"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