Well, dear readers, I am sitting here like so much fish, listening to Ormandy and some first chair members of the orchestra get their moment to shine. An eclectic CD but very enjoyable. We didn’t go out after the show – I’d only gotten four hours of sleep and was tired, so some of us will go out after the matinee and talkback. We had about sixty-two people last night, and the overture and first song could not have gone better. But then we entered the land of slow cue pick-ups and fumfering and while the performance was overall excellent, that sort of thing stops the laughs in their tracks – Friday’s show was so tight and fun and the laughs were all there. So, hopefully today we’ll be back to our full and heavy JEF and back to our normal, non-fumfering version. But in the end, the audience cheered everyone and, as I said, overall, it was excellent, and we just have to make it tight again. I will say, even with the odd fumfer or slow cue pick up, the show itself moves really fast. Several people came to me afterwards and commented on the staging but most of all the pacing. And there WERE laughs, but not of the sort from Friday night. Prior to the show, I’d only gotten four hours of sleep, so I was kind of out of it for most of the day. I answered a boatload of e-mails, went to the dry cleaners – trying a new one that’s only three blocks from here. They seem very nice. I went to Gelson’s and got a Caesar salad and had that as food. After the show, I did stop at Gelson’s and get some lox and bagels and that was my evening snack once I got home. What else? Not much. I did doze off for a few minutes whilst sitting on my couch like so much fish trying to watch some recent movie whose name I can no longer remember. Then I showered and moseyed on over to the theater and I suppose you know the rest because you read it here.
Today, I’ll be up by ten-thirty, and I’ll plan to get to the theater around 12:30 for a warm-up. Then we’ll play to a sold-out house, have a talkback, and then some of us will go have a meal somewhere fun. After that, I’ll come home and watch, listen, and relax.
Tomorrow, I’ll catch up on stuff, try to book the May and June Kritzerland shows, then the rest of the week will be starting to plan those shows, maybe see if I feel like starting a new book, have some meetings and meals, and then we begin week three of our show.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up by ten-thirty, I’ll have and shower and get to the theater around 12:30 for a warm-up and to get them in the proper energy place, we’ll do the matinee, have a talkback, then some of us will go out for a bite, then I’ll come home and watch, listen, 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, looking forward to talking back at the talkback.