That's farce. That's theatre. That's life.

So, last night was pretty funny. We had a lot of interesting moments.

Kellye's Little Man was there again tonight just roaming around while we rehearsed. No big deal. At one point, I make an exit and see Joe sitting there staring at the stage with this mix of shock and hilarity. I looked in the direction he was and didn't immediately see anything. Then I realized that Little Man had decided to join us on stage to have a nice poop. In his defense, he was close to the downstairs bathroom and the front door on stage so he may have been confused.

We also had another one of those real Noises Off moments. There is a point in act one when Selsdon comes on stage for his scene, says quite a few of his lines, then realizes that we are stopped. When Joe came on for this entrance, I noticed it seemed a little different. He didn't quite walk to the same spot and he had a very believable look on his face. I later learned that he had made his entrance and had a quick thought that maybe he had missed his entrance and come on too early. So when he saw everybody standing on stage he thought he had made a mistake. Very funny.

We were also discussing, during a break, the possible necessity for an English-to-English glossary in the program. For instance, we have "stalls", OAP's, WC's, and VAT's among others. No one knew what VAT was, but we knew it was a sort of a tax. After a few suggestions, it was decided that the only thing it could possibly stand for is Virgin Access Tax.

All in all, it was a good night. Some of the rough spots aren't feeling as rough anymore and some spots are actually feeling pretty good. For a week's worth of rehearsal, I'm satisfied. I did roughly half of act one off book, which is, without needing to read anything my script. Not too bad, but it would have been nice to have been able to do it entirely off book. Oh well, it'll happen eventually. The good part is that act one gets recycled for the other two.

Now to enjoy the rest of the weekend. Back at it Monday with a full cast for the first time.