Radio

I was almost on the radio yesterday morning, except that I thought I would be on the radio yesterday evening and totally missed being on the radio yesterday morning.

Got that? Ok, moving on.

I will be on the radio next Friday morning at 11am. I will be on Marya Morstad's "Art Matters" show on KFAI, 90.3 in Minneapolis, 106.7 in St. Paul. I believe you can even listen online. So if you're stuck at work, just tune in the old compy via the interwebs and hopefully I'll have something interesting (read: not gibberish) to say to you.

Why is it that inspiration always strikes after 2 am?

I was sitting here, chained to my computer desk and Googling old classmates and feeling thoroughly uninspired to get anything Fringe related accomplished, when BOOM! The website is up and running with rudimentary information, but important information nonetheless. And now it's 4 am and I should have been asleep four hours ago, but inspiration struck, and when inspiration strikes, you can either turn the other cheek and get stuff done, or you can seethe quietly in the corner, plotting a detailed, bloody, and embarrassing revenge involving rocket launchers, Squeezy Cheese, and highly questionable underwear choices caught on film. Most of us choose the former, and work gets done. Yay work.

Right now, I look sort of like this. Yay 4 am!

Appreciation.

I have done many, many shows in my lifetime. On most of these shows, not all, there was a host of people whose names and job titles I knew, but never really gave much thought to the practical, every day aspects of their jobs. Dramaturgy, for instance. I know what it is, and occasionally the dramaturg will come to rehearsals and pipe up when a question about the script needs an answer, but I never really gave the position much thought. Until now.

Every single person involved in producing a play or musical, from the producer to the deck hand, is incredibly useful. I never knew just how much work went into producing, designing, researching, and staging a show. I keep saying that I'm going to vomit at the sheer volume of work to be done and the fact that the very heavy deadline is sitting on my chest and making faces at me. Getting a show off the ground - even a show as small and simple as ours - takes an enormous amount of work from everyone involved. So trying to do it all among three people is backbreaking.

From now on, when I get to be just an actor, I'll be so excited to have nothing else to do.

Welcome. Mind the debris.

So far, there's nothing here. But there will be. We promise. In the last few weeks leading up to the Festival you'll get a firsthand look at the creation of a Fringe show. It'll be messy, dirty, and most of all wet. Don't forget your poncho.