the technic of getting stoned is the trick of marihuana

I am still buzzing from the show yesterday afternoon! It was SO good, you guys. I could hardly believe how well it came off, and how many people showed up! What an amazing experience. AND ALL OF IT CAUGHT ON DVD! Maybe over Christmas we can have a showing at Summit? I miss you guys!

Oh, you should have been there. WHat an atmosphere. We all crammed into the movement studio, which is pretty much a big black box with no seating, and people sat on the floor and moved with each piece as we moved the focus around the room. We started out with the room dimly lit with blue gels and then led people into the room in groups of three with flashlights. We used the flashlights to show them our body maps along the back wall behind a big curtain and then led them to a place to sit. I tried to introduce everyone to everyone else as we went so that there would be little communities in the audience. There were probably about eighty people in there once we got everyone seated, and then we lined up and started the show. It was just so cool... everything we said was something that came out of this incredibly intense, intimate experience we'd all had with each other. We were sharing such personal information so bravely... I was worried that we'd have poops in the audience (Tim did his show the light before and three people walked out, one of them yelling that Tim was an anti-American fag or something. Have I mentioned before how B-N makes me want to vomit? I believe I have discussed that in earlier posts?), especially because some of the material was really challenging (there was gay kissing, there were nude people, and [God bless her!] one girl went after the department for their hypocritical stance on color-blind casting [this is the department that did Ain't Misbehavin' with an all-white cast. I wish so hard that I was joking right now, but it's true, they did.] I expected backlash, but people just embraced the show completely.

Afterward we all went back to my place and hung out and watched musicals and movies and goofed off and ate pizza and felt happy. I fell asleep because I was having a monumental allergy attack and I took some meds, but I hear everyone continued to have a good time long after I went into a coma. Oh, I wish you guys had been there! We have the DVD and we're compiling a script, but I'll perform my monologue for you guys sometime special, because you really have to sniff and get sniffed in order to really experience it. I actually had all the men in the cast (the "sniffettes") lined up with their backs to the audience and I started out sniffing them and then they went into the audience and sniffed other people, and then they melted into the audience for the big, audience-wide armpit sniff at the end.

I'm still happy and buzzed from the experience, it was so fun. And tonight I start Arcadia rehearsals! A mao, I a so-busy cat!