's Fine

Well, after all the worry about the technical stuff, and about the box office, and trying to get the program done on time, last night's opening was a rousing success. It's always more than a little scary when doing a classic show like "The Importance of Being Earnest"....while it's not exactly avant garde theatre, it's also not the usual safe theatre route. It's not Neil Simon and Agatha Christie and Rogers & Hammerstein. It's a true literary classic.....and thus, scary.

When I got there -- at 6:20 -- the parking lots -- all of 'em! -- were already near full. I parked way over at the church parking lot. Strongsville was playing Brunswick in basketball (a huge rivalry), and the cars were still streaming in. I honestly figured that the few people that were going to come anyway would simply cruise through the lot, find no place to park, and leave. I honestly thought we might play to about 2 people in the audience.

But we had over half a house, which is not bad at all.
And I ran the sound for act I; Chris ran it for the second and third acts (a very easy task). He feels confident in running sound tonight, and Patrick should run it Sunday with no problem.....

So, um, yay.