Friday, January 27, 2006

Fantasy Life



Save one, my fantasy cast was dead on. The cast of Boy Gets Girl met Wednesday night for the first reading of the script. One by one, faces I had hoped and expected to see filled the room.

Boy Gets Girl will mark my third foray into San Diego theatre, and in each production I've played opposite what is now a very familiar face. Rett Becker, who was one of the Costazuela brothers in The Odd Couple and my tryst-to-be in Move Over, Mrs. Markham, will be playing my boss, Howard, in this show.

I met with photographer Tony Eisenhower on Thursday to get a jump on publicity photos. I sat at his wife's desk as he shot me through the office window to give the picture the proper stalker perspective, then I sat behind him at his desk while he zipped through the digital files on his home studio equipment. We picked the four best photos to send to the theatre and he burned copies for me onto a disc that he then ran through a special printer to label. Looking at all that cool techie stuff with envy, I was struck by an overwhelming need to marry a doctor, stat.

On the other hand, there are plenty of things to enjoy for free. Tonight I've been comped into a show in Chula Vista, where two friends are performing at OnStage Playhouse as a married couple in Prelude to a Kiss. The Artistic Director there, who offered the comps, laughed when she heard from me. "I talked to Chris the other day after auditions." (Chris will be playing the stalker in Boy Gets Girl.) "He said he read with this girl, Kelly, and she rocked the house! I knew it was you! You've been in town, what, five minutes and you've already got a part!"

Yeah, I'm kinda loving that, too. And, through another A.D., I've already got a lead on another show after this one. She'll be throwing a script my way soon.

Yep, I just hate it here. Just... hate it.

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