Day 68 Pt.3

Still Tortola. We got back on the ship with not a lot of time before rehearsal. Just about an hour. Enough to eat and iron my shirts. Then a couple of hours in between rehearsal and the shows.

We got a note at one of the shows…I think it was before the second one. It was from a kid who said he saw us before. We thought it was the kid who snuck into our rehearsal…it was. He definitely saw the first show too. In the second show he was in the front row, but way off to stage left. When we asked for suggestions he would shout things as loud as he could…and that was not very loud. It made me giggle. If you’ve ever seen the character Stuart on MadTV, the kid sounded like that. He just couldn’t be loud. So he was just loud enough for us to hear. The even funnier thing about it was that in the second show (when we could see and hear him) he would shout out the suggestions that we took in the first show…so we didn’t take any of them. Luckily in our final number when we were getting made up titles to songs he said “OO OO OO!” and Deanna took that…literally. He was happy as a clam (they’re happy, right?)

In the first show we had a guy thinking he was clever…real treat, this guy. In a restaurant scene there are a few moments with awkward pauses…on purpose. Right before the end of the first pause some redneck-soundin’, “git ‘r done” guy says “Lindsay Lohan.” Apparently he thought the pause was for him to shout stuff out. This is the second show in which this happened. The other time was in our very first show and also by a redneck soundin’, “git ‘r done” guy. In the second awkward pause…right before the end of the pause he says “git on with it.” In light of over ranting on the blog I’ll just say I hope he comes to the improv show. It is hard to deal with hecklers in the middle of a sketch show. It is easy to do it in improv.

I sat down to dinner with Stevie, Amy, and Keeva in between shows. They were fun to talk with and took my mind off the guy. Thanks, ladies!

I’m almost through the first ¼ of the Italian. There are four units in each lesson, and four lessons on the first CD. I’m almost through lesson 1. Deanna is almost done with 2.