Gooood morning! Thanks for joining me. Just a warning, there will be a lot of steaming today. If you’re OK with that, click right.
Gideon Glick
If you follow me on twitter, which if you don’t, you’re really missing out (@gidglick), you’ll know that I have an obsession with The Bridges of Madison County. I count listening to it as part of my emotional diet, especially on two-show days.
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Look! It’s playbill.com! I’m a little embarrassed to say that I check this website before I check the news.
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I told you there’d be steaming. I talk too much in this show.
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It takes a pharmacy to look this good.
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Eating breakfast on the subway platform. Pity me.
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I could write an ode to the B train. Truly. I get on this puppy two blocks away from my apartment, avoid Times Square, and get dropped off right at the theater. FUN FACT: When I was a young boy I LOVED Times Square. I would get off the train from Philadelphia and RUN to Times Square, get a ticket to a Broadway show, and then eat at Ellen’s Stardust Diner (which I dreamt about working at when I got older).
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See! Right at the corner of the theater’s block!
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And here she is, Miss Laura Pels.
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Goodbye sun! We perform in Sub-Cellar 3.
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Now I check in with the lovely ladies of our stage management team. This is Mel, Sam, and Cat (she doesn’t even go by that, but she lets me call her that). Meow.
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This is our sign in board. I’m usually the first to arrive.
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Sas is another early arriver. She’s about to put her weave in, which you can see is resting on her dressing room table.
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Luke is usually the second cast member to arrive. We do Alexander and breathing work together in the mezzanine before every show.
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Meet Ben! He’s my understudy. We’re all convinced that he actually lives at the theater. Quite possibly in this cot. As you’ll see over the course of the day, he never seems to leave the Equity cot.
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You’re here at a VERY exciting two-show day. It’s haircut day!!!
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Haircuts are given at the luxurious Bamboo Palace.
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This is what my dressing room table looks like.
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I’ve just made some tea with honey. I use my Devious Maids thermos for said tea. I get a lot of flak from the actors for using this thermos, but it’s a wonderful thermos, and I honestly think they’re just jealous.
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These are my good luck charms. This is Buddha, Ganesh, and my late grandmother’s wishing token. I kiss the token before every act.
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More steaming.
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All the ladies have arrived. Lindsay seems to think her hair curler is a microphone. Silly Lindsay!
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Please meet Stacey and April. These two wonderful women run the wardrobe. They are unbelievably attractive.
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April provides fun facts for us on most days. She brings a little light to the sub cellar.
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This little trick I learned from Joan Lader. Blowing bubbles will help with vocal placement. Give it a try.
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Almost all the boys have arrived. Sometimes they talk about sports and sometimes they talk about space travel. So I start singing Bridges of Madison County to restore a balance in the universe.
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Meet Njeri, the Steinberg Center Apprentice, Eric, the Assistant Master Technician, and Rich, the Local 1 Apprentice. Sounds like a D&D game, no?
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Brooks has arrived. He’s the understudy for John and Luke. Now all the men are present. And we can talk more about sports.
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He must have bedsores.
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Luke’s character is based off a member of the Lollipop Guild.
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Before every act the cast does a dark secret ritual called THE BB COUNTDOWN!
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I always tend to get very important calls around this time too.
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Cat stole my phone.
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Where’s Ben? Oh, he’s still in the cot. And he’s sleeping. Please be quiet.
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The AMAZING Ann Harada came to see our matinee.
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Pre-haircut.
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The Bamboo Palace is in full swing. Meet Troy, the king of the palace.
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Post-haircut. What a difference.
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My best friend in the entire world, Sarah Steele, came to have lunch with me in between shows. I’m not going to see her for a while because she’s about to go film Speech and Debate (a play we did in 2007 at the Roundabout) in Mississippi!
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Alas, the 2nd show is over. Lindsay salutes the two-show day.
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Herb, Sas’s father, came to say hi after the show. He is a true mensch.
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We really can’t get enough of that B train.
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I FaceTime with my boyfriend every night after the show. He’s a resident at UPenn Hospital, and sometimes he has to work nights, hence the scrubs. You watch "Grey’s Anatomy," you know what I’m talking about.
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I take a bath after every show (no image provided) and then, guess what, I steam.
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And now it’s time to say adieu. Goodnight! Hope my two-show day wasn’t too boring.
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