#50 is a looooooong time comin'...

So I'm looking back and my last post was July 29th. Um...yikes. Sorry about that. Life moves pretty fast, as Ferris Bueller once said, and I have been working hard but, more than anything, just being kinda lazy. So let's see if I can encapsulate the last 2 months or so...

August...I concentrated pretty heavily on rehearsing "Escanaba In Love". The accent work was a problem and it took quite a while for us to get a dialect coach which slowed me down considerably. I didn't want to learn the lines wrong (with the wrong accent, that is) so I waited until I started to get a handle on the accent to really learn the lines which ended up being sort of a problem. I ended up being, more or less, fine with the lines by the time we needed to be good but there was a frantic cramming period starting about 2 weeks before opening. Very stressful.

September...Basically more of the same. The show is going well. The audiences seems to enjoy it even though the critics haven't been exactly falling all over themselves to recommend us. Ah, well. Meanwhile, I'm auditioning and trying to sort of life out. Which, of course, is going unbelievably well! (that was sarcasm)

Through it all, I'm so happy to say, is Heidi. Though we are only getting to see each other for maybe a weekend or two every month, she remains a huge part of my life. We talk every day, even if it's only through texts, and I love and respect her more every day.

So the reason I finally decided to write some on here is because it appears that I'm going BACK to Battle Creek and the land of the Turkeys! Late last Thursday afternoon, DM called me and offered me a one-week gig that they do every year. Some sort of mostly-improvised murder mystery show that they claim is a huge success and lots of fun. So, after some negotiating with the director of "Six Degrees", which I'm in rehearsals for right now, I'm going. It'll be another nice little vacation and I'll be paid fairly well so I'm happy.

Then yesterday, Heidi indicates that she may have nearly gotten me a part in the Christmas show out at the Round Barn Theater where she's working. Nice. I, sadly, had to turn it down (not that it was ever REALLY offered but it sure was indicated strongly) because after needing to heavily negotiate with the director of "Six Degrees", it would have been extraordinary bad form to go back two days later and outright quit. But I'm interested in trying to work out there. And with "Barefoot In The Park" and "Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum" and "Oklahoma" being put up next year, I feel like there are three shows I could really contribute to. The thing about Round Barn is that they seem to wait until almost the last minute (quite literally in the example with the Christmas show that starts rehearsals tomorrow) to cast and that's 180 degrees from the way I like to try to organize my life. The further away I can get figured out, the better. I don't know how they can expect to get a good cast together if they wait until the last minute like they do. But anyway...I'm still gonna try and figure out how to get myself cast there a time or two. It would be fun!

So there. This is now (hopefully) an entree into getting myself back into the habit of "blogging" every day again. I actually kind of miss it. And...ya know...I always have sooooooo much to say!

So I'll be back. Trust.