Wednesday, February 08, 2006
And no shoeboxes; you're getting those drawers
Wow, I totally meant to post way sooner than this, but blogger was down, and then I just didn't get around to it.
Ummm... yeah. It's been a good few days. Weekend was good--I actually got to see two shows, which was so nice, especially since I occasionally feel like I've been squandering all this amazing theatre that I have access to!
So. Saturday night, a bunch of girls from church went to see "Safety," and then on Sunday, I went with Kim and Polly to see "Dog Sees God." Both were really well-done, but complete polar opposites in terms of style and such... still, good theatre.
I was supposed to shadow the company manager for DSG, but that actually ended up not working out, because Daniel, the regular company manager, wasn't there, and Chris wasn't comfortable enough to have me shadow, especially since things got really er itcrazy. Okay, let's see how it all worked. The play has 4 guys and 4 girls, and they have one guy understudy and one girl understudy. One of the main cast members finished his run about a week ago, so the male understudy was already filling in for him, but another one of the guys had to fly to LA to shoot a pilot, so they needed to find another actor over the weekend for those few performances.
The male understudy was playing "Matt," a slightly smaller role, but the guy shooting the pilot was playing "CB," the main role. So, instead of putting a fill-in into the lead, they bumped the understudy from Matt to CB, and put the new guy in Matt. Which means that on Sunday night, two of the roles were being played by actors who were playing them for the first time.
Which all just serves to prove that if the audience doens't know the script, they'll never know the difference. In any case, it meant that things were a little bit crazy backstage, but not shadowing actually wasn't a bad thing. This way, I was able to just watch the show, and then when I do shadow, I'll be able to ask questions and pick Daniel's brain after the show starts, rather than rushing in to get my seat.
Good show--there were some really good lines--the whole thing is a Charlie Brown parody, but it's completely unauthorized, so there was some pretty funny dancing around the copyrights, starting with the characters' names. CB, CB's Sister (Sally), Van (Linus), Van's Sister (Lucy), Tricia (Peppermint Patty), Marcy (Marcie), Matt (Pigpen), and Beethoven (Schroeder). The content was, to say the least, a definite departure from the usual Charlie Brown stuff--it was kind of a take-off on the whole teen-movie genre, to an extent, so there were the popular kids, the parties, the relationship triangles, the whole deal.
And one of the funniest scenes was a party scene... the beginning of the scene was a monologue, and the rest of the cast was in the background, doing tableau-esque scenes... a few kids drinking, a couple making out, etc, etc... in a dim, blue light while (I think it was) CB delivered his monologue. When the scene actually started, the party lights came up in full, and all the characters faced the audience head-on and started doing the Charlie Brown dance. I laughed so hard.
Anyways... that was that show. It was definitely worth the $0 I paid for my tickets... ;o)
Other than that, it's been a pretty standard week. Lourenzo spent the night at a friend's house last night, but when I talked to Alexandra, I thought she said he was staying tonight, so this morning, I got up to get him up for school before realizing that he wasn't actually there. By that point, I was already awake, though, so I watched last night's episode of Gilmore Girls before actually going back to bed for another 2 hours. And now, the review of that episode (if you happen to care) is up at All Things Gilmore.
3 Comments:
ALida did you see Eliza!?!?!?!
Yes. Well, onstage. I didn't get to meet her, because of the mixup with the whole shadowing thing. She was good--smallest role in the show, but I liked her main scene.
I'll try calling on Sunday; I'm working today (well sleeping too)!
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