my poor sentimental heart.

Went to go see my new friend Erwin in Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice at the Hayworth Theater last night. Sarah Ruhl is one of my favorite playwrights and I knew that I would enjoy the play and I was not disappointed. It was a really beautiful adaptation of Orpheus and Eurydice, one of my favorite Greek plays. Sarah Ruhl has a really musical and lyrical quality to her dialogue that makes every word incredibly poetic and beautiful. The cadence to all the lines is really beautiful and adds to the almost dreamlike quality to all her plays. They are all very other-worldly, and not just in the sense that this play actually takes place in the Underworld.

Erwin did a beautiful job as Orpheus, one of my favorite male romantic leads. Would it be weird to name my kid Orpheus? I just love him so much! Maybe my next dog? hmm..

Anyone who is in the area should check this play out, it is incredibly romantic, beautifully acted as well as visually lovely and of course, utterly tragic. My sad heart cried but as everyone knows, it is not exactly difficult to make me cry.



Tuesday night I went to Improv Olympic in Hollywood and was surprised at how wonderful the performance was. There were two groups on at the 11o'clock hour which is when I went. The first one, Gypsy Lou, was incredibly hilarious and just spot on. I find improv to be incredibly difficult and horrifyingly scary so I never do it, so when it is done well I am in awe. I could tell the amount of work and rehearsal that went into it.

The second group however was a good example of shit improv. It was hard to sit through, in fact, I got up to use the bathroom which I would normally NEVER do during a show even if my bladder was bursting. But it was just embarrassing. I went with my friends Sean and Malcolm, both actors as well. The trick is to have lots of actor friends to take me to all these amazing shows and buy me beer. It works well. Sean is filming a sex comedy right now and the details of it sounds pretty grotesque. Sex with a bagel? Oh Sean, I like how as the economy gets worse and worse our standards and ethics get lower and lower. We gotta hustle right? Malcolm would never lower himself to such indignities as he is a member of the Actor's Gang. Fancy pants.

Got lots of rehearsal coming up this weekend for As You Like It as well as doing the voice overs for Checkmate so it can be edited. As much as I say I would love to be a stay at home doggy mom (which lets face it, some weeks i am) I am so glad to have lots of work right now. Even if it is unpaid.

BUT next week I am also doing extra work on the new Noah Baumbach film called Greenberg, My sister's friend has a part in the film and got us all into a party scene. By all I mean Mariana, Me, Ty and David I think. Normally I am not a huge fan of extra work but rumor has it that SAG vouchers will abound so I am ready and willing to kiss lots of ass for a voucher. And hopefully it will be fun as well and I'll be making some skrillaaaa.

Peace.

P.S. I apologize to anyone whom I may have called "homeslice" this week. I don't know what has gotten into me. It needs to stop.

Le sigh.