It’s been a long week. Fiddler wrapped up last weekend, with our final three performances followed by the cast part on Sunday.
My performances had their ups and downs but I felt I ended on a pretty strong note; more so on Sunday than the Friday that I most recently reported on. We had an elaborate and highly embarrassing cast party that was concocted as a wedding anniversary between Tevye and Golde, at which I was made to sit at the “head table” along with the other daughters and their husbands. The couples each took their turns cutting the wedding cake, and Tzeitel and I pied each other with our slices. They were a really wonderful group of people and I’m glad to have had the opportunity to play the role, but I was exhausted and don’t think I could have managed another weekend of it.
I’ve assembled some of the photos that were taken and added them to my gallery. There are some quite good ones, but probably none of them sum me up right now as well as this one:
I’ve been working seven days a week, minus last Sunday, and late every night. Wednesday was the worst; I didn’t leave the office until 2:45 AM. When I left the following night at 10 PM and found myself feeling relaxed at getting out so early, I realized that this is probably unhealthy. Fortunately it’s only for another week or so, and things are actually looking quite positive with the project. Barring anything unforseen, I think we’ll make our ship date without much difficulty. There are some exciting things to look forward to, including a national TV ad campaign that I’m sure is costing our client millions of dollars and looks really cool from what I’ve seen so far.
There’s been other impacts, though. It’s delayed my return to Theatresports, for one, and it drove me to cancel an audition for The Secret Garden I was going to do on Tuesday.
Hopefully it’ll all be worthwhile.
Dan.
Your health is the most important thing, my friend. Without it, _everything_ suffers. Good on ya.
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