Post-Yeomen reflections.

[saxikath]

Why did I even bother coming in to work today? I really should have called in sick. After staying for all of strike, which didn't finish till midnight or so, and then putting in an appearance at the cast party (mm, food...), and then getting home and scrubbing off the last of the makeup, it was 1:30 or after before I ever got to bed. And it's not like there's so incredibly much work to do.

Random collection of observations:

- Good shows this weekend too. Saturday night was the video, and for once I think we got the best show (or certainly one of the best) on tape. No major disasters, at least until stevie_stever's pants decided to malfunction just in time for his last entrance and the bows. Fortunately he was able to hold onto them.
- Thanks to stevie_stever, cycon, and N for indulging my whim to call my mom (who ended up not coming for the show) to sing her a verse of "Strange adventure" over cell phone. She liked that. (And I am still flabbergasted that, basically every time we sang that quartet, in rehearsal or performance, we were on pitch when the orchestra came back in. Damn, we're good. :) )
- My skin is rebelling at all the makeup, or actually more at the scrubbing required to get it off. Maybe the time has come to treat myself to my first facial.
- The show really was that good. It was visually stunning, thanks to the inordinately talented tech crew, and it sounded fabulous, and the interpretation of the show was, I think, excellent. Yeomen has so much more well-rounded characters than most G&S, and I think the cast responded to that and gave very full performances.
- Our Elsie, taking over the part a week before opening, rocked the house.
- One of the best things about doing this show was getting to spend time with people I know and like (greenlily, mister_nick, red_queen, mixedborder, et al.) -- and getting to know and spend time with people I either didn't know at all, or only slightly (stevie_stever, ladypsyche, tenore, cycon, among others). I need more human contact in my life. It's far too easy for me to get solitary, and that's bad.

Now, to.... um... stare at the computer and wait for something to work on?

Comments

[meranthi.livejournal.com]

I thought the show was EXCELLENT!!!! I loved the quartet with you guys. Noe has a very impressive voice!

[mrmorse.livejournal.com]

Ditto. The quartet sounded really amazing, and you were all dead on for pitch. Noe's previous roles haven't really given her a chance to demonstrate her voice, and she sounded great as Kate.

[ex-colorwhe.livejournal.com]

Our Elsie, taking over the part a week before opening, rocked the house.

oh my goodness. you know, i had heard about that before i came, but totally forgot it while i was there. i thought she was fabulous (not even counting the last-minuteness).

and you too. you were fabulous. i am scared of you now. ;)

[red-queen.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I remembered how much I enjoy hanging out with you and greenlily and ladypsyche and tenore et al backstage. The wit and wordplay is just so lovely. There are many reasons I keep coming back to do makeup for this group, but the people are the biggest one. One of these years, I'll actually audition for the chorus... and get to spend Even More Time with y'all. (But that doesn't mean that I wouldn't love to do more socializing. I get too isolated, too.)

That said, the show was fantastic. And you were an awesome Dame Carruthers -- the look in your eyes when you sang "alive or dead!" was a bit terrifying! Two of your numbers, Rapture, Rapture and Strange Adventure, were among my very favorites.

W/r/t facial and such like -- try using a non-soap facial cleanser (if you don't already). Bread & Circuits (sorry) has some liquid non-soap cleanser; Johnson & Johnson makes Purpose. Much less abrasive/drying/irritating for sensitive and dry skin.

Geek much? Yeah, geek here.