By the way, if you're in the Iowa City / Coralville area this weekend or next, you could check out my performance as Lee in The Tale of the Allergist's Wife at City Circle Acting Company.

Given how things are going, I'd recommend it if for no other reason than to see what happens next. Kind of like stopping at the site of a train wreck. Or watching the OJ car chase on TV.

Yesterday, one of the other lead actors fell off the stage and was carted away by ambulance. Yes, we open in two days. No, we don't know the prognosis yet. I hope to find out tonight at rehearsal. This after replacing the lead character with only a few weeks of rehearsal left, and many other miscellaneous mishaps inherent to live theater.

The cast is good even if the stage gods are against us. Light a candle or ten. Think good thoughts. Yikes.

****UPDATE****

By the way, it isn't a kid's show. If you do come out to gawk, don't bring the little ones. Just a sense of humor.



****UPDATE UPDATE****

Prognosis: a shattered kneecap. He needs surgery and definitely won't be up for acting. Jaret Morlan our director, will attempt to age himself some 25 years in order to take over the role.

We're going to tape lines on every conceivable prop.

The set is a NY apartment, complete with kitchen. We had some of those magnetic poetry words on the refrigerator. Someone reorganized all of them to spell one big "HELP !"


The Press-Citizen is apparently running articles on local theater again, because we got a write up in the Go section.