Day Two: Rollercoasters and Cash

My brain hurts...

Oh. My. Goodness. Day two was tough. Lines I thought I knew went flying out of the door that was somehow placed in my skull the night before as I was sleeping. Even though I had worked on the script all day before I went in at 4, everything just seemed kind of...slippery. I was nervous and skittery and needed to calm down.

Confidence shattered, Brendan reminded me that it was only the SECOND day of rehearsal. I breathed. I stretched. We worked through each of the moments, clarifying what each of the characters wants and how Sam, the actor character, reacts to them. Adding in the blocking and tricky finger choreography with the phones was mostly the cause of the lines flying out of my brain, but as I repeated each beat, the familiar feeling of a play getting into my body and brain started to come back.

Every time I would go offstage and wait for Brittney, our stage manager, to call "Lights!", I felt like I was strapped into a rickety, old, wooden roller coaster that was clickety-clacking slowly up a very steep grade and as soon as I came down the now imaginary steps and started into the lines of the play, it was the same stomach-churning excitement as that first drop on one of those familiar amusement park rides.

Brendan is so great because he is very, very specific about the play and the characters. He's helped me so much as an actor and as a director because he can really see what the whole play needs and develops the moments to serve the play. Brilliant work which I really appreciate and aspire to. 

I stayed after the call time a bit to just go through everything several more times and when I got back to the actor housing, I was beat. I allowed myself to have a bit of dinner and watched a little t.v. and it seemed kind of strange because I have not watched any television since I started working on FULLY COMMITTED. I spoke to Heidi then I crashed into the bed, dreaming of Carolanne Rosenstein-Fishburn yelling at me from her Long Island mansion. (Carolanne is one of the recurring characters in the play.)

An interesting thing that happened yesterday was that I stumbled onto these wealth manifesting videos from some acting sites I was looking at. The strange way that I came across these sites was that I got an errant email from an acquaintance. She accidentally sent me an email, I contacted her, cleared that up, but in the process of trying to figure out where the email was coming from, I came across some acting groups on LinkedIn, a site I'm still trying to figure out. 

While looking at these acting group sites, I stumbled onto a wealth manifestation video. I watched it, listened to it with earphones and it said that "people would give me money" and that it would work very quickly. On my way to rehearsal, I walked by a van parked outside of Aroma Thyme, a really nice restaurant here in Ellenville, and I heard, "Excuse me, excuse me, do you want to make some quick cash? My mom needs help carrying all of these groceries upstairs."

I was kind of floored, because I had just been watching the manifestation video. I couldn't actually accept the cash though, because I was rushing to rehearsal. Interesting coincidence or actual manifestation? Maybe something BIGGER is on its way.

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