Best crowd ever tonight! They laughed at everything, even when not appropriate. Or rather, especially when not appropriate. Full house. Hank said that about 35 of them booked months ago as soon as they learned of the Tom Lehrer show. Only flub was Nick saying “friendship” instead of “love” before “I Got It from Agnes,” but he covered well. Oh yes, also Robin added a couple beats in a measure of “New Math.” I did have to shush the excessive noise backstage during my song “She’s My Girl.” They really need to shut the heck up back there. I noticed a strip light bulb was burned out and replaced it after the show. We didn’t get a 5 minute warning for intermission. The gunshot light cues were much better tonight. Robin forgot that yesterday was Lehrer’s birthday so he was still 78/25C tonight. If Lehrer were alive today, he’d be rolling over in his grave…. Oh, er, nevermind.

My cousin’s wife, so I guess that would make her my cousin-in-law, is an avid blogger. She hasn’t been blogging as long as I have but she writes more and her writing is a bit deeper than my blog. 😉

Anyway, here’s an interesting article about organized religion. I’ve been thinking about these issues myself lately and it’s good to get another person’s thoughts on this from inside her brain.

http://gilliangaladriel.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!6BBC33760B6EF0BC!1227.entry

So we’re definitely adding a Saturday matinee on the 14th. That makes 7 shows in 6 days, quite possibly the longest contiguous number of shows I’ve done yet.

The Pope’s previous car, a 1999 VW Golf, is being auctioned off on eBay for charity. Here’s the link. I’m not Catholic but I can agree with them on one thing: VW Golfs. 🙂 What a promotion for VW.

We had over 50 folks in the audience and it felt like a mostly full house. They were a good crowd but a little more reserved. I’m pretty sure we got all of our lines right. I was a little hungry going into the show. Nick felt ill during intermission, probably the result of a low blood sugar situation, and he rested and drank a Coke and got through Act II. I noticed that both 10A and 10B were patched at the same time during intermission again, I don’t know why. There’s some writing on the patch sheet backstage that says “both in,” but 10A is the piano light and 10B is off center/right: the cue that uses 10A happens I’m pretty sure after “Masochism Tango” so there would be no need for 10B simultaneously, but I may be mistaken. We made all the repatches today. No second bow but it was a good show if a little loose in places. Hank is reconsidering adding a matinee next Saturday as there are still open seats in the other nights; we’ll just say it’s up in the air at this point.w

Our second Saturday went well. Full house. Nick randomly spaced on the first words to the last verse of “College Days,” and didn’t do the repatch in Act II for the end of “Œdipus Rex,” consequently Deb’s solo spot was instead leaves. Tonight’s crowd, unlike last night, got more warmed up as the evening progressed and were very much into it by the time “Dope Peddler” rolled around. We took our first second bow tonight to a standing ovation.

The light cues for “Hunting Song” were way early tonight and we’ll practice them tomorrow before the house opens. I did notive both 10A and 10B were patched during intermission; I corrected it.

Full house for our 2nd Friday night. They were a good crowd to start but they eventually cooled off by the end of Act II. Nobody went up on any lines or lyrics. A classmate of Tom Lehrer’s from Harvard was in the audience tonight. Nick’s mother and brother also showed up. Pat said there was a strange light that came on tonight DSR when it was supposed to be only on the piano CSL for “Dope Peddler.” Also the light cues during “Hunting Song” were early again tonight.

Thursday night was a good crowd. It was almost a full house, perhaps 10 short of capacity. The show was very good and we didn’t miss any words or lines as best I can recall. The crowd was very good and they kept clapping for a while—we could have done a second bow but were not prepared for that. Tomorrow night we’ll be ready in case the applause continues. Lights and tech were good.