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Jul. 20th, 2007 03:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thehefnerA quick note to all.
If you see any reviews of THE HEFNER MONOLOGUES, good or bad, please withhold them from me until the end of my run.
Today, my grandmother pointed out an article in the Washington Post that started off by saying, "If you look beyond the garish titles of such shows as THE HEFNER MONOLOGUES, you'll find that there actually are some good blah blah blah" and even offhanded insinuation that is enough to discombobulate me.
I'm reminded of Spalding Gray's monologue about the time he got a bad review for his performance as the Stage Manager in the Broadway production of OUR TOWN, and it completely fucked him up. The other actors said, "You read the review?! You idiot, you never read reviews until the run is over!"
So yeah. Unless there's something you folks think I should reeeeeally know, don't let me know. Assuming, of course, anyone reviews it in the first place.
I'm a sensitive, neurotic soul, and can take constructive criticism (after all, the whole purpose of this run is to workshop and refine and tweak the show, so I can have something better to shop around venues)... but let me try to do the best I possibly can on my own first. Isn't that the way to go?
Meantime, I shall amuse myself with more FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS:
Ahh yeah, that's delightful.
If you see any reviews of THE HEFNER MONOLOGUES, good or bad, please withhold them from me until the end of my run.
Today, my grandmother pointed out an article in the Washington Post that started off by saying, "If you look beyond the garish titles of such shows as THE HEFNER MONOLOGUES, you'll find that there actually are some good blah blah blah" and even offhanded insinuation that is enough to discombobulate me.
I'm reminded of Spalding Gray's monologue about the time he got a bad review for his performance as the Stage Manager in the Broadway production of OUR TOWN, and it completely fucked him up. The other actors said, "You read the review?! You idiot, you never read reviews until the run is over!"
So yeah. Unless there's something you folks think I should reeeeeally know, don't let me know. Assuming, of course, anyone reviews it in the first place.
I'm a sensitive, neurotic soul, and can take constructive criticism (after all, the whole purpose of this run is to workshop and refine and tweak the show, so I can have something better to shop around venues)... but let me try to do the best I possibly can on my own first. Isn't that the way to go?
Meantime, I shall amuse myself with more FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS:
Ahh yeah, that's delightful.
