Live Journal Live: Homo Promo

My lovely friend Mr. Phalus, (bukephalus), does a fun interview series he calls "Live Journal Live" - and he recently visited San Francisco and interviewed me. *yikes*

Here's the preview:

He's going to post the latest episode later this week. Stay Tuned!

(friends are forever) final plain clothed rehearsal

Tonight was the final tech-free rehearsal of Friends are Forever. Tomorrow night we're dark - then it's into Hell Week. An all day tech cue to cue on Saturday - and then a Tech Run on Sunday - then dress rehearsals Mon, Tues, Wed and Thurs - - then we finally open for an audience on Friday.

The set is so friggin' cool - a stylized art deco SF skyline on the back wall - with art deco furnishings and a big screen/scrim - hand painted with a real cool Victorian pattern - and big white glassless windows hanging to give you that bay window feeling. I know that they have all sorts of super cool lighting in store - the lighting diagram was PACKED - with light spots all over the stage... it's going to be so beautiful!

I am VERY excited to add lights, sound and costumes to this play. It will change how characters interact because every ounce of who we were when we walk into the theater disappears and our characters come forward. I am loving the neurotic, anxiety driven Roger than I play. His lines are purposely written to be too much to say in the space provided so he really just speaks at a nervous Warp 9. His tastes in clothes are in silk ties, cashmere sweater vests, bow ties and finely tailored trousers. He may be more subtlety dressed than everyone else - but what he wears and uses are the finest quality. He also is just head over heels for his partner; even willing to break WAY out of his comfort zone to make sure Mike is happy. Granted - I am bringing some of me to this part (falling in love with David this spring for instance... and occasionally being a little neurotic...) but it feels like a new direction for my acting. Most of my plays have been the comic relief and also, musicals. So to be in a production that is funny - but that nobody plays the clown, that the humor comes from the believability of how sometimes our lives (particularly in SF) are just an nth-degree of separation - - - it is powerfully satisfying in an entirely new way.

There are several scenes that just BROKE OUT tonight and gelled - and by the time we officially open after a week of previews (August 23rd, Saturday, 8pm) this play is going to be a locomotive full of great performances and upbeat music and attitude.

serious Yay!³