NINE opened last night and the show went great. The audience response was incredible. I got laughs I hadn’t expected and my improv with the audience got some good laughs as well - always a scary proposition when you have to chat with the audience and somehow work off the top of your head depending on what they give you in response. But I needn’t ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is our all afternoon-all evening tech for NINE. Since this show is all about the lighting, it's going to be a looooong day, for sure. Michael, our director, has very specific ideas about all the lighting and looks he wants created so it will be a tedious day. And to add to that, our lighting designer ended up in the hospital a week ago ( Read more... )

Today was the closing on the sale of my old condo, and after I left the title company office, it truly was the closing of one door in my life and opening up a new one. I had lived there almost 15 years and it was my home, certainly expressive of my taste and "flair" and it had been the site of many famous - and infamous - theater parties over ( Read more... )

The little show that could, Facts of Life: The Lost Episode has had quite a week, just as I have. It is still going strong, and the show is extending to July 18th due to ticket sales but that was not the only excitement - last night, our fab understudy Ashley had to go on for Chad as Blair, since Chad had been having a fever of 102 and lost his ( Read more... )

We have scored 2 abso-fabulous reviews for Facts of Life: The Lost Episode - or love letters, as Playwright Jamie Morris calls them. Read the reviews on my website:

http://www.andiworld.com/factsoflifereview.html

"Facts of Life" had an amazing opening night at the Rose Room last night. I've directed hit comedies before, with audiences laughing hysterically and standing ovations, but last night exceeded anything I'd ever experienced. Maybe it was because the show is being performed in a nightclub cabaret theater, but whatever the reason, the audience went ( Read more... )

I got cast this week in a musical I have wanted to do ever since it first opened on Broadway decades ago - I will be playing Liliane LaFleur in "Nine" at ICT Mainstage in July-August. It's a role that is right up my alley; I get to do a cheesy French accent, get a few laughs, be sexy and sing and dance the fabulous "Folies Bergeres" production ( Read more... )

After a month on the market, I got another offer for my old condo this past week. Unfortunately, it was not much better than the first one, and again it is from someone who can't qualify for a mortgage even close to what I'm selling it for - so they make these lowball offers which I'm not going to take. And it's another buyer brought by the same ( Read more... )

Once again, I suddenly found my plans thrown out the window this week. I had been preparing to audition for several shows now that I felt like I'd gotten the really BIG parts of the to-do list done at the new condo. But I still had things I wanted to get done over the next few weeks before these auditions might mean I would be starting rehearsals ( Read more... )

It seems like I will never finish unpacking, much less actually start putting things where I want them in the new condo. I'm finally down to only one box still full in the den, but that doesn't mean the den is actually put together; on the contrary, everything that was in all the boxes originally stacked in there is just piled around on the floor ( Read more... )