Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on October 22, 2018, 12:05:15 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes said to hold the mayo and hold the audience, and now it is time for you to post until the hold the audience cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: PROSOPOPEIA!
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First post after BK!
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I finally finished Split and enjoyed it. I thought James McAvoy was very good, but I just loved watching Betty Buckley, except...
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No spoilers here. ::)
;)
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Today, I need to leave work early to go to a production meeting for The Rocky Horror Show. Several props that I ordered from Amazon came on Friday, and another is supposed to be coming today. I also ordered four special "Concession Tray with Strap (https://www.mnpartystore.com/catering-supplies/tableware/trays/concession-tray)" from this party store in Minnesota. The director found them and sent me the link. Amazon didn't have what he wanted, and I couldn't find anything he liked (and for some reason, didn't want them handmade). Since he knew what he wanted, he was able to find them. Those are expected to arrive on Thursday.
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There'll be a rehearsal after the production meeting, but I can't stay for that. My friend Margo and I are going to see the rebroadcast of National Theatre's filmed live stage production of Frankenstein (https://www.fathomevents.com/series/national-theatre-live) with Jonny Lee Miller as Victor Frankenstein and Benedict Cumberbatch as the Creature.
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Next week, they switch roles. I don't know if I'll be able to see that because The Rocky Horror Show opens on that next Wednesday. If all the props are working and what the director wants, I might be able to see it. We'll see if I can see it. :)
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And now, I'm off to bed.
Have a good day, all!
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Good morning, all.
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TOD:
I think my biggest problem is finding the time to go to the theater. I don't get finished with things early enough in the evening to get to a performance. I've missed a few local productions of shows that I'd have liked to see. Right now, I understand there's a fun production of Avenue Q in town. Won't get to it.
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Good morning, all.
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And... it's a Monday.
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It's a hugely busy one for the likes of me. I always try to schedule things so Monday isn't a total assault, but I do have several things that must be done today.
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TOD:
Everything BK said. Couldn't say it better. Nothing to add.
Okay, one thing to add: The price of going to anything these days.
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As I'm usually the last person to notice a trend, I hadn't been aware of "light bumps" until seeing HELLO, DOLLY! this year.
Oh my. All of a sudden, there they were. And as soon as something like that enters your consciousness, you can never un-know or un-see it.
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Good morning, all!
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I'm home all morning since my physical is at 11:30. Following that, I will head down to City Center to deliver the score to Joshie and hear about his week in North Carolina.
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Good morning to all
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I agree with BK had to say about theater audiences. I went to a preview of a regional production of The Pirates Of Penzance. The audience was family and friends. The bad manners happened with a small section of the audience of younger people who were obviously the friends of the younger performers on the stage.
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Hoping DR Jrand's procedure is quick & easy.
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Good morning.
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What is a light bump?
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I think live theater started its downhill spiral when they started selling concessions to be taken into the auditorium. Now it looks like a movie theater afterwards in there.
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Good morning/afternoon.
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T.O.D.
My biggest problem of going to the theater now, is sitting in the audience. I want to be up on the stage doing, rather than watching.
Other than that, all of the things that BK mentioned, plus late arrivals. I know things happen.... car accidents, late babysitters, traffic; but some people just make a habit of running late to everything. And most theaters don't follow their own rules about latecomers being seated only during the breaks. They rush them down (usually they are in the first ten rows) and instead of being extremely quiet, everyone is saying excuse me as they get settled. It happens at movies also, but at live theater it is so distracting, not only to the rest of the audience, but to the actors trying to perform onstage.
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And now, several area theaters have changed their start times to 7:30 in stead of 8:00. That makes for more latecomers.
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As an actor, I enjoy the 7:30 start, because it means you can get out of the theater at a more reasonable time.
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Where is everybody this morning?
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One more post.
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Page Two!
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Today I see my doctor, but I couldn't get in before 4:30, so I am going to be in a lot of pain by the time I get home this afternoon or evening.
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I think I may take a nap this morning. Or study my script. Or both.
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I shall return.
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Vibes for JRand today.
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Apparently a fight broke out at a symphony concert in Sweden over audience behavior.
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I think live theater started its downhill spiral when they started selling concessions to be taken into the auditorium. Now it looks like a movie theater afterwards in there.
Fortunately, here in Olympia, most theater companies still don't allow food into their theaters (I think one might, but I'm not exactly sure about that). One allows drinks in plastic cups (even without a lid), and the rest only allow bottled water or drinks that are in what are referred to as adult sippy cups. Those have lids that snap on tightly so they don't pop off if they're dropped. The lids aren't necessarily spill-proof or water-tight, but they do prevent the liquid from draining very quickly.
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And now, several area theaters have changed their start times to 7:30 in stead of 8:00. That makes for more latecomers.
Olympia Little Theatre for some strange reason has their start time at 7:25. What's that all about?? :-\
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Today I see my doctor, but I couldn't get in before 4:30, so I am going to be in a lot of pain by the time I get home this afternoon or evening.
~~~Feel Better and Quickly Vibes!!~~~
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Apparently a fight broke out at a symphony concert in Sweden over audience behavior.
:o
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I'm up, I'm up - almost eight hours of sleep.
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I found the wine in the aisles at "Fiddler on the Roof" the last Broadway revival surprising, but the "To Life, L'Chaim" tie-in made sense.
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I was surprised at the booze at the Donny and Marie concert.
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I realize that the theaters make a lot of money off the concessions. However, I really think they are taking unfair advantage of their volunteer ushers who have to go through each aisle picking up trash and cleaning up the sticky floors.
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As to the yelling and hollering and the mid-show standing ovations: Musicals and comedies with all the laughing and clapping seem to be feeling like a key part of what's unique is making it a shared experience, an event which can’t be duplicated at home, not matter how great your system is.
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I realize that the theaters make a lot of money off the concessions. However, I really think they are taking unfair advantage of their volunteer ushers who have to go through each aisle picking up trash and cleaning up the sticky floors.
At the Washington Center, we ushers don't have to pick up icky trash (like tissues or spilled drinks), just the cups and water bottles and programs and tickets. Things like that.
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Subtle dramas only work for me if we have good seats. In a small house, it's never a problem. But it's feeling somehow like on Broadway, the director probably sits only where the critics are going to sit, and unless you're there, a drama on TV gives the same effect from other areas.
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Longest doctor's appointment ever! I called Joshie and told him I wasn't coming in. I'll see him tomorrow.
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As an actor, I enjoy the 7:30 start, because it means you can get out of the theater at a more reasonable time.
I prefer it so I don't fall asleep during the show ;)
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Today I see my doctor, but I couldn't get in before 4:30, so I am going to be in a lot of pain by the time I get home this afternoon or evening.
:(
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I was surprised at the booze at the Donny and Marie concert.
In Vegas :o And there were tables ;D Yes a bit surprising considering they don't drink, or shouldn't.
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Longest doctor's appointment ever! I called Joshie and told him I wasn't coming in. I'll see him tomorrow.
I hope that was quality time with the doctor and not sitting and waiting time.
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In Tempe (Phoenix area).
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Monday afternoon greetings! Richard and I are preparing to leave tomorrow for a driving trip to Memphis, Vicksburg, and Natchez and a drive home along the Natchez Trace Parkway. He has clergy meetings in Memphis Thursday and Friday, then we're vacationing the rest of the trip. I've been to a noon book discussion at the library where my career began and this evening I'm going with some book friends to hear Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven.
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In Tempe (Phoenix area).
That is shocking ;D
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Safe and enjoyable travel vibes for DR Ginny & Richard!
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Thanks, DR Jane! This trip kind of snuck up on me, but I guess I'm ready...
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Here’s to a very enjoyable trip, DR Ginny!
I still want to drive the Natchez Trace Parkway sometime. I love roads like that.
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Bon voyage, Ginny.
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Let’s move on
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Three!
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Thankfully the volunteers don’t have to clean up after the patrons at the theater where I usher. There’s a paid crew that does that.
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The concession stands have had a change of policy with shows. No water bottles during the symphony. The crinkly sounds are too distracting.
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As to the yelling and hollering and the mid-show standing ovations: Musicals and comedies with all the laughing and clapping seem to be feeling like a key part of what's unique is making it a shared experience, an event which can’t be duplicated at home, not matter how great your system is.
Yelling and hollering is very different from laughing and clapping - laughing and clapping is fine. Oversized American Idol bull pucky is not.
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Back from a Cobb salad and packages.
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Rehearsal one begins in ten minutes.
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As to the yelling and hollering and the mid-show standing ovations: Musicals and comedies with all the laughing and clapping seem to be feeling like a key part of what's unique is making it a shared experience, an event which can’t be duplicated at home, not matter how great your system is.
Yelling and hollering is very different from laughing and clapping - laughing and clapping is fine. Oversized American Idol bull pucky is not.
I agree. And the aroma of bull picky is not pleasant in closed environs.
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Monday afternoon greetings! Richard and I are preparing to leave tomorrow for a driving trip to Memphis, Vicksburg, and Natchez and a drive home along the Natchez Trace Parkway. He has clergy meetings in Memphis Thursday and Friday, then we're vacationing the rest of the trip. I've been to a noon book discussion at the library where my career began and this evening I'm going with some book friends to hear Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven.
~~~Save Travel Vibes for Ginny and Richard!!~~~
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I still want to drive the Natchez Trace Parkway sometime. I love roads like that.
I didn't realize it was something special. Now I am intrigued.
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So, these Kritzerland CDs just arrived:
PORGY AND BESS (http://www.kritzerland.com/porgyBess.htm)
Ben Bagley's HAROLD ARLEN REVISITED (http://www.kritzerland.com/arlen.htm)
RED and FAMILY (http://www.kritzerland.com/redFamily.htm) (and the limited time bonus offer CD: THE SPIDER (http://www.kritzerland.com/spider_the.htm))
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And these CDs from Amazon just arrived:
The Beast in the Jungle (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GJ67VXC/)
The Boy Who Danced on Air (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GVSKBGB/)
Desperate Measures (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07F554RKH/)
Who's Your Baghdaddy, (or How I Started the Iraq War) (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GW3JMYZ/)
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;D
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As to the yelling and hollering and the mid-show standing ovations: Musicals and comedies with all the laughing and clapping seem to be feeling like a key part of what's unique is making it a shared experience, an event which can’t be duplicated at home, not matter how great your system is.
Yelling and hollering is very different from laughing and clapping - laughing and clapping is fine. Oversized American Idol bull pucky is not.
I agree. And the aroma of bull picky is not pleasant in closed environs.
I think I didn't say the line about the "bull picky." :)
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As to the yelling and hollering and the mid-show standing ovations: Musicals and comedies with all the laughing and clapping seem to be feeling like a key part of what's unique is making it a shared experience, an event which can’t be duplicated at home, not matter how great your system is.
Yelling and hollering is very different from laughing and clapping - laughing and clapping is fine. Oversized American Idol bull pucky is not.
I agree. And the aroma of bull picky is not pleasant in closed environs.
I think I didn't say the line about the "bull picky." :)
Or bull pucky, either! :)
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"Spelchek" kept wanting to change "bull pucky" to "bull lucky."
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It kept wanting to change "bull pucky" to "bull lucky."
I’m not going to touch that one.
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Clarified that "it" = spellcheck.
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How’s The Beast in the Jungle, George?
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How’s The Beast in the Jungle, George?
I'll have to let you know. I'm listening to Porgy & Bess right now.
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Well, I need to leave now. I have a Rocky Horror production meeting, then I'm going to see Frankenstein!
Be back later.
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Music rehearsal was fine and I shall shortly be on my way to the theater for this evening's rehearsal.
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In keeping with the Keir Dullea stories of earlier, I'm watching The Fox, also starring Sandy Dennis. It's very D.H. Lawrence -- and not necessarily in a good way.
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Good evening!
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Back from dinner at my brother and sister-in-law’s house. We had salad and pasta with homemade sauce. We had a nice time.
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Hope you and Richard have a good time, DR Ginny !
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Back from dinner at my brother and sister-in-law’s house. We had salad and pasta with homemade sauce. We had a nice time.
Sounds nice.
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Dance athleticism is halfway over. My body is both glad and sad about that. It's really good but it's very intense, and tonight was a mental overload on all of the things that have to move at the same time in order to take one step, much less, say two and three in a waltz. I'm exhausted.
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Has anyone read The Fox? I can't tell if the two women are supposed to be lesbians or not.
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I can tell I don't like all the scenes of snow.
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Let's move on
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fOUR!
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Laura I love your new avatar
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TOD. Ticket prices
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The theater where I usher has a big gala fundraiser every year. The first year the artist was Paul McCartney, then Lionel Ritchie, Dolly Parton and Steven Tyler. This year it's Paul Abdul, who fell off the stage in her big opener last night in Mississippi. This is also the first year that the theater is asking the volunteer ushers to push the concert to our friends on social media in order to sell tickets. Ouch.
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OK, this movie should have ended 15 minutes to go and there's still 15 minutes left.
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There's an Advent calendar filled with rose' and sparkling wine. I say, how else would you get through the holiday season? Lift your Christmas spirits, indeed.
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OK, so the movie finally answered my earlier question. Yes, they are.
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So, Andrea McArdle has graduated to playing Miss Hannigan.
http://www.playbill.com/article/andrea-mccardle-will-play-miss-hannigan-in-annie
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Starting to watch the new Blu and Ray of A Raisin in the Sun. Wonderful performances.
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Must go soak.
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Gratuitous Post No. 100!
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Back from dinner at my brother and sister-in-law’s house. We had salad and pasta with homemade sauce. We had a nice time.
Sounds nice.
It does.
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'night
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So, Andrea McArdle has graduated to playing Miss Hannigan.
http://www.playbill.com/article/andrea-mccardle-will-play-miss-hannigan-in-annie
I remember being surprised when she played a pretty small role in "Starlight Express" - but I was also surprised that Alice Ripley played a small role in "American Psycho," and that in D.C. at Kennedy Center, Karen Ziemba took a featured billing role in "Little Dancer" in 2014 (and she did get entrance applause).
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So, Andrea McArdle has graduated to playing Miss Hannigan.
http://www.playbill.com/article/andrea-mccardle-will-play-miss-hannigan-in-annie
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I always wanted to play Miss Hannigan but every director put on a local production insisted on casting someone who could sing
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I should sleeping
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Be
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I was but I woke
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Time to resume not being awake
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Good evening.
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Page 4? Still?
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Well, I had my doctor’s appointment. He confirms that I am still alive.
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Back from our first official run-through of the show - very rough, not in terms of staging and getting through it, but calling for lines (expected) and low energy throughout (not expected). It ran around ninety-six minutes, but when it's all smooth and tight and paced correctly it will absolutely run a little under ninety, which is exactly what I want. I gave a little talk after to emphasize what my expectations are from here on in, and what the most important things to think about were.
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I keep getting kicked out of the internet.
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And then I was assaulted after rehearsal by one actor after another with sudden conflicts and I was ready to either kill these people or shut down the show. I'm old school - if I commit to something, then that's a COMMITMENT. I was offered this revue to direct and they wanted to do it in late October and it pays and everything - but I told them I could not commit to it because of my COMMITMENT to A Carol Christmas, and that if they wanted me we'd have to do the performance the week after Carol opens. I didn't go to the theater and say, "Gee, I'm gonna do this other thing so I'll have to miss five or six rehearsals." So, one gal has to miss Thursday and her role is substantial so there is no way to run the show without her there - unfair to everyone else, of course. She simply booked a gig and they changed their time from our day off to Thursday - there was no discussion, she's missing and that's it, but promises to miss no other rehearsals (she hasn't missed any up to this point) - but what if they come to her and say "We need you on these other days now?" She says she'll have a talk with them.
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Then actress two started in - she has to miss Halloween's rehearsal AND because she's arranged her work schedule so she could do tech and our mid-week previews, she's now saying her boss will need her to cover for him and she'll have to miss one or two (or who knows how many) run-throughs. I couldn't even talk to her so I put her with Doug and our co-producer. The chutzpah of this is just mind-boggling and they only care about themselves and not about their fellow cast members, the show, and how all of it impacts us all. We'll see how that all plays out.
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The problem is my laptop, not HHW.
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And then the icing on the cake - another actress is in a short film that's opening a short film festival in Monaco and she wants to go - and is asking us to get an understudy for our third weekend of shows. I must say, Doug went ballistic before I could. She's saying she'll find someone and teach them everything. I'm saying that she can't even get through her stuff properly at this point - how will she teach somebody else. And who is the somebody else? And I'm not just accepting anyone, for God's sake. I mean, it's a short film, who gives a crap - probably shot on an iPhone. But she really wants to go. I'm not sure how that will play out, because Doug is basically saying if she misses we'll cancel that weekend and the theater will lose seven or eight grand. And I don't think it would make her fellow cast members happy to cancel. But I'm not having someone come in and do this show who isn't fully prepared and directed and ready - that's just amateur. We'll see how it plays out. And that was the end of my rehearsal and it kept me at the theater an extra hour.
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Today’s doctor appointment coincides with my annual pee test. Since I take a controlled substance, I am required to be tested once a year to proof that I am actually taking the drug and not selling them on the street corner.
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My doctor gave me the paperwork and told that if i went quickly, I could have it done at the lab next door.
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I raced into the lab and gave the paperwork to the nurse. She suddenly went from friendly to very bussiness-like.
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She told me she would be with me shortly.
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She disappeared in the back, and when she came back out she escorted me to the bathroom, handed me the cup, and told me not to flush when I was finished, and to bring the cup directly to her.
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Went I went into the bathroom, I found that she had taped the top of the toilet closed and had put some kind of blue dye into the toilet bowl.
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Then I figured it out, she thought I was being drug tested to prove I was clean and sober, not the other way around. I had to laugh, and I did laugh when I went back out and explained it to her.
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Oh well, I thought it was funny.
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Well, I need to leave now. I have a Rocky Horror production meeting, then I'm going to see Frankenstein!
Be back later.
Well, the production meeting went well. I was told a suggestion about the bag of body parts that was a very good idea (instead of putting the fake head, hands and feet in the blood and having all of that in one sealed plastic bag, have the body parts in one sealed plastic bag, then that bag inside another sealed plastic bag that has the blood, then the bag-in-a-bag inside another sealed plastic bag that holds everything). I was also told that another couple of props will be needed: a plastic cigarrette and lollipops (real, not plastic).
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Hi, Tom.
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After the production meeting, my friend Margo, her middle daughter and I went to see the filmed live production of Frankenstein with Jonny Lee Miller as Frankenstein and Benedict Cumberbatch as the Creature. It was still very good!
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Well, I had my doctor’s appointment. He confirms that I am still alive.
Ah, sir, happy news indeed! ;D
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And then the icing on the cake - another actress is in a short film that's opening a short film festival in Monaco and she wants to go - and is asking us to get an understudy for our third weekend of shows. I must say, Doug went ballistic before I could. She's saying she'll find someone and teach them everything. I'm saying that she can't even get through her stuff properly at this point - how will she teach somebody else. And who is the somebody else? And I'm not just accepting anyone, for God's sake. I mean, it's a short film, who gives a crap - probably shot on an iPhone. But she really wants to go. I'm not sure how that will play out, because Doug is basically saying if she misses we'll cancel that weekend and the theater will lose seven or eight grand. And I don't think it would make her fellow cast members happy to cancel. But I'm not having someone come in and do this show who isn't fully prepared and directed and ready - that's just amateur. We'll see how it plays out. And that was the end of my rehearsal and it kept me at the theater an extra hour.
WHH?? :o
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Why do you need a plastic cigarette?
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Today’s doctor appointment coincides with my annual pee test. Since I take a controlled substance, I am required to be tested once a year to proof that I am actually taking the drug and not selling them on the street corner.
I'm always worried that I won't be able to pee when I go for my pee test.
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Why do you need a plastic cigarette?
I was told that Janet is going to use it during "Touch-a Touch-a Touch-a Touch Me," but that she doesn't smoke it, just have it, so it doesn't need to be a real one.
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But I suppose that since she doesn't have to actually use it, I could just ask my dad if he'd be willing to donate a few since he smokes.
:P
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This would be the ONLY good thing about his smoking. ::)
;)
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She doesn’t have to smoke it? If she did, you could use the kind I used in WRECKS.
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I also got my flu shot today.
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And now I found out that I need to get a different shingles vaccine. The previous shot does not totally prevent shingles.
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She doesn’t have to smoke it? If she did, you could use the kind I used in WRECKS.
What kind was that?
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My doctor had the same shingles shot I got, and he got shingles.
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My doctor had the same shingles shot I got, and he got shingles.
Oh, no!
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This new one is two shots. One shot now and a second shot two months later.
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I had chicken pox when I was in college. I wonder if that'll cause me to get shingles when I'm older. I know that they're related.
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I had chicken pox when I was in college. I wonder if that'll cause me to get shingles when I'm older. I know that they're related.
Well, when you turn 55 or 60 (I have forgotten the age) get the vaccine!
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I had chicken pox when I was in college. I wonder if that'll cause me to get shingles when I'm older. I know that they're related.
Well, when you turn 55 or 60 (I have forgotten the age) get the vaccine!
I'm 52 now. I'm sure that I'll be told about it when I get closer to when I need it.
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Well...
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...since...
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...we're...
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...so close, let's not wait to turn the page to the...
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PAGE SIX DANCE!!
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Goodnight, George.
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Good night, Tom.
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Well, I need to go to sleep now.
Have a good day, all!