"The unforeseen does not exist"...until you work this show.

80 Days is settling down, and by that, I mean it's in it's run, so the crises have slowed to a trickle.

Jack, who replaced Monal, the ASM who had to leave because of a family emergency, also had to leave us, as he had conflicts for the rest of the show. So, last week we trained Roderick for Jack/Monal's part, and Roderick has stepped in. We miss Monal and Jack, but Roderick is doing a bang up job (literally unfortunately. Last night he hit his head on a prop and chipped his tooth. ouch!!!).

Last week as a 9 show week, which included a 10:30 student matinee. Normally student matinees (or brat mats as we call them) tend to be very rowdy, loud houses, but not last week. we only had 42 kids in the house. (the theatre seats over 230). They seemed to love the show, but there just weren't a lot of them.

That's pretty much sums up this run. Everyone who sees the show loves it, people just are not seeing it. Which is scary. Come on economy, come back to us.

This past week or so i've also been getting started on my next gig for the summer, which has so far been a lot of paper and computer work. We'll see how it goes.



Not-work related stuff:

I had a great birthday last week (i'm now solidly in my mid 20s). I went out to dinner with some friends from work and then met up with some more people for a beer after. Thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes!!

I'm also reading a book, A Voyage Long and Strange, by Tony Horwitz, which I recommend to anyone who loves history and/or adventure stories. It's a very intriguing, and funny, look at early American History (all the stuff that happened between Columbus and the Pilgrims - what we forget about), which he echoes with his own adventures while tracing the history he's writing/learning about.

Other than that, i'm hanging out with Anna whenever we get the chance (we've become regulars at a really good blues bar by her apt), saving up money to fly to Michigan this summer (Steve Spence is getting married!!?!?!), and generally having a blast!

Finally, we're open!!

This show, Around the World in 80 Days, is probably the hardest show i've ever worked.


We cancelled the first preview, because we were not nearly ready.



The next morning, we lost one of our 2 non-equity company members (the actors we hired in the guise of ASMs - what I do). we then had 5 hours of rehearsal to prepare another person (Jack, my hero of the week) to go on stage that night, to do about 35 scene shifts and 8 costume changes. phew.



For this show, I spend three hours tracking props up and down stairs and playing "tetris" with scenery and actors. i'm going to loose weight and gain muscle definition. As long as I don't stress eat it all away.


Oh yeah, I also moved this week.


i'm exhausted.