Lions and tigers and critics, oh my

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.

26 comments April 27th, 2006