Break a Leg

So, Three Musketeers closed, much to my chagrin, and Books started again, much to my delight.  I'll get to those in a minute.  The thing I REALLY wanted to talk about was what happened in between those two shows: I got a weekend off!  Oh my god, it was amazing!  I had forgotten what it was like.  Sleeping in, not having to be anywhere, being available to hang out when friend's call last minute...it was fabulous.  My cousin was in town from Tennessee for my grandma's 85th birthday.  I got to celebrate all weekend without having to worry about being somewhere later or any of that silly theater nonsense.  The only downside to this was that my cousin didn't get the chance to come see one of my shows.

See, as an actor, it's part of the whole parcel and package that I want people to see me perform.  What's more, I want people to see me perform well.  I also want them to see shows I think they will enjoy, even if I'm not in them.  So, when I'm doing a show I'm pretty proud of, like these last two shows have been, I want everybody to come see them.  "Come!  Come see this awesome show! Come see that I'm not a total waste!  Validate my existence!"  The Three Musketeers was a fun swashbuckling romp, and Books (Abridged) is one of the funniest shows I have ever been in.  I've seen different versions of some of the different (Abridged) shows.  They are hysterically written, but from what I've heard, not always performed as well.  I feel pretty proud that the actual writers showed up to our performances and congratulated us.  It's been a fun ride.  I just wish that more of my friends had been able to make it to the shows.  C'est la vie.

In other news that probably only I care about, I won another radio karaoke contest today.  Thank you.  The theme was to pick a song sung by the opposite gender, so I went with "Walk Like an Egyptian" by The Bengals.  Then I sang it in a farcical, gravely Russian accent, and through in random interjections hitting on the back-up singers, or explaining the song to somebody "off-camera".  My favorite part was at the end when I explained how to walk like an Egyptian.  First you put one hand in the air, palm down, like you're saying "you have to be this tall to ride this ride".  Then you stick your other hand out behind you like you're expecting somebody to give you a low five or maybe a secret cookie.  I think that may be the single most accurate set of instructions I have ever given in my life, though why the cookie has to be a secret, I'm not sure.  It just does.  The prize for this contest was a rare set of in-game gear that just came out.  The DJ running the contest is one of the actual makers of the game, so it was pretty cool to get some shwag from that guy.

Anywhoodles, I'm just enjoying a few evenings off at the moment, though I have performances this weekend.  Taking a chance to do some laundry...especially since my roommate's cat pissed all over a pile of clean clothes in my room.  Catching up on my blogging *cough*.  Hell, I even logged onto World of Warcraft for the first time in almost 3 months.  Craziness.

I was just sorta thinking that...my blogs should probably be more about trying to make it as a professional actor and what I'm doing to prepare myself for the rat-eat-rat world of auditions and agents and diets and treatments and tabloids and stalkers, and then I thought: Screw that, I'm getting another beer.

Happy Jenday!