Saturday. We had a great audience on Saturday and tremendous laughter. Great fun to perform and great response. The show went very well.
However, the theatre gods struck again deep in the Act 2. The light board from hell put us all in darkness again. Apparently it lost all power. We were able to wait there in darkness for a couple of minutes, then the lights came back up and we picked up where we left off.
The game ball for this performance, however, has to go to Lavin as Abe.
Early on, Lavin began to show signs that something was wrong. It was only obvious to me but I couldn’t figure out what it was. At intermission I found out.
At one point in Act 1, don’t ask why, Lavin's character eats a couple of bites of raw spaghetti. One particular bit of spaghetti managed to pop a cap off of his tooth and lodge itself in his gum. It makes me cringe just to think about it.
Then, after the show, people are asking Lavin about his eye. That’s when I found out that in Act 2 he accidently poked himself in the eye with his glasses. How much must a man endure for his art!
The man deserves a purple heart.
Today is the Sunday afternoon matinee and I seriously doubt if you’ll ever find an actor who looks forward to matinees. We will do our very best and we will put on a great show but there is just an intrinsically different energy between an afternoon and an evening. There is an excitement in the air when darkness falls that is just not there in the afternoon.
Case in point, this year’s Daytona 500 was forced to move from Sunday afternoon to Monday night prime time. The race should obviously always be at night.
It's just so much more dramatic when the jet fuel explodes.
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