Tech, The Return of Brian, and a Ribeye Steak As Big As My Face

Tech rehearsals are awesome/painful. awesome in that you get to see how everything works, and looks, and everyone is focused on getting the exact right look for the show. it's really very cool...

painful in that it took 10 hours to tech 40 minutes of the show. but this is normal, and all part of the process, so we knew it was coming.

i really wanted to take lots of pictures and photodocument the whole damned day, but i was feeling a little overwhelmed this morning, and decided i'd have plenty more chances once things settle down. but the lights are so very cool. and with the costumes and feel of being in a real theater (oh yeah, by the way, we moved across the street to THE STRAND theater for a week of tech/dress rehearsals).

ok, back to the overwhelmed part...we have all been given assignments on tour; costumes, lights, props, set. we are responsible for setting up, taking down, maintaining, and generally knowing our shit. i totally lucked out getting the costume gig, and i'm happy to do it...but i am the LEAST domesticated person on this tour...ok, counting zach, i'm the second to least domesticated person on this tour. i'm terrible at picking up after myself or others, i can't sew, i know nothing of these costumes (including my own) and/ or what to do with them, and i have to force myself to stay calm, or at least internalized the maelstrom of nervous tension i can build up so as not to hurt some innocent bystander. but i think all will be well with time and repetition, end of rant. :)

BRIAN RETURNS!!

after 2 days away from us, brian came bounding in this morning to rehearsal, all smiles, and seemed well rested. brian has been down in the trenches with us from day one, and we are coming to the end of our time with him (since he doesn't go on tour with us). :( but now is not the time to be sad. now is the time to think of the happy times...like brian drawing cartoons of what he imagines our characters to look like. this one is of 2 characters. the one on the top of the page is my character, amelia, from THE MONKEY'S PAW, and the bottom is zach's character, brom bones, from THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW. oh brian, the likeness is uncanny! ;)

this one is so obviously scot in JUMPING FROG. he really captured scot's essence in this one i think. be the frog. be the frog.

here we have steven's character, mr. white, in THE MONKEY'S PAW. steven is such a talent, that he projects the image of his character having hair, even though he himself is bald. kudos...to both the painter and his subject.

this is also scot...look closely, you can see it. here, he's the factory man in THE MONKEY'S PAW. i think the thinking behind this is that he and amelia come from the same creepy family! :)

here was have meagan as mrs. white, also in THE MONKEY'S PAW. far less sinister looking...in fact, i'm getting a mrs. wilson (from dennis the menace) vibe from this foxy lady.

this work of art is brian's interpretation of scot as the old man in THE TELL TALE HEART. yep, that's right folks, that poor son of a bitch gets his eye gouged out...nothing spared for children's theater!

last but not least, we have this one. not so much a characterization, as an acting note to yours truly. apparently the pause i took during 2 of my lines was so lengthy...a mac truck could have driven through the gap i left. and he proved it by having the time to DRAW A TRUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NOTE HE WROTE!! (jesus, what the hell was i doing??)

A RIBEYE AS BIG AS MY FACE


after today's 10 hour tech, i felt strange. having not really exhausted myself from physical labor, i couldn't figure out why i was so dead tired. i realized, once i started to feel my teeth itch, that i needed real food. triscuts and cheese for dinner and a banana and coffee in the day ain't gunna cover it. so i went shopping and bought a steak for dinner. i barely cooked that son of a bitch, slapped it on a plate- still bloody and mooing- with some veggies, and ate the shit out of it. and no lie...it was as big as my face!

i've come to the end of today's entry, and looking back at it, i feel i've wasted everyone's time by having nothing of any substance on the page. jesus christ i BLOGGED ABOUT WHAT I ATE FOR DINNER! i have become something i hate (but seriously, that ribeye was as big as my face)...... if you're still reading this, hoping to get something interesting out of it...sorry, i got nuthin'.