I saw Deanna’s show tonight. Spent the first few minutes obsessing about not having brought my Clown Axioms postcards to distribute. The woman seated next to me was looking over the Eric Davis/Bouffon Glass Menajoree postcard in her hand before the lights went out. (I thought to myself; “Hmm. I wonder how much those two sided postcards cost. Lorraine and I should have some made for the Clown Theatre Festival!”)
I was looking forward to seeing Kill Me Loudly because I was in the workshop last year where Deanna found her character “Butt Kapinsky”. It’s exciting to see something from a workshop develop into and evening of theatre and Deanna’s show was a success. She gave it to Eric Davis to direct and so her costume developed buffoon bulges. It wasn’t a surprise when Eric announced after the show, as he was inviting everyone in the audience to adjourn to the adjoining bar, that this show would be in the New York Clown Theatre Festival in September. Bouffon Glass Menajoree has been playing around town since it was in the festival two years ago.
Jeff Seal got to show off some of them clown skills he acquired out there in California and that was good to see.
Also that space, Milagro Theater at Clemente Soto Velez, on the Lower East Side is a good space. I wouldn’t mind doing a show there.
On the subway coming home my head was full of pithy and critical thoughts about clown theatre in general and Deanna’s show in particular, but when I got home My Kid was still awake and there was much ado about a bath, itchy ears, eating cherries and brushing teeth so now it’s all gone.
Also, I am still a little jet lagged.
The Husband just reminded me that it’s 1:30 in the morning and I have rehearsal at 10:00 am. So I’m going to close my eyes and go to sleep now in our new brass bed that was delivered at 8:45 this morning (thank God I didn’t leave clearing out the room for morning) Rehearsal today was at PMT from 10 till 2. Then I schlepped back to Brooklyn. I had to pay attention to My Kid. There e-mails to check and send before I could go to the show tonight. We’ve been scheduled for the New York Clown Theatre Festival Cabaret on September 11. I’m just waiting for Lorraine to confirm. (I wonder if she has 9/11 issues. She did fly out of Boston on that morning… I wonder if I have 9/11 issues… I saw the second tower come down from the Monument in Fort Green Park where I was standing with My Kid in a pack on my back.)