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pipistrellafelix* Meet and Greets with the ACT staff and production teams. This is seriously so much fun--the cast and production team of the newest show, plus a bunch of ACT staff, plus some board members/donors/friends of the theater all gather in the rehearsal room some morning. There is coffee and tea and bagels and everyone stands in a giant circle and introduces themselves, and then Kurt talks about the play, and the director talks, and the designers get to talk about their plans and show off pictures and models. And then if you want, you can stick around for a read-through. I think theaters should do this all the time. (Plus I still feel like an impostor, in the best and most fun way, standing up there.) We had one this morning for The Prisoner of Second Avenue.
* NEW YORK CITY, BABY. I'm going there at the end of April! I'm going to be gone for a week, and I'm going to see people I love, and explore a city I think I might love after I get to know it a bit more, and see theater I'm already in love with before I've seen it (War Horse, you guys, I'm so excited to see that I might burst). This week I'm gone is pretty much the only time I could get out of town for longer than two days until, oh, Labor Day...so I'm taking it. (Any reccomendations for NYC? Let me know! I'm going to go to the Cloisters this time, dammit, thunderstorm or not.)
* Rocky Horror. Oh I am so proud of this show. I feel like such a fierce beast out there, it's really incredible. We have been getting insanely good feedback from people, our audiences (with one exception) have been with us every step of the way, and our press has been a little mixed but mostly good--and partially baffled, which is my favorite kind of review. ("Uh...wow, I think I liked that...") Our one exception is a stupid, drunken birthday party at our one late-night show, mostly made up of people who probably didn't know what they were in for (even though Monica was clear with them--oh well). But we fought through that entire horrific evening with one of our best shows, and the sight of Terri backstage pumping her fist during the final dance is still one of my favorite moments of this entire run.
*Malcolm Gladwell. Ahren gave me The Tipping Point for my birthday, which I read in about a day, and then last week I caved and bought Blink to share with him. They're super quick reads for me, and it's sort of like general-psychology-lite, but he looks at things with such an engaging cross-cutting way, and I really enjoy reading books like this. (I want to get more engaging nonfiction in my life.)
* This list: 50 Things Every Girl Needs This Summer. I actually don't need at least half of those, and probably want another fifty besides it, but reading that made me feel all glittery and excited for summer and I love that. (Also it would be nice if the sun ever came out and stayed out for more than ten minutes...I swear... it's shining right now, but if it gets cloudy again, I'm gonna...)
&etc:
"Directing is like sex. You never get to watch other people do it, so you're never sure if you're doing it right." - Warner Shook, this morning, quoting Mike Nichols // my fishnets for the show, which are currently more net than fish, which I'm still using // secret conversations on the couch with Emma // the final Pope's speech in Stoppard's Galileo // baking cookies // impromptu movie dates // omg it's so close to doctor who!!!
* NEW YORK CITY, BABY. I'm going there at the end of April! I'm going to be gone for a week, and I'm going to see people I love, and explore a city I think I might love after I get to know it a bit more, and see theater I'm already in love with before I've seen it (War Horse, you guys, I'm so excited to see that I might burst). This week I'm gone is pretty much the only time I could get out of town for longer than two days until, oh, Labor Day...so I'm taking it. (Any reccomendations for NYC? Let me know! I'm going to go to the Cloisters this time, dammit, thunderstorm or not.)
* Rocky Horror. Oh I am so proud of this show. I feel like such a fierce beast out there, it's really incredible. We have been getting insanely good feedback from people, our audiences (with one exception) have been with us every step of the way, and our press has been a little mixed but mostly good--and partially baffled, which is my favorite kind of review. ("Uh...wow, I think I liked that...") Our one exception is a stupid, drunken birthday party at our one late-night show, mostly made up of people who probably didn't know what they were in for (even though Monica was clear with them--oh well). But we fought through that entire horrific evening with one of our best shows, and the sight of Terri backstage pumping her fist during the final dance is still one of my favorite moments of this entire run.
*Malcolm Gladwell. Ahren gave me The Tipping Point for my birthday, which I read in about a day, and then last week I caved and bought Blink to share with him. They're super quick reads for me, and it's sort of like general-psychology-lite, but he looks at things with such an engaging cross-cutting way, and I really enjoy reading books like this. (I want to get more engaging nonfiction in my life.)
* This list: 50 Things Every Girl Needs This Summer. I actually don't need at least half of those, and probably want another fifty besides it, but reading that made me feel all glittery and excited for summer and I love that. (Also it would be nice if the sun ever came out and stayed out for more than ten minutes...I swear... it's shining right now, but if it gets cloudy again, I'm gonna...)
&etc:
"Directing is like sex. You never get to watch other people do it, so you're never sure if you're doing it right." - Warner Shook, this morning, quoting Mike Nichols // my fishnets for the show, which are currently more net than fish, which I'm still using // secret conversations on the couch with Emma // the final Pope's speech in Stoppard's Galileo // baking cookies // impromptu movie dates // omg it's so close to doctor who!!!
