It’s been an adventuresome holiday weekend. Friday night my team won at Theatresports for the third week, although I felt like we underperformed in general. The audience seemed to have a good time, though, so at least we didn’t do them a disservice. I don’t feel like my improv was anywhere near as lame as it was last week, but it’s been a while since I’ve had a show where I felt like I genuinely kicked ass, and I’m itching to have that happen again.
All weekend long we had hot, gorgeous summer-like weather. It was perfect for my barbecue on Saturday, which went quite well by and large, with a good cross-section of friends from theatre and various workplaces. After the barbecue I went and performed improv down the street at SecondStory, which was unremarkable but fun. Afterwards a bunch of people wound up coming back to my place for an impromptu karaoke party, including a bunch of people I’d never met before who were coworkers of one of my friends. All told it was a massively exhausting and teriffically fun day.
Sunday we had a photo shoot for Fiddler in the afternoon, which meant spending large amounts of time outdoors at the park in our costumes (mine looks like a cross between a 1920′s paperboy and a pirate). It was nice to get to be outdoors on such a fantastic day, although the shoot itself was tiring and as usual I look silly beyond measure. We were late for rehearsal because of it, and both yesterday’s and tonight’s rehearsal were stressed as we are less than two weeks from opening.
My new GPS arrived on Thursday, and I’ve been having fun experimenting with it. It took me almost no time to purchase the Doc Brown voice and get it installed on it, so now I have him barking directions while cautioning me to be careful not to run into my future self. I’m generally not a fan of these in-car machines – I think they’re poorly designed and packed with more flaws than features – but I’m absurdly bad at navigating around Seattle and I know if I don’t have something like this I’ll try using my iPhone with its maps instead, and that’s just dangerous.
The last big question mark at work with my project seems to have finally been cleared out of the way, so we are now full steam ahead towards the finish line. Unfortunately that line is a lot closer than where it should ideally be, so it’s going to be a tough push for everyone, but for me especially with Fiddler opening so soon. But I’d rather be busy than bored!
Dan.
Tags: fiddler, improv, seattle weather, summer, theatre friends, toys, work
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