Losing Louie Diary - August 18, 2006

Always an exciting day. Getting to meet the new people I don’t already know, and see the folks I already do or have worked with before. Nice to finally meet Simon, whose play I love. Great to see Mark, and to be sharing a stage with him, since my first Broadway gig was as his understudy in Laughter on the 23rd Floor, which was also directed by Jerry. I feel a little bit like I’ve been living here at MTC, since the show I’m in right now, Indian Blood, rehearsed here as well. But I love being here at the Creative Center. There’s always so much going on, and so many friends rehearsing other shows or auditioning that it seems like every day I bump into two or three people that it’s great to see. The first read through went very well, as they almost always do. That’s probably the last time it will seem that good for a while, as we start to take the pieces apart, dissect them and then try to put them back together again into something that has a real life of its own.