So, last night at last we had a house that made some noise!

The audiences on Wednesday and Thursday both enjoyed the show thoroughly, but small audiences are shy audiences and don't like to bring attention to themselves by doing things like laughing audibly, but last night the audience was large enough and bold enough that when they thought something was funny, they let the actors know!

Omar's ex-wife was there, and since his daughter freaked him out into incomprehensibility the night before, I buttoned him before the show and said, "Who aren't you going to let throw you?" "Um, nobody?" "Your wife, that's who! Just because you know someone in the audience, that's no reason to go entirely insane!" "Right, I won't, I promise."

And, strangely enough, he didn't! Which was admirable especially because as soon as Winchester started, they started laughing.

Now, Winchester is not a comedy, it's a play about a woman who was molested as a child and cannot stop moving the furniture around her bedroom. It starts out with her husband, a tour guide in the Winchester Mystery House, giving part of the tour straight out to the audience, explaining how Sarah Winchester believed that if she kept building her house, she would fool the spirits who were trying to kill her while the wife moves all of the furniture on the set behind him.

Well, when she started dragging the bed across the room, they started laughing. At rehearsal, Omar suggested that it might get laughs, and I thought he was wrong, because I know what the show is about, but I suddenly realized that if you don't, it could be funny. And maybe the audience thought that the speech Omar was giving was describing what was happening behind him rather--that Kelly was Sarah Winchester.

But the thing was that they never changed the show, they never played to the laughs, so at the end, when Kelly has her monologue about being visited in the night when she was five years old, it was like a punch in the gut, even more effective than usual because they had thought that the show was much lighter than it was.

Kelly said that she could feel the waves of guilt coming off them.

The rest of the show was great, too, it just kicked major ass, every piece was better than ever. And Ann finally got the laughs that I promised her she would get on Wedding Dance.

I was so proud of them all.

Today's horoscope from the people who always get it wrong is shockingly right:

"How do you preserve your family history, Kymm? Do you keep mementos in a box, display heirlooms, or have a scrapbook? As a Virgo, you most likely realize the value of family history; however, you might not preserve it as well as you will have hoped for later in life. Take steps to record and save precious items and memories from those who came before you. Don't forget to record your own history, as well. One day you'll be the ancestor."

And what do you know? That's exactly what I do.

Today's horoscope:
Today you feel caught between emotional needs for warmth and excitement versus logical needs to face facts. Go for both.

One year ago today:
So I have traded the problem of finding a little boy and two matching dogs for the problem of finding an office where I can shoot with a naked cast!

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