Believe it or not, it took me five minutes to come up with that title. See, I was originally going to riff on the title of the play, but then I realized I did that in the last post...well, never mind.
Anyway, it just occured to me today: how lucky am I to be working with people I actually like? I'm not just saying that, either. You really do meet the most interesting people in theater. Some of the women in the show are circus performers, others teach, some are career actors...I've heard some fascinating stories from everyone I've talked to. Almost makes a girl want to bring a tape recorder to work. I think it might be especially interesting for me because I'm the baby of the group; I'm guessing that the people closest to my age in the play are five or six years older than I am. Needless to say, I feel extremely immature.
Everyone's official bios can be found here (under "bios"). But here's what I've noticed about a few people in the cast:
El Beh (Shen Te/Shui Ta) is amazing. I was lucky enough to get to watch her audition, which was so memorable and funny that I still remember both of her monologues. Her second one was particularly hilarious; it was an obnoxious guy in his early twenties talking about seeing Hulk Hogan in a Del Taco. Even though the people behind the audition table usually keep their faces completely impassive, I think I was laughing by the second sentence of the monologue. I think even Erin the Serious Director Lady was smiling by the end of it.
Holly Chou (Wang) is as kind as the character she plays. She's so very enthusiastic about the play and life in general that being in the same room with her often makes my day. Wang is my favorite character, quite possibly because of how Holly manges to find the perfect balance between endearing and funny; even the big chunks of exposition Wang does are amusing.
According to Anne Hallinan (Mrs. Shin)'s bio, she returned to the stage on the eve of the millenium. The stage is quite lucky that she did; her Mrs. Shin's intelligence, nosiness and melodramatic outbursts make for some of the best moments in the play (if there were a play called "The Smart Person of Szechuan," Mrs. Shin would be the star--she's the only one who figured out that Shen Te and Shui Ta were the same peerson). I got to be there for an hour of rehearsal during which she was the only actor called, so she and Erin could work on her monologues. She's perfect for the part; she has made Mrs Shin into a wonderfully sympathetic busybody.
I have just as much to say about everyone in the cast, but if I said it all right now, I'd be sitting here until the cows came home (and considering that I live in the suburbs ofthe Bay Area, that would be an extremely long time). So, you'll have to wait until tommorrow to hear more about the wonderful cast and crew of "Good Person."
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