About a month or so I got a phone call out of the blue from a director. He said he got my headshot from a past theater I auditioned for. He needed to cast a girl in his play right away-"we only rehearse 2 nights a week and the show is a fundraisor so it will only be for 2 nights". Well I wasn't doing anything so I said what the heck. Even the words, "hillybilly", "HeeHaw", "fat suit", and "musical" for some reason didn't stop me. I was honored at the fact someone looked at my picture and wanted me to be in their show-I felt kind of big headed. Although the statement "we need a girl right away" should have been a clue as to what I was about to get into.
At first, it really wasn't that bad. The show called, Corn Fried, was only about an hour and 15 minutes long. But the script...well, if you have seen Hee Haw you know. Two people walk out on stage tell a joke and walk off. Then the next few people come on stage, tell a joke and leave. Then someone sings and then the jokes start all over. And the jokes went like this -"Hey Clary, do you smoke after sex?" " I don't know-I never looked". One of my favorites (or the only good one) was "Hey Buford, if a couple gets a divorce are they still cousins?" So no big deal. I get to dress up in a fat suit and wear a wig. Hopefully no one will recognize me. Although they insisted I kept my legs the way they were for humor-hilarious! I didn't have to sing but I did have to dance a jig. The whole process was crazy because (besides the obvious) there was no direction. If you are an actor, you know that you get one director and you listen to what he/she says and you try to do your best. Well this process consisted of 8 cooks in the kitchen. The "director" wanted this show to be a collaberation but when you have so many people in the show thats alot of words being thrown out at the same time. I kept quiet. I just moved when someone said move and told my jokes when someone said talk.
The personalities in the show was another story all together.
The negativity from one of the cast was almost unbearable. I tried to be calm and listen to the lesson that I was supposed to learn. Maybe I have negative qualities about me. Maybe I sometimes over react to things. Maybe I need to not give my opinion so much. Those were my thoughts the first few rehearsals then I got over it and thought "no she is just a bitter sad lady and I'm not like her at all"! She drank before she came to rehearsal and if she didn't she was in a terrible mood. She complained about everything from the show, to parking to the sky being blue! Lesson I learned from this whole experience-its ok to say no to a show if someone asks you. I am good enough, I'm smart enough and doggonnit-people like me!
The negativity from one of the cast was almost unbearable. I tried to be calm and listen to the lesson that I was supposed to learn. Maybe I have negative qualities about me. Maybe I sometimes over react to things. Maybe I need to not give my opinion so much. Those were my thoughts the first few rehearsals then I got over it and thought "no she is just a bitter sad lady and I'm not like her at all"! She drank before she came to rehearsal and if she didn't she was in a terrible mood. She complained about everything from the show, to parking to the sky being blue! Lesson I learned from this whole experience-its ok to say no to a show if someone asks you. I am good enough, I'm smart enough and doggonnit-people like me!
