January 27, 2006
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The Daily News
1 So...Chris Penn walks into a bar.
2 I wasn't so sure I needed to tell people THAT one, but anyway, he did.
3 Yesterday's audition turned into a rehearsal, and also one of the best rehearsals of my entire directing career! We talked of love, of soul, of the silence between the notes, but then we did a bunch of things that just ROCKED!
4 I don't know that I could put it all down right here, so I might just wait, but let's just say it was a LOT of fun! We did a roller coaster, and Summer Nights, but with some soul at the end, the venerable Coffee Break from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and accidentally ended with Tomorrow from Annie, when I accidentally pushed the wrong track on the CD player!
5 As we were leaving, I put on Footloose, which is ALSO now a Broadway show! Instantly, every goofball in the place began dancing goofy, so it was fun. At one point, Chantra began mouthing a rap beat in the middle of it, and it instantly looked like a hip-hop song!
6 This is going to be a LOT of fun!
7 We continue on today with a little more, because I need to see who can sing, who can harmonize, and who will work with the songs.
8 But make no mistake: we already have people getting slight injuries, and falling the wrong way, and there's a ton of physical acting, of which I'm famous, at least in my own frabjous mind. By next Wednesday, we ought really to have a few minor scrapes and cuts, and maybe six or seven broken bones.
9 That's why we have a cast party.
10 <thud.>
11 Ha! M'bad, m'bad, m'bad.
12 I saw that little cartoon ballon pop up over your head saying, "SOOOOO stupid!"
13 You see, because "cast party..." ah, nevermind!
14 In short, we're having some fun, in a year that's been short of fun!
15 What a great jump start to the Spring!
16 Anyway, we'll just keep it short today; this has been a VERY fun, but very hectic week.
17 I'll look back on this week as a turnaround for the entire year though. I haven't seen the Theatre this lively in years, and it don't it feel good!
18 So enjoy the weekend; don't forget your umbrellas.
19 And let's just keep the good times rollin'!
20 Cast party. Yeesh. This guy. SO dumb!
20 Peace.
~H~
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