FALLING FOR EVE Blog: We're no angels...
By: Robert Diamond Jul. 26, 2010
The York Theatre Company is presenting te World Premiere of FALLING FOR EVE, a new musical with book by two-time Tony Award-nominee (and recent two-time Outer Critics Circle Award-winner) Joe DiPietro (MEMPHIS), music by Bret Simmons ('The Megan Mullally Show') and lyrics by David Howard ('Galaxy Quest').
The cast of Falling for Eve features Jennifer Blood (LIKE YOU LIKE IT at the Gallery Players) Krystal Joy Brown (HAIR),Nehal Joshi (LES MISERABLES), Adam Kantor (NEXT TO NORMAL, RENT), Jose Llana (SPELLING BEE, FLOWER DRUM SONG) and Sasha Sloan (RAGTIME, The Kennedy Center).
Please visit www.yorktheatre.org for complete performance schedule.
In this new BWW blog, the cast and creative team will take you behind the scenes of this new production!
FALLING FOR EVE BLOG by Jennifer Blood
Well, maybe we are. And maybe you are too. I used to like to consider a lot of the crazy people who stopped to talk to me in the street my guardian angels. Some drunk guy would walk up to me and tell me to follow my dreams: guardian angel. That was when I first got to New York. I was younger then (cough, cough, smoke, smoke.) And yet, I do feel quite lucky (shall I use the word blessed?) to go out on stage and work with these lovely and talented people on Falling for Eve every night. I also love getting to talk to the audience. Especially when they are smiling and look like they are ready for a good time. That's right, y'all: I can see your faces. That's also right, friends and family: Please sit in the fourth row or further back.
It ain't easy bein' an angel.
CHALLENGE NUMBER 1: I wear white which means I can't eat in my costume, and yet I manage to make it dirty fairly frequently. It's quite something the way I can accidentally wipe my lips on my pants.
CHALLENGE NUMBER 2: The cast is pretty much busy the whole show, so we have no time for bathroom breaks! There is almost enough time during Jose's song Eve, but because I am literally tied into the pants and cummerbund, it's a no-go (which, on some nights, is very difficult.)
We had this flip cam for a while where we took fun videos backstage and I wanted to do a bathroom interview, where I would surprise people in the bathrooms and interview them about the show.
Hmmmm, I wonder if that's why I haven't seen the camera in awhile... I digress.
CHALLENGE NUMBER 3: Not bumping into the set. Yes, friends, this is a challenge for me in most shows, but for some reason, I seem to be accumulating quite a few bruises working on this piece.
Let's be honest though: it makes me feel tough.
Nehal Joshi and I are the narrators of the show, and also characters in it. We got a great compliment from an audience member last weekend who told us until my line late in the show "we're just the narrators" he had completely forgotten that we were narrators. I think that's something every piece with a narrator tries to do somehow (incorporate them into the story and into the audience's hearts) but it isn't easily done, or always successful. Sooooo...go, go, go Joe! (DiPietro, the book writer)
Golly are those all the challenges?
I guess now I will have to talk about Paul. Paul is our ASM. He is super cute and super cool and he has nice shoes. Plus he is funny.
Y'all, someone sent me flowers from my imaginary boyfriend Jake. Was it you? Fess Up!
I guess not too many fish live at the York. Good thing I saw these backstage, cause we could kinda use a cast pet.
Look at those beautiful ladies putting on their lipstick. This is totally candid.
Nehal, our dance captain, stretching it out (and sporting an injury from that darn platform). Note the hat.
Adam in his panties! You gotsta come to the show to see Jose in his. I wonder if they knew I was gonna post these heh heh heh.
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