"How can I get gentle in a hurry?"

Yes. Theater has eaten my life. Its good at that. So as I sit here and fret about tonight's opening ... let me do a quick recap of the last couple of days.

Saturday's Q2Q (or in otherwords ... our Cue to Cue) was the most relaxed rehearsal for me, as my character is almost never onstage when there are any light or sound cues. So for the better part of three and a half hours I just sat and watched the mechanics of theater. We were supposed to run through from cue to cue, and then run the show. But it took until 10 pm to get through the script once (hello LD who has never worked in the space...). So after a mostly relaxing night the cast/crew went off to a nearby dining/drinking establishment and spent the next three hours whooping it up. Far ranging discussions including slash fiction, gender identity, and the perils of honeymoon cruises!

Was somewhat shocked/surprised to find out that the woman playing one of my sisters in the show is a rampant slash reader. Who loves her some Data prOn. Huh. Wow. Okay. Fellow broad-minded, sometime cross-dressing cast member HORRIFIED by the idea of taking characters who do not have a sexual relationship in the canon work and giving them sexy tiems. He seems freaked out by the concept. Just made me realize how far I've come since I started poking around ff.net some years ago looking for fan fic. LOLs.

We had drinks ... we had laughs ... and it was a very nice night all around.

And then came DRESS REHEARSAL. (cue ominous music)

( more theatricalness... )