Aaaaaaah...our opening weekend is almost over! Everyone is having a great time and we've actually got a pretty good show! Last night has been the best so far. Audiences have been responding well, laughing at all the right places and cheering along in the high energy moments of the story. Like it says in the Book of Ecclesiastes, there's a time for everything, and now is the time to just let our hair down and have fun with this show.
Chari has really helmed this ship well, inspite of some pretty rough seas that production had to sail through, and the enthusiasm you feel from the cast is genuinely infectious. I, personally, derive a bubbling kind of joy from seeing how excited and happy the first-timers are. Hansen Nichols, our extremely boyish Cowboy Bob, tells me at every opportunity--even while onstage in the middle of the show! (haha!)--how the whole thing is just SO much fun and how he now understands why "YOU theater people" love this life so much! I gotta remind him that he is now officially "theater people" too! May our tribe increase!
Jonard (Yanzon), by the way, is EXCELLENT. I am so proud of him. I truly wish he had more shows as Ren. Today will be his last. He will re-emerge as town baddie Chuck Cranston starting next weekend, and I have no doubt he will ace that role, too.
Cut loose one of these weekends and drop by Meralco! See you at the theater!
Gee thanks for dropping by at my new blog addy at blogspot. Thanks also for the great feedback about our publicity for 'Footloose.' Couldn't have done it without your help! Will link your blog to mine. See you at the Meralco the next two weekends. 'Irene' is one hot momma! Hehehe. Love it, love it.