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.
Take the quiz: "Which LOST character are you?"
Charlie
You are Charlie You are an ex-rocker trying to kick a drug habit. While on the island you have met a very nice girl Claire.
Okay. Maybe not "so many" levels. But a few.
Claire
"Don't talk to me about the baby. I'm sick of everyone telling me what to do."
Good to know I have a crush on myself.
TGIWednesday!
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"Longs for a tender and sympathetic bond and for a ..."
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MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE YOUR OWN KINNND OF MUUUUSIIIIICCC
If you're interested, here are some links to some of the reviews available online for the show I'm currently backstage for:
http://www.onmilwaukee.com/ent/articles/repflea.html
http://www.jsonline.com/onwisconsin/arts/sep05/355040.asp
...It hasn't been the past few days. So while I'm able to get online, let me say several things.
Lost. Tonight. Watch it!
If I haven't been in touch recently, I really do plan to be soon.
My shower has an annoying habit of dousing me with cold water before I turn it off. This makes me sad. And cold.
TVs in bedrooms really ARE a bad idea.
That last one is the wisdom of the day. Take it or leave it!
I realized that under "About Me" I'vew had the wrong number listed as my Apartment phone number for a long time now. I have remedied the situation.
Life is good. A Flea in Her Ear is now open, we finished up the Understudy Run of it, and now I just have performances of the show to deal with until October. Then I go into rehearsals for Guys on Ice. That'll be good times.
One of the great things about work is that the Cabaret is now open. It's one of the theatres of The Rep, but it also has a bar, so after shows we can simply walk next door and have a few drinks in the privacy of our own work-place. :)
So... here's a cool Harry Potter preview.
Shoot me an e-mail. Let me know what's new and exciting.
This test only has one question, but it's a very important one. Try giving an honest answer. You will discover where you stand morally.
The test features an unlikely, completely fictional situation in which you will have to make a decision. Remember that your answer needs to be honest, yet spontaneous.
Please scroll down slowly and consider each line.
You are in Miami.
There is chaos all around you caused by a hurricane with severe flooding. This is a flood of biblical proportions.
You are a photojournalist working for a major newspaper. You're caught in the middle of this great disaster. The situation is nearly hopeless. You're trying to make a career out of shooting photos.
There are houses and people swirling around you. Some are even disappearing under the water. Nature is showing all of its destructive fury.
You see a man in the water. He is fighting for his life, trying not to be taken away with the debris. You move closer, somehow the man looks familiar. Suddenly you know who it is . . It's George W. Bush!
At the same time you notice that the raging waters are about to take him under, forever.
You have two options: You can save his life or you can take the most dramatic photos of your life.
So, you can save the life of George W. Bush or you can shoot a Pulitzer Prize winning photo, documenting the death of one of the world's most powerful men.
Here's the question and please give an honest answer:
Would you select color film or would you rather go with the classic simplicity of black and white?
Hi all,
I'm alive and well and Milwaukee is great so far. It's very pretty, with the lake and river and whatnot, and the theatre itself is pretttttty amazing. All the other interns and people I've met so far are extremely nice and cool, and the place I'm staying is really nice as well. It's a bit like being a freshman again with meeting all the new people and getting used to all the new places, and especially since all the interns are living in the same apartment/hotel building, so I can go downstairs or down the hall and see other interns any time day or night. I'll send out a mass e-mail in a few days with all the good how-to-reach-me info, but in the meantime you can always do the whole cell phone thang. Hmm, what else? Well, I started "work" yesterday, although so far it has mostly consisted or orientation-type stuff with the other interns. The other SM intern, Melissa, and I have also started working specifically with our department to prepare for the season's shows (16 in total!). I'm working on 6 of those 16 throughout my stay here, the first one being the first show of the season, A Flea in her Ear. So I've started attending mini-production meetings for that show, and have been doing general prepare-for-the-first-day-of-rehearsal stuff (rehearsals starts Monday). Until Labor Day I have Sundays off, then after that it's every Monday that I have off. I hope to lose a few pounds with all the walking I've been doing, which will continue through my stay here since the car is backin PA with Mom! But it seems like anything I need is in walking distance anyway. And the money situation seems okay so far, since I made so much more money than usual this summer, and it seems like the theatre people try to feed us poor interns as often as possible. Yay for that! And, APPARENTLY, we can get food stamps. No, really. We interns are poor enough that we can get FOOD STAMPS. How crazy is that? I'm proud of that fact rather than embarrassed by it ;) Anyway, my internet now works, so say hi to my away message, await my e-mail, leave me voice messages, and I'll tty soon!
Some random pictures I found and liked:
Mom and I at Jason's grad party
Berg kids plus Randy at Jason's grad party..and another
Minus Randy at Jason's
Berg kids at Noelle's graduation party
In Noelle's basement by the red doors
The girls by the red doors
The End!
Remind me to look at this when I'm bored.
And I'm off to Milwaukee. If only Mom would get her butt moving and into the car!
