A Familiar Ring Would Be Nice

Dotty: And I take the sardines. No, I leave the sardines. No, I take the sardines.
Lloyd: You leave the sardines and you hang up the phone.
Dotty: Yes, right. I hang up the phone.
Lloyd: And you leave the sardines.
Dotty: I leave the sardines?
Lloyd: You leave the sardines.
Dotty: I hang up the phone and I leave the sardines?
Lloyd: Right!
Dotty: We've changed that, have we, dear?
Lloyd: No, dear...
Dotty: That's what I've always been doing?
Lloyd: I wouldn't say that, Dotty my precious.
Dotty: Well, how about the words, dear, am I getting some of them right?
Lloyd: Some of them have a very familiar ring.

I've you've ever seen Noises Off, that exchange should be familiar to you. Exceptionally funny! Oh, the hilarity! Great stuff! Unless you're in a show where this is going on in front of a paying audience... and that show is NOT titled Noises Off.

As I go in for another pickup rehearsal of before beginning the third week of performance, I'll leave you with another scene from Noises Off, indicative of the way my current show has been running. I wonder which title I should put on my resume....

Dotty: Sardines! I've forgotten the sar ...
[She notices the sardines sitting on the table and stares at them for a moment]
Dotty: No I 'aven't; I 'aven't forgotten the sardines. Well, what a surprise; I'll just go into the kitchen and fix some more sardines to celebrate!