Friday, April 16, 2010

How about the Poppy Stop?

Week Two of Poppycock has kicked off with a bang!

We've already gotten one review, extremely positive.

This show has been incredible as far as my growth as an actor. I've always been pretty horrible at keeping a straight face, and this show requires quite the deadpan. I do crack occasionally, but I always feel really bad about it afterwards.

Ultimately though, the thing I'm happiest about is forming a relationship with the company. I hope I get to work with them again.

In the meantime though, all my friends appear to be waiting for the final weekend to come and see my show. Which means it;s going to be a knock-down, drag-out fight for tickets. Silly friends.

On the agenda now: A shower, a massive cup of coffee, and on to continue the second weekend of Poppycock!

Friday, April 9, 2010

Opening Night!

Hooray! Poppycock opened last night to an almost full house and a great reaction!

The audience was really great and receptive, it was so strange to hear people actually laughing at the jokes. I was reminded of jokes that I'd forgotten about.

But I've got to say, having an audience react to my character completely changed my entire perception of what I'm doing onstage. I'm just not used to being the straight-man I guess. I'm a ham, I like to get the laughs. But the places I thought were going to be funny kind of fell flat, whereas the lines I delivered more simply were well-received. It just really drove home that I need to stop looking for the laughs and just let them happen.

There are some pictures up on No Tea's website, so check them out!

And tickets are still available for the rest of the run!

In other words I've finally started looking at new auditions. I'm not the kind of person who never stops looking for stuff. Now that the show is actually running and the end is in sight, I'm starting to think, "hmm...now what?"

I have an audition tomorrow for a sketch comedy show. And I have one minute to bring "my comedy A-game." Still not quite sure what that entails, but I'll figure it out.

Probably.