I'm a Liar

So I know I said that I would be writing every day and I just realized that I let yesterday slip. I could say that I had 2 posts on Sunday, so does that make up? Or I could just say I'm not a liar, I am an illusionist!

I start another round of teaching DRA 10 on Monday and I am a little tired of teaching A Streetcar Named Desire and The Shape of Things. Or more truthfully, I was not very successful teaching Streetcar. Maybe I'll pull it out again if I teach DRA 21 -- the intermediate acting class for majors. Hmmm, Well see. Anyway, I brought 2 Humana Festival anthologies with me on my voyage to LA and read a great play called Orange Lemon Egg Canary. I just finished it this morning. Rachel, Michele and I went to Humana that year and shared 2 professional passes. We had to take turns and each sit out for one play. That was mine. It wasn't until the second year that we realized that we could buy discounted tickets for other shows. So, I worked on Michele's lap top in the upper lounge of Actor's Theatre of Louisville while Michele and Rachel saw the show.

It's a play about a magician named Great and this new woman he meets. All of a sudden his old assistant comes into the picture and things get interesting. It's all about lies, deceit, illusion and MAGIC. There are magic tricks and stunts scattered throughout the play which I totally love. While I totally dig this play, it's a bit sexual, so I'm afraid it will be difficult for beginners to handle without laughing.

Since we don't move on to scripted plays until half-way through the course, I am not rushing this. I'll keep reading and figure it out later.

I am having a nice leisurely time in LA thus far. Tony and I pulled into town Monday night and I've been hanging with Erin and Steve. I had lunch yesterday with Jessie and Nathan Mobley and then dinner with Christine Suarez and her beau Mark. She is a choreographer in the MFA program at UCLA. And she told me last night that she's pregnant. It's super cool.

Today is kinda up in the air and tomorrow I'm supposed to see my old camp buddy, Jason Robert Brown. We leave for Mexico tomorrow night.

Yippeee!