Crazy Lady Saturday
We had a CRAZY DAY at Olney on Saturday. It all started in the afternoon show with a crazy lady who... well... below are excepts from the performance reports that day.
Now this will make more sense if you have seen the show... but for those who havent... we break the fourth wall and in the fourth act the action takes place in the audience.
FROM THE MATINEE...
Acts 1-3 were fantastic. Nothing out of the ordinary… good house and great performances… then comes ACT THE FOURTH!!! It started out like a regular act four, a few women in the balcony said something about not wanting a chairman so Jeffries said, “Well, this woman is with me and demands a chairman!” It was fun and we all thought “This is gonna be a great act.” Little did we know… When the Mayor started his speech at the top of the act a fiery red headed woman in the third row started yelling, “Mr. Mayor! Mr. Mayor! Let the Doctor speak.” Jim tried to calm her down for a while but she kept carrying on about wanting to hear what the doctor has to say and how this was not the Mayors meeting. Nothing was working. At one point she said, “Mr. Mayor we paid good money to hear the doctor speak!” to which Slaughter replied, “Well if you don’t hear him speak you can get your money back.” She was still not satisfied. The Mayor even said to the Doctor, “You’re a doctor, can’t you give her a pill?” and from the audience came, “No! Give the Mayor a sedative.” Eventually Chris was able to convince her (after some hard work) that if she let the Mayor speak he would be allowed to say his peace. It was truly unbelievable. The rest of the cast scattered throughout the house did a fantastic job of holding it together but we were all DYING!!! Thanks to the leadership of this woman the entire audience was on the side of the doctor and there was a great deal of hissing when the vote was “counted.” Needless to say she was the “clearly intoxicated woman.” A different woman jumped in when the Mayor started protesting the “personal allusions.” She told the Mayor to let the doctor speak to which he replied, “He’s been ‘speaking’ for twenty minutes!”
FROM THE EVENING SHOW...
ACT THE FOURTH PART TWO: NOT AGAIN- There was a gentleman in the front row with a whole side act planned. He had a bottle of water “from the town’s spring” that he wanted the Mayor to drink if he was that confident in the fallacy of Dr. Stockmann’s report. Both Jim and Chris handled the situation very well and at one point the Doctor even said to the Mayor who was willing to drink the bottle, “As much as I would enjoy the outcome, I cant let you drink that Peter.”
Now this will make more sense if you have seen the show... but for those who havent... we break the fourth wall and in the fourth act the action takes place in the audience.
FROM THE MATINEE...
Acts 1-3 were fantastic. Nothing out of the ordinary… good house and great performances… then comes ACT THE FOURTH!!! It started out like a regular act four, a few women in the balcony said something about not wanting a chairman so Jeffries said, “Well, this woman is with me and demands a chairman!” It was fun and we all thought “This is gonna be a great act.” Little did we know… When the Mayor started his speech at the top of the act a fiery red headed woman in the third row started yelling, “Mr. Mayor! Mr. Mayor! Let the Doctor speak.” Jim tried to calm her down for a while but she kept carrying on about wanting to hear what the doctor has to say and how this was not the Mayors meeting. Nothing was working. At one point she said, “Mr. Mayor we paid good money to hear the doctor speak!” to which Slaughter replied, “Well if you don’t hear him speak you can get your money back.” She was still not satisfied. The Mayor even said to the Doctor, “You’re a doctor, can’t you give her a pill?” and from the audience came, “No! Give the Mayor a sedative.” Eventually Chris was able to convince her (after some hard work) that if she let the Mayor speak he would be allowed to say his peace. It was truly unbelievable. The rest of the cast scattered throughout the house did a fantastic job of holding it together but we were all DYING!!! Thanks to the leadership of this woman the entire audience was on the side of the doctor and there was a great deal of hissing when the vote was “counted.” Needless to say she was the “clearly intoxicated woman.” A different woman jumped in when the Mayor started protesting the “personal allusions.” She told the Mayor to let the doctor speak to which he replied, “He’s been ‘speaking’ for twenty minutes!”
FROM THE EVENING SHOW...
ACT THE FOURTH PART TWO: NOT AGAIN- There was a gentleman in the front row with a whole side act planned. He had a bottle of water “from the town’s spring” that he wanted the Mayor to drink if he was that confident in the fallacy of Dr. Stockmann’s report. Both Jim and Chris handled the situation very well and at one point the Doctor even said to the Mayor who was willing to drink the bottle, “As much as I would enjoy the outcome, I cant let you drink that Peter.”
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