Rehearsals.

For those that don't know, I'm going to be in Rep's production of On The Razzle that opens this November. I'm playing the role of Sonders, who is the young hopeful in love with Marie, Herr Zangler's niece and ward. Zangler doesn't want Sonders to have anything to do with Marie, thinking that Sonders is just a mountebank. I think Sonders truly does love Marie, but also has his eyes on her young form, so naturally Herr Zangler is suspicious.

The upshot of all this is that I will be executing (performing... enacting...?) my second stage kiss this November. And the young lady playing Marie is far from unattractive (as well as being an excellent actress, to boot), so it isn't the worst experience in the world.

We've started practicing the kissing now and it's more than just a little weird. For anyone who's ever been involved in a theatrical production, in the first few rehearsals there's lots of 'so when I do this, you do that, right?' and similar, with things being done many times over and lots of fluffing of lines and dropping of cues.

This hilarity is usually played out in front of the rest of the cast as they sit about and wait for their turn and when the hilarity includes practising kissing, it can get funny and uncomfortable in just about equal parts. Far be it from me to complain about kissing a beautiful girl, but after the fifteenth time you've been pushed into a 'lingering kiss' by another actor and you've both broken up into giggles, or had your heads pushed together too fast and so the young lady's lips muffle your lines, it starts to get just a tad surreal.

Four things I learned recently;

1. This show has a very big cast.


2. Our real estate agents are nice when it comes to inspections.


3. Bananas contain a lot of potassium.


4. Sims 2 is pretty damn cool.

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