not falling down

Update 0757 hrs: In response to any questions you may have about the show, the answer is “yes.” Whoo.

Three entries in three days is almost unprecedented. Maybe I’m trying to make up for the fact that I’m heading home forthe weekend–again–and when I get back I’ll commence trying hastily to ink this week’s toon. Ah, the jet-setting lifeof an unpaid cartoonist! Ha ha! See you Sunday.

Update 1353 hrs: But before I go, I feel I should mention that my roommate has purchased his very firstprofessional team from Yahoo! Shopping. I mean, with prices like these, who can refuse?

Ian got Richard. I got Hastings. Here’s the thing: it’s going to be a very good play. My glands are telling me to befrustrated, but I’m trying to be clear-headed about it (or anyway I think I am). Tony is a show director, not anactor’s director, and putting Ian in the role will bring out a lot of things that would have required more work withme. I still think that I have the bigger range between us, but Ian’s limits fall squarely on either side of where mostpeople want to see Richard. He’s very strong there, and he’s going to do very, very well with it.

There are other things, too, that I think I can see Tony doing (and that not everyone will). I’m being honest when Isay I have more friends in the department. Ian and I are both decent, friendly guys, but there are kids who think he’sarrogant (I don’t) and wanted me to have the role to keep him out of it. This casting is going to upset them, and thatwill draw out their venom toward him in a very realistic way. Instant Method.

I think I could steal this show; I’m not going to, because while it might be fun the play would lose out. Richard is an(the) antihero. Drawing focus from that would take something from the core of the play. So I’m going to be anensemble player, and I’m going to try to help David (who was also up for Richard, and who got Buckingham) do the same.There is this about performance: in the end we aren’t there for ourselves.

T-minus 9.5 hours.