long week?

normally on Friday nights after rehearsals I'm excited to go have a drink after work...

today what I'm truly lokoing forward to is curling up in bed with a crossword puzzle and some West Wing.

Saving Veronica Mars

E Online has a "Save One Show" campaign going on, where you go vote for one of the shows listed, and they campaign to get it back on the air.  Veronica Mars, one of my favs, is listed under "Looking Doomed."  Seeing Scrubs on the list as well, I was sure whether at this point in the series Veronica really deserves my vote.... but then I read the blurb...

Veronica Mars:  With rumors that supporting castmembers were told the series was canceled and the Pussycat Dolls' well-rated reality series (blech) blowing Veronica out of the Nielsens water (double blech), it isn't looking good for Veronica Mars. Says creator Rob Thomas, "Last year I was 70-30, thinking the show would be saved. This year, I have been holding steady at 60-40. But lately, I've become less than that." If Veronica does return, it would likely become an FBI show with the feisty Miss Mars flashing forward four years into the future. (Which sounds pretty damn awesome to at least one fan.)

That sounds pretty damn awesome to me, too.  And worth saving!

notes on a hideous pagan ritual

The Nerd rehearsals continue to be the funniest thing I've ever experienced in my life.  This afternoon we're staging the "hideous pagan ritual", which consists of some rhymes such as, "Grab a cup of cottage cheese!  Throw it out on Mister Trees!", hopping around on one leg, banging pots and pans, etc.

Meanwhile, Tartuffe is in rehearsal next door in RH3.  During a random stop in today's rehearsal, the cast of The Nerd randomly spouted out the following:

Let's all jump around in Tartuffe!

Then let's go jump off the roof!

Let's all flip Moliere the bird!

He is just a stupid turd!

I think we're having too much fun in RH1.

stupid! - my marriage age

[X] I know how to make a pot of coffee.
[X] I keep track of dates using a calander.
[ ] I own more than one credit card.
[ ] I know how to change the oil in my dads car.
[X] I do my own laundry.
[ ] I vote every election.
[1/2 an X] I can cook for myself.
[ ] I think politics are exciting.
[X] I balance my checkbook.
[ ] My parents have better things to say than my friends.

total: 4.5

[x] I show up for school/college/work every day early.
[X ] I always carry a pen in my pocket/purse.
[ ] I've never gotten a detention.
[ ] I have never smoked a cigarette.
[ ] I have never gotten completely trashed.
[ ] I have forgotten my own birthday at least once.
[x] I like to take walks by myself.
[x] I've watched talk shows.
[x]I know what 'credibility' means without looking it up.
[X] I drink coffee at least once a week.

total: 6

[x] I know how to do the dishes.
[x] I can count to 10 in another language.
[x] When I say I'm going to do something I do it.
[x] My parents trust me.
[ ] I can mow the lawn.
[x] I can make adults laugh without being stupid.
[ ] I remember to water the plants.
[ ] I study when I have to.
[x] I pay attention at school/college.
[x] I remember to feed my pets.

total: 7

[x] I can spell 'experience' without looking it up
[ ] I work out on a regular basis.
[x] I clean up my own mess.
[ ] The people at Starbucks know me by name
[ ] my favorite kind of food is take out.
[x] I have gained weight since middle school.
[x] The first thing I do when I wake up is get caffeine.
[ ] I cant go to the store without getting something I don't need.
[ ] I understand political jokes the first time they are said.
[x] I can type quickly.

total: 5

[x] I have realized that the weather forecast changes every hour.
[ ] My only friends are from my place of employment.
[ ] I have been to a tupperware party.
[ ] I have realized that no one will take you seriously unless you are over the age of 25 and have a job.
[ ] I have more bills than I can pay.
[ ] All my friends are older than I am.
[x] I can say no to staying out all night.
[x] I use the internet every day.
[X] My wardrobe hasn't changed in a while
[x] I can read a book and actually finish it.

total: 5


MY TOTAL- 27.5.... my marriageage?  I doubt it.

felt a need to share

I like my life right now.  Things just seem to really be going my way and it makes me happy.  I have great friends, great jobs lines up, and I am content.

 

Words can't bring me down.

vacay

Who wants to go to Hawaii with me in October?  Or November?  Or early December?

Seriously, let's discuss.

On a side note, my life has been pretty much mapped out through next March.  This makes me happy.

next season at The Rep

A few articles make mention of The Rep's season next year; the final paragraphs of this article were of special interest to me:

A sharp-eyed examination of the picture of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater's 2007-'08 resident acting company that accompanied last Sunday's season announcement package revealed an increase of two persons over the current season's ensemble. Brian Vaughn will return to resident actor status after several seasons of freelancing around the country. Much of that freelancing occurred here, so most persons didn't realize he was not an official member of the Rep's troupe.

Gerard Neugent is new to the resident company. A Milwaukeean since he came here to attend Marquette University, Neugent has worked extensively at the Rep as well as the American Players Theatre in Spring Green and many other theaters in the state.

Veteran Jim Baker, who was in the picture, is taking a leave of absence for the season to rehabilitate his back. Baker suffered a serious spine injury during rehearsals for "King Lear" last summer and had to drop out of the production. Although he has returned to the stage, Baker's back continues to need attention.

The Rep has done little touring in the past 20 years, but the huge success of a traveling "Guys on Ice" production this season will result in the company going back on the road in 2007-'08. Nineteen of the 25 performances of "Guys" the Rep mounted in 15 communities were sold out. The production played to 15,735 persons in January and February.

The tour ranged from Janesville and South Milwaukee to Eagle River and Ladysmith. Red Wing, Minn., was the only stop outside of Wisconsin.

Eight of the cities sold out their initial performances so quickly, they added a second show. Two of those added a third.

"Guys on Ice" is about several ice fishing Packers fans, and some of the venues continued the theme beyond the stage. In Middleton, the Madison Muskie Club hosted a fund-raising dessert reception, erected a lobby display of fishing lures and gave a short presentation via DVD before each performance. For the Cedarburg stop, a patron who was already familiar with "Guys on Ice" created an exhibit of ice fishing equipment in the theater lobby.

Manitowoc went further than a mereexhibition. An ice fishing shanty contest was held in a downtown park. The public voted on their favorite shack by throwing beer bottle caps into a minnow bucket located in front of each contest entry. The winner was determined by weighing each bucket.

Another James Kaplan-Fred Alley musical, "The Bachelors," which had its world premiere in the Rep's Stackner Cabaret six years ago, will hit the road next season after a Jan. 15 to 27 run in the Stiemke Theater. Rep associate managing director Annie Jansen Jurczyk expects more cities to be on the tour for 2007-'08.

The season announcements for Milwaukee Rep next year and American Players Theater, where I shall be this summer, can be found here.

 

pain in the...

Today I was walking to work through some lovely snow, enjoying the fun winter weather, when I unknowingly stepped on a patch of ice.  UP went my feet, DOWN went my tailbone!  Now I can't really walk very well.  Or sit.  Or bend over.  Or crouch.  In fact, pretty much everything hurts.  Yay!

Yay, fun!

Something to pass the time... :)

http://www.youdontknowjack.com/

Q: So, are you glad the tour's over?

Other variations include...

-You glad to be back?

-Happy to be done exploring the great white north?

A:  No, no, no, no, no!

Other variations include:

-No, I miss my boys.

-I want to go out on the road again NOW!

-Actually, I'm desperately sad it's over.

 

It was such a lovely time.  Exhausting and new and always exciting.  Just when we started to really fall into a groove, it's over.  And I'm sad that those 8 people will most likely never be in a room together again at the same time.

Here's to blizzards and traffic cones and bobble-heads and Leinie's and bitch seats and hot tubs and cheese trays and ice holes and shanties and snowmobiles and zippers and laundry and frozen pizzas and per diem and karaoke and TV theme songs and Becca specials and roadboxes and "yyaaaa" and memories and all the rest.

"I hope you're in this show, cuz you are SO good looking!"