Congrats!

Congratulations to the cast of The Margaret Ghost! Also to lillibet for what must have been a difficult job of choosing. I have a new appreciation for the agony of casting a show since directing a play for the Festival. Every actor should do it at least once.

Truthfully, I'm a bit relieved that I didn't get cast. All three of the female roles were a bit of a stretch for a character actress like me, and though I had a great time auditioning and being partnered with some of my favorite Firstie actors, not getting it was all for the best this time around. In fact, I had expressed to one friend in e-mail my terror about what if I got the lead role, and how would I memorize a role that huge with so much else on my platter? And indeed the platter is full -- I've got a bountiful armload of Cabaret just starting, and hopefully you'll be seeing/hearing me in the Radio Drama, if there's use for me. And I'll be wearing cows* for one of the Margaret Ghost performances, of course.

So, mazel tov, all of you, and on with all of the shows!



_{* "Wearing Cows" is Theatre@First-speak for "working house." It was a sentence mis-heard by lillibet that somehow stuck. :-)}