Stardust

The paper has run a bona fide review of Sabrina Fair! Not just our press release, but a real review -- and a good one at that!

In the interest of full disclosure, the writer was a very good friend of mine in high school. But she really DID love the show.

Sabrina Fair review complete with cheesy melodramatic photo, for your viewing pleasure.

...and i think we have a really good show. considering the time and effort we've put into it, i think it was all worthwhile. legs will be broken!

we have poster!!!

i will be obtaining print copies of this either tonight or tomorrow. if you can think of anywhere to post one that might attract patrons please let me know!

i got the role!!!!!!!!!
my first real lead in 10 years, and a role i wanted SO badly. i am thrilled beyond all get out. over the moon really. hooray, hooray!!!!!!!!!

UPDATE: just got the full cast list. Tybalt/Andy is playing Linus, which is both great -- exactly where i'd have cast him -- and hilarious, as it's about the most diametrically opposite relationship possible to the one we played in Romeo & Juliet. i'm genuinely pleased with this.
on the other hand, there is one other person i know in the cast, playing the younger brother David -- and that's an ex of Shannon's. that will be rather weird.

first readthrough is tomorrow. hooray! back to the footlights! =)

last night i auditioned for the first time at Jonesborough Repertory Theatre. (turns out i have lots of friends who know the director there, Kathleen, and they all offered to put in a good word for me -- but unfortunately she's not directing this show. instead it's a first-time director, a fellow i've seen act in the area, who is quite good. no one knows anything about him as a director, of course, it being his first show.)

the show is 'Sabrina Fair,' which is the play that the audrey hepburn/humphrey bogart film 'sabrina' is based on. of course i desperately want to play sabrina. and i figure i have a decent shot at it, since i'm the right age range (she's supposed to be in her late 20s) and particularly because i have a standard american accent -- something i think is suited to the character, since she's been in europe for 5 years -- and can already pronounce french (which the character speaks fluently, she has several french passages) quite well.

my friend Andy has done quite a few shows in jonesborough and he decided, after hemming and hawing about it for a while, to audition too. (i may take to calling him Tybalt, which was his role in R&J, to distinguish him from my landlord Andy, as well as several others i know... in fact i told him i'd have to give him a nickname for this reason, and he responded in total deadpan, 'you could call me Pat.' Pat being his identical twin, who is also a friend of mine. this suggestion amused me.) so Andy attended both days of auditions, and called me after the sunday session to tell me that no one had been there to read for the role of sabrina, only for the men and older women in the show. i was of course thrilled with this information.

last night three of us read for the role, and we each got to read quite a few times in different combinations. i will say that i honestly think i gave the best reading, possibly by far -- and yet i still don't think i'm going to get the role. it's hard to explain why, but i got a vibe from the director that he didn't like me for the role. in fact i got that feeling before i'd even read, which suggests he took one look at me and decided i didn't fit the look he wanted. which is fair, it's his play, but it sucks nonetheless if i'm right about that. there is also the not insignificant fact that the other two girls have both worked with JRT in some capacity before, though one may have not worked with the fellow directing the show. who knows how much clout that gives them?

the thing is, i want this role for quite a few reasons. it's a lead, which i haven't had in a long time; and it's an interesting and complex character, which i also haven't had in a long time. i adore comedies, and this is a particularly good one. i really want to do another play again, and this is the only appropriate role i see on the immediate horizon. but mostly i want the role because sabrina's story is my story, except that i went to san francisco instead of paris; my frenchman didn't follow me home; and it's taking me a little longer to find my happy ending.

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in other news, i scrubbed my bathroom this weekend. serious, major scrubbing, like i did when i moved in. this is always a pleasure because it means i can take a nice soaking bath without having to clean the tub first! and i got andy to rip out the old radiator, so once the pipe is gone i'll have a bit more space too.
i also made a fleece cape... though it still needs a fastener and hemming. not that it will be of any use to me for a while yet, since it's going to be 70 bloody degrees the next few days! i am also making a really gorgeous scarf for Ireland, though i am going to have to go questing for more yarn -- i was sure i'd bought plenty but it's knitting up far too small, i need another skein. unfortunately i bought the stuff in asheville and the stock is being closed out; i might have to order it online.

Tgiving will be unusual this year but i'm looking forward to it. of course the librrry is closed thurs & fri, but my sister can't come home till friday night so we are having the family meal on saturday. that leaves thursday open to attend zannli's lunch and then drop in on linda's open house, which will all be lovely, and possibly to make my way to a party later that night. saturday i am scheduled to work, but i think i've worked out a tradeoff that will allow me to leave around 2:15 so my family's meal can be at a decent hour. sunday i go in to work at 12:45 so we'll be having a rather early brunch for my birthday. we did a brunch last year and it was great, and a fun change.

now to bed, to bed, to bed... work in the morning. where, incidentally, we have just obtained an ant farm. that's right, our librrry is bugtastic. ;)

little message Ireland sent off today before heading to london for the weekend:

"If you happen to receive something (eventually) in the post, from me, perhaps, you are not allowed open it until your birthday."

=D

(also: for a laugh, read this article he sent me earlier this week, with just a smiley for a subject line. =)

**update: what should i find when i got home from work yesterday but a package in the mail from Ireland??? the same day he sent the above admonition... and there's a book in it! won't know what for another 2 weeks... but the customs form specifies contents as 'book, cd, seashell, card.' =) and he mailed it 3 WEEKS before my birthday. he's the very definition of awesomex0r.

my butterfly has hatched!!! she is beautiful. this is our fifth and so far we've all been female. there will be photos and details on our library monarch project later... for now, here is the story i wrote about it. please give constructive criticism! i am hoping to get a few preliminary illustrations done soon.

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