If your name is not Josh Holloway, and you don't play Sawyer on Lost, just send me an e-mail to say hi, because I'm busy prepping for the first week of tech and rehearsals for my next two shows.
If, however, you ARE Josh Holloway and are ready to fly me to Hawaii to be your mistress, feel free to dial my number.
I am so famous. I just kinda stumbled across that and thought I'd share.
Prep week went well; now I'm looking forward to the day off on Monday. I kinda have tomorrow night off as well, but I'm baby-sitting Deb Staples' daughter, Mira, so I'm still working... Any addition to my stipend will be nice though.
Don't really have much to say, otherwise. I loves me my food stamps, as well as Knife of Dreams. Good book so far.
Some good quotes this week:
Mike: I had the beer and cheese soup..
Me: Beer and cheese soup? That's like... Wisconsin in a bowl.
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Mike: I got lots of food and it was all paid for by my friend WISCONSIN.
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Me: I'll do buses, I'll do cars, I'll do anything that moves.
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Mercutio144 (2:10:12 AM): goodnight goddess
Becca in prep week means I've had my nights off this week. This is WEIRD...hasn't happened since early August. And after this week it will happen again in late November, which I find impressive! Yesterday I actually got to watch Lost LIVE. And I've been able to actually read the latest Robert Jordan book a bit each night! Things are nice and I'm enjoying fall.
With that said, I miss Flea. I miss the comfort of running such an enjoyable show; knowing what will happen next, what I need to do next, who I will see every night, etc. Today I saw Glenn, one of the IA guys for the Powerhouse, who I haven't seen since Sunday, and I was just sooo happy to see him. Sigh.
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A Flea in Her Ear has closed. I'm sad. I haven't been so sad about a show closing since Annie Get Your Gun... The rest of the run was interesting. One of the resident actors slipped on the Act II stairs on Saturday night's performance and tore a tendon in his knee. His Understudy had to go on 10 minutes later, and our closing performance today was done by his understudy. Chris did a great job with it, everyone handled things very well, and it was a learning experience! Peter seems to be doing fine, too, so all in all, not a bad closing.
And I have plenty of things to work on in the coming weeks, so I won't be bored at ALL; the opposite in fact. But I'm going to miss this show. During the scene shift today, it registered that that would be the last time I'd get in my costume and feather dust the chairs and run that damn curtain across the stage and move the escape stairs. Last hand-off of the champagne bottle, last intermission shift with Sam and Glenn, last baguette piece to be eaten. I'll miss the crew, who I will see again during Sueno but not actually ever run a show with again. I'll miss Kelly and Briana, the WONDERFUL SM and ASM. Briana of course will be in the office every day with me, but I don't think we're working any more shows together. And Kelly will go away and have her baby. I won't work with any of these actors again until Sueno either, and some of them it'll be longer, and some of them already left Milwaukee for good.
This was a great first out-of-college experience. I learned a lot, had a lot of fun, got thrown right into the thick of things (where I love to be), and I'll miss this show! Next up: a week of prep for Andrews Brothers and Guys on Ice, then the following week GOI goes into tech and Andrews Brothers starts rehearsals. Sigh.
You can't take the sky from me...
Here is what you should do this weekend. Rent Firefly. Watch it. Go see Serenity. It doesn't have to be in that order.
Go to google.com and type "(your name) needs", then pick the 5 funniest ones there.
If your name is James, you would put this in to the search engine: "James needs". Then copy and paste this into your journal with your answers filled in.
Becca Needs To Back The Fuck Off My Man
Becca Needs Cock!!!!! (no, I did not add the exclamation points.)
becca needs paper of some sort to draw.
Becca needs to know she won’t always be deserted
Becca needs minimal -- if any -- maintenance.
Another review for A Flea in Her Ear... methinks this one was written for the UWM paper, so not the most thruilling read ever, but...eh.
Only a week to go. Wow.
I'm gonna miss the show, being in the Powerhouse (I won't be back in that theatre until the very end of the season), and of course the non-Resident actors who I won't be seeing again.. :(
Oh. The John McGivern Late Night show went well. I got compliments on my performance report from the higher-ups, and I get paid extra for doing it, so these things make me happy.
Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed."
"OH NO!" the President exclaims. "That's terrible!"
His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.
Finally, the President looks up and asks, "How many is a brazillion?"
So, on Friday night I'm Stage Managing a special event in the Stiemke Theatre, part of a late night comedy series that's going on at the Rep through December. I SM the first and third ones, then Melissa does the second and fourth ones. There may be some in the second half of the season, too, but we won't find that out til later. And, we get paid a little extra to do it! Yay... It should be fairly stress-free, because it's going to a very simple thing with a general wash of light and 2 or 3 sound cues. Definitely not a biggie, but it'll be on the fly since this is not the kind of thing you rehearse for. The only part that makes me a teeny stressed is that I haven't yet worked in the Stimeke (only the Powerhouse), so I'm not too well acquainted with it, and we all know that every individual theatre has its own special little quirks.
Also looming on the horizon... Flea will close in two weeks, and then I go straight into Guys on Ice tech. I'm basically the ASM on the show, but it's a returning/traveling show which is up performing in Door County right now, so there are no rehearsals here until tech, nor will I meet the SM until then. So I need to do all the prep week stuff for that (pre-show checklists, callboard info, shift plot, etc.) before tech just based on the info they have from doing it here last year. Should be interesting!
Meanwhile, as soon as Guys on Ice goes into tech, prep week for my next show, Andrews Brothers begins. I'm ASMing that. Now, Andrews Brothers is in the Cabaret and therefore by definition should not be a big show, but this director apparently is big on props, so because I'll be in tech for Guys while I should be doing fun things like preparing a prop plot for Andrews Brothers, I basically need to do all this in the next week and a half before Flea closes. Once Guys on Ice opens I'll be running it (there for all performances) and whenever I'm not at a Guys performance I'll be in rehearsals for Andrews Brothers, and trying to keep a handle on all the things that (in the real world) an ASM needs to keep a handle on.
Life is about to get crazy again.
