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Last night I think I figured out how to perform my play. The key seems to be to have fun – a novel concept for me. And of course to load the audience with your incredibly supportive friends.

Last night the whole thing seemed to come together and I finally worked out some kinks both in my writing and my acting that were bothering me. I now understand why big shows have two or three nights of previews. Rehearsals just aren’t the same, you can only figure some things out in front of a real audience. I just hope it wasn’t too obvious.

It’s been a really fascinating week, I’ve learned so much from my performances and from watching and sharing the space with Zell Miller, III. I’m not sure what will happen to ‘Hot Dogs’ beyond this run and I’m ready to start my new piece for Fronterafest 2007. But I’m truly excited that from this point I get to do the show three more times and to see how it finally ends up.

Probably as a musical.

Please support the closing weekend. Reviews be damned (or maybe praised)
Hot Dogs at the Eiffel Tower runs Thurs to Sat 24-26 at the VORTEX, Austin.
www.vortexrep.org
512 478-5282

.. you’re not interesting.

That was the advice from a wonderful teacher, Van Brooks, in ‘The Mastery’, a class I took a few years back. The advice worked for the most part and resulted in me taking my stand-up more seriously, writing my first solo show and sometimes intentionally risking embarrassment.

While I still appreciate the sentiment of the line, my thinking is now more along the lines of ‘if you don’t fail you must be doing it right. Well done you.’

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A preview for my solo show at the VORTEX theatre.

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I’ve been shopping for props for my solo show (skip to end for obligatory plug). Because the show is based on a personal experience, I was trying to find pieces that match up with those in my memory. As I only had to get two chairs it shouldn’t have taken very long. It did.

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