Model Minority

Last night was the last rehearsal before we move into the theater.  That’s where the pain of Tech Week begins.  Tech Week for the uninitiated and blissfully ignorant is when all the elements of a show - sound, music, lighting, costume, props - are finally thrown all together at the end of the rehearsal process of a production. 

It’s essentially like trying to get 5 different species of monkeys to not only get along in a confined space but to re-enact Andrew Lloyd Weber’s Starlight Express…

… sounds stressful and difficult don’t it?  You’d be right but if you survive and come out at the end of it… well… then you got monkeys on skates… do you hear me?  Motherfucking monkeys on skates.  That trumps everything.

So anyway, since I’m nearing show time and essentially this BLOG’s expiration, I’d thought I’d highlight some of the people involved in this show.

In no particular order is Artist Extraordinaire and Las Vega-Nauts Conceptual Artist – Jeremy Arambulo.  This guy is my Geoff Darrow… he’s my Douglas Chiang… if you don’t know who those two are than you will probably won’t understand how hyperbolic this guy’s talent is.  Doubt me?  Check out this art here.  And here.  Jeremy’s art is so cool that it will sleep with your girlfriend and than kick you in the nuts.  That’s how hardcore it is.  Then it will buy you a beer and you will drink and laugh with it.  Then it won’t return your phone calls and you’ll wonder what you did wrong.

Everytime I got stressed about whether or not people would find this show funny, I just looked at the artwork and said to myself, “Wow.  That art is good.  It’s too good.  It’s overshadowing the show. Dammit.  No way the show will come close to that art.  Damn you.  DAMN YOU.  DAMN YOU Jeremy Arambulo!  You will drink deep from the teat of vengeance tonight!”

Anyway. To sum up:

Jeremy Art good.

Sang Writing weird.

More people later.  Including my co-writer who just got his computer up after it was infested with porn virus.  Yech.

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