Cool, Clear Eyes of a Seeker of Wisdom and Truth

And I believe in you.

~It's opening night~It's opening night~Another opening, another show . . .

Cole Porter

Another Opening Another Show

Another op'nin, another show
In Philly, Boston, or Baltimo'
A chance for stage folks to say hello!
Another op'nin of another show.

Another job that you hope will last
Will make your future forget your past
Antoher pain where the ulcers grow
Another op'nin of another show.

Four weeks, you rehearse and rehearse
Three weeks, and it couldn't be worse
One week, will it ever be right?
Then out of the hat it's that big first night

The overture is about to start
You cross your fingers and hold your heart
It's curtain time and away we go -
Another op'nin
Just another op'nin of another show!

I guess I'm doing pretty well. I start to squirm when others in the cast get major amounts of notes, and I don't. I feel really confident - I mean, yes, I'm miscast - what're you gonna do?

I think the worst thing, other than being fat and flabby, is my posture. I seem to fold into myself all the time. Oh, I had some pictures developed, some were from three years ago when I was thin. I had no shirt on, leaning back on a banquette in the party boat. Yeah, the face looked good, but after that it was yards and yards of skin thrown over a bony skeleton. Gross. (I'm not taking my shirt off this summer at Rehoboth, at all. Well, not with any skinny bitches around.)

I really am glad I'm doing this show and working to reinvigorate this group. It's got possiblilty, I've got possiblity. Yay. Maybe I'll drink less with something to keep me out of trouble! I'm staring in The Last Five Years with my Petunia (my Tommy wife) in the fall. With the same director as the show I'm in now. After a summer with the skinny bitches, I promise I'll be in more presentable shape by then. I'm trying to find an alternate theater space too. I'm meeting with the president of the group at the cast party tonight to talk about that, and also other publicity options.

It's very exciting. Indeed.

It's curtain time and away we go -
Another op'nin
Just another op'nin of another show!