It's been a long time since we've had the chance to blog over here! Since we last wrote we have traveled from upstate New York to Cleveland to Chicago!
Tuesday night we arrived in Cleveland. When we arrived and got off the freeway we were a little concerned. The freeway area was a little sketchy. I locked my door. But most of Cleveland was gorgeous to look at. Interesting architecture and lots of old buildings. And the place we were staying (which we found through couchsurfing.com) was great. It was a beautiful Victorian home owned by the lovely Dave. Dave, by the way, is running a costume website you should check out called www.instockcostumes.com. He has buttloads of costumes to choose from for this Halloween season.
We chatted for a bit and then settled into our couches and went to sleep.
In the morning we woke up and tried to find a breakfast place. We failed.
So we went into our cooler and had a breakfast of hardboiled egg, banana bread (thanks Bret's mom), and banana. A little redundant, I know.
Then we proceeded to make lots of noise warming up our voices and we rehearsed a few pieces for the day. Our appointments included Cleveland Public Theatre and the Great Lakes Theatre Festival.
The Cleveland Public has two great spaces, one black box and one old proscenium space that they use as a black box. The audience area is also the playing space. It is too bad we couldn't see a performance there. I kept saying "wow these are huge" and he kept saying "these are not so big." I guess I am just used to the tiny tiny spaces in NYC. We did our pieces for him, but they do not hire out-of-town people. Still, it was great to visit CPT because they are clearly very active in their community and try all sorts of new material.
Then we went to the Great Lakes Theatre Festival. We made a mistake: doing Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl for him. They are a more established company, and produce classics. We did that scene because we both wanted to do our dramatic Shakespearean monologues for him. In any event, he gave us very honest feedback, and it made us think more strategically about what material to use for auditions, both on this tour and after. Live and learn.
So then we hit the road......on to Chicago.
