Well, dear readers, our two-show day produced two really good shows. Technically both were just about perfect – our two band subs did very well. We’d been told the matinee was going to be fairly full and, as seems to be the case with this box-office person, this did not happen. I was told that the papering guy they used had a big list – he, in fact, had no list. I don’t care to speculate why. Still we had about fifty-five people and they were a fun audience. We had one fumfer in the long monologue in act one – the actor went up, talked around it, and finally found her way back, but leaving out a few things. I’m not sure anyone really noticed except me. But that same actor bounced back and delivered the best Sunset Strip 1965 she’s ever done, getting cheers after it. The laughs were there and we had a critic with us – while I never would query anyone about anything (I know him and we do talk), his friend absolutely loved it. I was with my friend Karen, and after, we drove back to the Valley and had a little meal. Then I went back for the evening show.
Once again, this screwy box-office thing got out of control and we’re all having a meeting about it on Monday or Tuesday, because it really has to stop. We were told we were sold out – she turned people away, for heaven’s sake, and then there were about twenty empty seats. Something is from hunger and we are damn well going to fix it before our performances this week. We ended up with a house of about seventy-five, which was fine. Critic Rob Stevens was there and one other critic – I’m not sure who the latter writes for these days – he used to be with the Times. The show went very well – sometimes the audience was loud and fun, sometimes not – for me, kind of a typical Saturday night audience. They did seem to enjoy it and there were no real flubs save for one quick one in one song that no one would have really noticed. In attendance was our very own Sandy Bainum, her Inside Out co-star Dana Meller, our Inside Out stage manager, Lanny Meyers, occasional dear reader Leslie and her daughter Alexa, and a few other folks I knew. After the evening performance, Leslie, Alexa, and I met up with Doug Haverty at the Coral Café. No nachos for me – I had a chicken wrap.
Prior to all that, I’d gotten about five hours of sleep due to an upset tummy and she of the Evil Eye arriving early. I went and had a ginger ale and toasted bagel with nothing on it. Then I picked up a package, killed some time, then came home. I got ready, then my friend Karen came over and we headed to LACC.
Here are some more photos from the show. First up is Sarah Barnett, here singing A Home in Laurel Canyon by Shelly Markham and Adryan Russ.
Here’s Kole Martin doing Born Too Late.
Here’s the company at the end of the We Look Ahead sequence.
I’ll have more, don’t you worry.
Today, I will hopefully arise after a good night’s beauty sleep. Once up, I’ll answer e-mails and stuff, then I’m seeing Camp Rock at three, then I’ll eat something, and then relax.
This week is meetings and meals and Kritzerland show stuff, a pick-up rehearsal, a two-show Thursday, a Friday show, and our closing two-show Saturday.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, sleep, see a show, eat, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you dear readers get to make with the topics and we all get to post about them. So, let’s have loads of lovely topics and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy to have had a fun two-show Saturday.