Losing Louie Diary - August 25, 2006

Okay, we’ve been at it for a week now, and I’m exhausted.  Still performing at night in Indian Blood.  I’ve never done this before, performed in one thing while rehearsing another.  All of my friends who are not in theatre ask me if I get my lines from one play mixed up with lines from the other, but of course that’s never a problem.  It’s physically tiring, because the hours add up to a lot, but that’s not even a real problem.  Anyone with kids is used to going without sleep for long stretches of time.  Here’s the real difficulty:  As my wife will tell anyone, when I’m doing a play, I might only have to get my body to the theatre by 7:30, but my head starts going there at about 3:00 or 4:00 in the afternoon.  I can’t get away with that now, ‘cause I’m still in the rehearsal hall for Louie at that time.  The other difficulty I’m facing is that I find myself thinking about Reggie (my character in Louie) when I’m standing the wings about to go on as Uncle Paul (one of my characters in Indian Blood).

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[tolikimer]

Hi all!

Sorry for that:( but my kids need to eat.


Bye