Well, that was a whirlwind, huh?
Lucky 3rd performance. We were connected. All was good.
I think it would only continue to get better if we kept at it. I had a blast, and loved everybody so much! PIus, felt the show was so well received too! That was the best part! Truly.
[And excuse me while I brag for a second. (Of course you can feel free to just click away if you don’t want to read brag brags.)]
I had complete strangers come up to me and tell me they were there to see another show, but they loved mine and wanted up with it to know when the full-length would be shown around town.
I had an acquaintance who happens to work security in the BMI building come who praised the show so effusively – and paid SO much attention. He’d mention little lines from one scene that helped contextualize a future scene. I couldn’t believe that someone seeing my work completely fresh was so rapt at the show.
A cast member’s husband came and and said that there were people crying around him.
Even onstage, I could hear some reactions like that.
It was really so nice to know that people – strangers – were being touched by the work I was doing. I’m not meaning to sound hoighty-toighty. I’m just so happy.
I’ve said it before, but there is something about this show… It is touching people more and differently than anything I’ve ever written in my life.
Obviously, people have liked things I’ve written before in my life. If no one had ever even liked anything, or ever been touched by/cried at anything, I might not still be trying it all these years after starting.
But this show – there’s something special about it. It’s just in the ether. And I can’t wait to see what that means for it/what happens.
I continue to be so grateful to everyone who came and everyone who was a part of it. And I can’t wait to do it again in March!