I'm happy to report that we survived opening weekend. We had a smallish audience on opening night (last Friday), but were about half-full on Saturday evening. Devo and Jen came up for the weekend, and we gamed extensively— lots of Settlers, Puerto Rico, and Chrononauts, but no Scrabble throw-down.
This Friday was a smaller crowd, but they were quite vocal. Apparently they were expecting a comedy, so they made it one. Throughout the rehearsals, I've always thought of Faithful as a suspenseful thriller, a serious play with some lighter moments. Listening to it from backstage, I would have sworn that we had a laugh track. Bizarre.
Donna & Bob joined us for dinner at Little Pusan last night, then went to the show with Chris. Happily, last night's audience was sane. Aside from a minor technical glitch with the telephone, all was well. (My best guess at this point was that it wasn't hung up properly on the cradle, so it couldn't ring when it needed to. I'll do some quick testing when I go over to the theater on Wednesday for our brush-up.) Four shows down, six more to go…
Posted by rv at March 4, 2007 11:35 PM to theatre