Tres Preguntas
So last night I went to the Samuel French Theater Festival, to see the show "Three Questions" starring jayspec462 and mollyx.
The place (American Actor's Theatre or some shit) was really hard to find- inside a traffic court building(!). The guards at the door were surly and were checking bags. I got there, had my bags checked, went upstairs to the theater, found out they wouldn't be selling tickets for another 10 minutes, so I went back downstairs and outside to see if I could find Don and Alex and possibly help direct them to the doorway. I directed several other people, but didn't see D&A. I saw a guy across the street who looked a lot like Ken, my friend Kendal's boyfriend, but with much longer hair. I was about to call to him, when he took out a cellphone.
Finally at 6:55, I gave up on Don and Alex and went inside to have my bags checked again. This time they found my scissors. They told me to be careful with them. I'm a badass. I totally forgot they were in there.
When I went up to get a ticket and said I didn't have a reservation, the woman was surprised and angry, and I almost had to pull the scissors, but then she said I was lucky because someone had just given up a ticket. So I got in, but feared for Don and Alex (and rightly so, because I found out later they couldn't get in).
I sat through a bunch of one-acts before jayspec462 and mollyx's.
Room 110 Wants... was a lame piece about recapturing one's youth by sleeping with younger men on one's wedding day. It was produced by Love Creek, and might have been more interesting if they'd actually cast woman in their 30s rather than their teens (I think Love Creek is a theatre camp? -an odd choice). I nearly fell asleep.
The Best It's Ever Looked was a not-bad story of a husband and wife trying to recapture their youth by sleeping with younger people while keeping up the image of a good marriage.
S.H.C. starred my friend Kendal! Ken showed up for her show and sat next to me. We chatted for a while about our various projects we're working on until her show started. She and the other actor were good, but the show was a bit lame. Before it started, I was trying to figure out what S.H.C. stood for. I came up with "Simple Human Contact", but within the first 2 seconds of the show, I knew it was "Spontaneous Human Combustion". At least I got the human right. They were drinking beer onstage, and they got knocked over at least 3 times, spraying beer all over and forcing some amusing ad libs. Ken left after the show.
Catch was really good, actually. It was a story about 2 guys who were really close all through high school, now one of them was getting married and his wife didn't want him to see his friend anymore. All kinds of homoerotic tension through it. Loved it. Any play whose first line is "Camelot! camelot, man!" gets cool points from me. And the adorable guy getting dumped was from Canada, so he had that neat BNL accent. "Soorry."
Then, ahhhh... Three Questions. jayspec462 and mollyx rocked the house. It was really friggin' funny and really friggin' good. My friends rule. Clara's friend Susan came in just before, and sat with me to watch it. We busted our guts laughing.
We all went out to eat with the playwright and his girlfriend at Mercury Bar. I showed off some of my 63 headshots for Dik and Jayne, and we got snarky about some of them. mollyx gave me her headshot to add to the pile, which is great. I had a delicious chicken-pita melt, which didn't quite look like what I expected when I ordered, but it was tasty anyway.
When I got home, there was a message on my machine from my friend Sue, saying she'd just seen my ad in Backstage, and how great was that, asking me to call her. By then it was nearly Midnight, so I sent her an E-mail saying it was too late to call her. She got the E-mail and called me a few minutes later.
She's very impressed by the upcoming play and totally understood that if there had been a role for her (as there would be if I were doing, say Sleeping in Tomorrow), I'd have called her directly.
I filled her in on the Extraordinaries trauma, and she's planning on seeing it sometime soon.
The place (American Actor's Theatre or some shit) was really hard to find- inside a traffic court building(!). The guards at the door were surly and were checking bags. I got there, had my bags checked, went upstairs to the theater, found out they wouldn't be selling tickets for another 10 minutes, so I went back downstairs and outside to see if I could find Don and Alex and possibly help direct them to the doorway. I directed several other people, but didn't see D&A. I saw a guy across the street who looked a lot like Ken, my friend Kendal's boyfriend, but with much longer hair. I was about to call to him, when he took out a cellphone.
Finally at 6:55, I gave up on Don and Alex and went inside to have my bags checked again. This time they found my scissors. They told me to be careful with them. I'm a badass. I totally forgot they were in there.
When I went up to get a ticket and said I didn't have a reservation, the woman was surprised and angry, and I almost had to pull the scissors, but then she said I was lucky because someone had just given up a ticket. So I got in, but feared for Don and Alex (and rightly so, because I found out later they couldn't get in).
I sat through a bunch of one-acts before jayspec462 and mollyx's.
Room 110 Wants... was a lame piece about recapturing one's youth by sleeping with younger men on one's wedding day. It was produced by Love Creek, and might have been more interesting if they'd actually cast woman in their 30s rather than their teens (I think Love Creek is a theatre camp? -an odd choice). I nearly fell asleep.
The Best It's Ever Looked was a not-bad story of a husband and wife trying to recapture their youth by sleeping with younger people while keeping up the image of a good marriage.
S.H.C. starred my friend Kendal! Ken showed up for her show and sat next to me. We chatted for a while about our various projects we're working on until her show started. She and the other actor were good, but the show was a bit lame. Before it started, I was trying to figure out what S.H.C. stood for. I came up with "Simple Human Contact", but within the first 2 seconds of the show, I knew it was "Spontaneous Human Combustion". At least I got the human right. They were drinking beer onstage, and they got knocked over at least 3 times, spraying beer all over and forcing some amusing ad libs. Ken left after the show.
Catch was really good, actually. It was a story about 2 guys who were really close all through high school, now one of them was getting married and his wife didn't want him to see his friend anymore. All kinds of homoerotic tension through it. Loved it. Any play whose first line is "Camelot! camelot, man!" gets cool points from me. And the adorable guy getting dumped was from Canada, so he had that neat BNL accent. "Soorry."
Then, ahhhh... Three Questions. jayspec462 and mollyx rocked the house. It was really friggin' funny and really friggin' good. My friends rule. Clara's friend Susan came in just before, and sat with me to watch it. We busted our guts laughing.
We all went out to eat with the playwright and his girlfriend at Mercury Bar. I showed off some of my 63 headshots for Dik and Jayne, and we got snarky about some of them. mollyx gave me her headshot to add to the pile, which is great. I had a delicious chicken-pita melt, which didn't quite look like what I expected when I ordered, but it was tasty anyway.
When I got home, there was a message on my machine from my friend Sue, saying she'd just seen my ad in Backstage, and how great was that, asking me to call her. By then it was nearly Midnight, so I sent her an E-mail saying it was too late to call her. She got the E-mail and called me a few minutes later.
She's very impressed by the upcoming play and totally understood that if there had been a role for her (as there would be if I were doing, say Sleeping in Tomorrow), I'd have called her directly.
I filled her in on the Extraordinaries trauma, and she's planning on seeing it sometime soon.