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bluecastleBetween rehearsals for the summer thing, and rehearsals for the radio show, I've been pretty swamped the last couple of days. The show is coming along. The pace is still rather glacial in a lot more of the show than it should be, but I am hoping that as everyone gets their lines cemented that it will pick up some. We were super silly last night, but on the whole that's a good thing. Ups the cohesiveness of the cast, and you've got to be able to get onstage and just commit to being silly in something like this. The least experienced of the three sisters is kind of wishy-washy on stage (it's sort of endearing in an a 'she wants to be good at this, but doesn't really know how to' kind of way) and I keep trying to convince her to just cut loose and go big. The poor thing was so thrown for a loop when one of the other actresses wanted to know if she was playing her character as a retarded person. OMG who says that?!
Anyway.
Good stuff is going on, and it's only going to get better when we start to add lights and sound and costumes.
Thankfully we have tonight off. [I of course, have another radio show, but this is the last one for now.] Then we start to tech with a Q2Q tomorrow night, followed by (hopefully) a full run afterwords. Have heard rumors of costumes appearing tomorrow as well. Did I tell you costumer had me try on a sparkly fuchsia pink jacket declaring "this is your color for the show." It's a great color for my character, despite rather hating that costuming convention where you assign each character a color. It can work well in broadly played stuff like farces and musical theater, but I still think it's rather a hokey thing.
Posters went out yesterday, the sign out by the road got changed over... by golly, we might just have a show on our hands.
On the gossipy end of things, the guy playing Virgil the Waiter brought us all pizza last night unexpectedly. He's also working on a little backstage romance with the lady playing Mrs. McThing. They sit in the back at the far end of the makeup mirrors and talk during the show (his is a small part, and hers even smaller) and then they'll stand out in the parking lot in the dark evenings by their cars and talk some more. The BFF tells me "Virgil" is going through a messy divorce, so who knows what will come of it...but more than one romance has blossomed in this little summer theater in a Barn.
Which is all the more amusing, given the gay-or-at-least-not-completely-straight quotient of the male members of this cast. :D
So I'm enjoying my day off ... and the enormous amounts of fake hair clipped to my head today. I switched over the the fake ponytail for the 60s show tonight, and have crammed my crinoline in my little yellow travel case ... so imagine me in green chiffon, crinolines, and a ponytail performing at the senior residence tonight. Several exciting science fiction tales are on the board ... The one where the long range mission to the planet Glade is put in jeopardy the first night after planetfall when the crew wakes up unexpectedly!naked would make a terrific Torchwood episode, if tweaked!!
So in the words of my alter-ego Deena ...
"Suppose you met a man in a tavern and he told you quite seriously that he wasn't a man at all..."
Anyway.
Good stuff is going on, and it's only going to get better when we start to add lights and sound and costumes.
Thankfully we have tonight off. [I of course, have another radio show, but this is the last one for now.] Then we start to tech with a Q2Q tomorrow night, followed by (hopefully) a full run afterwords. Have heard rumors of costumes appearing tomorrow as well. Did I tell you costumer had me try on a sparkly fuchsia pink jacket declaring "this is your color for the show." It's a great color for my character, despite rather hating that costuming convention where you assign each character a color. It can work well in broadly played stuff like farces and musical theater, but I still think it's rather a hokey thing.
Posters went out yesterday, the sign out by the road got changed over... by golly, we might just have a show on our hands.
On the gossipy end of things, the guy playing Virgil the Waiter brought us all pizza last night unexpectedly. He's also working on a little backstage romance with the lady playing Mrs. McThing. They sit in the back at the far end of the makeup mirrors and talk during the show (his is a small part, and hers even smaller) and then they'll stand out in the parking lot in the dark evenings by their cars and talk some more. The BFF tells me "Virgil" is going through a messy divorce, so who knows what will come of it...but more than one romance has blossomed in this little summer theater in a Barn.
Which is all the more amusing, given the gay-or-at-least-not-completely-straight quotient of the male members of this cast. :D
So I'm enjoying my day off ... and the enormous amounts of fake hair clipped to my head today. I switched over the the fake ponytail for the 60s show tonight, and have crammed my crinoline in my little yellow travel case ... so imagine me in green chiffon, crinolines, and a ponytail performing at the senior residence tonight. Several exciting science fiction tales are on the board ... The one where the long range mission to the planet Glade is put in jeopardy the first night after planetfall when the crew wakes up unexpectedly!naked would make a terrific Torchwood episode, if tweaked!!
So in the words of my alter-ego Deena ...
"Suppose you met a man in a tavern and he told you quite seriously that he wasn't a man at all..."
