Shakespearean DRAMMER

[ceebeegee]

The Public is doing The Merchant of Venice and The Winter's Tale in rep this summer! I don't think I've ever seen Merchant on stage--yay! So excited to see me some free quality Shakespeare! I love summer in the city! As a follow up to the Lovestreet/Julie drammer--apparently Lori had also heard from Catherine a while ago that Julie wanted to fire me. She, like me, wasn't sure if Catherine had mixed me up with someone else but if that someone else wasn't Lori (who also had long blonde hair--she's the only person with whom Catherine might've confused me, there weren't that many women in the cast), I don't know who it could've been. Lori said she didn't tell me because she thought it was ludicrous but after I'd emailed her she began thinking of it again, saying "I think Julie was completely and utterly intimidated by you...While she was mucking up the role of Lady M, she was likely aware that you were aware of how badly she was mucking it up in rehearsals." Hmmm. The whole thing is literally inexplicable barring a conversation with Julie and frankly, I don't care that much. I certainly do feel as though I've dodged a bullet though! I can safely say that a good part of the cast would've walked if she'd tried to fire me for no reason. I mean--no reason! I still can't figure it out, I'd saved her ass so many times. Really, she's that insecure? What a weirdo!

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The Merchant of Venice

[nswakko15.livejournal.com]

I feel like I'm the one person not excited about this show this summer since I saw the movie with Pacino in it and HATED both the film and his performance. Much prefer Looking for Richard.

Re: The Merchant of Venice

[ceebeegee.livejournal.com]

Maybe his scenery chewing will work better on an actual stage. I've heard other people who weren't too crazy about his Shylock as well. Still, can't wait!

Winter's Tale seems to be a hot ticket in the last few seasons, a lot of companies have done it.