The General Idea

"Hello!
Welcome to the MalapropCast.
The purpose of this Blog is quite simple:

We are here to open up a discussion about the American Shakespeare Center's 'Almost Blasphemy' tour.

See? Simple as that.

This blog will be supplemented by/supplemental to a Podcast of the same name in which we'll try to include interviews with performers and audience members, cast performances of scenes, discussions of elements of the kind of theatre (no typo, that's how we spell the live stuff) we do. That, and I hope to include a good amount of personal posts and retrospectives on what it's like to be on tour.

Really, we're just here to play.

So come and play with us, wont you?"

...
Well, that was the case, at least.
I no longer work for the ASC, but i do still have the itchy fingers and pen of an amateur writer, and i like the idea of keeping this conversation going.
So i'm gonna.
I'll wax ridiculous about my life, my attempts to get work, and my over-mulled analysis of this world and city and business and, and, and...
You get the idea.



Monday, October 31, 2011

Screaming down the highway, ready for a bed.

Well, looks like the snow-pocalypse came early this year.
Around 10:30am EST the ASC Almost Blasphemy tour was given our greatest opportunity yet on tour.
Let me set the scene for you;
We're ready to leave by 7:55a for an 8a departure from Canton, NY. 
We have a workshop at 4p in W. Hartford, CT.
It is Time to Drive.
And drive we did.
Come 10:30a, trundling the Adirondacks we pull a turn and emerge from a cellphone deadzone we've been resentfully enduring  for the past half-hour.
Que the choir of angels as the media returns to us, like the clearing clouds after a storm.
We've been making tracks and will make more...
Until Glenn's phone loses it's damn mind.
Texts, calls, emails; boy is busy and he informs driver and co-pilot that it is important we ALL hear what's being said.
So we talkie with the walkie and make a stop...-ie.
"Hey guys, wanna go back to Staunton instead of Connecticut?"
At first we're just standing around, looking at each other and soaking in our options.
Short version; power has taken a snow day for the better part of Connecticut and we're out of work for the next two days.  Our next gig is a shorter drive from Staunton than Hartford so...
So here we are, sprinting south on 81, as ready for a familiar place as a group of professional travellers might be.
Home again, home again, jiggidy jog!


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3 comments:

  1. AngelinaOctober 31, 2011 at 5:42 PM

    Ah! So excited to have you guys home, albeit it for a little bit.

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  2. AbigailOctober 31, 2011 at 6:16 PM

    Hooray!!!

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  3. StacieOctober 31, 2011 at 7:02 PM

    First snow and now you guys come back--Christmas really DID come early!

    Be safe and enjoy the bit of time off!

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