Good morning, all! I slept in this morning until 9am. At 1, Joe Csibi is picking me up for lunch and our walk to Walton's, an itenerary I totally screwed up yestertday and got myself lost for around 30 minutes.
Today, I have to give our leading man a pep talk about being a leading man: he's a beautiful singer who produces bbeautiful tones, but he lacks stage presence; our Eileen does a bit, too. The performance state of the art in Ireland for serious singers is not great, so many go to London, where they can hopefully get picked up by the English National Opera or other companies thaty don't pay well. Our singewr playing the lead told me that his last job in London was singing MESSIAH in an enormous hoiuse and his pay was 10 comp tickets! He deserves so much more.
I will also work with the two actors playing my villains, and meet the last two singers to the table: Andrew Ashwin (Shaun Dhu, smuggler & patriot) and John Corbett (Sir Reginnald Stribling of London), a silly ass Brit. There are three representatives in the show of British behavior toward Ireland and I think we've cast them well:
Lady Maude, the sympathizer
Sir Reggie, the apathetic
Colonel Lester, brute force
That's my day.
DR Laura, if they want to hear about the good old days from you, they'd want to know about dinosaurs from our DR TCB and life in caves from me!
DR Jose, my ticket was paid fro by the funding in Philadelphia so I will be notified if I'm coming back early. The original recording schedule was Tuesday through Friday, so I'm scheduled to return on Saturday. We're now recording from Monday to Wednesday, so I may have a ticket change to return on Thursday or Friday. The cost of changign the flight will certainly be less than paying for two more nights in this amazing hotel.
Joe Csibi told me last night that his company asked the Philadelphian producer if I could stay in Ireland and they got a response that I was a National Treasure and must return to America. I may retitle my memoirs 'Life on a Pedestal.' It's easier being a schlep, believe me.
