Okay, I haven’t even told you how my opening night went - despite our wishes for an empty theater and fears of a totally fubar show, we had a decent house of 31 people. We went an hour over on our tech rehearsal, my projectionist didn’t show up (the venue manager kindly stepped in), and we didn’t get to run the show during tech, so opening night kind of served as our dress rehearsal. And aside from a couple of technical snafus and me completely forgetting the ending monologue (nobody noticed! in fact, awesome review from Sam Goldblatt, Fringe Marketing dude), we had a great show. I met a cool guy, Art Levine, who gives me a shout-out in his blog - he asked me a lot of great questions about the show, which I love because the more people wonder about the universe I’ve created, the more solid it becomes in my head. And it is a VAST universe.
I also met the fantabulous Slash Coleman, who is a very talented solo artist, but he’s not an intense handful like some people we know (read: me). He gave me a LOT of info about getting out there as a solo performer - that’s all he does now! He quit his day job! It IS possible!!
I’m also featured on this cool video on Theatermania.com!
So, I still have 4 shows left and I’m sellin’ those tickets! I pulled a Jimmy Hogg today and went to a handful of venues and just passed out postcards as patrons were leaving shows (Jimmy’s the best self-promoter I know and the guy SELLS OUT his shows - and not just ’cause they’re good)… I got told by a Fringe Volunteer she thought that was “tacky” (not because she saw me doing it, but another show was doing it), but HEY! That’s FRINGE for ya!!
I’ve taken a handful of photos and they are HERE!
My next show is tonight!!! YEAH!