Drama or No Drama? That is the question.

years ago, i did a play at university theater called "the women". it was a large cast of all women (adult women), and my friend laura bassett and i were in it, and talked about how much drama we would probably witness during the course of the show...alas, there was none! we really and truly thought there would be hair pulling, or at least some decent cat fights. we decided we would have NONE OF THIS!! we were anticipating drama, and drama we would have!! so we started our own. every thursday during the show, we hated one another. we would send each other hate mail, burn the other's good reviews, write lines from Macbeth on the other's dressing room mirror...the works. this was all in good fun, and we enjoyed it so it carried on to every other show we did together. what made me think of that memory, is the lack of drama so far here in boston. i'm sure there will be plenty on the road, but so far, my blog of juicy juicy gossip BLOWS. i have nothing but smiley, fun frivolity to report on thusfar. i am sorry.

MY NEW PLAN OF ATTACK

i will still tell the truth, but i want to start infusing my own version of the facts (or just resort to blatant lies). in any case, it should make for better stories...at least until the REAL drama creeps in. and yes, tim, i realize my world has shrunk to an alarmingly small size, but that's why i gots't a blog! so you can keep me in check. :) although, the idea of my castmates vs. the university theater kids would be interesting...LB, your next assignment is to organize THAT event. i'm thinking a knife fight in a back alley somewhere, like in west side story!







once upon a time, at rehearsal today...

for the sake of scot's tendons in his legs, we didn't work on "the celebrated jumping frog of calaveris county" (he plays a very active bouncy frog). for the most part, we worked on "the monkey's paw". this requires a lot of melodramatic emoting, but no running bouncing flipping hollering...we were thankful. we often break character during this play, with it being so tragically depressing and unfunny, we add in bits here and there, and joke about the powers of the paw...but today, an unfamiliar presence was in the room. and every time someone handled the prop paw, tragedy struck!


i was the first of it's victims. after holding it in my hand, and wishing aloud, i felt the paw twist. the next thing i knew, the walls were dripping with blood. (which was weird, because i had wished for an ice cream sundae).

immediately i dropped the paw. in a flash, the room returned to it's normal state. we continued to run the same play over and over again. the next the handle the paw was zach. in a flash of fire and lightening, zach's body twisted in pain on the floor as if under the "crucio" curse from harry potter.


it wasn't until he dropped the paw that he returned to his original place on stage and could continue the scene. brian was good enough to put up with what he thought were just our childish antic's. for the majority of the play meagan and steven mourn the loss of their son, zach. once the 2 of them were left alone on stage with just the paw, the hallucinations began. both started speaking in tongues, and cried.


we lost zach in the afternoon while he went off to get his Dept. of Transportation physical (required by law for anyone driving on the tour). it's very easy (and fun) to push his buttons, so we do. we teased him about having to get felt up by the doc, during the "turn your head and cough" portion of the exam. with zach out of the picture, we took lunch, and bonded with the encore 2 cast (same shows, same blocking, same parts, but COMPLETELY different people). they seem very nice, aside from the cult-esque ritualistic virgin sacrifices but i'm glad to be on my tour with my people. we are all so disfunctionally perfect together...so far. after lunch, we worked on "the necklace" and some of "the legend of sleepy hollow" when zach finally rejoined us around 5. at about 5:15 we started to get a little punchy, and brian, sensing a lack of mental alertness from his actors, decided to call it a day.

all in all, a pretty average day...but there is a lesson to be learned...






beware the monkey's paw!!


oh, yeah, and R.I.P. Pluto :(