Well, it was an interesting last night. The crowd was relatively large in size compared to some nights (although not as large as Friday night), but was not nearly as responsive. Several people, including yours truly, made the kind of line mistakes which actors kick themselves over but which the audience never even notices. In my case, I said one of my lines too early and then had to repeat it (“…like I was saying earlier, I wish he worked for me so I could fire him!”) at the appropriate point.

But then the weird thing was that, near the end of the play, our leading lady — the talented teenage girl who played our lead actor’s girlfriend — got a nosebleed while waiting backstage. She apparently gets them from time to time, and had gotten one a couple of weeks ago on the night we first practiced curtain call.

She was supposed to appear in the last scene of the play, a group scene in which the main character’s friends and family are all congratulating him on his success. The scene had to go on without her — it worked OK, but didn’t give the audience the closure of knowing for sure that the romance was going to work out after all. And of course she wasn’t part of curtain call or greeting the audience after the play.

I feel just terrible for her to have to end the experience in this way, especially because she did such a fantastic job in the part.

My sister Elecia was at the play tonight — she made a special trip, two hours drive each way, just to see it, and I really, really appreciate that. My mother, who’d seen the play last weekend, came with her.

Also at the play were Gail Drake and Kylene McDonald from LEAMIS, and it was great to have them there too.

I will not miss the grueling schedule of play rehearsals, but I will miss being in the play, and being around this cast, which was one of the most amiable groups with which I’ve performed.