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October 12, 2006

And We're Back

Home from rehearsal. They never got to my bit. (My teeny eight-line scene in the middle of whirling memories and the heartbreaking episode in the restaurant.) When they began work on the restaurant scene, I realized it'd be a while, so I told the stage manager I'd be in the greenroom. I spent a good hour and 15 working my lines. (Hee! At first I typed "working my loins." Talk about a Freudian slip.) I'm a lot more solid in Act 1 now, and pretty strong in the first two scenes of Act 2. And when we get to it, I've memorized all of my lines in the restaurant scene. (All four of them.)

I suspected, when I looked up and saw that it was 10:10, that they weren't going to get to me. But it was good to get on the lines, and if I'd stayed home, I wouldn't have worked the lines at all. I'd have graded speeches and papers. Also necessary, but not line memorization. So I didn't feel it was time wasted.

But the director himself came into the greenroom to apologize to me and tell me they weren't going to get to me tonight after all. Bless his heart. He could have sent the assistant stage manager and kept working with the actors onstage, but he took the time to come tell me himself. That is the reason I've wanted to work with Jere for so long. Because I could tell he was a good human being. And I'm at the stage in my career where that means more to me than pretty much anything else.

Posted by sally at October 12, 2006 10:47 PM

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