I kept talking about "the point of no return" this morning, causing people to sing, and eventually, it turned out, Caitlin and I were watching "Phantom of the Opera" which I've surprisingly never seen, though I've seen the show both on Broadway and in West End London.
Anyway, my morning has been spent gigglin the shit out of my sticky post-party apartment with my hungover friends, making vital phonecalls of frantic stage managery, moistening my eyeballs to emotional songs with plenty of strings and organ-sounding keyboards, fawning over Gerard and other sexy long-haired men on my TV screen, and burning my mouth on black pepper covered crisps. Now, working on choosing my audition selections as - Yes- The auditions for my play are in two days.
My crazy has been unleashed on other people as of late and, needless to say, I feel bad about that. No time to pity - I must return to my solitude.
Oh, one final note, I love how The Phantom of the Opera captures life in the theatre so well. Actors bitching about stuff, techies chillin backstage drinking together and being overall brash and ridiculous. YES. I miss my techie friends more than I could say - I need my ACTF boys to visit me ASAP to have a good laugh like I haven't had in a long while. I've laughed a lot, but it's different with them. Anyway.
I have another plan for my life. I am going to live in a theatre. YES. We shall have a community all living in the theatre we produce shows in and struggling artists can come and go and occasionally get fed in return for some help with the shows. We'll have a magical roof, under that, floors upon floors of storage and rigging and dangerous high places for techies to climb on things like the monkeys we are, a huge beautiful theatre like the old London ones below that, our living community below that, and below that, a stable because apparently horses lived in theatres in France in the nineteenth century, and below that, a bunch of mazes and trap doors leading to an underground RIVER.
I love my ideas. I wish that one day, one would work out.
dude that opera house in phantom of the opera is modeled after the real paris opera house that did have a river under it, so your architectural designs for this utopian theatre community aren't far from reality.
ReplyDeletep.s. i'd like to see you for more than five seconds.
we should do lunch some day or something.
p.s. when is the play you're directing?