Back from tonight's performance. We only had about twenty-three people, but they were a GREAT audience. Really big laughs throughout. Sami was very good but not as sharp as last Sunday - this happens when you go four days without doing the show and it especially happens when the stage manager doesn't show up until half-hour and leaves the leading lady outside waiting and gives her only a half-hour to get into make-up and prepare. She didn't have the hour she absolutely needs - she never even got her fingernails painted green so she had to do some fancy hiding when that lyric appears in the show. I think the proper prep time just flummoxed her a bit and who can blame her. Despite that, she was VERY funny tonight and in excellent voice and the audience ate her up. I think this will be the final time I ever work with this stage manager - just amateur night to do this. She texted me at four-thirty and told me she might run a bit late and asked if I would open the theater at six-thirty. I told her that wasn't my job and I probably wouldn't get there until ten to seven and that Sami would definitely be there by six-forty-five. She said she didn't think she'd be any later than that. Well, she was - forty-five minutes later than that. And I don't give a crap WHAT the excuse was - this is her job, not a toy and there is an actress who has to have her head on straight to hold an audience for eighty-five minutes. I did arrive at six-forty but in one of those crazy things, I didn't have the key with me - turns out I'd accidentally left it in the pants I wore last Sunday - I thought I'd removed everything from those pockets but the key got left behind for some reason.
