it’s a beautiful day

Well, I’m slowly recovering. Last night I spent a lot of time cleaning my apartment (I can see the floor again… woo hoo). I’ve already had two meetings about the next play (I can’t believe that it’s starting already), thankfully I’m not directing this one. And I’m getting ready for two weekends out of Rochester. This weekend, I’ll be traveling to scenic NJ, to meet up with Heather and other old friends and go to Mideavel Times. Then next weekend I’m off to North Carolina to hook up with my brothers Glenn and Paul and take in a Bluegrass Festival!

In the meantime the weather has been absolutely gorgeous here in Rochester. Yesterday we celebrate it by having lunch outside. Kodak Tower is located right by the Genese River and a local waterfall called “High Falls” (which while it’s high, it’s no where near as high as Niagara Falls, though it was high enough for Sam Patch [there’s another blog topic right there]). Here are a couple shots:

I’m happy to say that everyone stayed on the right side of the rails. Everyone, except a poor doomed orange.

finding my way back to the ordinary world

The play closed yesterday after three great performances. Sunday’s was by far the strongest. I have a lot of thoughts about everything. But before I can write them I need to get some distance and stabilize my life. So the next couple days will be for me to transition back to “normal” world.

On the plus side I’ll be blogging on a much more regular basis. And sleeping a bit more as well.

Another opening, another show…

Size of last night’s house: 24

That’s not bad. Tonight should be much bigger. Sunday, who knows…. The show went well. The problem with a small audience is they don’t know how to react. When you’re by yourself or in a big crowd of people it’s easy to laugh. When it’s a small group of strangers, forget about it. So a lot of the jokes were lost. :-(

But there were not any major screw ups. The show ran on time (other than a set change that took a short eternity). So I’m more or less satisfied.

ther’s no business like show business

Tonight’s the night. We’re just aobut ready to open. Unfortunately we were building up until the last minute (as my hand covered with dried paint suggest). The person who was supposed to provide us with a fire place fell through so I quickly built one yesterday. The acting has really shaped up as well, I just wish I could have been really concentrating on it these past two weeks instead of worring about everything else.

Here are a couple shots I took over the last few days to show you part of the process:

ok… that’s about it for now. Regualar blogging will resume after this weekend.

update

We had a really, really good rehersal tonight. Not that everyone got their lines right or tjat it was perfect. But it worked and it restored a bit more of my faith. More on that after sleep (provided I have time to blog).