Friday, November 1, 2013

The Jerks Who Are Making This Shit, Pt. 7

Well, it's almost here -- final dress tonight, previews tomorrow and Sunday, and then we open next Friday! Jesus H., you all, they grow up so fast. Before you know it, we'll be kissing the Porn Room goodbye, except not literally, because gross.

Nah, j/k. We've got plenty of other nasty things to do to the Porn Room before we bid adieu.

There's still a few folks you're waiting to meet, but today I wanna bring it back a notch for the only one of this crew that I feel ever-so-slightly bad about calling a Jerk Who Is Making This Shit. Michelle Carlene Roth, our all-star stage manager, kinda sorta got roped into this gig by a half-lie on my part. "Super-easy gig," I said, "the only thing you really have to do is make sure everyone's alive!" And, technically, that's not wrong. Except I left out the part where Michelle also has to put up with the theatrical equivalent of seven (eight if you count me) toddlers eating their way out of a pile of Pixy Stix. Or the part where 'make sure everyone's alive' isn't necessarily the cakewalk you'd think. Or the part about The Basement. The other day, during a particularly hectic rehearsal (...the one where the cast discovered fire...), I mentioned that I felt like Kindergarten Cop. Michelle signed up for a full run as Kindergarten Cop. God bless her.

BUT! She also gets to be 100% in charge of the dance break. So don't try and tell me there aren't perks.

YOU MAY REMEMBER HER AS A DANCING OSTRICH! NOW SEE HER AS ONE OF ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER'S LESSER ROLES:


Michelle Carlene Roth aka Dear God, How Does She Do It? aka Michelle Carlene Roth!

Bio: Michael Carl clean rooms, modern and contemporary theater Chicago Theatre Chicago, stroke, heart disease, and Mitchell, South Dakota, Asia, and the number of games bovavo mud volcano Prometheus credit increase. Center towers (ACE), the Pacific, see

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