Stina had never seen this, so we got it from Netflix a while back, and I'm just now getting around to blogging it. It came out in '91, and I saw it probably not to long after it first came out. It stands the test of time, and while I think it's fairly weak on plot, the characters make up for what's lacking. The special effects are still amazing, even after all these years. I mean, who doesn't like watching fire?
Okay, just me? I guess I'm a pyro at heart.
The Foreigner has a scene in it where a guy in a Ku Klux Klan costume has to "melt" into the floor. This is done by lowering him into the floor through a trap door while his sheets stay above. The stage of the theater where TEA performs doesn't have a trap door.
Other than building a platform on the stage and thus raising the performance area another four feet or so, does anyone have any ideas of what we could do instead?
The theater group I've been involved in is now having weekly script readings to pick its shows for the 2009-2010 season. Yes, they pick them out a year and a half ahead. They do this because they operate partly off of a grant from Conoco-Phillips, and they have to have their shows planned before the grant application deadline, which is in June.
Basically, we all get together, pick parts, and read through a play that one of the members recommended. Tonight we read A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller. It's hard to say how a man who was having sex with Marilyn Monroe could write something so depressing. Depressing as it is, however, it's a good play. We'll see if it makes the final list.
Next week, we're reading The Foreigner. I recommended it. The play is almost overdone, but it hasn't played here for about ten years, and it's screamingly funny.
And, on a completely unrelated note...
Please...
Don't leave personally owned geese.
Seriously.
Last night was closing night. Here's one of the articles that came out opening weekend. I'm not sure how long the link will be good.
There was a review Saturday that said we had them "rolling in the aisles." :->
Something I found surprising was the difference in audiences. The first two nights were great. The Sunday matinee I thought someone needed to go out into the audience and check their pulses. The next weekend, Friday was our best show yet, with about 260 people in the audience and an outstanding response to each joke, then last night, closing night, we were back to performing for a room full of crash test dummies. Go figure.
I went on stage tonight, dressed as a woman (a really ugly one, at that), and made a fool of myself to make the audience laugh. This was opening night for "Love, Sex, and the IRS." They did laugh, so... mission accomplished. It would have really sucked if I went through all that and no one thought it was funny.
My day consisted of driving 180 miles to teach two classes, then driving 180 miles back so I could be at rehearsal. When I got home, though, I found that the power supply I had ordered for my computer had arrived, and I had just enough time to install it. I had never installed one before, and found it surprisingly easy. After a couple of false starts, I got everything hooked up correctly, and now my computer is running again with the new video card.
But my speakers no longer work. They have a loud buzzing noise that continues even if I unhook them from the computer. I've tried plugging their power supply into a different outlet. No luck. These are the Altec Lansing speakers and subwoofer I carried over from my old computer, so now I have the cheap, tinny, pathetic speakers that came with my computer hooked up.
So I bought my new computer when the hard drive crashed on my old one. I couldn't play any games because my video card was too weak. I bought a new power supply to run my new video card. Now I have to buy new speakers. I feel like I bought a fixer-upper.
On the other hand, I feel quite manly for having installed a video card and a power supply with no help.
