Lions and tigers and critics, oh my
April 27th, 2006
We’re off to see the Wizard. Officially. Tonight is the Half-Price Preview of Like Home (can you come tonight? some of you? please? half price and free wine and the chance to say you saw it first!).
We’d love to have a good-sized audience tonight as well as on tomorrow’s Official Opening night, so be spontaneous and come by at 7:45 so you can get tipsy before the 8pm curtain. Mir of Woulda Coulda Shoulda has delighted me to no end by telling me that she is coming tonight, so even if you think that seeing a play is a boring way to spend an evening, you can hang out with Mir and be all bored-cool in the lobby at intermission.
Editor-in-chief Glenn Drohan at The Advocate Weekly wrote a lovely preview article about the play click here click here click here, which includes a picture of the director and me. Before we go any further, yes, the rumors are true. I’m sleeping with the director and that’s totally how I got this gig. Terrible casting-couch issues in North Adams, worse than L.A., really. At least he’s hot, man.
The Advocate Weekly article is not a review — it’s just a nice story before the fact, when there’s still hope flowing and spraying everywhere. We are walking around here dripping with optimism, and someone will have to clean up the mess later, but right now, it feels good to feel good about a project again. It’s been a long time. Dress rehearsal was a joy last night, and dress rehearsals are very rarely a joy. I’m going to tuck that joy under my mattress and guard it with my life for as long as I can.
The prospect of theatre critics coming always makes me a little ill. My stomach does very bad twisty things when I hear Did you see the review?. I try to think of theatre critics the way I think about those eyebrow mites we’re all supposed to have crawling around up there — I try not to think about them or I would probably need shots of rhino-strength tranquilizer. I’m sure the eyebrow mites would argue that they’re just doing their job, exfoliating or whatever it is eyebrow mites do, but it can be hard to appreciate their service to humanity when it’s your eyebrow they’re infesting.
I would love to see you there. I think I’ve said that already, but it bears repeating.
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26 Comments
1. Nancy | April 27th, 2006 at 11:04 am
Break a leg! I’d love to be there if I could, but VA’s just too far from MA.
2. Stacy | April 27th, 2006 at 11:40 am
Any chance those of us from far far away will ever get to read the screenplay???
3. Spot the Wonder Dog | April 27th, 2006 at 12:03 pm
David kinda looks like Michael Moore in the picture accompanying the article.
4. Jenn | April 27th, 2006 at 12:07 pm
Michael Moore totally turns me on.
5. ChristyD | April 27th, 2006 at 12:28 pm
Break a leg! I’ll be sending good karma your way.
6. Another Jen | April 27th, 2006 at 12:39 pm
Yay you!
7. Sarah | April 27th, 2006 at 12:44 pm
I love how the Mater manages to get a mention! Good luck for the play
8. MzVette | April 27th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
Good Luck on your play! I would defiantly be there if I lived remotely in the area. I’d love to be able to read the screen play too sometime! Put it in your online store after the play is over, I’ll buy it!!
9. Sogal | April 27th, 2006 at 1:19 pm
i wish wish wish wish i could be there - no auto and still dealing with the undiagnosed syndrome (cfs, who knows?)
but will be totally thinking of you both tonight and this weekend - lots of good vibes.
next week i am off to be the nanny for my sister’s first book tour - AFTERMATH OF DREAMING (see delaunemichel.com) … New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Jackson, Memphis - the hot spots of the south! - i will be the one in the back of the room with the adorable two yearold.
BREAK A LEG!!!!!
10. geogirl | April 27th, 2006 at 1:25 pm
Couldn’t they have angled the picture so we could see your neighbors good looking house across the street?
Just kidding! Cute picture and nice article. So sorry I can’t make it. I’ll send lots of good vibes your way though.
Jenn, I love your writing and even if you never become “commercially successful” I hope you continue. I promise I will continue to read it and to hell with the mites…and the critics.
11. R J Keefe | April 27th, 2006 at 1:33 pm
Kill the people!
12. Sheri | April 27th, 2006 at 2:12 pm
We’ll be there with bells on! Can’t wait!
13. Antonia | April 27th, 2006 at 3:27 pm
I want to be there too, but it’s too many thousands of miles across the ocean from London. I tried clicking my heels together but am wearing manky trainers that lack the bling factor of ruby slippers. I love your blog and I’d love to see what your playwriting’s like! Very best of luck!!
14. the Mater | April 27th, 2006 at 3:34 pm
Wow, Jenn - what great readers you have here! Bottle up all this positive energy and take it with you to the theatre!
Great article and I’m sure I’ll weather the language!
Love, Mom
15. marian | April 27th, 2006 at 4:23 pm
Seriously? You want to plant perennials? You’re not just saying that because you think Mr. Squash might read the review?
Lovely, lovely write-up. Wishing you all the success in the world. If we didn’t have to drive a thousand miles, we’d be there. (And David is one cute-as-a-button JB.)
16. Contrary | April 27th, 2006 at 5:46 pm
The best I can hope for is that the play is so well received that y’all decide to do it again in mid-June when I will actually be traveling through there.
In the meantime, break a finger!
(I know it’s ‘break a leg’ for an actor, but I wasn’t sure which particular bodily harm I’m supposed to wish on a playwright. That was the best I could do.)
I’ll be sending good thoughts your way. And I’ll be busy exuding bored/cool while watching Ghosthunter’s on TiVo tonight.
(By the way, they’re up your way; you should totally see if they’ll come suss out your otherwordly in-laws. I’m sure you could work a plug in somewhere. Man, I should be an agent!)
17. summer camp kid | April 27th, 2006 at 7:43 pm
So so sooooooo wish I could be there to marvel at the whole event!!
I’d say, hot damn, what a genius playwright… such insight, what incredible directing… so tight… the actors were flawless. Hot damn, these two are going somewhere, hot damn, I’d better get my autograph while I can!!
I am sure the show was fantastic and will be the talk of the town for decades!! (All good talk, all good.)
so glad you both could make this happen.
XOXOX
18. nolamom | April 27th, 2006 at 9:26 pm
Good luck tonight and tomorrow Jenn, and will be hoping to see this play come out on DVD, will definitely buy it.
Sure wish we lived closer to there, but New Orleans is a long way from you, again good luck tonight, and in the future too.
19. Mom101 | April 27th, 2006 at 9:50 pm
Ooh, I just accepted a North Adams weekend invite for the end of June. Can’t you continue the run just a bit longer? Please? For me?
20. Mir | April 28th, 2006 at 1:00 am
Okay, people, GO SEE THIS PLAY. I didn’t even have any wine! It was really good! And Jenn was so cute and adorable I wanted to tuck her in my pocket and take her home with me, but I was afraid David might frown on that, so I left her there after hugging her too many times.
Jenn, thank you again, and I shall blog it all tomorrow once I’ve had some sleep, which will be happening as soon as the caffeine wears off (which I’m hoping will be soon). MWAH!
21. heather | April 28th, 2006 at 8:00 am
Hey, Jenn!
How did the opening/preview go? Wish I could be there and hope that you know that I’m there in spirit. Tonight I’ll be in Indy listening to another Grinnell alum perform. I’ll think of you both.
22. Lisa | April 28th, 2006 at 8:49 am
oh wow…it’s really happening….I’m so excited for you both! I loved seeing the picture of you both….I have to admit I was picturing you both in the previous days post acting out the lines!
I might consider a Kosher Kitchen for David…he’s probably worth it….what a cutie…..but then again…..I love my husband and I would not do that for him….um…he could do it himself and I’d sit back and watch……..sorry I digress……at any rate your husband is a doll! *wink* and so are you Jenn!
23. MzVette | April 28th, 2006 at 10:09 am
If it isn’t to much to ask… can we get a good blog on how your play went? If you do get desperate you could always do like Contrary suggested and start breaking fingers, then people might attend
24. flynnie beans | April 28th, 2006 at 11:09 am
spot is right…david does look a little like micheal moore in the photo hehe… im sure the play is fabulous, geez.I cant wait to see it
25. Mellie G | April 28th, 2006 at 2:25 pm
break a leg jenn! i’ll be thinking of you in ca!!
26. ozma | April 29th, 2006 at 7:11 pm
Congratulations!!!! I wish I could go. I do want to see the play, why do I always have so much work? Well, I’ll see it on Broadway and it will be so hot TKTS won’t have any and I’ll have to sell my car to pay a scalper and then I’ll regret I had my chance and missed half price preview night.
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