Break a Leg

This last weekend was our last weekend performing "All The Great Books (Abridged)" at Sonoma County Repertory Theater.  Closing a show is always sad...well, not always.  There are some shows you can't wait to be done with by the time you hit opening night.  But this was one of the shows that, despite how physically demanding it is, I could keep on doing indefinitely.

For starters, the show is just friggin' hilarious.  It's very smart, very well written, and very fun to do.  Secondly, my cast mates are a couple of awesome guys, and we all clicked pretty much the moment we met.  Doing a show with people you don't like can be a really horrible experience - like a rash in a uncomfortable place that you can't get rid of and which keeps getting worse because the only thing you CAN do is the one thing that makes it worse.  But doing a show with people you like and trust - that just makes things FUN.  And when we're having fun, the audience has more fun, and that's when things get really fun.  So, having that kind of positive experience come to an end is kind of a bummer.

But, as it turns out, it's not quiteover.  We have one special performance that we're doing at a winery owned by one of the board members of the theater at the beginning of August, and then 2 more whole weekends in Napa in the brand new theater they are building at the college there.  On top of that, all three of us got cast in The 3 Musketeers, along with a bunch of our other friends who are also a bunch of fun-loving jackasses, so THAT will be fun.  We had our first read-through of the script last night, and while the writing is super cheesy and fluffier than teddy bear crap, we all had a pretty good time, which can only be indicative of things to come.

Yes, this is why I love being an actor: it's pretty much like being back in junior high, except now we can drink.

Oh hey, speaking of fun stuff: anybody out there heard of mybrute.com?  It's a pretty simple thing: you create a character, you make it fight other characters, it levels up.  That's it.  Become my pupil!  go to chadomancer.mybrute.com.  Go on, you know you want to fight me.

Happy Jenday!