** An entry from yesterday... **
January 31, 2014
On My 21st Day in Manhattan
My day doesn’t
officially start until 4 o’clock in the afternoon today – life of the theatre,
right?
Heading
North – unlike everybody else, heading South.
A fish swimming upstream…
I guess all the
9-to-5ers are finishing their days by now.
4:15pm… The
dark, hooded man who always passes out flyers with a snap,
Snap,
Snap
is
extra zealous today.
Every day, without fail – snap,
Snap,
Snap!
Always staring at the
street straight ahead… never looking at the passersby.
One day,
I’ll take a flyer from him – just to see what he does…
4:40pm… I watch
blue sheets tumble round and round at the Laundromat.
They’ll be spread on a KING-SIZE bed
on the stage in 2 hours.
Time passes.
19 minutes left.
A slender woman
wearing headphones opens a running dryer.
“Wait,
wait, wait!”
A young man, who is CLEARLY ready for the
Super Bowl
–goBroncos! –
runs
over.
“OH,
sorry!”
“Oh,
that’s okay.”
“You
got 2 minutes left!”
“You
can have it when I’m done.”
Laughs all around.
That was nice…
15 minutes left.
And I’m craving
a burrito… Maybe I can run over to Chipotle before call…
Time passes.
5 minutes left.
A laughing Hispanic
family folds sheets of their own as my butt freezes on the cold tiled ledge.
TIME’S UP!
Laundry in the
bag.
Stomping out in the cold again.
No time for a burrito.
Damn.
Maybe
tomorrow…
It’s a good show
tonight! Lots of hoots and hollers! Good Friday audience.
Fun night out
afterwards with a friend from summer rep.
It
was one of those classic moments when the theatre world becomes so small.
HSRT @ NYC!! (Flip my non-existent hair.)
Double
performance day tomorrow.
I’ll get a burrito on my dinner
break… Mmm…
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