OK, I’ll talk briefly about my other play. Since my last letter to you, this show has been a real roller coaster!
An up: I took over as director! Yes, acting and directing in the same show!! It’s definitely a challenge and I’m glad I’m doing it, but never again.
A down: I had to fire our third actor because he just couldn’t learn his lines. I felt horrible! It was only my first week as director and we just weren’t making any progress. He said he understood and promised to come and see the show. Sorry Jay!
An up: We found another actor to fill the role of the absent-minded physics professor and he’s done a much better job than the last guy (sorry Jay). Actually, we took Derek (from KC) from Volpone so we’re doing both shows together.
A loop the loop: We started planning our show dates and included in our six week June-July run were such exotic locations as Madrid, Paris, Amsterdam, and Switzerland!! How incredibly cool! Plus we’d be making money!!!
An unexpected down: Derek said that he was too bogged down with his job and the two shows he was acting in and so he decided to let me know last week that he can no longer be in our show. NO!!!!! I begged. I pleaded. I almost cried. Goodbye Paris!
A bit of an up: I worked out an agreement with Derek whereas, instead of dropping the show completely, we’re going to take a four week hiatus and resume the show again at the end of June when his work and Volpone are over. This will leave us with a meager, yet existent, two week run and only here in Barcelona. I’m happy that we’re at least doing the show, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t disappointed over losing the opportunity to travel to all those great cities with a show that I was acting in. Oh well, there’s always next year!