The countdown has begun
We open in less than a week at the International Fringe Festival in New York! The puppets are on their way, we've got the set almost packed for its flight with us on Friday. A couple of touch-up rehearsals this week without the puppets and then we're gone!
That's an actual, unretouched photo of me on the left, but it could easily be mistaken for any of the cast members of Small Appliance Puppet Theater (well, the humans anyway). The butterflies have landed squarely in our stomachs. We are excited, nervous and eager to get on those airplanes that will take us to the next stage of our adventure.
The puppets don't care. They're psyched and ready. They live for the spotlight and have been grousing for weeks now about "are we there yet?" Almost fellas, almost.
posted by Small Appliance Puppet Theater @ 7:08 AM
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I think I have a few sympathy butterflies myself. Appropriate supportive comment here!
Thanks, Eric, for your sympathy butterflies and for the help you've given us along the way!
Mere butterflies doesn't describe that first minute of the first preview. More like a swarm of grasshoppers, flying, jumping, spitting. Yeesh.
I have this amazing quality to go backstage, take a breath, and forget what show I'm doing. It's okay, I'm used to it -- not!
The big terror is: I go onstage, look at the president, and can't say anything! I don't have a line - what if he goes mum? Wait! Is that a rhetorical question?
But really, don't we wish he would? Just stop talking. It would save his press secretary a nervous breakdown. But that's okay, because another new press secretary appliance is waiting in the wings.
your WrongCo appliance salesman
Uh, Wrongco, these are details your director does not want to know, OK?
WrongCo - just remember. Getting through airport security will be more stressful than performing.
I saw the show on Sunday--it's clever and brilliant! I'm gonna give some unsolicted advice: I think the salesman needs to be more forceful, agressive and louder. He kind of slides out from behind the curtains; I think he should make a dramatic splash each time. Think of the Music Man or Richard Gere in Chicago. Just a little more pizzaz would be great!
Pizzazz. Great observation! Thanks.
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