Just a quick update on life on the Cape.
Fiddler on the Roof continues splendidly. We are down to only four more performances and are sold out for every one. As I've mentioned in the past, the Cape community is highly supportive and excited about our theatre. It's wonderful to go out on stage and be greeted with such enthusiasm.
So, Fiddler on the Roof closes on Saturday, we begin rehearsals for Blithe Spirit on Monday, and A.R. Gurney's The Dining Room directed by Rich Cole is opening on Tuesday (oh my gosh, that's coming up quick). There's truly no time to stop and breathe at this place. It's just go, go, go, and I wouldn't have it any other way. The Dining Room is looking to be a really smart show. First produced in the early 1980s, The Dining Room is a series of intertwining scenes brought to life by a cast of usually six actors, but in our case eight actors. The scenes serve to display the "dying culture" of the North Eastern American WASP as they chronicle moments in the lives of the well-to-do throughout time. Each of these snippets of life takes place in the dining room, of course, and create a sometimes hilarious, sometimes satirical, and sometimes heartbreaking portrait. It's really a fun project for an actor as we pop in and out of the play as so many different characters. Each of us, at some point, plays a child, and all the women, at some point, play maids. My fellow cast members and I are having a good time covering this expansive range of characters. I, for example, jump into one scene as a neglected 1950s housewife throwing a birthday party for her little girl, Winkie, while contemplating an affair with, little party guest, Billy's father, and leap into my next scene as an elderly extremely senile grandmother at Thanksgiving dinner. Fun.
So things are good.
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