Excuuuuuuuuuuse Me!
Today was a theater day. Not a writing day. Here's why:
- After five hours sleep, I was up at 8 a.m., finished blocking the fourth act of The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder, which I'm directing and goes into rehearsal at Santa Paula Theatre Center on Monday, May 17 with a cast of 14, which I'm still casting;
- Then I got into my office at 10 a.m. for a meeting with Will Shupe, my set designer, to work out some aggravations in having a play with four separate sets, one in each act, and came away with a much better view of what I was dealing with;
- Created the rehearsal schedule for the show, which was plain mind-numbing, because I have to deal not just with how I'm going to rehearse this monster but with some of the leading actors' personal schedules;
- Finished casting my play and called all the actors;
- Then I ran down to Oxnard to The Elite Theatre Company to watch a rehearsal of our upcoming production of Wrong Turn at Lungfish, as part of my role as Artistic Director, and gave the director some...well, direction;
- Rushed up to pick up my daughter at 6 p.m. at the Boys and Girls Club (wife off to Santa Barbara County visiting her mother);
- Thai food at Om Fusion Thai restaurant with my daughter;
- Pick up her friend;
- Then up to Ojai Art Center Theater to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which got out at 9:15 p.m.;
- Got home at 9:45 p.m.
Tomorrow's a private eye day: I'm up at 4:15 a.m. for a surveillance in Pacific Palisades tomorrow, so I can't really write anything more than this twaddle. So excuuuuuuuse me. I'll post a the next chapter of my novel, The Plunge, this weekend, since I didn't get to it today.
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