How do people rehearse alone? Seriously, I know some of you out there do it, but I just can't get used to it. Lucky for me, herr direktor extraordinaire, John Dranschak, stopped by for the last 45 minutes of my rehearsal to save me from certain disaster. I'd spent the first 90 minutes running around in circles, struggling through my lines, and shouting off that list of names. I'm getting pretty good with most of the lines and movement I've rehearsed so far, but I'm ready to move on to some new material.
John is very insightful, and he and I work well together, since our collaboration goes back almost 20 years now. (JD & Slay, Est. 1988) Okay, I need to take a minute to deal with my age.
Okay, that's done.
JD was most complimentary about the part I'm most nervous about, so that was very comforting. It was great to get concrete notes and have someone with an objective eye tell me that it doesn't look like a total mess. Another month of work and it might just be worth seeing.
Next rehearsal is Wednesday. I promise some video, over hell or high water.
Oh, and if you're reading this - thanx.
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