5 June
So the show opened last night and was reasonably good.
When we got offstage I said "That was the fewest number of laughs that I personally find acceptable," but as Gregg said, "And they were all yours!"
The problem is the second show, which makes no sense, and the audience isn't laughing and they get used to not laughing, and then Gregg has a major costume change and there was supposed to be an intermission to cover it, but they forgot and the audience was just sitting, staring expectantly at an empty stage.
Until Kirsten made the announcement "We're having a short break here so that an actor can do a major costume change," which was not entirely the same thing as having an official five minute intermission.
Plus, it was hot. So between a laugh-free show preceding us, the wait, and the heat, it was an uphill battle to train the audience back into laughing again, but I enter last so I didn't have to work so hard as the other actors, as the groundwork was already laid.
Afterwards, at the bar, everyone was telling me what a good job I had done and stuff, and I got real full of myself. As I left, David calls out "Kymm Zuckert, you were great tonight!" and I said:
"I know!"
Ah well, it's not ego, it's true.
So, at tech Kirsten asks Roberta, the other director, "So, when are you getting married?" and Roberta says "September!" and then I say:
"You got a photographer yet?"
"No, not yet."
"I'll show you my book!"
"You're a wedding photographer? Fantastic!"
So of course this means that I need to put together a book, as I only have loose photos, but I have a couple of cool albums to choose from, so I think I should be able to manage.
Everytime I read a "How To Pick a Wedding Photographer" article, they always say the same thing--to make certain to see a book of an entire wedding, not bits and pieces, because anyone can take a few good pictures during a wedding, you want to see that they can shoot the entire thing well.
So I think I'll make two books. The complete wedding will be Eric and Rosemary's, because I have the most prints available, and it was a very good wedding, but there's some great shots from Michelle and Marq's and Amanda and Jeff's respective weddings, and I want to show them off, too.
A recap of what I've been reading lately.
Last week I read Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods, which is very very funny, and insidious as he really makes me want to walk the Appalachian Trail, forgetting that the last thing I ever want to do in my life is poop outdoors. Highly recommended.
Then I read Sex in the City, which I found fairly loathsome. I haven't seen the series on HBO, but the book to me is about people with ugly souls fucking people whom they hate. It wasn't like Anka's sex book, which was joyful and funny and fun--it was ugly and depressing. Don't bother.
Yesterday I just finished Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Of course I always knew that it was a true story, that Cameron Crowe had gone back to high school as an adult and written a book about the kids that he met, but I had never actually read it.
It's great! It's as great as the movie, even, and it's very interesting to see what a faithful translation was made into the movie. Some stuff was condensed, of course, but there were large sections of dialogue that were verbatim.
So all these kids, Shelly and Linda and Damone and the Rat and Spicoli and Brad were all real. And Cameron went to Ridgemont in 1979, when Shelly was 15, so she's exactly my age. It's twenty years later. I want to know what happened to them!
Somebody remind me when the next set of Diarist Awards comes up to nominate this entry for Best Comedic Entry--I laughed until I wept!
Today's horoscope:
A change in recreation is highlighted--a brainstorm about a new activity or place to try. Be original and inventive!
One year ago today:
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