Ok, so perhaps I was hasty with my last blog. I am apparently still in Crazy Time. Or, at least, a slightly less hectic version of Crazy Time – I’m managing one night and/or one weekend day off a week, which is a vast improvement on the past three months and is quite refreshing.

This past weekend, for example, was relatively quiet. Until my car broke down in bumper-to-bumper traffic on the way home from work on Friday. Then I had to get the local police to rescue me with flashing lights and use their car to push mine off the road and out of the traffic jam (this was the most fun part of the whole experience). However, I got stuck in New Jersey until 9pm and spent my free Saturday (sob) getting my car to work and getting some bookcases put into my apartment. I even snuck in an audition for a film which I managed to get cast in (along with getting a nice compliment from the director!). Sunday was a blissful day of watching Star Trek: TNG on DVD and not much else.

However, projects keep popping up – a show I’ve been scheduled to do for a while has just gone into rehearsal, and I just got a couple of days’ filming for the above-mentioned short film – so despite my attempts to get a more ‘normal’ balance back to my life, I’m still busier than your average bee. Feels good.

All but one of my four shows I was rehearsing simultaneously are now closed. Phew! I had a crazy few months there. I have two performances left of my cabaret-style show (Nab-A-Date) and I will begin rehearsals for my next show in a week or two. However, I’ll only be doing one show as opposed to four (although I will still be performing semi-regularly with my band too) so my schedule should improve somewhat.

However, I’ll keep plugging away at the film auditions and keep submitting for bigger stuff. I have a class tonight with an agent to get feedback on my audition style, which I hope will give me some good insight for an audition I have tomorrow (a trailer for a horror/thriller movie – yay!) and help keep me inspired and positive.

Also – there may be exciting website news for the literally tens of you who occasionally visit my website. Stay tuned!

So the show that I co-wrote and performed in, with the fabulous ladies of Dysfunctional Theatre Company (Jennifer Gill, Amy Overman, Theresa Unfried and Amy Beth Sherman) had an impressive turnout at the Frigid New York festival. We won a Sold Out Show award for being, um, sold out a lot, but we also won the Audience Choice award for the favourite show in our venue!

A couple of reviews that have come out so far have been generally positive. Both reviews have wanted to see the show develop more, and while they were a little sniffy in places, that’s ok by me. A perfect review should worry one.

Backstage Review

NYTheatre.com review

Apparently we’ll be getting reviews from Paper Magazine and from theatreiseasy.com. We’ll be curious to see their reaction.

Overall, we got mainly positive responses from the show. Our main aim was to get the semblance of a total show in place, see if we got a good reaction and then work on it some more for future festivals (perhaps even Edinburgh?). Wherever we take it, we are all very committed to the concept and we were heartened that others enjoyed our little take on life, love and the universe. I will leave you with a few beautiful shots of the show, taken by the inimitable Deneka Peniston.