Hello all - quick post before I sign off for the week - it turns out WE DO HAVE A SHOW TONIGHT. Two people, the two people who reserved tickets online, came today despite the near-Arctic conditions outside! It's such a strange feeling, being one of THREE audience members. Right now they're doing Act Two...I've stolen into the lobby to send a quick email and post this blog.
It's interesting to watch the chemistry onstage when there's a teeny tiny audience. The actors become intensely grateful for the very small audience reactions they receive. Because I know the feeling, can sympathize, and sort of sense their yearning for laughter, I am doing my best to laugh my hardest tonight.
Tomorrow I assume I'll be burrowing all day at my house until the show at 7:00. It's like the frozen tundra of apocalypses out there. I'm looking out of the lobby windows and am seeing tiny flakes of snow pouring down onto an already debilitated city. I love how stripped of excess we are when mother nature reminds us to shut up. Not that we can't still have our TVs, laptops, iPods and other general luxuries in the snow - no, it's just that we can't be frivolous or entitled when you drive in the midst of the snow storm. You become completely humble to the world. I love it.
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Hmm, does having such a small audience make it harder? I know as a teacher there is a perfect size to a class... Not too big, obviously, because I crave that intimate setting... but when I have a class that is very small (just a few students) I find that it can be quite difficult. It is easier for me to be more lax and not as driven. Do you find the same thing to be true? (I mean aside from the gratitude you mentioned...) Do you think the actors performed to the best of their abilities?
ReplyDeleteI just found out Beth Simon is one of those dedicated actors. She is married to Adam Simon who taught at Graham & now works at the Global Academy where Aahon Woodruff is doing his Walkabout - cool huh?
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