I am sad that this show will soon be over but I simply can not wait for the next one.Ī2 Ensemble Member, Abby Wilde, continues to share her experiences working on our production of The Malcontent. But take the show away, and what will we gossip about? What reason will we have to spend hours in each others’ company every weekend? What innocent excuse will we have to regularly see each other almost completely undressed? It’s a sad truth of the profession that many of us will run in to each other some weeks after the show is closed and have only three things to say: “How have you been,” “That was a great show, wasn’t it,” and “See you soon.” Cast Love is temporary.īut until that final curtain, it is strong, beautiful, makes wonderful memories, and most importantly, lays the groundwork for casts to come. It’s not to say friendships made during a show will no longer exist after, or that none of went on during the show counts for anything in the Real World. Sadly, Cast Love almost entirely evaporates within three days of the final curtain call.Īdam Meyer and Bo Foxworth. Cast Love is what keeps everyone at the theater hours after the curtain comes down getting steadily more inebriated and shouting White Snake medleys at the top of our lungs, accompanied by the only three of us who know what they’re doing with a piano. Cast Love is what makes everyone else in an actor’s non-show life seem further away by comparison, and the days away from the theater so long, lonely, and languishing. ![]() ![]() Cast Love is what breeds dressing room drama, intermission philosophy, back-seat directing, and Showmance. It is built on an intricate foundation of many-layered inside jokes within the script, miniature romances that start onstage and end just a few feet off, vestigial remains of past-cast alliances reignited in rehearsal, and a few private friendships which only serve the purpose of safely gossipping about everybody else. Photo: Abby WildeĬast Love is a certain blend of powerful, binding affection that weaves its way into all the best of performances. ![]() Antaeus Tweets Tweets by antaeustheaterĪdrian LaTourelle and Ramon deOcampo in disguise.
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