Our labor of love "Anything to Declare" had the first staged reading Monday, Jan. 25th. The performance was for many of us, our first time on a stage in New York, plus it was a piece we'd conceived and written ourselves. The audience received it, responded to it and applauded it, but I was so connected to the actors I was sharing the stage with that it could have been an empty house and it would have felt successful!
We enjoyed the rest of the evening, receiving encouragement to continue to develop the piece and more importantly we raised good money for Samoa, which was the point of the entire evening. A night when 8 young actors display work that they created together to raise support for someone/something they do not possess the means to support themselves... that is a great night for any artist.
I realized the euphoria of performing, then almost immediately following, the anxiety of trying to get the next thing. I couldn't stay out with the cast too late enjoying our success because the following day I had an audition for a regional theatre. Its that constant struggle to get those moments on stage and if they weren't so richly fulfilling, it'd be impossible to be in this business.
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Just happened to be noodling around on the computer and caught your latest.... Well said, and so understandable. Too bad there were not follow-up performances of "Anything to Declare."
BUT, there will be other days.
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