Springtime for Chamber....

I hope all of you were humming the song from "The Producers" when you read the title of today's post. If not, I worry about you, I really do. So today we had our producer run for everyone's favorite iron-fisted sprite, Spring Sirkin. It went very well, I'd say, all things considered. There were problems due to nerves, as there always are anytime Spring enters the building, but overall, we came out of it okay. Well, as far as Spring was concerned. Her notes were general and overall positive. Pat on the other hand took for freaking ever to get through the notes SHE took, because she of course takes all the detailed notes. And can't stop explaining things, no matter how many times you say OK. I understand making something clear, but after the third "I got it," you should be able to take a freaking hint! But Tell-Tale is coming along pretty well. it's he only story I'm in that I worry about. mostly because it's the only one I'm in where I really have to work against my instincts. And amazingly enough i don't even mean that in a wholly negative way. Some of what Pat and Spring want me to do, I understand and agree with. Some of it is just technical stuff due to the fact we play huge spaces. But some of it is a little difficult to take. (see sonorous baritone post) However, the cool thing is, I added something to the show that pat has never seen before, and that Spring liked! A chuckle. Yep, it's a small thing, but anytime you can slip a new wrinkle into a Chamber character, you take it as a win. So all in all, it's going well. It's also a little difficult for me to play anything really heavy and restrained and dark. It's like I said in the previous post--they seem to have problems with contrasts in characters, and especially if you're playing a guy who kills an old man, hacks him up and hides him under the floorboards, you want to explore some sides to him other than creepy. But creepy is what they wants, so creepy is what they gets. I'm just relieved they like where the story is going because the last thing I need is for them to try another one of their famous last-day cast changes.

After lunch, we did makeup and wigs. Thankfully, I didn't have that much to do, since I had already done it a mere four weeks ago. (Jesus, is that really how long it's been since the last tour ended?) There is a chance I might be dyeing my hair for Tell Tale to reduce the number of wigs I have to wear. (A redhead apparently just can't be an-old-man-hacking, floorboard-prying, filmy-eye-gouging psycho) I'm all for it if it means I can make my heinous Tell-Tale to Sleepy Hollow change easier, but I'm a little worried they're going to insist that I dye it blue-black, which is the color of the wig, and I just do NOT look good like that in real life I'm not sure I want to walk around for 5 months looking like an extra from Twilight. (Though I must admit, the idea of sparkling when the sun hits you rather than turning an embarrassingly bright red is a weight on the positive side of the scale. 

We now bring you this Presidential activity update. I have been told by various sources that it was Fox news, NOT Good Morning America that had the fisting comment. You can see the clip here 

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/the_soup/b80549_fox_reveals_key_obama_marriage.html

It aired on Talk Soup and I swear to god it's hilarious. I should've known it would be Fox, considering they were the station that first broke the story of the Obamas' fisting fetish way back when he won the nomination and he and she did that right there onstage in front of everyone. Although, at that time, Fox news was more worried about the possible terrorist ties such activity might carry. Now, after much searching and digging, they have finally revealed it for the harmless marital aid that it is. Good to see Fox News right on top of things....so to speak.

Not much else happened today. Tomorrow we have our last full day to work things. Wednesday we do one more run, then load out of the rehearsal space and Thursday we load into our tech space. Three days of tech and then BAM! We hit the road. Well, we head down into Boston proper and do a show there on Tuesday the 2nd, but after that, there's a road involved, I'm sure of it! I'm going to pray that tech goes smoothly. We're doing in three days what they usually do in 8, and our stage manager, whose real name I have used in this blog prior to now, but for whom I shall create an alias, doesn't have the most patient of personalities, nor the kindest of tones. It's kind of like being talked to by one of those annoying 50's kiddie show hosts, only one with none of the sweetness due to the fact what they really wanted to do was Hamlet but instead they're stuck introducing cartoons with a talking kumquat or something. So our stage manager's alias shall be--Levitt. Okay, critics--go for it! Well, it's time for me to hit the hay. See you all tomorrow!