November 16, 2004
After a break
Again, I have no real and authentic excuse why I haven't updated my blog in a while, except that I've been working overtime. Projects just seem to dangle there, hanging on, and never coming to completion. It can mean more work (hence more moola), but not necessarily so.
I've been spending tons of time in the theater rehearsing for a new play called The Foreigner that just premiered last weekend. We rehearsed almost every day right up until Thursday's premiere and Friday's opening night. Tons of people came and they laughed all the way through. The critics also came so I should know this week whether or not they liked the performance. I think it'll be the final straw in confirming my BATCC nomination. Then again, maybe not. I could just be delusional.
It's hard to take the sometimes-bitter pill of the theatre critics. I've been pretty lucky since they seem to like me (except for the moron over at the Pacific Sun, who wrote a review about "Room Service" that made many question whether or not it was our show she saw--mixing up the actors and characters, etc.). On one hand, you have to use them to get the thing you ultimately need in a small theatre: publicity. On the other, all thespians swear they ignore them because it's only one person's opinion. (Remember the old story about the big time critic who lambasted John Travolta when Saturday Night Fever came out and said that his dancing was awful? Or Diane Keaton's performance in Annie Hall, for which she won an oscar in 1977?) I digress.
I'm working on getting my actor site up, which should be in the next day or two. I hate those "Coming Soon" pages and I completely forgot about it until my fellow thespian Matthew Purdon mentioned it to me last week. Ever since, I've been scrambling to find the time to get it going.
Posted by severdia at November 16, 2004 10:51 AM
