2/19/10 – Third Time’s a Charm…Bel Air, MD

After two days in the wonderfully weird city of Dover, we headed back to Maryland for the third time. As we journeyed back to Bel Air, we crossed our fingers, hopeful that our rescheduled performance would not be cancelled due to snow.



Fortunately, the weather gods were smiling on us this time and we were finally able to perform in Maryland. Our performance in Bel Air was at the 908-seat Amoss Center for the Performing Arts at Harford Community College. While we only had one performance at the Amoss Center, the show did have its share of issues: 1) for some strange reason, our load-in took an exceedingly long amount of time, and subsequently, we had less than 30 minutes to prepare both physically and mentally for the show; as a result, everyone’s performance was a little bit off; 2) we had to use the understudies for the second day in a row as Jimmy’s voice still had not returned; and 3) Jess, who plays Bambolona, almost passed out onstage due to extremely low blood sugar. Of course, none of these issues read to the audience (or at least, I would hope that they weren’t obvious to the audience), but they were still detectable by us and unsettling nevertheless.

We ended our Maryland sojourn with a repeat stay at the same, unpleasant motel that we had visited previously. With its noxious rooms reeking of stale cigarettes and its classy beer bottle opener located conveniently above the bathroom toilet, I can only hope that I never have to visit this inn again.

On a brighter note, one of the two newspaper interviews that I did has been published. Check out this article in the Connecticut Post:

http://www.ctpost.com/entertainment/article/Strega-Nona-on-stage-in-Fairfield-367262.php

Next stop – the Patriots Theater in Trenton, NJ. Until the next adventure…

Ciao!
XOXO-
Janine