OMG i'm in another play!!1!

[chanaleh]

So a couple weeks ago, lillibet wrote and invited me to try out for this production of Lanford Wilson's one-act play Talley's Folly that theatreatfirst would be putting on in February (before they do You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown in the spring). It's 97 minutes, only two characters, a Jewish man and a Missouri woman, it's a love story, really charming. Okay, sure, I said, that sounds cool. And I read the script and I thought, yeah, this could be fun.

So, we had the audition/read-through last night, four men reading for Matt and four women reading for Sally. And I thought, this is pretty neat material -- but, well, all things considered I'll be happy either way.

But today they offered me the part and I am totally ecstatic. :-)
We're to learn lines over the coming month, start rehearsals January 18, and open February 11. (Hey, gang, how many performances might there be?)

The top two questions I've gotten so far are:
(a) "How the hell do you have time to do this?" (Answer: I didn't really have much on the schedule for that 4-week period... yet... anyway...)
(b) (on hearing me summarize the basic premise of the play) "Uh, was this part written for you?" ;-)

Well, we'll see.

And I'm playing opposite dpolicar, who is going to be just about as perfect in this role as navrins was for Henry.

And really I'm just so pleased to be assimilating signing on with the Firsties -- so many of whom I already know and love, and whom I've seen develop into this incredible mutual admiration society (which I mean in the nicest, most supportive, most enviable way possible).

More on all this later, for now I am long overdue for bed (and reek of frying latkes. Thus endeth the chag).

Comments

[points.livejournal.com]

So much for bed by 1. ;)

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

I *think* there will be six, but I haven't quite figured that out. My current theory is to do Friday/Sat-mat/Sat, Thu/Fri/Sat.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Very cool! Just don't forget to sleep and eat...

[jencallisto]

ohhhhh! i wish i wasn't on the wrong coast, so i could come see you in it!

[goljerp]

Two minor quibbles:

and reek of frying latkes
I don't see what's the problem with this
Thus endeth the chag
Hey, it isn't over until sundown tonight!

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

In college, I took a Drama class. The final project that my partner and I chose was a scene from Talley's Folley. Great play, and I bet you'll both be wonderful in it.

So how do we get tickets? :-)

[melopoeia.livejournal.com]

reading this, two thoughts crossed my mind:

1) Maybe I want to be in plays . . . I should find out where Chanaleh is meeting all these people . . .

2) . . . Weeel, not in them....Maybe they need techs . . .


Thus goes the tale of the groggy lighting geek.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

Mazel tov!

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Aaah, I tried. :-} I was in bed by 1:45... and set the alarm for 8:15... it could have been worse!

[awhyzip.livejournal.com]

reeking of latkes as delicious as the ones yall served *cannot* be a bad thing!

i liked your little preview Sally quotation last night :-)

[moria923.livejournal.com]

Congrats! I'll definitely come to see you. I bet my sweetie will too . . . I love dragging him to the theater with me!

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

"Matt Friedman, you did not run out of gas!"
Dear me, I'm going to need a Sally icon before long. :-)

Glad you enjoyed the latkes!

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

Yay!! That sounds like so much fun. Can't wait to see it.

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Oh, congratulations! That's fabulous news.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I can see you in that role too. You'll have to tell me afterwards which section you did.

For tickets, keep an eye on http://www.theatreatfirst.org/ -- of course, I'll let everyone know when they start taking reservations!

Talley's Folly

[(Anonymous)]

Hm, Theatre@First beats me to one of my wish list of plays-to-direct-someday... Great minds think alike :) Do let me know when it goes up, as I don't seem to have actually quite gotten myself reliably in the info loop yet. And congratulations!

--Andrea

Re: Talley's Folly

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Thou shalt join their mailing list!

And, hi! And, thanks!

[batshua]

Hi, I'm randomishly friending you because you are not only in weirdjews but you have syonakeleste and lignota listed as your friends.

Do you know them IRL? If so, how or why do I not know you IRL?

P.S. Your buttons are über-cool.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Hi! and, I do know them IRL from mitgsp (but very little otherwise, so perhaps that explains it). and, thanks!

[batshua]

Aha! Now it all makes sense.