Barry is pushing us with this no script thing. The thing is, it’s working.

I just wish he would let us sit up there on stage and review when we aren’t directly involved with what is going on in that moment. I learn by reading it, not by hearing it read to me… my brain works better if I see it AND hear it.

Tonight we had to do that blooming drunken dance sequence… .the one where I get to be

completely ridiculous over and over and over again. I need to do my research.

#1 – the getting drunk on “moonshine”… quickly and

#2 – dancing while drunk on moonshine.

#3 - And dancing by myself as a drunken woman in the 1950’s. 

I am thinking Saturday night will be the perfect time for my research, now I just have to find some trusted companions.

My “audience” (cast mates not in the scene, mostly Hector and Fred)  enjoyed when I drunkenly danced with Hal…. So I must have been doing something right but I felt like an idiot several times over.

It doesn’t cross the line of my role in “Laugh-In” though, so I suppose.. everything will be ok. Better than ok.

And tomorrow, the end of that scene and Marry Me, Howard… again.

Intermission is going to be tough. I am already warning my cast mates that during intermission I will go into seclusion in order to hold character.

I love this…………… and I am tired!  We have Thursday night off, I need to REALLY

Take it off and just be with my children that night. Maybe go on a REAL picnic.

Maybe feed the ducks, who knows?

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"Picnic", witten by William Inge and Directed by Barry Wolcott, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. It explores the hopes, fears, excitement and sorrow of following our dreams while we make choices that impact the ones we love. It is playing at Bakersfield Community Theatre beginning September 8 for three weekends. Call 831-8114 for reservations and further details