Audience interaction
Jun. 30th, 2019 04:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pedantherOne of the great things about live theatre is you get unique moments that could never have been planned. Near the end of My Fair Lady, there's a scene where Eliza announces in ringing tones that it's goodbye forever and sweeps out, leaving Higgins behind her in stunned silence as he tries to process what just happened. At one of our recent performances, the stunned silence was broken by a Google Assistant somewhere in the audience saying, "I don't understand. Could you repeat that please?"
In other news, our production of My Fair Lady has closed after a successful run. The cast all had a good time, and as far as we know so did the audiences. Several people have been reported to have said it was the best show they've ever seen at this theatre.
I got a lot of compliments about my performance; the most common by some margin was "it's amazing how you managed to remember all those words", which I have chosen to find amusing as well as a valuable reminder about what people find really important in an actor. I also got somebody telling me that I was a perfect fit for the role, which I don't think is objectively true but is a powerful compliment to the success of my acting; it suggests that I played it convincingly enough that they couldn't picture it being done another way.
The word is that next year's musical is planned to be Guys and Dolls, assuming we can get the rights and all else goes well. Given the size of the local male talent pool for musicals, there's a solid probability that I'll be offered one of the lead roles; if I want to be foolish, I can spend the next six months trying to guess which. (I know which one I would probably cast me as if I were the director, but the actual director may have different priorities, and it may change if people leave or new people arrive.)
The club's immediately next production will be Away by Michael Gow, which I don't know much about yet but apparently it's considered a classic of Australian theatre.
In other news, our production of My Fair Lady has closed after a successful run. The cast all had a good time, and as far as we know so did the audiences. Several people have been reported to have said it was the best show they've ever seen at this theatre.
I got a lot of compliments about my performance; the most common by some margin was "it's amazing how you managed to remember all those words", which I have chosen to find amusing as well as a valuable reminder about what people find really important in an actor. I also got somebody telling me that I was a perfect fit for the role, which I don't think is objectively true but is a powerful compliment to the success of my acting; it suggests that I played it convincingly enough that they couldn't picture it being done another way.
The word is that next year's musical is planned to be Guys and Dolls, assuming we can get the rights and all else goes well. Given the size of the local male talent pool for musicals, there's a solid probability that I'll be offered one of the lead roles; if I want to be foolish, I can spend the next six months trying to guess which. (I know which one I would probably cast me as if I were the director, but the actual director may have different priorities, and it may change if people leave or new people arrive.)
The club's immediately next production will be Away by Michael Gow, which I don't know much about yet but apparently it's considered a classic of Australian theatre.
