just one quick thing – this morning i saw a woman, and i thought she looked like somebody i knew. i kept looking at her, and after a while it hit me – she looked EXACTLY like one of the evil aunts in “james and the giant peach,” one of my favorite books. i can’t remember the aunt’s name; there was a short and fat one, and a tall, thin one with a tight bun at the top of her pointy head.
this woman was the precise image of the tall, thin one. her name was stryker or something like that, i’d look it up but i don’t have time right at this moment.
rehearsals are making me very tired. last night i was home by 10:45, but had to sit around for a little while to unwind. we did the can-can a few times, and the last time we did it, i only screwed up once, which i was quite pleased about. the hair woman, annie, brought me a fall, which is like a wig only it doesn’t completely cover your head. it’s going to look good, i think, and hopefully it won’t come off while caleb is lifting all around.
the forecast calls for lots and lots of rain starting on saturday, which i’ve decided will definitely not happen, because that would be completely disasterous for the show. we start our tech week rehearsals on sunday, and rain would ruin us. so it won’t rain, at least not at night.
i got to say quite a few of my lines last night, and one guy in the cast who was sitting out in the audience kept laughing when i said them, because of my inspector clousseau-like accent. this made me happy.
later, we were sitting around watching the people rehearse, and a woman came over to us. she’d been sitting with a few people over in a corner of the seating area, and we didn’t know who they were. “we can’t hear the show,” she said. she was under the impression that this was an actual performance taking place, instead of a rehearsal. we thought this was funny, and agreed that the real show will probably be at least a little better than the rehearsal, plus we’ll have costumes and makeup and microphones and theoretically, at least, we won’t be stopping every few minutes to fix things.
whew. i’ve already had a starbucks bottled light frappaccino, and i’m about to have an iced tea, which will hopefully help to get me through the rest of the day, which is going to last quite a few more hours.
ok then,
grace now even thinking things with a french accent.