Take Ten Theater Masters Tech and fancy dinners.

Tech for Take Ten has taken up a lot of my time...that a making sure all of my lines are correct. The days have begun to blend together, because I am so exhausted. After rehearsal we have been going to a lot of dinners at rich people's houses. We had one Friday night and last night was a fundraiser dinner that turned into a total doozy. Yesterday we finished cue to cue pretty much and a few of us decided to go grab some dinner and a drink before a playwright panel discussion. We ended up at Little Annies where they had a $3.50 shot and drink special...can't beat that!! I had some soup too but that part is irrelevant. We left and headed out to the discussion...which we got lost for and ended up missing. It was totally embarrassing because we didn't intend to miss it, the directions weren't great so we drove around and when we found it....everyone was leaving the building. We went back to a friends condo and watched some tv before we had to be at the dinner at the Tripplehorn's. The dinner was really nice. The Tripplehorn's are from Texas and they live in Cher's old house! There is a diorama of taxidermy squirrels....seriously. I will post the photo eventually. LOL. The wine was flowing and the dinner was really, really tasty. We had this girl named Heather at our table and we totally thought she should be at this dinner. So Julia wants us to have a discussion at our table and we will talk about it later.

We nominate Heather to speak on our behalf as she took notes on her iphone. Our discussion was about what counts as art? We touched on a bunch of different topics within that question. It comes time for us to speak and she goes up there and she is really nervous. She starts talking about how Broadway is crap and all of this weird, inappropriate crap. Julia is freaking out because half of the people at this fundraiser love the arts and give money to BROADWAY!!! I am like shitting myself because this is soooo awkward. All i can do is keep my head down and just keep drinking my wine! It turns out that this girl wasn't even allowed at this dinner, she was invited by one of the playwrights but they barely even spoke to each other the WHOLE night. Julia was trying desperately to get this woman to stop talking. I still don't understand why they just didn't kick her out or not let her speak. Anyway, I have to now smooth things over so our table doesn't look like a bunch of assholes who hate theatre...further from the truth really. Not what I want to do before I have to do a dress rehearsal in front of all the playwrights.

Bloody Hell, I need a dirty martini.....

Aspen Day Two....Read Thru and dinner at a Doll House!?

I'm writing a day late, but I was too tired last night to write about what I did. So I had to meet everyone at 4 pm for a Read Thru of all the play; pretty much to make sure the casting was done right. It was a little nerve racking to meet all of the actors and directors...Julia (Artistic Director) and Pesha (Assistant Artistic Director). Turns out that a lot of people have done Theatre Masters before so they knew each other. I managed to make friends easily and I really like the group of actors we have this year. They all like to drink which is incredibly promising. After reading, I was more nervous because I was hoping that I wouldn't be recast. I wasn't!!! Julia pulls me aside after the reading and tells me something about a special dinner that I am invited to. I guess we had to keep this info on the DL because this dinner was meant for the out of town actors ONLY. I spent a lot of time at Julia's home, just waiting for someone to give me an address or at least give me a freakin' ride. At around 7:30 we vacated Julia's and headed to Lucy's home. This dinner requires another paragraph entirely!

Let me begin my saying that after a tour of this woman's home...it's a mansion that looks like it could be a life-size replica of a doll house. Her bedroom door blends in with the wallpaper so you can't see it! CRAZY! The wine was flowing and it was absolutely delicious...although in the high altitude I should have refrained but I really can't turn down good wine. There was guacamole which was a little odd as I think it had cheese in it. No thanks. There were puff pastries with cheese and jalapenos which were divine. We pretty much just sat around with our wine and chit-chatted. The director of my shows came up to me later and told me that I did a wonderful job in the cold reading. He was really excited to work with me!!! Then dinner arrived. There was meatloaf, ribs, asparagus, chicken fajita wraps, and deviled eggs. It was a pretty random spread, but it was all really good. We ate and talked about the acting world and what a pain in the ass it is to become part of the Union or Actor's Equity as it's called. At around 9:30 we were pretty much told to leave. Away we went, fat and happy. I came back to my place, put on my PJ's and crashed. For some reason the altitude gives me insomnia...I really don't like that I am having trouble sleeping. :(

Aspen here I come

So tomorrow morning I will be on a plane to Aspen, Colorado to visit my grandma and grandpa. We think make a stop to Oklahoma City the last leg of my trip to see my sister in a horse show. I will hopefully have access to a computer regularly so I will post about my trip. Probably won't include pictures unless its from an Iphone or something (which I don't have). But, I will post photos on my Facebook page when I return on the 5th. My flight is at 8:55 am so I will be up at 6. Blah!!! Finger's crossed for me that it is safe travels. Frontier airlines will be making my journey possible. I downloaded to good tunes to my ghetto Ipod Mini. Some Ke$ha and a bit of Jay-Z. See ya on the flip side ya'll! I swear I better see some famous people on this trip and maybe now that I'm older I will actually have the courage to knock on Jack Nicholson's door....if he's there. Yes, blog world my grandparents live next to him!

J.