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What I Did: Week Ending 2009-04-05

  • Monologues That Work at the Alliance Theatre did get enough students to make. However it is postponed till next Monday April 6th. #
  • Gonna be one of those days. Left lunch at home. #
  • Leaving soon to meet up with @DocGyver and other fellow x-coworkers. Our last Monday of the month gathering. #
  • We have been doing this gathering for years now. I left the company in 98 or 99. #
  • Must finish my cup of tea first. Tea is a terrible thing to waste. Unless you are using it as a symbol of dissatisfaction with Government #
  • In little over an hour I will leave Norcross and head down to 14th street for the Atlanta Unifieds. #
  • @jtalia Thank you. Getting nervous. in reply to jtalia #
  • @alyjack See you at 11:57 then. in reply to alyjack #
  • Off to the Unifieds. Should arrive about an hour early. Better early than late. #
  • Crap. Don’t think I did well at the Atlanta Unifieds. I did both monologues, without missing a line… as far as I know. #
  • My brain just shut down and my body was doing the monologues. That is bad, because I was not in control of what my mouth and body were doing #
  • Met @joeventures at the Unifieds. Thanks Joe. #
  • Also ran into Karen Rooker and Patrick Schambach who I have worked with in the past. #
  • Twice in two days now. A celebrity twitters a URL and their followers bombard the site and brings down the targets’ web server. #
  • Accidental of course. But it is funny the way the followers jump to see what is out there. #
  • Wow I was able to tweet the same text twice. Hit the enter key twice by accident and was able to post before tweetdeck could clear buffer #
  • RT @TheatreUBC: “God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.” – Voltaire (1694-1778) <– like that #
  • Having my first cup of tea. Shameful. Maybe it was the lack of tea for poor performance at the Atlanta Unifieds. #
  • Cranky today. #
  • RT @Foodimentary: “When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.” ~Henry Youngman <– another great #quote #
  • Accepting a role of Vale in Kaufman & Hart’s “Once in a Lifetime.” at the @alliancetheatre student program. #
  • RT @crazeegeekchick: 1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d <– damn it. #
  • Or maybe I should have said “d4mn |7” #
  • My ADD seems to be in overdrive toda…. oh look. #
  • Off to the Alliance Theatre for Advanced Scene Study class. #
  • @alyjack I did shots for years. So now the allergies are just a seasonal annoyance instead of breaking out in hives. in reply to alyjack #
  • Favorite anime series: Cowboy Bebop #
  • @wcdarling Welcome back. in reply to wcdarling #
  • RT @BenThrashers: Can any of you access atlantathrashers.com or thrashers.nhl.com? — first url No, second yes #
  • @DailyActor bluehost.com <– rated one the top five hosting services in reply to DailyActor #
  • OK, just did a half mile walk, not much but it’s a start. Now I feel coated with pollen. #

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Arsenic Weekend

Last Tuesday evening, I received the script for Arsenic And Old Lace. On Wednesday evening, while The Man Who Came To Dinner was rehearsing, the director of Arsenic, Patrick Schambach, and I went over the blocking for the scenes I would be in.

On Friday evening, the night I will be in the play, with just 3 days of leaning lines, 1 evening with blocking with the director only, no cast, I was in my truck parked outside the theatre and going over my lines again. I did this by holding a sheet of paper over my lines and recite them as I read through the script. I get to my first little monologue and my mind goes completely blank. My third line into the scene and I have no idea what it is. Needless to say I had a small panic attack, right there in the truck.

About 20 minutes later, cast call being at 6:30, the cast of Arsenic went over the two of the scenes I would be in; three times for the first scene and once for the second. That was it. That was all the rehearsal I would be getting. Time now for the real thing.

Needless to say, I was a little nervous. Friday evening went well enough despite my rearranging words in sentences and when two actors jumped ahead of one of my lines, which I had to get in and did appropriately. Saturday was better. I knew what the timing should be and how the other actors were going to do their bit, etc.

That, I think, is the most difficult bit. Not having had rehearsals with the other cast for weeks before the show, I did not know how they were going to react, behave, move … the little nuances. Leaning lines and blocking (where to stand and move) really is just a very small part of a play. It’s everything else and THAT is the hard part.

Just 5 more shows over the next two weekends.

Class Act Theatre
June 3 – July 3, 2005
Fridays and Saturdays @ 8:00 p.m.
One Sunday Matinee only on July 3 @ 3:00 p.m.
TICKETS: $18.00 adults, $15.00 students & seniors (Group rates available for reservations of 10 or more). For ticket purchase/information, please call 770-579-3156