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lillibetYesterday was crazy--mostly in a good way.
I had meetings from 10 am until 4 pm--productive, but still meetings. We established that we're fairly on top of the outstanding issues with the show and that we have accomplished a huge amount already and are on a good pace to be all set for the weekend. We also went over all the cues in the show, agreeing on where they'll be, what they'll be and adjusting them to fit what's actually happening onstage. Then I had to finish up some admin work for the church--many thanks to those who stayed to help me.
All of this was punctuated by a flurry of phone calls as we tried to actually get our hands on the Dresden Dolls tickets that had surfaced for grabs at midnight on Friday. Jason managed to take care of that while I raced home and got changed (and ate a nutri-grain bar, the only non-party food I had all day, oops!). I wore black jeans and boots--since no one was going to notice those, I figured I might as well be comfortable--and my new corset, with a purple silk shirt thrown on over it. I also decided that I felt like wearing contacts, which is always interesting--very few people notice that I'm not wearing my glasses, but I notice that people react subtly differently to me without them.
Jason and I hopped into the MINI and drove to Avalon. This seemed like a risky proposition, given that it's one block from Fenway Park and we'd heard the reports of the huge crowds down there for the parade. But we figured if it became too thick, we could easily get to the T and head in that way. The area was deserted--we were able to have our pick of legal parking spaces across the street from the club. We were late--the advertised showtime was 5:30 and it was pretty close to six by the time we turned up--but the first band went on within 5 minutes of our walking in the door. "OK, we're here, you can start now!"
We always enjoy the Dolls, but were also excited by both opening bands. Count Zero is one of steve's favorites, I enjoyed a show of theirs back in 1996, Jason had heard their music, but never seen them live. They were dressed up as Devo, which not only suited their style very nicely, but was also a good hook for the Dolls crowd (they seem ready to love anyone in ironic costumes), which had disdained them at a previous show. They were excellent, in a way that made me think "these guys should be playing stadiums". The second band was The Tiger Lillies, whom we had seen before as part of Shockheaded Peter. We'd been told "That's nothing, they're really strange," an impressive statement considering that SP is hardly You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. It was true--they are very strange. We enjoyed their set quite a bit. We found steve & Tom ("Hi! What the hell are you doing here?!"), Mags, and Rebecca (not the ex of Jason's who is staying with us this weekend, another Rebecca) and ended up watching the Dolls' set together. They were obviously really enjoying playing to the hometown crowd and really working the Halloween theme. They played a couple of new songs and most of my favorites. And I finally got to see their cover of "Hit Me Baby, One More Time" that I had heard about. Now if I can just see them do "The Rainbow Connection" I'll be all set.
They wrapped it up right at ten, so--dragging Rebecca along with us--we headed up to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
miss_chance's party. Lots of fun people were there, including a cadre of T@F folks, who were a fun surprise. Tom & steve ducked in and then back out, having had a previous commitment to judge costumes at another party. I stayed there until the first 1am and then went on to that party, briefly. One of the host's there is a former housemate with whom there was drama at the end of our cohabitation. He and I are fine--I've been to parties at his house before--but some of his friends still hold a grudge and for whatever reason that surfaced a bit last night and made me feel somewhat awkward. Fortunately, Tom & steve were ready to leave, so I was only there for about 30 minutes.
We caravaned into Boston for a party in the warehouse district. The crowd was more heavily salted than usual with people I know (DangerHaus parties have definitely helped on that front), so I had fun talking and flirting with various folk before settling down for some hard core inhalation for the last hour. I dragged myself out of that very pleasant situation at five and was at home, in bed, by 5:30.
Having that kind of an evening is a lot of fun for me. It reminds me of how I used to live at a certain time in my life. I don't have any desire to return to that time or that lifestyle (it has its definite downsides), but it's fun to re-visit from time to time and to know that I am not cut off from it. And it was very gratifying to receive so many compliments.
Eleven came awfully early this morning, but I managed to make it to the tech install reasonably on-time. Then we ran into some problems. We had the (yes, ridiculously naive) hope of getting the lights up in three hours. Nope. Ten. So rather than doing a cue-to-cue with the cast today, I took them off to run through their lines--they're doing very well, but given that it's poetry and even small mistakes play havoc with the meter and rhyme scheme, it was a valuable exercise.
The lights did get done (thanks so much to all of you who helped), along with pretty much all of the other set-up work. I think they look very good and I'm excited to see the show under them. So we'll do the cue-to-cue tomorrow and see where we go from there.
So, a very busy, very productive, very fun weekend. Plus Rebecca, whom I've barely mentioned--she decided at the last minute to come up for the East Coast A Capella Summit, which has worked out well, since she was busy with music stuff while we were busy with theatre stuff and we didn't have to entertain her, but could enjoy her presence around the edges. She's on the Pentagon beat for one of the wire services, so she has very interesting perspective on current events.
Whew! I think I need a weekend to recover. Instead, I need to get to sleep so I can drive out to Methuen in the morning. Whee!
I had meetings from 10 am until 4 pm--productive, but still meetings. We established that we're fairly on top of the outstanding issues with the show and that we have accomplished a huge amount already and are on a good pace to be all set for the weekend. We also went over all the cues in the show, agreeing on where they'll be, what they'll be and adjusting them to fit what's actually happening onstage. Then I had to finish up some admin work for the church--many thanks to those who stayed to help me.
All of this was punctuated by a flurry of phone calls as we tried to actually get our hands on the Dresden Dolls tickets that had surfaced for grabs at midnight on Friday. Jason managed to take care of that while I raced home and got changed (and ate a nutri-grain bar, the only non-party food I had all day, oops!). I wore black jeans and boots--since no one was going to notice those, I figured I might as well be comfortable--and my new corset, with a purple silk shirt thrown on over it. I also decided that I felt like wearing contacts, which is always interesting--very few people notice that I'm not wearing my glasses, but I notice that people react subtly differently to me without them.
Jason and I hopped into the MINI and drove to Avalon. This seemed like a risky proposition, given that it's one block from Fenway Park and we'd heard the reports of the huge crowds down there for the parade. But we figured if it became too thick, we could easily get to the T and head in that way. The area was deserted--we were able to have our pick of legal parking spaces across the street from the club. We were late--the advertised showtime was 5:30 and it was pretty close to six by the time we turned up--but the first band went on within 5 minutes of our walking in the door. "OK, we're here, you can start now!"
We always enjoy the Dolls, but were also excited by both opening bands. Count Zero is one of steve's favorites, I enjoyed a show of theirs back in 1996, Jason had heard their music, but never seen them live. They were dressed up as Devo, which not only suited their style very nicely, but was also a good hook for the Dolls crowd (they seem ready to love anyone in ironic costumes), which had disdained them at a previous show. They were excellent, in a way that made me think "these guys should be playing stadiums". The second band was The Tiger Lillies, whom we had seen before as part of Shockheaded Peter. We'd been told "That's nothing, they're really strange," an impressive statement considering that SP is hardly You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. It was true--they are very strange. We enjoyed their set quite a bit. We found steve & Tom ("Hi! What the hell are you doing here?!"), Mags, and Rebecca (not the ex of Jason's who is staying with us this weekend, another Rebecca) and ended up watching the Dolls' set together. They were obviously really enjoying playing to the hometown crowd and really working the Halloween theme. They played a couple of new songs and most of my favorites. And I finally got to see their cover of "Hit Me Baby, One More Time" that I had heard about. Now if I can just see them do "The Rainbow Connection" I'll be all set.
They wrapped it up right at ten, so--dragging Rebecca along with us--we headed up to
miss_chance's party. Lots of fun people were there, including a cadre of T@F folks, who were a fun surprise. Tom & steve ducked in and then back out, having had a previous commitment to judge costumes at another party. I stayed there until the first 1am and then went on to that party, briefly. One of the host's there is a former housemate with whom there was drama at the end of our cohabitation. He and I are fine--I've been to parties at his house before--but some of his friends still hold a grudge and for whatever reason that surfaced a bit last night and made me feel somewhat awkward. Fortunately, Tom & steve were ready to leave, so I was only there for about 30 minutes.We caravaned into Boston for a party in the warehouse district. The crowd was more heavily salted than usual with people I know (DangerHaus parties have definitely helped on that front), so I had fun talking and flirting with various folk before settling down for some hard core inhalation for the last hour. I dragged myself out of that very pleasant situation at five and was at home, in bed, by 5:30.
Having that kind of an evening is a lot of fun for me. It reminds me of how I used to live at a certain time in my life. I don't have any desire to return to that time or that lifestyle (it has its definite downsides), but it's fun to re-visit from time to time and to know that I am not cut off from it. And it was very gratifying to receive so many compliments.
Eleven came awfully early this morning, but I managed to make it to the tech install reasonably on-time. Then we ran into some problems. We had the (yes, ridiculously naive) hope of getting the lights up in three hours. Nope. Ten. So rather than doing a cue-to-cue with the cast today, I took them off to run through their lines--they're doing very well, but given that it's poetry and even small mistakes play havoc with the meter and rhyme scheme, it was a valuable exercise.
The lights did get done (thanks so much to all of you who helped), along with pretty much all of the other set-up work. I think they look very good and I'm excited to see the show under them. So we'll do the cue-to-cue tomorrow and see where we go from there.
So, a very busy, very productive, very fun weekend. Plus Rebecca, whom I've barely mentioned--she decided at the last minute to come up for the East Coast A Capella Summit, which has worked out well, since she was busy with music stuff while we were busy with theatre stuff and we didn't have to entertain her, but could enjoy her presence around the edges. She's on the Pentagon beat for one of the wire services, so she has very interesting perspective on current events.
Whew! I think I need a weekend to recover. Instead, I need to get to sleep so I can drive out to Methuen in the morning. Whee!
