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An End, For Now, I Guess
Jun. 25th, 2006 09:09 amSo today is the last day of my play That's What We're Here For (an american pageant) in The Brick's $ellout Festival.
Houses have been disappointing. Houses are usually disappointing, sure, this is Off-Off-Broadway, but they weren't for last Summer's show, World Gone Wrong, in The Brick's Moral Values Festival, so I had hopes for this year, too. With luck, the two shows we do today get at least as many people in the house as in the cast. I think WGW spoiled me or something. The Foreman plays I did in February didn't get great houses either -- but they did get better houses than TWWHF.
Granted, yesterday's small house was extremely responsive, which is always nice. But it gets hard knocking yourself out over and over for a handful of people. Good-sized house on Wednesday, but that was it.
And I do still want to bring this back, cut it here, expand it there, make a little more of it than I could do on a festival schedule. But it looks like that isn't going to happen in August -- with more schedules in from the cast, there seems to be no way I could ever get them together for more than three or four performances in the month, which isn't worth the effort. I want a real run, that I can get some actual promotion behind and is worth taking the time to take the whole show apart and put it back together better. And I'd really like to keep the cast I have. I could maybe do more in August if I replaced one or two people, but the amount of time it would take to bring new people into this? And when I wrote it for these actors?
So, I'm looking at early next year to bring this one back. Maybe February, like I did with the Foreman plays. Spend the time perfecting it. So, I'll mention that to The Brick People (as I fondly think of them) today.
Okay. More ice on the knee and get myself together for a long day now . . .
Houses have been disappointing. Houses are usually disappointing, sure, this is Off-Off-Broadway, but they weren't for last Summer's show, World Gone Wrong, in The Brick's Moral Values Festival, so I had hopes for this year, too. With luck, the two shows we do today get at least as many people in the house as in the cast. I think WGW spoiled me or something. The Foreman plays I did in February didn't get great houses either -- but they did get better houses than TWWHF.
Granted, yesterday's small house was extremely responsive, which is always nice. But it gets hard knocking yourself out over and over for a handful of people. Good-sized house on Wednesday, but that was it.
And I do still want to bring this back, cut it here, expand it there, make a little more of it than I could do on a festival schedule. But it looks like that isn't going to happen in August -- with more schedules in from the cast, there seems to be no way I could ever get them together for more than three or four performances in the month, which isn't worth the effort. I want a real run, that I can get some actual promotion behind and is worth taking the time to take the whole show apart and put it back together better. And I'd really like to keep the cast I have. I could maybe do more in August if I replaced one or two people, but the amount of time it would take to bring new people into this? And when I wrote it for these actors?
So, I'm looking at early next year to bring this one back. Maybe February, like I did with the Foreman plays. Spend the time perfecting it. So, I'll mention that to The Brick People (as I fondly think of them) today.
Okay. More ice on the knee and get myself together for a long day now . . .
