Summer hiatus is nearly over. Rehearsals and pre-production is coming to an end. The usual nervousness and predictions of a terrible season are revving up. As usual, the Phenom is suffering anxiety and dread.
Every time a new production run starts, the Phenom tries to beg out of it. Some sort of performance anxiety that never abates. Most years, the Phenom begs me to apply a pillow firmly over the face prior to the first night run. Most years, I disappoint.
Having given up on the "calling in dead" option, this year, the Phenom is bucking for an insanity plea. All afternoon, the Phenom has been dancing around the house insisting that he is, in fact "happy, the forgotten dwarf." He has come up with a full story line about being written out of the disney version and robbed of his true place in animation history. Until, I informed him that there was a "happy" in the disney version of Snow White.
So now, he's claiming that Happy stole his identity and thus his fortune and that he is now suffering post traumatic stress and can't possibly be expected to perform.
I offered to have him involuntarily committed, next week . . . after opening night . . . and too late for his purposes again.
Be warned, in the future, if you see some man dancing around your street corner, insisting he's Giddy, the forgotten dwarf . . . just ignore him.
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