Half Life review

...can be found here:  "Long, gauzy curtains of white billow around Goeffrey M. Curley’s vaguely surreal set. The curtains swish around during very fluid changes of scenery, occasionally revealing very real people in very real bits of furniture. Conversations are started, abandoned and routinely left hanging in the ceaselessly dreamlike flow of events."

You know you're from Philly when...

*Before we begin this nice list, I'd like to point out that in the game last night, I was rooting for the Packers.  I mean, come on, how could any Guys on Ice fan NOT be rooting for Brett Favre?*

...bold it if its true of you...

You've never referred to Philadelphia as anything but "Philly." And New Jersey has always been "Jersey."

You refer to Pennsylvania as "PA."

You know how to pronounce Bryn Mawr, Schuylkill, Bala Cynwyd, Duquesne, Punxsutawney, Susquehanna, and Allegheny.

You know what a "Mummer" is.

You can use the phrase "fire hall wedding reception" and not even bat an eye.

You absolutely hate T.O.

You really miss Y-100.

At least 5 people on your block have electric "candles" in all or most of their windows all year long.

Words like "hoagie", "sticky buns", "shoo-fly pie", "pierogies" and "pocketbook" actually mean something to you.

You know the time and location of every "wing night" in a 20 mile radius.

You consider an exotic vacation to be a trip to Ocean City, Virginia Beach, or Myrtle Beach.

You think very little of an Amish buggy on the road.

You’ve run up the steps to the art museum emulating Rocky at least once.

You know that Intercourse, Climax, Virginville, Paradise, Mars, and Slippery Rock, Blue Ball, and Bird in Hand are all PA towns.

You love Birch Beer.

You consider Pittsburgh to be "out west," and you know the fastest way to Philly is the Turnpike.

When the forecast said snow, you stayed up waiting for them to announce that school was cancelled.

You know that more than two inches of snow will at least get you a two hour delay.

You have an uncontrollable urge to buy bread and milk when you hear the word "snow."

You live within two miles of a plant that makes potato chips, corn chips, pretzels, candy, or ice cream, or that packages turkeys, beans, or bologna.

You think the roads in any other state are smooth.

Refer to something as "a whole nother," e.g., "That's a whole nother issue."

You punctuate every sentence with, "You know" at least twice.

You want olive oil, not mayonnaise on your hoagie.

Your favorite desert is water ice. (pronounced "wooder" ice)  (okay, I don't really say wooder..)

You find yourself using "yo" and "youse guys" when talking long-distance to family members.  (I say it when talking to anyone, really.)

You find yourself at a nice restaurant thinking "I wonder if they have cheese steaks?"

You visit New York and are impressed by how clean it is.

You've had more than one debate on why Wawa is better than Sheetz.

You call sprinkles on top of your ice cream cone "jimmies".

You can't imagine lunch without a Tastykake.

A vacation at the Jersey shore is better than going to an island (there's more stuff to do, plus you know everybody.)

You know where to find the Rocky statue.

You've had more than one heated discussion on why Pat's, Geno's, Jim's, or any of the other cheesesteak places is the best and all of the others suck.

You've never been to the Liberty Bell, or the only time you were there was on a class trip in third grade.

You know what and where "Boathouse Row" is

You will buy a pretzel from anyone, anywhere without even thinking of where it was - or where his hands have been.

You can't imagine a breakfast without scrapple.

You don't know what a sub is, but you think they are trying to describe an imitation HOAGIE.

You aren't a bandwagon Sixers fan, you loved them when they sucked, and before they had A.I.

You go to The Gallery or South Street in the summer time just to chill.  once or twice..

You call the Dallas Cowboys the Cowgirls.

When every year a team makes it close to or to the post season and yet every year you still find your self saying i know how this is gonna end...there's always next year.

If you never took a field trip to anywhere other than the franklin institute, the zoo, the art museum, or the museum of natural science

If you listen to Preston and Steve EVERY morning.

If you know every word to the theme song from the fresh prince of Bel Air.

If you know what it means if someone refers to something as a "jawn"

nothing special

...Just an article link, or two, so I can look back and remember the shit that went down when Lear opened...  ;)

Half Life is going well.  Two weeks to go, than it's on to ACC.

"Half Life" at Milwaukee Rep?

Just so we're all aware...

This does not describe my play.  At all.  Random!

SUN IN THE MORNING and the MOOOOOOOOON at night!

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...swimming through curtains...

Okay, updates are long overdue, so I thought I'd take a minute or three to do that whole updatin' thang.  First of all, Milwaukee is great.  I love the new intern company, love finally having Amanda back in town, love where I live in relation to work, and just love being back here in general.  Except it's already getting cold out.  Boo on that.

My show, Half Life, opened on Sunday night.  I served as Whitney's ASM on the show, and let me just say, what a fabulous experience.  I could not be happier with the first show of my season.  It's been a while since I've felt so proud of a show I've worked on and felt so completely that I was a vital part of the team that put it together.  It was my first time working with Whit on a show, and I really felt like she trusted me to do my thing throughout the rehearsal process and felt more relaxed as the SM knowing she could count on me and not have to babysit me.  I had a similar great experience working on Tuesdays with Morrie at the end of last season, but this show just required a lot more of me.  The show is only an hour 20 minutes long, but in that time there are THIRTEEN different scene changes, which I was a huge part of putting together.  The backstage life on the show is CRAZY, because we literally have no space into which we have to cram a shitload of furniture, as well as 10 actors, and Zinky, and me.  It's a very choreographed jigsaw puzzle back there, and I was the person in charge of deciding which part would fit where when.  And making sure it happens exactly the same way every night, and that everyone remembers/knows what they need to do, and keep everything safe, AND know what I have to do MYSELF. 

So, when the show opening went very well, I was proud of it in a way that I haven't experienced for a while.  This was also my first time working with Laura Gordon, who directed it.  She's one of the Resident acting company members here at the Rep, but last season I just didn't work on any of the shows she was in, so we didn't know eachother until rehearsals started.  I loved working with her, and she was so appreciative of everything I did, and I can't wait to work with her again, on ACC (which she's in).  You know your director thinks you're good at what you do when they write a card to you on opening night that starts off, "You are a remarkable woman...".  Sigh, it makes me smile.

This week I'm catching up on some stuff with Guys on Ice, and doing the understudy run for Half Life.  It'll be good.

My horoscopes have been SO right on recently.  Everytime I read mine at work, I comment on it, so now Whitney is always like, "You ALWAYS say that about your horoscope, Becca."  It's true, shrug.  I could write about other stuff going on right now, but methinks I'll save that for another day.

:)

One of the actresses in my show, Jeannie Naughton, just got a bouquet of red roses for her birthday from David Hyde Pierce.

Famous!

you oughta know

I just started to type out a really long entry....  then it got deleted.

Here's the gist:

-I'm alive!  Milwaukee = good.  My social life is picking up again now that shows are opening and uh...yeah, that about sums that up.

-My apartment is small, but nice.  I miss the internet a bit, but I'm doing just dandy without A.C. or Cable right now.

Yeah, I really don't feel like typing more again.  I will say though, that I had an awesome Labor Day weekend, and my nose is burnt.  And I drank way too much.

And I'm obsessed with Veronica Mars. 

I haven't taken any pictures since I've been here.  Wierd, right?

The End.

Does anyone know how to import entries like this into MySpace blogs?  Is there an easy way to just automatically send it there?

today's true horoscope

Any tendency to blurt out what you're thinking could backfire in a big way during these sensitive astral times. Make sure you have your mental editor on red alert at all times before addressing someone.