Back from our first matinee with a nice, pretty full house. There was this meet and greet thing with Corey Fogelmanis before the show and that happened. The majority of the audience were kids and I learned a very important lesson - I thought they'd be a great audience but they most assuredly were not. The adults in attendance were laughing and having fun, and I'm sure some of the kids were, just as I'm equally sure that some of the kids may have felt that they were what we skewer in the show - kids who try to be hip and cool, kids who do things they shouldn't - I knew that could potentially happen because Molly is not about any of that. So, I think we're really a show for adults - they "get" it, get what Molly is about, and they also know that she's really a role model and about the right things. Lesson learned. Sami was absolutely great in the first half, but she let all the fidgeting (there were some under tens there, something I'm not really comfortable with) and whispering get to her and for the first time she actually went up and had to get a line from Alby - it was fine, and I do think it won't happen again, but in addition to that she fumfered lines and inverted a few lyrics - I do understand it, but it's an actor's job to not let distractions distract. It's also the last time that anyone tells me or even suggests who's going up for the audience participation. They assured me that if we took Corey's dad up, he would be very uncomfortable - he was okay, but we don't ever want okay - we want someone who is REALLY not used to being on stage. There was someone else I'd pegged and I know he would have been much more fun.
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Topic: WELCOME TO THE OPENING NIGHT OF WELCOME TO MY WORLD (Read 4412 times)