An opening to remember

We had press night on Saturday night and the show went well considering it was only the third time we had ran the show. Its kind of a rush to know that the third time you have run a show there will be a 100 people watching and about 18 of them critics. But it went off okay. Only a couple tech screw ups, cues called too soon, and two line screw ups where an actor dropped a line or didn't come in right away. Nothing like having a stage full of actors on stage with a long stretch of silence as everyone thinks "fuck whose line it", but it all turned out well. There was a nice party afterwards and then I came home slept like the dead until 11:00 in the morning.

One strange thing during the show was when I was up on a spinning scaffold that is suppose to represent a whirl pool at sea. Now as someone who hates heights and really doesn't like scaffolds I am not too keen on this in the first place but when the scaffold spinning is out of control and I see light instruments coming very close to my head I am ever more frightened of doing this. But I am sure the guys spinning me we get it right. Either that or I am going to take a light instrument in the skull.

Well that was fucking fun.

I had a first preview of a show I am currently in, and no I am not going to say what it is, and at one point I was on stage and had no idea what was next. Being only the first time we had run the whole show it was hard to keep track of exactly where you are in the play. Yes the first time we run the whole two hour show and it was in front of a paying audience. The director is a disorganized undisciplined passive aggressive control freak. Go figure. But back to the story. I am on stage and had no idea what was coming up next so I did the smart thing. I asked another actor what was next. He just smiled and whispered what was coming up and all was fine.

Oh by the way a little advice to stage managers: don't tell an actor at intermission what line he dropped in the first act. Okay? Especially when he still has another act to do. It kind of fucks with his confidence.

Hairless Chimps on stage.

Isn't that what we are? A bunch oh Hairless chinps? So what if we can speak , walk upright and have opposable thumbs. For some reason people in theater think they are better then others, more intelligent and with more taste. I am here to tell you that is all bullshit. Just because someone can memorize lines, remember where to walk on stage and be able to pretend they are someone else doesn't make them more intelligent. All it makes them is an actor. And some of them are not even very good at that.