So, we teched the show last night.

Le came, which meant that Omar flew into an absolute tizzy of amazing tizziness that made...that made someone extremely hysterical seem like someone extremely calm. Hey, I'm tired, I don't have time to wrack my brains trying to think of examples.

Anyway, he has to start the show with a monologue to the house, which meant that it was a monologue to Le, the managing director of the company, a man that Omar loves and admires and wants to impress, and whom he hasn't seen in months before he went insane and ran off due to stuff happening in his personal life and made it so that it took me six weeks to find him to cast him in this piece, and all these things combined made it so that Omar went up on his lines like three times during Winchester, and he actually stopped and broke character and said, "O God, I'm so sorry," which may not sound like much, but isn't something that one does at tech anymore than one does it in front of a paying audience.

Twice I was about to give in and give him the line, when we pulled it out of his ass and went on. It was absolutely horrible, but the rest of the show, including the other pieces with Omar in them, were just fine and Le liked them very much, especially On the Way Home and . Afterwards I went backstage and said, "Well, I had planned on rehearsing Clerestory again, since tonight was the first time we were doing in without stopping, but somehow I don't think that Clerestory needs rehearsal so much as, say Winchester does right now!"

Omar about fell all over himself apologizing, saying that he has never done it before in his life, that no matter how much he goes up on his lines he never stops dead like that, he always just makes stuff up, but Le was out there and he was all embarrassed about what Le might be thinking of his disappearing act.

Then we did it again after Le left, and it was great and I gave them the fisheye and said, "Okay, baby, you really need to do whatever you need to do so that you start the show calm and in control and not all hysterical and fluttery," and Kelly chimed in, "And I have to do whatever I need to do so that I am all hysterical and fluttery!"

Victoria Jackson! A tizziness that makes Victoria Jackson seem like Winston Churchill! Okay, as you were.

Today's horoscope:
Secrets become more complicated. Be aware of the power of information and think twice about the people with whom you share data.

One year ago today:
It's a good thing that I don't always work with children, because I could easily see that I would be one of those directors about whom grown up child stars complain traumatized them in their formative years.

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