Brannigan's Law is like Brannigan's Love.

Last night was the preview night for our sponsor, Southland Gaming and Racing (a greyhound track turned minor casino). In exchange for a sizable donation, we gave them 300 tickets to do with as they pleased, and it looks like what pleased them most was not coming to the show, as maybe 50 people were in the audience.

Highlights of the evening's entertainment:

• It was my first show with a full set of costumes, and I changed from one suit to another at the wrong time in the show--also, I didn't have time to finish the change before I was required to be on again, and made my entrance with no tie or hat.
• During the scene in which Brannigan comes across all the gamblers waiting for information on the crap game, and they announce that Nathan (me) is getting married in order to avert suspicion (the scene leads to the song "Adelaide" in the movie) Brannigan went up on his lines and walked offstage, leaving a room full of guys with a plot to advance and zero motivation to get Nathan married. The ad libs went something like this:

  "Uh..."
  "Um..."
  "We'd better get our story straight, in case BRANNIGAN COMES BACK"
  "Uh, yeah...why don't we tell him that we're throwing a party?"
  "What sort of a party will it be?"
  Enter Adelaide, and re-enter Brannigan, who's just picked up a script and studied his lines
  "A bachelor dinner!"
  "Yeah, a bachelor dinner!"
  Scene continues as per script

• Sky Masterson, who's not known for remembering critical bits of information in his lines, went up on "Luck Be A Lady." Because of certain acoustic problems (and because he really doesn't care), the orchestra leader went ahead and played the chorus while Sky was singing the verse, and vice versa--we finally got the song back on track when the chorus kicked in. Sky also screwed up "I've Never Been In Love Before," but it was minor in comparison
• Thanks to judicious placement of chairs onstage, I had about three scenes where I end up talking to someone who's standing/sitting behind my left shoulder, and I either get to turn my back to the audience or engage in conversation with someone that I can't see.
• The audience isn't laughing. I'm scared that it's because we aren't funny.