Play done
My play was a huge success...for the audiences who saw it. For the venue, and the theatre group, not so much, I'm sad to say. The culprit, as elucidated by my director: scheduling. Putting up a show on both weekends surrounding Spring Break? Not too smart. The Flying Saucer wound up cancelling shows with too few reservations, and I can't say I blame them. As a Community Theatre actor, I work for free - but the venue has to make money, and putting on a kitchen and wait staff for 5 dinner theatre patrons ain't the way to do it. I've fallen prey to poor scheduling of shows before, and so I tend to go along with this overall explanation. I can't complain about the marketing of the show, as it was more vigorous than other shows I've been involved with. We certainly had few if any dissatisfied patrons and so word-of-mouth must have been pretty good.
Oh, well - it was extremely satisfying and I got to do what I love best: make large groups of people laugh. What's next for me I do not know. Annie's ballet is this weekend and Tasha's play is at the start of May. I'm hoping to audition in May and direct in February but that's all subject to change.