There’s No Business LIke Show Business!
January 22, 2008 by bairbresine
There’s no business like show business
Like no business I know
Everything about it is appealing
Everything the traffic will allow
Nowhere could you get that happy feeling
When you are stealing that extra bow
Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
I’m in rehearsal for variety show The Fabulous Crone Show 2008: Supercrones. My skit is called The Antique Roadshow written by Gail Sterkel . It’s going to be fun.
I tried out for this on a lark. It was on my short list of things to do before I die—try out for a part in community theater. Not GET a part. Just try out for one. <heh> I don’t have a clue about acting and there I am on stage with people who have been in the biz 27 years or more. YIKES!
I feel so honored to have been chosen to be part of this. I always wanted to act and here I am acting! Cool Beans!
They’re very kind about helping me improve but did you know that you aren’t actually supposed to talk to the people onstage? You pick someone in the back of the audience and talk to them. Rarely do you actually turn your body towards the person you are supposedly interacting with because then the audience can’t hear you. Unless you are hooked up to a microphone of course. We won’t be. At the moment I am talking to a water fountain.
Here’s the release information we were given to pass along to family and friends regarding to the show:
The Fabulous Crone Show 2008: Supercrones!
The Crones are back – shorter, sweeter and just as much fun. Those brilliant, comical, thoughtful women who performed to sold-out audiences will present new acts for the new year. The Fabulous Crone Show 2008: Supercrones! is a variety show of women performers older than 50 directed by Jan Levine Thal and produced by Wendy Fern Hutton with a cast of 30.
Performances are Thursday-Sunday, Jan 31- Feb 3, 2008. — FOUR PERFORMANCES ONLY
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 7:30, Meriter Main Gate, 333 W. Main (free parking across the street).
Sunday matinée, 2:00 pm, Madison Senior Center, 330 W. Mifflin (next to the Overture parking ramp).
This year the Crones will take reservations. The Fabulous Crone Show 2008: Supercrones! is two hours including intermission.
Make reservations 608-225-9664 and arrive early to assure seating. Tickets are already going fast. The show is still free (donations requested $5-$20).
The Fabulous Crone Show 2008: Supercrones! is a project of Positive Aging Theater, the theater arts company of the Madison Senior Center.
More info at www.croneshow.com
Come and support all of us Crones Living in the Edge of Madness. I promise it’s going to be hoot! Really. When I forget my lines and start stuttering it will be hilarious!
B
B,
If you could only have seen the look of relief that passed across my face this evening….
I check into your blogsite almost daily and have missed your postings….
I’m thankfu that it was your PC which was “ill” and not you (which is what I was quite worried about)….
I am most relieved and pleased to see you back in action on the web….
Congratulations on your acting gig (oops, I mean break a leg or at least a toe)….
Glad you’ve returned!
Pat
Hi Pat, I’m doing OK. Nothing more than the usual winter nasties that I haven’t managed to hide from. I made sure to get my flu shot this year so nothing major. Thanks for the well wishes. Wanna sit in the audience and hold up que cards? I haven’t panicked yet but give me a minute. ;^)
B