{"id":84,"date":"2007-11-12T14:23:20","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T20:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/12\/bombshell-me-ok\/"},"modified":"2009-09-01T09:26:24","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T15:26:24","slug":"bombshell-me-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/12\/bombshell-me-ok\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombshell? Me?? OK."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the middle of rehearsals for The Man Who Came to Dinner at the WCT. I got cast as Lorraine Sheldon, bombshell. The thought still makes me giggle, because I <em>so<\/em> don&#8217;t think of myself as the bombshell type. I wasn&#8217;t actually up for the part originally. The director only had one person read for it the night that I auditioned; but when she got up there and started to read (in the same normal voice she had used for all her other readings), I happened to glance at the director and saw her shuffling her papers, shaking her head and muttering to herself in reaction. Well, based on the description she&#8217;d given us of the character and the fact that her first word in that scene was &#8220;Darling&#8221; I had a decent idea of what she was looking for, in the voice, at least. So at the end of the night, when she asked if anyone had wanted to read for a part and hadn&#8217;t gotten to, I raised my hand and asked to read for Lorraine. The producer told me later that the director cast me in the part as soon as I started reading. It&#8217;s been a fun show, quite apart from playing a vamp, because Tredessa&#8217;s in it too (as the female romantic lead), and it&#8217;s always fun to play with her! Plus in this show we play rivals, so even more fun.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m working on two projects at <a href=\"http:\/\/librivox.org\" target=\"_blank\">LibriVox<\/a> right now; I&#8217;m still working on Pride and Prejudice (on the sly, so to speak). I&#8217;m more than two thirds of the way through it. And for my &#8220;public&#8221; project I finally decided on a compilation of short stories by Pedro Antonio de Alarc\u00c3\u00b3n. I have one left to go, and it&#8217;s the longest in the bunch, so I&#8217;ve broken it into three sections, to keep the file sizes manageable. I&#8217;m thinking of going back for more Scarlet Pimpernel after this; specifically, the Elusive Pimpernel, which is the book that comes between the two I&#8217;ve already done. My output has dropped lately, though, as I&#8217;m spending my evenings at the theatre and can only record on the weekends.<\/p>\n<p>I went out to CHS with MB last Saturday to see Mandy&#8217;s production of Seussical. It was fun to compare similarities and differences in the costumes, because Mandy costumed the production we did at the WCT a few years ago. It was lots of fun, anyway. And Mandy played Mayzie; I&#8217;d always wondered how she would have played the part if she&#8217;d auditioned for our production (because I&#8217;m pretty darned sure she&#8217;d have gotten that part), and it was fun getting to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the middle of rehearsals for The Man Who Came to Dinner at the WCT. I got cast as Lorraine Sheldon, bombshell. The thought still makes me giggle, because I so don&#8217;t think of myself as the bombshell type. I wasn&#8217;t actually up for the part originally. 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