Farewell, the latter spring!

Well, I’m upstairs in the dressing room, now, listening to the robbery scene over the monitor, as I write this.
I was discussing with my mother-in-law this morning how lovely this cast has been to work with, and how genuinely fond of one another we are. And while I won’t miss the daily question of [...]

“It’s gonna be a bloodbath…”

So, King Henry, Prince Hal, Bardolph, Poins, and Vernon got together at the Manse last night and ordered a pizza, had a beverage or two, and got to the nitty gritty work of taking over the world. If you’ve never played Risk, it’s a turn-based strategy board game, played on a map of the [...]

Only $9.95 plus S+H!

Every night, just before intermission, up in the men’s dressing room, Todd Denning leads the Douglas Workout, a quick upper body tone-inducer.* Todd had started out alone in this enterprise, but after a couple of days, I joined him, then Stacy came aboard a couple of days later, and now, we generally have five [...]

Pick a card, any card.

At this morning’s student matinee, we had an understudy go on. Now, we’ve gotten used to this: Jeff Withers has been recuperating during student matinees of late, and Matt Pierce has been acquitting himself quite nicely in Jeff’s place. However, today, Jeff was in the show for his first student matinee. In fact, the missing [...]

Cinco de Paco

Yesterday was a two show day, and management very gracefully provided a meal for us between performances. It happened to be Michael “Paco” Pocaro’s birthday, as well as Mexican Independence Day, so we termed the celebration Cinco de Paco. In a somewhat bizarre turn, all the food served began with the letter p, [...]

Not to be expected.

This week is a long one — Wednesday night show, two shows Thursday (10am, 7:30pm), Friday night show, two shows Saturday (2pm, 7:30pm), Sunday matinee. In between the hours of the work week I am learning lines and doing research for three shows for Illinois Shakespeare. I’m trying, as well, to catch up [...]

Taking notes, again

After a nice couple of days in Chicago, I came back to Milwaukee this afternoon by Megabus. I spent a couple of hours with a cup of tea and my scripts for Illinois Shakespeare, and then went over to the theater for my 5:15 fight call. At my dressing table was a little blue [...]

Full Circle

Last night, Brian Gill and I conducted an educational event for the company. A group of women who get together regularly to explore various issues in depth wanted to have a bit of an introduction to and experience with Shakespeare. Since both Brian and I have taught before, Marcy Kearns, our Education director, [...]