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Opening Night
The process was slow. We had been running previews for 3 weeks, but the real painful process was getting the theater itself ready to host our families, friends, and, hopefully, future employers. Frank Doyno Chapa and I put in many hours repainting, reshaping, rebuilding, remodeling, refurbishing, and painfully trying to restore the run-down building at Wilton and Fountain that houses the ill-fated Hollywood Theater Club of Theatre Rapport. |
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And so we put the finishing touches on the place at about 7:57 and ducked backstage. To our surprise, people showed up. In fact, a good number of people, 19 to be exact. Some of them company members, and most of them for free. But 19 living, breathing audience members. The show went fine, as fine as it could, and the generous audience laughed in the places they figured out they were supposed to. It was fun to be on stage, but it's distracting to hear the lines and know they're bad and watch the actors struggle with the horrendous material, and wish something could be done or had been done a long time before. But now we're on a runaway train for six weeks, and we have to make the best of it. Hopefully, we can all get some industry people down. That would make all the agony worth it. |
Go on to Second Night.
Temps | L.A. Stage | Resume
