Thank you, one and all, for your words of encouragement earlier today whoops, I mean last night. It is always nice to know that there is such a supportive group of people so near by. You were also correct about my being too hard on myself about my own performance. When I got to the theater this afternoon for the discussion, the playwright grabbed me right away to tell me what a wonderful job I had done on Thursday evening. I apologized for being under the weather that night, and he seemed genuinely surprised that I didn’t think it my best work.
Fortunately, the playwright and his wife stayed to see tonight’s performance of the play, and believe me, this time I did not disappoint. The word of mouth on this play has spread so quickly, that tonight we were almost sold out. Not too bad for a Second Stage production that was not expected to average more than 50% houses. Tonight, the audience was with us from the very start, and we were all up to the challenge. We scored our fifth standing ovation (out of nine performances, including two for school children) and we also received several shouts of Bravo. This show has taken off so quickly, it seems such a shame that we have to end our run tomorrow afternoon. There was some talk about bringing the show back as a Main Stage production next season, but I almost hope that they don’t do that. You can never go home again, and trying to recreate the magic of this production would probably be a mistake.
Oh well, wonderful memories!
