27 February
This show this show this show.
We open on Friday, we rehearsed twice before last week's show, then John and Bev got together a couple of times without me, then we rehearsed Saturday and Monday, then tonight, and then tomorrow is tech and we open Friday. I have never done a show with less rehearsal and I have never felt so solid in a show. We don't need any more rehearsal.
I've been walking around lately feeling like I'm in love, feeling like I have a new crush. I have that flutter in my belly, and I'm daydreaming alot, and grinning to myself, but when I try to think about the new boy that I like, I realize that there is no new boy that I like, it's just the show.
I have a crush on the show!
That looks like I'm making things, up, but it's really true, I really did spend three days trying to figure out who I'm in love with before the penny dropped.
The most amazing thing about it is that I have dropped in with this full-blown performance that Bev hasn't tried to change one bit (thank God), and yet John and I actually are performing together. Part of it is that I have brought him into my show, I am making him work with me, another part is that part of my and Sharon's concept of the character always was that she would act exactly the same no matter if she were with someone or alone, and the most important part is that the show has a rhythm of its own that is so strong that I will find myself saying a line at the same part of one of the songs that I did seven years ago.
I truly am amazed, though, at how the two of us are connecting, and how it is becoming our show rather than just ours, particularly after that appalling first readthrough, but we are and it is.
It is and will always be my show more than it can ever be anyone else's, no matter who else does it throughout the corridors of time, it will be mine. It will always be mine and Kevin's, but I am starting to feel that it will be mine and John's as well.
Doesn't this make you want to see it? Well, if I haven't written you about it yet and you want to come, drop me a line and I'll give you the particulars!
Today's horoscope:
Life doesn't have to feel stifling and confining. Find positive ways to break loose and break free.
One year ago today:
And rarely refer to my actors as "Mister" or "Miss" anything. "Babe", "Sweetie" and "You Big Dork" being closer to my reality.
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