It’s like she knows…she knows the timing most ill to arrive and fuck with you…am I right, ladies?
…She even tag-teams the really important times with the most bitch- version of her personality. Because opening a giant show isn’t enough, nor is month-end…following a major Holiday weekend sale. No, no, hell no! We need you all drugged and water-logged as well, with aching everything’s…and that super special sensation of wanting to barf every time you open your mouth to talk.
….This really coincides well with two pages of customer bookings and a dress rehearsal where you talk at high speed for about two hours, virtually non-stop.
…Which is all to say: the dame’s been dead for decades now, but Joan Crawford is still the biggest bitch around. Let it be known.
Meanwhile, nerves decided to hit me this weekend like a ton to of bricks. Which has only ever happened in one other show ever, that I can recall.
…Nerves belong on Opening Night…and maybe a few seconds after “places” call. Nerves don’t have any form or function this early in tech week. Because there’s just too much shit to do still, frankly, and the adrenaline rush helps you zero-much right now.
There’s sort of a lot riding on this role and this show…personally, professionally…it’s opening a theater season, there’s a giantly talented team who helped to get us here, and this is a bucket list roll. I really don’t like screwing up anytime, but I would REALLY hate it in this instance. And I’m afraid that the roughly eight hours of sleep I’ve gotten this weekend from obsessing about it, isn’t helping.
…Ye olde friend Anxiety has been whispering tales to me, and as we know, that bastard is a hard one to shut up. Which means a lot of added concentrated energy I already don’t have at the moment has been aimed in that direction this weekend. Until today. Because I’m too damn busy (outside of this sandwich break) to pay it any attention.
….Which I suppose is the only good thing about how freaking busy it’s been in here this morning.
So, winning?
…I’ll call it a “win.” I could use one to get a leg up on what comes after this.
I know, I know this show. I know I’ve done the work to support it. I know I know my path and what it takes and feels like to follow it from beginning to end.
I trust my team.
…I just need to freaking breathe…
…And trust “me.”
~D
