We
open in 12 hours. Fingernails are being
bitten, shirt tails are being chewed, thumbs are being twirled and possibly
sucked. Nervous about performing, you
ask? Nope – it’s that 1) due to a
miscommunication we don’t have anyone to run our box office tonight, and 2) we
have to find a space in town to do a pre-show run with sound before we go
on. Sometimes, it’s the little
things. Nevertheless, we remain firmly
committed to the idea that through hard work and determination, a magic fairy
will come solve all our problems.
Yesterday
was more low-key and business-minded and less “Lost in Oz.” Amanda and I ventured into Manhattan at lunch
to meet with my good pal Larry Brenner.
I went to grad school with Larry, and Amanda directed his short play
“The Box” for the Greensboro Fringe Festival a couple of years ago. After a couple of missteps (well, more than a
couple: getting off at the Broadway-LaFayette stop, we headed in the wrong
direction towards 4th Street and stubbornly kept going, intent on
reaching 4th street by circling the globe if we had to), we met up
with Larry and hiked to MacDougal Street in search of a nice bite to eat.
New
York is a city of great food. Possibly I
am not the first person to state this. You
can virtually throw a rock in any direction and hit a delicious meal, and
possibly an irate diner. So you can
imagine how elated I was to find, by sheer dumb luck, the absolute worst
cheesesteak in all of Manhattan. Amanda’s
was covered in a sort of dun gravy that seemed to have been unevenly
microwaved, so that each bite was alternately frozen and boiling. But we suffered through the gummy bread and radioactive
cheese because it was so wonderful to see Larry, who is truly one of my
favorite people on the planet.
And
we then we get back home to find Daniel raving ecstatically about this amazing
cheesesteak he ate one block from the apartment. What a dick.
The
rest of the day was spent planning, thinking, napping, cooking, and reading (by
the way, whoever lent me Hillary: A
Modern Greek Tragedy With A (Somewhat) Happy Ending, I finished it and it
was fantastic and I don’t wanna give it back ‘lest I haveta), and we made it an
early night because …
We
open tonight! If you’re in NYC, come to
The Kraine Theatre at 8:15! Not only is
there brilliant acting (Pat, Colleen, Daniel, and Brittany) and music (Clay),
there’s also me being forced to say my own miserable, pretentious words! What could be better?
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