Grumping

[desperance]

We open in four days. It would be nice if people actually learned their lines (by which, of course, I mean my lines, rather than their own approximation thereof), oh, y'know, even a day or two before that...?

Also, if there is anything more immediately depressing than yet another variation on "this really is very good, but I'm still not going to buy it", I cannot immediately think of it.

Also, Barry has been cutely sitting on my lap in his usual post-breakfast mellow mood. He has now put both paws on my forearm, and is chewing through to the bone. Ouchy.

Comments

[bookzombie.livejournal.com]

Look out for the dress rehearsal. If that's a pile of poo you've got nothing to worry about. If it goes without a hitch be afraid, be very afraid. It's a tradition, don't ya know!

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't know. My personal experience has pretty much been that if the dress rehearsal's a disaster, so's the opening night. :) On the other hand, I've seen a lot of shows come together on tech and dress rehearsal nights. The inspiration of panic, perhaps. :) Break a leg with it, Chaz!

[wishus.livejournal.com]

Come on, that's four whole days!

[davidbarnett.livejournal.com]

Also, if there is anything more immediately depressing than yet another variation on "this really is very good, but I'm still not going to buy it", I cannot immediately think of it.

Is this in relation to the last novel. I've had that, too, on the subject of our Tuesday Tot-Up. I'd rather they say it was cack.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Not the one we raced with - still waiting to hear about that. This is the Next Big Fantasy proposal. Sigh. What more do they want? It's got dragons and everything...

[devonellington.livejournal.com]

The first day of rehearsal on an Athol Fugard play, which he wrote and was directing, he came into the room and said, "I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that the playwright is dead and there will be no rewrites during the rehearsal period. The bad news is that I promised him you chaps would speak the lines exactly as written."

You better believe the actors (Kevin Spacey and Frankie Faison) did exactly that!

I was there at the time, and heard it myself.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

That is very cool. And thank you; I shall borrow the story, and beat 'em over the head with it...

[martyn44.livejournal.com]

Here's hoping your cast are all that breed of actor to whom seeing a sea of faces on the other side of the footlights releases that flood of memory and ability you never suspected they possessed. I've seen it happen - unfortunately, they couldn't quite drag my words up to a level of mere mediocrity.

But the audience laughed.