I Need 'Broken Legs'
 

My show opens tonight. The butterflies begin.

'You Can't Take it With You' opens tonight at 8PM est.

Wish me a 'break a leg' will ya?

:)

Break appendages! We're proud of you, GC (and we wish we could be there to see you!)

Wishing you multiple compound fractures on your big night!

Break A leg!

(of a critic if need be... )

Here's hoping you fracture an arm, too!

Hals und Bein Bruch*


*The German's feel breaking one's leg is not enough and wish actors a broken neck for good measure

Break a Leg, GC!

I think a pinched nerve is quite sufficient.

May you be horribly crippled!!

Joe Theisman yerself.

:D

I've seen it a hundred times, knew what I was going to see and how aweful it is, yet I chose to click that flippin' link. Why did I do that?

Break the goddam furniture!

Congratulations!

Bust a nut Break a leg!

did you pause it right at 'the moment' like I did?
then shudder at the.......blech! of it all?

yup yup. :blush:

YAY! Have a great opening and run of it and....of course...break a leg!

Break stuff! Have fun!!!:cheers::D

Yep....damned "reverse angle" replay!

But now you've got me browsing that site. Here's another nice one I'd never seen -

Napolean McCallum

The world would be a better place if LT had busted Theisman's voice box instead of his leg.

So to you my friend, I say, "MERDE!" :)

Break a leg - or two

blargh!!!


I'd forgotten about that one........and was happy in that fact.
the first one is pretty lightweight compared to that.
I will now exit this thread never to return.

Thanks, Everybody! :)

I appreciate it.

Got a case of the butterflies right now. But it'll come and go all day. Heck, Henry Fonda used to throw up before performances (at least that's the urban legend about him anyway...).

Ralphie and about six of my friends in the area are going to come to the show tonight. That's exciting.

I'll post some pictures if I can.

You'll do great! Have a great time, relax and enjoy.

Break a leg GC!

Good luck! (Although I'm sure I'm late to the show!)

Cool! Break one off GC!

Wonderful show tonight. We had a great turn out. Ralphie gave me flowers. Roses. I'm such a spoiled diva.
:) I need to get to bed now. I'll tell ya more tomorrow!

Yay! Want a full report!

"O What a Night..."

After some pre-performance butterflies, the show started off with a bang. After several weeks of rehearsal, everything just clicked last night. The pacing was right, the sound cues went right, everything was ideal...

It was a great opening night. The house was pretty full for the intimate space that it is. Ralphie and a bunch of our friends showed up. It was nice hearing familiar laughs in the house.

Afterwards, there was a cast party at a restaurant called Redbones. We stayed for a very short while. I needed to leave before midnight in order to wake up at 6am this morning. Ugh.

I think the real star of the evening was Ralphie. He made me a special pre-show dinner and gave me flowers and a gift card to Tower Records (woo-hoo!). He was so very happy all night. It was great. All the female cast members were dying to meet him afterwards. They were so very curious about the elusive Mr. Ralphie. :)

So, I'm running on about 5 hours of sleep, but so far so good. I'm posting here, that means I made it to work okay.

Thanks again for the kudos.

B

dahling so sorry I missed opening night STOP I know you knocked em dead STOP the elusive mr ralphie is right STOP you are a charmer and a keeper STOP I hope you have a wonderful run sweetie STOP The reviews were spectacular STOP I'll try to make a performance if I'm ever in New England STOP keep wowing them every night STOP love you STOP

Great job and congrats, GC.

Envision me, standing atop my seat, applauding wildly and cheering BRAVO very loudly!
My hands are red and sore now and my voice is all but gone from shouting!
Have a great run!
Donna

Fabulous! Sounds like a magical evening.

Congratulations! Sounds like a spectacular evening.

:snap:

YAY! I knew it would be a smashing success. And the dashing Ralphie is such a wonderful man! You're one lucky guy - and the tiredness is temporary.

I need to get my energy up for tonight. I've been one draggin' drag queen today. Oy vey.

Well, why did you go a wear a dress to work?

Aww, is it too late for me to bash in GC's kneecaps with a baseball bat?

Congrats, sweetie. :)

How's the show going?

The show is going splendidly.
The one hitch to this production was that we did not get to do many run throughs during rehearsal. In fact, I think we only did a total of 2 full run throughs. It's really hard for me to get up to speed and completely offbook without running it a lot. So it was a bit challenging. Thankfully, it's easier and easier to do each night.
Saturday's show was by far our best show. The audience was amazing and they really liked Mr. DePinna. It was almost sold out. I got a lot of wonderful feedback afterwards.
Sunday was a matinee and the audience was dead silent. It was a full house but a house full of dead people. :D
We have three more shows this week and a Sunday set strike. And then Sunday night it's auditions again. This summer, the theatre is doing 7 one act plays. Each one act is about 10 minutes long. I've been asked to audition for a couple of them. It's totally flattering. I kind of like the momentum of jumping on to something else right away, so I'm thinking I'll audition this Sunday. I don't know, I'm kind of exhausted right now...

Tonight was so weird. The audience was dead silent. There were a few guffaws here and there but no all out laughing. It was dreafully hard to keep the energy flowing. I come out in a toga and nothing... no laughter. Then at the end of the show, they go absolutely ape sh!t. Applauding, screaming, standing... it was incredible. I guess they were having a good time after all.
:)

Yeah, I love those audiences that don't want to miss a single word ;). LOL.

Ugh! It's got to be pure agony acting in that sort of environment, but tres cool that the audience was appreciative, even if it was at the end of the show. Audience dynamics can be so flukey and hard to read sometimes. I admire people that can push past that and continue on- I'd be tempted to stop and say "What's up your asses, people?!"

Probably a good thing that I'm not an actor.

I'm not sure if I posted this before but here goes:

The other night I had this weird dream. For some reason, I was at a family reunion with all of my relatives that I dislike. They all were laughing at me telling me that I was wasting my time doing theatre. That lasted for about 2 seconds in my dream until I had this 'Harper Valley PTA' moment where I told each and every one of them off. The moment I did that, I was transported to a huge ballroom. In the center of the ballroom was the Mad Hatter's table filled with spinning cups and tea kettles. The table was huge, so huge that the actor who plays Grandpa in the play (the man who tells us all that doing what you love is more important than making money) takes me by the hand and starts to waltz with me on the table. He's smiling, I'm smiling. It was like a scene from 'Evita' where Che and Evita waltz. In fact, that song 'Waltz for Eva and Che' played while we did it.

Tell me before I waltz out of your life
Before turning my back on the past
Forgive my impertinent behavior
But how long do you think this pantomime can last?

The dream ended with grandpa and I having fun dancing.

Great dream! Not to mention that the actor who plays Grandpa is in his early forties and is a hottie. :D

Wow! What a great patchwork quilt of a dream! Now I'll; have the "waltz for Evita and Che" running through my head for a while.

Oh, and Sunday matinee audiences, don't get me started.

I think it's nice to leap straight into another show, as that forestalls the inevitable post-show blues a little. And it is great to feel wanted, isn't it!

I think I will make that leap into the next. If they'll have me. The auditions for the one-acts are on Tues & Wed. It totally feels great to be asked. :) Post-show blues sometimes hit me hard. Other times it's post-show rejoicing. :D I'm not sure what it'll be this time. I kept a distance from this cast for some reason. I didn't want to jump into any 'so in so doesn't like so in so' and 'I'm not talking to so in so' and 'let's pretend like we like each other'. That stuff's just as tiring as rehearsing. :D

My face is totally drying out from all the makeup I wear in the show. At one part a firework was supposed to go off in my face offstage. So I walk on with black soot all over my face. Getting that soot off does a number on my skin. So I do the cold cream thing at night. Everytime I put it on I feel like I'm Bette Davis in 'All About Eve' where she spends a whole scene putting cream on her face. :D

"I'm a junkyard." ~ Margo Channing

Glad to hear things are going well for you, GC.

I didn't say it before so here you go: break a leg! :snap:

But what a junkyard! ~ Bill Samson

Our last show was great. We sold out and some people even had to stand. So cool.

Best part of all was that my friends came from DC to see me in the show. What a great surprise. After the show was over, Ralphie told me he wanted to meet a couple of people from his work. So I go over to a group of people and there are my bestest friends from DC. I was moved to tears. What a wonderful surprise.

The cast party was fabulous. Had a great time...

I also shared my dream with the whole cast for our closing night circle. They loved it. The guy playing grandpa and I waltzed for them. I can't waltz to save my life. But it was fun. :D

Auditions are tomorrow for the Summer One Acts Festival. A Diva's life must go on...
:D

I feel like I'm only working a half day today or something. No rehearsals, no play... What am I going to do with all my free time?

:)

Post in the LoT?

Oh, I already do that. I call it 'working'. :D

This sure beats having a real job :)

Went to my audition last night for the one act festival. It was pretty fun. There are about 7 mini-plays in all. I got to read for 4 of them. Talk about schizophrenia! We should be hearing back from them soon.

I got a friend of mine to audition, too. She told me the other day that she wanted to try acting. So I told her about the auditions. She signed up. She did great. Her first audition ever. She totally rocked. I hope she gets in.

:)

Way late to the Party... So I guess you will have to settle for me not mentioning the Scottish Play.

Yeah, saw some of that in Edinburgh a couple of years ago. Scottish men in kilts on trampolines make for a great view. :D

So, I just got an email from the assistant director of the one-act festival. I got offered a part in a play called 'Surprise'. The role is Peter and he's a psychic who is dating a woman who is frustrated with the fact that he can read her mind and anticipate her emotions, words, everything. Totally cool. I'm going to study David Blaine for the role. I can look like him if I try.
:)

I just got my new script in an email. Lots of lines to memorize. Our first read thru is on Monday. For the first time in my life, I'm looking forward to a Monday...
:)

Congrats, GC. I'm glad you're getting right back on the horse. (hardly an apt metaphore, since your last play was a success - but you know what I mean.)

In other words, a Gay Man.


Pfft, I call Typecasting.

lol! :D

This one should be interesting. I have a glass of water thrown in my face and have a make-out session with a waitress. Yep, should be interesting...
;)

I'm in the wrong line of work.

I had a callback last Saturday for a role I didn't audition for. Usually a good sign. They called me today to let me know I'll be playing Teddy in Arsenic and Old Lace. Bully!
The first read-through is next Tuesday.

Here's a picture of Herr Zeller. For those of you who missed me in all my Nazi glory.



Gotta love the faux comb-over!

Love the pic!

Congrats on Teddy! :snap: I have never seen the stage version, but I hear it's a wonderful show. I've always wanted to audition for that show.
:)

OMG, 'Arsenic,' it turns out, is a fictionalized version of a real branch of family to, ahem, some middle-aged, tassle-haired woman who posts here!

Maybe she can give you some motivation tips, if you want to go all "method" with the role.

LOL! It's true. There is an erie family connection with this play/film but I love it so.

I WILL come and see this one. It's a priority.

Ooh! There's a story here- give it up!

We have an infamous family member, too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbitt



Jim, I luv the comb-over.:snap:

I played Teddy in High School. I hope you get the part. It's a fun role in a great play.

Woo Hooo!!!!! Congrats.
I did Lt Rooney.. ...yeah.. go ahead, mull that one over.

I Like the Teddy role, way to go for you! And the comb over... it'll do. ;)

Another Yellow Fever victim!


CHARGE!

Let that be a lesson to you.

Do you have show dates yet?

Arsenic and Old Lace opened last night (runs July 12 - August 19, Wed through Sat., 2 shows on Sat.). Still a bit clunky though, tonight's show should be right on the mark. About 300 people in the house, very nice. Interesting thing I've never had happen before, my curtain call is the one where the audience goes a little nuts! Really surprised me - actually threw me physically off balance. But I like it! I'll take more, please! If they had only known the drama I was having backstage with costumes and props, oy! A show all by itself, and not a cute one. At one point I couldn't find a prop in the lobby, had to run up a flight of stairs, across the entire length of the stage and audience, run down two flights of stairs to not find my prop. Reverse the process (at full speed in presidential regalia) back to the lobby, to be handed the prop which was cleverly hidden behind a couch, and make my entrance while trying not to A) throw up, or B) experience explosive diarrhea. I finally caught my breath somewhere near the last 10 minutes of the third act. Apparently, I did get a bloody nose, which I didn't discover until late in the show. Bleh.
Anyhow, hope all the LoTers in Socal during the next six weeks can come, it's a fun one, they do everything except actually cut the scenery up into bite-sized pieces for me!

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818-244-8481 $17.50-$20.00, Wed-Sat, 2 show on Sat.

Tell them Jim Barkley said to ask for the $2.00 coupon. It's bully! (and gets you a free soda!)

Well a double good Toot! To you. Congrats on a great opening. Of course now the audience will exepct a bloody nose every night.

Theatre is madness. Madness, I tells ya! :)

I hope the rest of the run is perfect. No more prop craziness and no more bloody nose. :)

Break a leg!

I was once knocked unconscious in a production of West Side Story.

During the 'I Feel Pretty' number, no doubt. :D

Well, playing Maria was no piece of cake, I tell you. My understudy stormed the stage and decked me so that she could take over. She was jealous I beat her out for the part.

Just a stab in the dark here, were you a Jet, Leo? Ha ha. Just kidding. Love givin' ya a hard time...

Doesn't anyone care that I, too, am in a show? Gn2Dlnd isn't the only diva here, you realize. :D I'm joking. My show opens tonight. "Surprise" at Theatre at First. I play a psychic. Although, I'd rather be in "Aresenic and Old Lace"... I love that play. I'd love to see G2D in a show, cause he's fabulous. :)

Last time you were very nervous.....how are you feeling today?

There was a huge debate in the drama department at my University about color blind casting. I've never understood it, really, and it makes no sense. Can an African American or someone who is Hispanic play Tony? I suggested they produce Master Harold and the Boys with color blind casting, but they weren't amused.

Well, as cranky as I seem, I'm actually in a really good mood this week. I'm looking forward to tonight. Ralphie's coming to tonight's performance.
My only problem with this play is that we're the last One Act to go up out of 8. So, we have to do a lot of waiting around in the Green Room. Bleh.
I don't know if the song 'America' would make sense if both gangs were of mixed racial backgrounds. Then again, maybe it would. The song is sung by just the women in the play version. If the women were all Latina it would work, I guess the men could be all different. It's a good question, though.

Weel, I NEED to see Lasenic and old Arse. Maybe we should put together a meet?

:D

But of course, Go out there and break a tentacle. I'm sure your performance will capture the very sole of the character. Everything will go swimmingly, and the audience will have a whale of a time!

"Too late, too late." ~ Judi Dench 'Shakespeare in Love'

:D

I'm kidding.

Thanks... for all the fish, Moonliner. :)

Oh fra, a Larsenic meet would be delightful.

Well, I want to see Farcenic and I want to see MBC's band again, I just don't want to go out of the house at the moment. The thought of doing anything - even fun stuff - sems unreasonable to me. 90 degrees is beyond my threashold for most things - even though I suject myself to 4 days of hellish temps for Coachella.


BAH!

Hey, thanks for all the kind words, esp. fellow mummer GC. How's the 1 act fest going? I mean, aside from all the waiting around in the green room?

I'd love to have a meet! There's a particularly swanky restaurant behind the theatre called Damon's, tiki decor to die for.

The show went more smoothly for me tonight, no prop drama, no bloody anythings, full house! One weird thing is that the pince-nez I'm wearing are prescription, and not mine. This is the first time I've done a show at this theatre where I can't really see the audience. I had no idea we had a full house until late in the play.

I think I'm getting a crush on the guy that plays Jonathan. Weird.

The festival is going great. We had a big house last night. Lots of great feedback. Everyone's energy was doubled last night. Each piece rocked.

'Surprise' went off well, too. It's tough being the last show to go up, but the crowd was really jonesing to laugh because the one before us was more on the dramatic side. Halway through our piece, moments before I was to get a glass of water thrown in my face, I noticed that the glass was particularly full last night. I thought, 'Well, I'm taking a huge shower in about t minus 10 seconds.' It was a huge splash and the audience laughed.
Ralphie loved it. I got red roses. :)
I think y'all should plan a meet. It'll be fun fun fun. :)
Glad it went well. Sometimes if the part doesn't call for glasses, I gladly take them off. It's a trick I heard Stevie Nicks uses to ward off stage fright. It helps. But then again, my prescription isn't that strong.
Don't do it, G2D! Run away! :D Having had several stage crushes and having been a stage crush several times, it's not a road to go down. That is, until after the show's over and after you find out the affection is being reciprocated. ;)

I'm too late, but don't forget the old stage adage:

"Remember your lines and don't trip over the furniture".

Chookers, darls !