Ahhhh Theater How I Need Thee

I was really looking forward to this weekend, and it lived up to my hopes! After being asked to audition for two plays in IL while here, I quickly missed being involved in theater. The staff play last night was exciting! A run-thru two hours before curtain was disastrous.We were all so nervous that lines kept getting dropped. An hour of hanging out, eating banana bread, and ad lib speed-thru's really relaxed us, and when the audience arrived everything instantly gelled! The cast party was a celebration of people from different parts of campus, with very different backgrounds, getting to bask for that small moment in team success.

  

Tonight I saw the off-Broadway touring Pilobolus company's show "Shadowland." If you get the chance, go see them! This show premiered in Madrid, which I learned while spending time on-stage/backstage with the cast and then over dinner at their hotel. I cannot imagine a nicer, more down-to-earth group of highly talented dancers. Beth is an exceptionally nice personal trainer from Atlanta who country-hops. Derek is helping create the Broadway production of James and the Giant Peach. Weekends like this always make me question why I'm not doing something full time with theater.

Heading to the hotel, our taxi driver was playing Guns N' Roses "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" when he momentarily missed his exit from the autopista. He put on his blinkers, smiled wryly, and gradually backed up on the highway to take the correct exit. Other motorists simply accepted this practice. Good times!