I get to be a thesbian
Well, now I've gone and done it. I auditioned for a community theater production of The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told ... and damn if I didn't land one of the juicier supporting roles. The play will be going up the weekend before San Diego's LGBT Pride weekend, July 11 and 12. I'd love for folks to pencil in that date if there's even the slightest chance you might be in town for the show.
Performing has been a long-postponed dream of mine, and I'm astonished that fate has finally put me in the right place at the right time, in good enough health and in a sufficiently supportive community to finally take a shot at this dream. I should add that the theater group doing this is associated with my hippy-groovy Unitarian Universalist church--figures they'd have the chutzpah to put up a show as gleefully iconoclastic as this. But not only is this congregation supportive of this kind of message, it's also supportive of individuals expressing themselves through such acts of creativity.
When I was reading for the part I eventually got, it just felt so right. I don't want to analyze that feeling any more than that. I want to at least try to stay in the moment.
Heh. The other thing I remember about my long-ago dabblings in amateur theater is its tendency to eat every last moment of one's available free time. I guess I'll have to play that one as it lays.
Performing has been a long-postponed dream of mine, and I'm astonished that fate has finally put me in the right place at the right time, in good enough health and in a sufficiently supportive community to finally take a shot at this dream. I should add that the theater group doing this is associated with my hippy-groovy Unitarian Universalist church--figures they'd have the chutzpah to put up a show as gleefully iconoclastic as this. But not only is this congregation supportive of this kind of message, it's also supportive of individuals expressing themselves through such acts of creativity.
When I was reading for the part I eventually got, it just felt so right. I don't want to analyze that feeling any more than that. I want to at least try to stay in the moment.
Heh. The other thing I remember about my long-ago dabblings in amateur theater is its tendency to eat every last moment of one's available free time. I guess I'll have to play that one as it lays.