Holiday updates and greetings...
I'd hate to live next door to this guy.... Watch the whole thing... it gets more and more complicated!
Anyways, things have been superb-ly busy... Working backstage at Jeffery Bernard is Unwell at the Kavinoky... (one more weekend if ya wanna come...) It's the most quick changes I've ever had to do in a single show (Probably about 15 in act one alone...) ... not that that makes the show any better or anything, but still. The whole joke with this show is that Steve Cooper asked me if I wanted to design it and his "nice offer" was that there were ONLY five people in the show... and while yes, there are only five people, four of them play over fifty characters... And while I love my assistant, she's no Anne Maloy. She's from Nigeria and has a fun accent. Don't get me wrong, I really like her, it's interesting though when you go to the other side of the stage to ask a question and you find out that your assistant finished her changes and left mid-show...
Not that I'm bitter...
Working on Always... Patsy Cline now. I'm in Cortland, doing "research". Fortunately, this is the season for cowboy boots. And Patti and I are helping my grandmother set up her Christmas tree tomorrow. We made candy tonight. If you don't look at it, it tastes really yummy... (I'm kidding, it came out really well...) Actually it was really cute, I had told Anita (a woman who lives upstairs from me) that I was going to visit my Grandmother and that this was Noni's first Christmas without my Grandfather. So Anita made me a bouquet of roses to give to her. Anita sells roses out near Delaware Park. It was very sweet of her. She even gave me another bouquet to give to my Mom. But driving in a car with two bouquets of roses for three hours really made my allergies act up. haha!
The boarding house is interesting as usual. Anita made a late Thanksgiving dinner for everyone. She's really nice. She walks around the park selling flowers I guess. The guy across the hall from me gave me a copy of the Bible for letting him borrow a couple of DVD's. It's an interesting barter system that we've got going on there... Frank asked me if I got my peacoat in prison cause it looks like the one that he was issued when HE was in prison. I tried to tell him that I got it at Delia*s, but he still asks me what I did time for. I'm not exactly sure what he was in prison for. Andrew was in prison for breaking and entering, but that was during his Jack Kerouac phase and before he joined AA and found Jesus, yet he says that I'M a bad person for going to see Harry Potter (which I thoroughly enjoyed three times, by the way...) But he says that the whole prison thing was just a misunderstanding, but his family still hasn't forgiven him for the ten thousand dollar bail. Neil used to be an actor. He went to UB and had Saul Elkin for a professor. He doesn't work anymore though because he was only working to keep his car running, so he sold the car and quit his job. He lives in the house for free because he shovels the sidewalk in the winter and mows the lawn in the summer. Andy (not Andrew) went to college to study electrical engineering. I frequently run into him explaining Quantum Physics to Eliza; a quiet, polite woman who usually wears a pink and green striped jacket with a red plaid skirt. Andy is also supposed to teach me how to play the guitar sometime cause he told me I needed to learn. Ryan works at the casino... he works weird hours like I do. He rents the driveway in back of the house, but he's letting me park there when he goes to Iowa for a week in January. Daniel is from Brazil and he's only lived in this country for five years. He learned English from watching Friends. And then there's Gene... the R.A. Every time I ask him what he's up to, he always says "five foot, nine and a half inches." It creeped me out though when I asked him what he wanted for Christmas and he said "three things: a blonde, a brunette, and a redhead." This is from the guy with the Homer Simpson hair...
That barely explains everyone in the house, but it's a good start...
And that was for me to remember, not like I could ever forget...
I'm excited for this weekend... some friends from Cortland are coming up to Buffalo to see Renae and I. And my show too, I guess... It should be a lot of fun and I'm really looking forward to it. But don't tell anyone. I'm excited that Brian will be back from Oregon. Except I don't even know who's coming to Buffalo along with him except for Patti and Marcie, who I still haven't met.
Anyways, that's all for now... hope all your holidays are wonderful!
"Sometimes life reminds me of a bad movie... I just wish I could fast-forward to the good parts..."