"o'flaerty v.c." first rehearsal down.
Jul. 26th, 2005 07:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
duchess_of_pieso this shaw one-act that i'm doing is going to SUCK! \m/ yeah! but my role is small and i get to be saucy and irish and have something to do with some nice people in the evenings. thank god it's only got one performance.
my director could be pat's twin. omg, he looks like pat, he has the same gestures, he SOUNDS exactly like him. and, the freakiest thing by far, he directs like pat. now, i've never been directed by pat, but i've done enough theatre and i've known that yoda-lovin' maniac long enough where i could pretty much guess. it's a little unsettling because of the uncanny resemblance, but simultaneously comforting because of its seeming familiarity. odd.
and then there's paul, who plays the lead and title character. holy crap. no complaints. siri, you would have died...he's a tall, pale, sculpted lanky thing with dark shaggy hair and scruff and, what's more, he walked in the rain, so the first impression i got was "the wet look." nice. very cute. a little shy. and way too young for me. *^_^* (let's not forget, siri-lass, he also straps on a very convincing irish accent. it's like the fancy bow on a package. for god's sake i hope he turns out to be an asshole. *laughs*)
but i'm telling you single boys out there; if you can make it work for you, "the wet look" makes a daeyam good first impression.
and he's pretty fucking talented. as is the woman who plays his mother. but it's the other main dude i worry about. in a huge way. (this is the reason for the suck-report from the first paragraph.) he's in his 60s and i don't think he's ever been on a stage before. the scales here are completely off-kilter. i wouldn't even mention it if he was "just not as good as the others," but we're talking guffman-proportional suckage here. i'm hoping to keep on the sunny side of this and get some amusing character study out of him.
our SM is a pretty kick-ass girl, and our designer is another old dude, but chipper, and a stutterer. that makes me smile. there's something about a stutter that's always very endearing.
so. if nothing else, it will be an entertainment for myself. and, besides psudo-pat, cutie-boy, guffman, stutterbug, and all the gaelic shenanegans therein, i also get free admission to the irish fair (where we're performing on the showboat). the fair itself looks amusing enough, with all of its sheep-herding demonstrations and irish quartets and loombuilders and such. but it's the free admission to the flogging molly concert that i'm mostly wetting myself for. score.
it's cabbage and cakes from here on out then. rock aaaout, george bernard! yaaaow!! *air guitar*
wait. scratch that: *air celtic harp*
my director could be pat's twin. omg, he looks like pat, he has the same gestures, he SOUNDS exactly like him. and, the freakiest thing by far, he directs like pat. now, i've never been directed by pat, but i've done enough theatre and i've known that yoda-lovin' maniac long enough where i could pretty much guess. it's a little unsettling because of the uncanny resemblance, but simultaneously comforting because of its seeming familiarity. odd.
and then there's paul, who plays the lead and title character. holy crap. no complaints. siri, you would have died...he's a tall, pale, sculpted lanky thing with dark shaggy hair and scruff and, what's more, he walked in the rain, so the first impression i got was "the wet look." nice. very cute. a little shy. and way too young for me. *^_^* (let's not forget, siri-lass, he also straps on a very convincing irish accent. it's like the fancy bow on a package. for god's sake i hope he turns out to be an asshole. *laughs*)
but i'm telling you single boys out there; if you can make it work for you, "the wet look" makes a daeyam good first impression.
and he's pretty fucking talented. as is the woman who plays his mother. but it's the other main dude i worry about. in a huge way. (this is the reason for the suck-report from the first paragraph.) he's in his 60s and i don't think he's ever been on a stage before. the scales here are completely off-kilter. i wouldn't even mention it if he was "just not as good as the others," but we're talking guffman-proportional suckage here. i'm hoping to keep on the sunny side of this and get some amusing character study out of him.
our SM is a pretty kick-ass girl, and our designer is another old dude, but chipper, and a stutterer. that makes me smile. there's something about a stutter that's always very endearing.
so. if nothing else, it will be an entertainment for myself. and, besides psudo-pat, cutie-boy, guffman, stutterbug, and all the gaelic shenanegans therein, i also get free admission to the irish fair (where we're performing on the showboat). the fair itself looks amusing enough, with all of its sheep-herding demonstrations and irish quartets and loombuilders and such. but it's the free admission to the flogging molly concert that i'm mostly wetting myself for. score.
it's cabbage and cakes from here on out then. rock aaaout, george bernard! yaaaow!! *air guitar*
wait. scratch that: *air celtic harp*
