We finished a great weekend of performances for My Way this past Sunday and had auditions for Doubt, Greetings, and Southern Comforts last night. On Sunday I went backstage at intermission and the cast immediately asked me if I had seen the newest addition to the show. Apparently we had an over zealous fly on stage during the performance. It insisted on landing on the faces of cast members while they were trying to sing. Cheri Paxton said that it landed on David Jernigan's nose while she was holding hands with him trying to sing a song and she couldn't look at him for most of the song. On one of Fowler's songs it landed on the side of his head and Victoria had to restrain herself from smacking Fowler's head trying to kill the fly. The fly didn't leave the theatre until the very end of the show. Even with the fly the audience response was great and the cast did an outstanding job with the first weekend of shows. Maybe the fly just wanted to audition for the next set of shows!
Which leads me to the auditions last night which had over a dozen people show up. We still need some men in their 20s-30s to play roles in Greetings. I will be calling some of the performers that age range today to remind them about auditions tonight. We had several good performers audition last night- mostly for the older roles in the shows. It is that age old problem in community theatre casting-trying to get the word out and people to audition for great parts that are available in shows without promising anyone anything. Sometimes people show up and tell others that "the director called them to come audition". The truth is in community theatres we call everyone who fits the character description.
I'm hoping that tonight will be a good turnout. Two more weekends to go with My Way. We have the piano rental person in today to give the piano a tuning and to fix a squeaky pedal that is driving Patt Lynch crazy.
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