...So she's a gold-digger... just goes to show... (ah, hmmm?)... TIGGER!
Unlike my talented blogettes that have sprinkled these pages with class, decorum and roolly good england... I'm slightly less cooth. I make no apologies. I've got security and I say what the hell.
Soo... the lights are on, the stage is set, the champers are chilling, the bobby pins are diggin in, the heels are clacking, lips stained red, 13 sets of heated rollers are steaming and threatening to bring down the Rangi circuit boards, the watercress is literally being plucked fresh from a darling spring in the Waitaks and Fox 'n' West are waiting in the wings for their big debut.
The ladies are ready... ready as they will ever be and more. True there are always last minute panics, blunders, small freak outs but nothing a wee droppie and a valium won't calm. This week has seen some very hard-working people up ladders, under floors, armed with tape, drills, paintbrushes, gels, lights, headphones, mudpacks, safety pins, lists, more lists, scribbled out lists and re-written lists all dashing toward the finish line and the ultimate reward...OPENING NIGHT.
Now technical week during the gestation of a theatrical production my darlings is no short of the WEIRDEST feeling in the world... so much suddenly happens and your pretend world is instantly expanded into this blazing spotlit creation that it can be a little un-nerving - for all...experienced or fresh faced...across the generations... everyones had that moment where 'woopsies', the nerves have got the better of us and a lil bit of wee comes out. This is where I pop on that famous theatre record called "This happens in every show"... but because every experience is different... we all forget and it blindsides us - put it this way, if it DIDN'T... and there were no moments of imperfection, challenge, fear and frustration - then I'd seriously be questioning the spirit of the show.
Theatre is spectacular - the reason it is so unique and special is because it is live emotion, action, reaction - 4-D delight to the senses... written, created, performed and designed by humans - and we're not perfect darling but we are beautiful.
So I say "Cheries!!! Listen up bitches! Feel the fear and DO IT ANYWAY - because its that which makes it AWESOME".
No... I wouldn't be a philosopher's arse I know... but I do know a thing or two about how you feel in theatre... and we have something special and I am very much looking forward to seeing the sparks fly!!!
This may well be my last blog before the season is upon us - I would like to thank our devoted 3 followers (two of which contribute to this blog - hahaha!) without who this story would not be told.
I would like to thank from the bottom of my heart:
- The 13 women that are taking the stage in all their finery, flair and enthusiasm - you are all gems in the pool of light.
- The multi-taskers that are running around in a flurry of perfection with furniture, furs and screens.
- The dedicated button pushers, plugger-inners, switcher-onners, that without whom we'd look rather unflattering in a pool of fluorescent light and have to hum our own musical score - not pretty.
- The construction workers that screwed their little butts off to create the stylish boards of New York high society living.
- The devoted producer - our BFG - who's belly laugh still lifts our spirits as it has done right from the get-go.
- Our visionary, creator and director Janelley-B whose positivity, guidance, sense of humour, filthy language, support, kindness, intellect and talent has been a joy and inspiration to us all - the fact she had to stage a cat-fight rather that break up many in a cast of 13 women should go down in the Guiness Book of Records as the Eighth Wonder of the World...we wuv you Nelley...
Ladies and Gentleman, it is with immense pride and emotion I present to you, the ensemble creation that is...
"The Women"
... it has been a pleasure sharing this journey with you.
Lights...
Lippy...
Music...
Curtain...
This is New York.
Eedz...............OUT.
xoxoxox
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