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Dec. 2nd, 2007 10:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fancycwabsGot the call this evening just before walking into the theatre for A Christams Carol: I'll be playing Theo in the local premiere of Carl Sternheim and Steve Martin's The Underpants. Now I've really got to lose some weight, as I'll need to appear onstage in no more than a pair of boxers in just over four months.
Unfortunately, it means I've got to drop out of Room Service. It's not officially been cast, so I'm not "dropping out" per se, but I still feel a little crappy that I won't be able to do it, as it looked like it was going to be a lot of fun. Assuming, of course, that I'd actually been cast.
To celebrate, we screwed up a dance number in A Christmas Carol and had some of the younger male cast members place an electronic farting box in one of the set pieces for fun. I presume they made it go off during the "Christmas Pageant" as the kids had great difficulty keeping it together.
I was once fourteen, too, and still occasionally find flatulence extremely amusing, but really, once someone's shelled out twenty-five clams to see a show, they deserve better than pootsterpiece theatre.
Unfortunately, it means I've got to drop out of Room Service. It's not officially been cast, so I'm not "dropping out" per se, but I still feel a little crappy that I won't be able to do it, as it looked like it was going to be a lot of fun. Assuming, of course, that I'd actually been cast.
To celebrate, we screwed up a dance number in A Christmas Carol and had some of the younger male cast members place an electronic farting box in one of the set pieces for fun. I presume they made it go off during the "Christmas Pageant" as the kids had great difficulty keeping it together.
I was once fourteen, too, and still occasionally find flatulence extremely amusing, but really, once someone's shelled out twenty-five clams to see a show, they deserve better than pootsterpiece theatre.
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Re: Thespianism
Date: 2007-12-03 01:57 pm (UTC)Not even kidding.
I'm not disagreeing, but Resk Le Teveque isn't really the target audience for this particular show. If we were to advertise "fart machine night" we might get a different social strata for that show.
Not sure if you're familiar with the show (search for it on Google Books and you can read an excerpt), but Theo is supposed to be a pretty big guy. In four months I'll still be a pretty big guy--even if I ate only 1000 calories a day and ran a couple of miles, I'd still be 50 pounds overweight by showtime. I'd just rather look more like John Belushi than Chris Farley when it came to it.
Tonight, West Side Story! There are anecdotes about the director--so much so that they deserve a proper post, but that'll come tonight or tomorrow.
Re: Thespianism
Date: 2007-12-03 02:55 pm (UTC)I know, I know. I wouldn't have bought a ticket in the first place, as I've seen that story told too many times already.
micropups!
Re: Thespianism
Date: 2007-12-03 03:00 pm (UTC)Our production doesn't have our charities flipping off Scrooge
micropups!