Tonight's final dress was a bit rough. For me problems started in my first scene. A fellow actor neglected to bring out a prop. Normally, forgetting a prop results in a minor inconvenience, but this particular prop is responsible for driving about 70% of the plot in act one. I had to change my lines in order accommodate this new twist and improvising in Shakespearean dialog isn't that easy to do. I tried to return as quickly as possible to the actual lines but once i jumped the track all heck broke loose. My head remained spinning through my next two scenes and i have no idea what i might have actually said out there. Act two regained momentum and the small crowd quietly enjoyed themselves.
The most disappointing part of the evening occurred during notes after the show. We were told that we're not having a post-opening-night-show reception because there was no where to hold it. The free food after our first performance in front of a real audience is the reason i volunteer for this stuff in the first place. It's all down hill after opening night. I guess the cast will be going to The Cottage afterwards but that's just not the same. They also told us that we will not be able to perform a scene from our show at the Grand Awards as we had planed. They really know how to lay it on us.
Posted by Matthew at October 6, 2004 11:35 PM