My life has been insane.
At one point, I worked 11 out of 12 straight days at Greenfield Village alone, plus three days where I doubled at the Village and Blockbuster. As soon as that insanity was over, I went straight into rehearsals for a last minute show, started my physics class. Yes, rehearsals for a second show (while performing at the Village) and a physics class. Overachiever much? Whew…
So the show I’m in is called The Little Dog Laughed. It’s a four-person show, a very dark comedy. Maybe a little more “dramedy”. I’ve been waffling on announcing it to everyone, partly because I’ve had such a damn hard time trying to make time to write anything – let alone in this blog – and partly because of the fairly intense themes that the show covers. Not that I don’t think everyone would be up for it, but I’m not sure everyone would choose to sit through double male full nudity, and me doing a sort-of sex scene from which my character gets pregnant. So yeah, if that sentence alone hasn’t deterred you, then feel free to click the link to the right to make reservations. I have four comp tickets for Monday 9th, and four total available through next weekend (one of which I think my mother is going to use). The show runs Saturday, Sunday, Monday next weekend, and the last weekend of August. There will be no show on the 21st due to the Woodward Dream Cruise, but there will be a Sunday and Monday show that weekend.
We had three weeks to put this show together. Three weeks and three days, exactly, up until we opened last night. We rehearsed about three times a week, so with around 10-12 rehearsals, give or take a few, we put together this show. It’s been a crazy, crazy adventure.
But our first reviewer came last night to our opening…
Matthew Turner Shelton [one of my co-stars], meanwhile, has the broadest emotional landscape to cover, and somehow, he makes it look effortless. Perhaps just as impressively, Crystal Rhoney made me have far more sympathy for Ellen [my character] than I’ve previously felt. During a scene in which Ellen talks about returning to her childhood home, she broke my heart and won me over for what remained of the show.
My first review! I’m on my way! (Another reviewer came to our matinee today, so we’ll see if it’s as positive as the first).
As a closing note, my life is going to ease up for a couple weeks. With less Greenfield singing time, my class ending, and now that the show is going on and I don’t have tons of rehearsals, I’m about to have a little bit of free time for a couple weeks before I LEAVE FOR WESTERN! AGH! So excited!
