Again, I was so damn busy this week I had no time to blog. I hate when that happens. But this was tech week for Boeing-Boeing, and between running errands and traveling downtown and actually rehearsing, plus all my other worky-type things, I've barely had an hour at a time to sit down and think.
As you can see, the three of us playing stewardesses look awfully cute! Laura Loy, the girl playing the German in yellow there, and I did the costuming. We originally thought we might rent the uniforms, so that they would look more or less like the actual sixties-era uniforms, but I wasn't really digging the cookie-cutter suits in different colors look. So instead we decided we'd go to the Garment District and dig around in their vintage stuff. We found the red and yellow minidresses and a blue pantsuit for me. I detached the waistband from the pants, opened up the legs, and combined them into the skirt you see me wearing here. I was quite proud of us, we made much more interesting, adorable ensembles for way cheaper than renting them. :-)
This was a bit of a rough tech, as our rehearsal period didn't go how we planned. We lost a lot of time early on, and I only had been called like twice before we'd hit our original off-book deadline. A big part of my process is to match the lines to the movement in the blocking, and so without that, I think I had a much harder time getting things down than I usually do. We also had very little time in our performance space, as we were renting out a space in the First Church of Boston which has other functions going on there, so we had to split build and tech time with rehearsal time. I confess we were worried at certain points. But we all worked really hard, and as it often does when you finally get down to the wire and get in front of an actual audience, things came together!
We performed to a decent-sized audience that laughed a lot, which gave us energy, and I think we did pretty well. I was even pleasantly surprised to find that everyone thought my Italian accent was pretty good! Jenn, who is fluent, said it sounded good, and I even had a native speaker who was in the audience tell me I sounded just like friends of hers who spoke English with an accent! I've never been all that good at accents and I worked really hard on it, so that was incredibly gratifying.
Finally, I was also delighted to have lovely friends-- Bernie, Carolyn, Steph, Gigi, Jenn, John, Caitlin, Plesser, Frances, and Eboracum, if I remember everyone --come out to see it. Thank you so much, lovely friends! Your honor me with your presence. Tonight I will have my brother Casey and his girlfriend Sara, which means a lot to me, so I hope we do as well.
If you might like to come out and see us, we still have three performances left! Buy tickets at www.zptheater.com with coupon code zeropoint to get $20 tickets. We're in The First Church of Boston tonight and tomorrow at 8, then on Sunday at 4!
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