OT - on stage with Brighton Beach Memoirs

[superkat]

alot of work the last few weeks...but has definitely been worth it...

this is how the set looked before my daughter Mandy got a hold of it:

this is how it looks now...and last night we schlepped a piano up there too:

this has been breakfast, lunch and dinner for the last few days:

one of the actors doing his best Masterpiece Theater interpretation of the prop book, "Cowboys are My Weakness" (it's supposed to be The Citadel...this is the only book we had...lmao.) This still makes me laugh:

Mandy transforming the set:

 

[toddmh]

looks great Kat..I think I lived on Bugles from like 17-25yo lol I don't remember chocolate peanut butter ones though...Yummy

 

[superkat]

they are new...and wonderful.

 

[superkat]

we actually got to eat a real dinner during the last dress rehearsal last night! show opens tonight. SO NERVOUS. First time ON STAGE since 1996.

 

[Dave VG]

Very cool kat. Ha ha get it cool kat lol. My try at humor sorry

 

[superkat]

that's okay! it was a good try! Hope my "try" goes as well. I have quite a few people coming to see me tonight...including a "surrogate brother" I need to make proud.

 

[toddmh]

break a leg Kat..that dont sound right lol...

 

[superkat]

it's perfectly correct! the phrase goes back to Shakespearean and Elizabethan times when wishing an actor good luck was actually bad luck. It also refers to entering the stage from the wings where you need to pass through the curtains on the sides of the stage...which are called "legs". You would need to "break a leg" to enter the stage.

So....THANK YOU!

 

[superkat]

Opening night was amazing! Brand new theater troupe, Gaslight Theater Company, where we perform for a venue with all the proceeds going to charity. We had to hold the curtain for a line up at the door for walk ups and add approximately 70 more seats. I was nervous, dropped lines here and there, but am fortunate to be working with a professional cast (and fantastic people...and good friends) and we all helped each other make what we worked so hard on come to life. Flowers from my "brother" Ralph:

it was so weird to be receiving applause. when you stage manage, you never get recognition, really, for anything that you do....and actually, the applause made me more uncomfortable than being on stage.

thanks for the well wishes.

 

[pascal32]

awesome!