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Nov. 8th, 2006 10:16 pmHome safe from the show tonight -- thought I'd post, some people were fretting :)
It was quite an interesting experience, actually. The AFTRA/SAG's "Senior Radio Players" in Chicago is a group of actors and voice performers, all officially "seniors", who qualify to perform by dint of being members of either the American Film, Television, and Radio Association or the Screen Actors' Guild. They get together and re-enact radio plays, sound-effects, adverts and introductory speeches included, for a live audience. Tonight they were performing The Maltese Falcon at the Chicago Cultural Centre, so I went to have a listen. I actually spent a good portion of the show with my eyes closed, for authenticity, but I couldn't help watching a little. I love to watch the sound-effects people at work.
I miss doing that stuff though, and I'm absolute pants at networking, as tonight proved. I managed to go talk to the man who'd played Sam Spade, but almost as soon as I did, his wife came up to hug him and say hello and I bolted, because what kind of creepy weirdo hangs around and watches total strangers hug?
I came home to a rejection letter for a manuscript I've been sending around, from someone who I'd had some faith might like it after the rewrite she requested. The work's not in vain, it's better now, but it's still a manuscript, and "too disconnected" for her tastes.
Well, the performance was good, anyway.
It was quite an interesting experience, actually. The AFTRA/SAG's "Senior Radio Players" in Chicago is a group of actors and voice performers, all officially "seniors", who qualify to perform by dint of being members of either the American Film, Television, and Radio Association or the Screen Actors' Guild. They get together and re-enact radio plays, sound-effects, adverts and introductory speeches included, for a live audience. Tonight they were performing The Maltese Falcon at the Chicago Cultural Centre, so I went to have a listen. I actually spent a good portion of the show with my eyes closed, for authenticity, but I couldn't help watching a little. I love to watch the sound-effects people at work.
I miss doing that stuff though, and I'm absolute pants at networking, as tonight proved. I managed to go talk to the man who'd played Sam Spade, but almost as soon as I did, his wife came up to hug him and say hello and I bolted, because what kind of creepy weirdo hangs around and watches total strangers hug?
I came home to a rejection letter for a manuscript I've been sending around, from someone who I'd had some faith might like it after the rewrite she requested. The work's not in vain, it's better now, but it's still a manuscript, and "too disconnected" for her tastes.
Well, the performance was good, anyway.
