Because I haven’t been doing enough theatre this season, I’m back at it, this time stage managing The Cemetery Club at Village Players of Birmingham. Happily for my sanity, I’m actually co-stage managing the show with my friend Justine, who was our stage manager on Romeo & Juliet. She figured she was doing too many shows in a row herself, and agreed to work on this show on the condition that she share the load with someone, aaaaaaaaaand that someone is me. Which is cool, since this is the venue for my first stage managing gig a year and a half ago, Arsenic & Old Lace (where I worked with an actress who is the assistant director on this show, and yes, that’s how community theatre works).
Our big tech Sunday went really well, and we open this Friday! This was a much shorter process than I prefer, based on my experience with Arsenic & Old Lace, but that just means it’s a new sort of challenge. One which I am loving so far.