Ooh La Lola: Three Shows Down

Weekend 1 is finished.

Given the panic of last week's tech, opening night went pretty smoothly.

The technical problems that seemed glaring to us went pretty much unnoticed by the audience. And I am just glad I did not trip.

The only misstep I had was on Sunday night when my prop umbrella fell into a trash can from where I set it. So when I went to places and felt around for my umbrella in the black darkness I couldn't find it and had to do my first skate without it. But no one who hadn't seen the show would know. We are still trying to figure out the space backstage and there are some noisy movmements that can't really be helped because it's an old theater.

I got a cold from my girls, of course. All I wanted was to stay healthy this week but for some reason parents seem to not understand that when their kids are sick, I will get sick, and then I won't be able to work for the next week and both of us are fucked over. I know this is a difficult concept to grasp. So needless to say, I am not going to work tomorrow.

And doing a show while sick is great too. I couldn't decide if it would be worse to do the show with dayquil and be high and lightheaded or to just suck it up. I chose the latter and spent the whole show sniffly and trying to not sneeze while in the wings or onstage. Both of which failed.

On another note, I am pretty sure I got cast in the Vampire movie, which should be fun, regardless of the quality of the script. Which, from what I heard, seems dubious. It should be fun to be a vampire though and I know that it will be awesome visually because I know the DP.

Now I am going to nyquil myself.

Some production stills for you. I will put up more later.