Opening Night

[bookzombie]

So My Fair Lady opened last night and barring a couple of little (mainly technical) cock-ups it went really well.

It used to be traditional that the Tuesday night audience was a bit quiet, but this time they were a lively bunch. One of the real joys about having an audience is that they laugh and react both to things that the cast have long stopped finding funny and it gives a real boost of energy to the performances.

Personally I had one rather scary moment: for one scene it is important to a plot point that I have a piece of cake (strawberry tart, to be precise!) placed on the coffee table next to my chair during a blackout. Blackout came and went and strawberry tart was there not! After a few moments of panic (luckily I had no dialogue for a minute or so) I smacked my lips, wandered off stage (and with the offstage words "where's my f*ing cake!") took the cake and wandered back onto the stage munching on it with a pleased expression, in time for my dialogue. Scary moment though!

But overall I was really, really pleased. There were a couple of little mis-steps in the dialogue from various of us but no great chunks got missed and nobody needed to be prompted. The audience seemed to enjoy it and the feedback from my friend Arthur and his parents was really positive.

So yah! The only thing to watch for tonight, after such a good first night, is that no complacency and over-confidence settles in...

Comments

congratulations

[slimmeroftheyea.livejournal.com]

well done!!! Know how you feel about the cake though - in one summer show set in a hospital (don't ask - just think carryon doctor) one of the patients had to do knitting as occupational therapy and several scenes relied on this. Our ususually hyper efficient and brilliant props person accidentally removed the knitting at the wrong time so that would have stymied the next scene. I was a nurse so was able to get it on but before my entrance there was scaryness!

[littlebutfierce]

Yay! Congrats. Hope the rest of the run goes similarly... perhaps w/the exception of the strawberry tart (good handling of that one!).

[dotar-sojat.livejournal.com]

Congrats. I can only imagiane how hard a play must be to pull off.

I double-dog dare you to burst into the "Let a Woman in Your Life" song during WisCon.

[wrdnrd]

Oh, good save!! [applauds]

[kicking-k.livejournal.com]

Yay for saving the day.

In the last show I was in, my brother had to abseil down from the flies. Went off perfectly the first few nights. On the last night, the rope knotted (unseen by him) as he threw it down, and he got stuck about six feet above the stage...

Not quite too far to jump, but a little nervewracking.