Saturday, December 09, 2006

friday

Someone found my blog by Googling "Finland's sexiest man". ;D

Haven't been blogging much since I'm at the theatre most of the night, but there are only 7 days to go. It's an awesome show. Our only problems are a rather accident-prone octagenarian who plays Uncle Glynn, and the fact that the sound guy giggles every time the kids refer to their candy cigarettes as "sugar fags" (and every time the young Dylan Thomas calls something in his stocking a "nutbag"). Also, the entire cast lives in mortal terror of the 16-year-old who plays Dylan's overbearing cousin Glenda. She's large and in charge. During last night's intermission, she gave the sound guy hell for playing a cue a few seconds too early, cutting off a portion of her favorite line; he was ready to escape the booth by crawling over the audience, just to avoid running into her again after the show.
Considering the cast is made up largely of kids and seniors, things could be muuuuch worse!

9 comments:

tshsmom said...

Those lines would make ME giggle too.
I can't believe that a 16-yr-old is terrorizing the crew! You wouldn't have DARED to speak that way to adults at that age. What a prima donna!

S.M. Elliott said...

That phrase "prima donna" comes up a lot! ;D
But she can't possibly be worse than Christine K.
Actually the worst of the bunch turned out to be the old man! He threw a full-on tantrum last night, raging that the kids are getting too much attention, that the guy who plays the adult Dylan Thomas only got the part instead of him because he knows more people, and the newspapers published too many pics of the kids and not enough of him. Criminy. It's called A CHILD'S Christmas in Wales, not A Surly Old Codger's Christmas in Wales. And I don't know what he's griping about, anyway; we all pay way more attention to him than any of the other actors because he's so frail and accident-prone. The stage manager is constantly asking, "Is K. okay?" Plus, he has a terrific character part and some of the juiciest lines! Better than Dylan Thomas's!

tshsmom said...

Yeah, but CK had the entitlement of being a teacher's brat; 2 teachers actually. :(
What is it with old farts demanding attention lately?

Gardenia said...

Well, its making a good story! I would like to see if - hmmm, kids & seniors. Hahahah, I love it - "A Surely Old Codger's Christmas...." Wait a minute, that reminds me of Christmas past! All of us women have married men who pretend to like Christmas until they marry you and then turn into Surely Old Codgers.

Bazza said...

It's not often you get the phrases "Finland's sexiest man" and "accident prone octanagerian" in the same post, nice work. Dr John sent me.

Margaret said...

I found you after Googling "Sexiest Man" and landing on Dr. John's blog. I said to myself, "Wowsa, check out these apples" and that kinda pointed me over here to Blueapples bringing me a Blogging Tree.

(sniffing drink) What's in this eggnog this afternoon?

Louisiana said...

it sounds like you have another 7 nights of fun and mishaps and giggles..and adventure all around. break a leg ;)

dr. John made you his link of the day, i came to wish great success.

Anonymous said...

Thats funny..."shes large and shes in charge".
Dr John kindly directed my path to here;)

Anonymous said...

I'd probably be giggling, too. It sounds like a good time, though.
I'm here by way of Dr. John's blog.