers and no kids at all. Guess what happens when this kind of show is created? LOTS OF LAUGHTER.
It's helpful when the cast are all talented actors, eager to do a good job, and many of us know each other from other avenues.
Tonight's first run through was choppy, long, boring in places, a little ridiculous, and about as unpolished as you can get. It was also completely hiliarious. So many one-liners, ad libs, pratfalls not in the script. Everyone teases one another. It's hard to stay in character. It's hard for me to want to stay in character. This melding of real life and the stage is too fun!
I still don't have my lines down perfectly. I'm not the only one, but before I went to rehearsal I was perfect. I am bothered that I don't have the lines perfect. I worry they won't want me to be in another show. Worry worry worry about this in every show I'm in.
Tomorrow is run through #2. Monday--tech night. Tues--dress rehearsal. Wed--Opening Night. Can we say we aren't ready? Um yeah. But at this point, I am going to chalk up this play as some of the best laughs I've had. I'm honored to be working with these people, and excited to spend the next week with them.
Keep playing!
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