I'll start this one off by turning-away some potential readers; No, I
am never planning to "come out" (I know how the Internet is/are.) While
I admit to never having dated anyone & have nothing against gay
marriages/relationships, I fully believe myself to be a "straight" adult
(though the stuff on my boots' soles makes me walk a bit curvy
sometimes), & consider my lack of dating to be a positive. (If/When I
do ever start, I will go into it with far-less
expectations. Also, I will watch "Judge Judy"/"Judge Mathis"/"Judge
Alex" or "Maury" on an average weekday, but never have
to expect seeing myself being sued for damage to an ex's
person/property, or to see anyone claiming I'm father of their kid.)
As
for what this blog is/will-be about, I find it a bit ironic I am
writing it on this computer, as this machine may also contain the answer
to the question. (I have long made it known my "fandom" of irony,
including when I get bored... Also not against puns.)
Not
sure I ever mentioned it on this site (which owes its name to the
project), but I started writing something on a laptop in the late '90s. I
was able to continue it a bit more in the year 2000, & when I was
able to devote all my writing time to projects of my own invention,
technically "finished" it in late 2001. I call it a "tech" finish
because the project was my first musical-theater project, but the second
(& final) Act still has its tunes finished only in my head. (I will
probably hold on to my continually-growing collection of "business
cards" for my also-often-growing list of doctors, as they may still be
unaware, but from 2002 until late 2007, it was the sole reason I
continued to exist, so it seems only right to send them
notice-of/passes-to a performance if it ever happens... On a side-note,
you can read all about the added reason from Fall 2007 on this blog.)
I
am also not sure if I have mentioned it previously on this site (though
its exclusion would downright shock me), but I often claim to "live
improv". I actually started with an improvisation group around the same
time I started writing the aforementioned project; While I don't think
the later version of the group meets anymore, I continue to live a lot
of my life with little-to-no pre-planning. [I do, for instance, set
"reminder timers" on our onscreen cable guide for a lot of my favorite
shows (everything from the new episode of "The Big Bang Theory" to a
who-knows-how-old "Boy Meets World" repeat, both yesterday), but I love
that the reminder includes the option to not change the channel to that
show after all.]
Anyhow, I sometimes mix
the pre-planning with the improvisation. If you had a microphone
attached to my coat this weekend, for instance, you might find I'm
walking to a still-undecided movie while singing a song I wrote the
lyrics to over a dozen years ago. I am often thinking not of where I
want to go or what I'll have for my next meal, but of who I might work
with if/when that aforementioned project ever gets done. (The fact is
that in the area where I live, they'll do 100 different plays a year,
but those auditioning & being cast will come from an
individually-identifiable group about the size of those working in this
weekend's Super Bowl.)
I have often
discussed these things with my mother (one of the few people to have
read/heard the full project, a group I can count on 1 hand &
simultaneously type), & we disagree on a few things. One we
constantly argue (literally; it tends to get a bit rough) is whether or
not anyone I have worked with on previous theater projects will even
audition for mine. (I admit to myself being part of the reason for the
previously-suggested small number of local auditioners; While PT Barnum
is credited with mention of a "sucker born every minute", I myself last
did a play locally roughly 8 years ago, & it was roughly 1 ago I
told myself aloud I was choosing to remain working on the page & not
the stage from here on out.)
As I'm
reasonably-sure I have mentioned on this site previously, I am "a legal
adult". (I won't go further into the reason for those quotes, as the
situation with that may have changed before some of you read this.) That
said, I have not only thought often about who I might work with on this
project, but what the articles might say that I expect will be written
about me &/or it when the show is being cast, etc. (I have a long
E-mail history with the main entertainment reporter for one of the local
papers, so I suspect he might be doing it. For the other main paper in
the area, it seems a current reporter for their Website is someone I
currently "follow" on Twitter, & was the lead actress in my first
theater show ever, so in my mind, I have promised her their "exclusive"
contact whenever the staging happens.)
Never
mind the fact that I have pictured several scenes, & even some
blocking &/or choreography in my head at least twice for every can
of soda I drank this week, as well as considered my nephew standing in
the lobby after the show, leading me around to audience members, &
even introducing me as both his Uncle & the man who wrote the show
they just saw. (Keep your duos of "Kander & Ebb" or "Lerner and Loewe"; My
shows are written by the trio of Me, Myself, & I.) I believe myself
to have an unspoken agreement with a local theater's director (a costar
that was simultaneously onstage with me in scenes of the only musical I
ever did, & a key part of the reason I started writing this
project) that this particular theater (the only stage I've ever appeared
on, also home to the improvisation group) will perform my show if/when
it is completed in actuality.
The question
is not if it will be performed. (Not to me, anyway; I realize he could
reject the finished product, but his doing so would be a literal "shock
to the system".) The question is also not what will be my proverbial
"next trick". (While I await the final step in the completion of its
writing, I only last night typed the beginning of another non-musical
theater project I began earlier this year, & have a character for my
next musical project named & described for myself in the "Drafts"
area of my cell phone's text messages.) The question is lastly not how
people will react to the finished product. (I have told Mom in our
aforementioned conversations I suspect former costars'
knowledge-of/experiences-with me may keep them from auditioning for my
show, but simultaneously believe they will all attempt to see it, &
many will have positive feedback when they do.)
The simple question is... WHEN?!
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