So, yesterday, or was it 2 days ago? I don’t know, I don’t understand time changes.
At a certain point in the recent past I departed Los Angeles, to spend what promises to be an incredible month in Edinburgh Scotland.
For those who do not know, I was cast last minute in the new show Lovelace: A Rock Opera written by Anna Waronker and Charlotte Caffey (two amazingly talented and ridiculously sweet women), and the show is making its international debut this week in Scotland at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and I am stupidly and ridiculously grateful and excited to be a part of it.
Now, I’m new to a cast who have been working to bring the show to life for 3 years or so, and coming in as a last minute replacement, less than a month before the show opens, with only 5 rehearsals means that in rehearsal, you don’t really have time to socialize or get to know anyone, you are spending all of your down time, reviewing blocking and lyrics and figuring out what the hell is happening in general. SO the first real social time I had with any of the cast was on the 10 hour flight to Heathrow.
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Twas Amazing.
There are 4 women in the cast, sadly Jill was not with us, she flew in on a later flight, but the three of us were all seated together, which was great. We also had Robert, our flight attendant, who was HIGH ON LIFE (or possibly speed) and really wanted us to try all of the delicious wines that New Zealand has to offer…
GO TIME.
After a few glasses, and lunch, Katrina (who plays Linda Lovelace in our show) dropped a bomb that would rock the whole plane…”I have a dolphin, and we’re going to need to take pictures of him.”
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Me. “I’m sorry, I thought you just said you have a dolphin?”
Katrina. “His name is Rolph, he speaks with a latin accent”
Me and Rachel “________”
She then pulls him out, NOW, some might call Rolph a 2 dollar hand puppet from the clearance rack at Ikea; but I call him a friend.
Isn’t he beautiful?
What a smile!
(He was thirsty)
(he imprinted on Rachel… jealous much!)
We then needed a group picture with Rolph to commemorate our time together
We didn’t think our flight attendant Robert saw him, but then he said in his adorable Kiwi accent
“ye, put the shawk up a beet higha there” (that’s me speaking New Zealandish if you didn’t know)
The point is, even though I never got a Bloody Mary, and even though I couldn’t get through Hottub Time Machine because it was all glitchy on my screen,
I met Rolph.
And he changed my life.
and much less important, the girls, I’m sorry, Women, in my cast are amazing, I had SO MUCH FUN with them on the flight,
there is nothing to make or break a relationship like shitting together on a ten hour flight (I’m sorry, I just realized that I accidentally typed “shitting” instead of “sitting” but it seems really wrong to change it at this point)
We went through it on the flight, we laughed, we cried (mostly because we were laughing so hard), we drank wine.
Katrina said “Tuesday” and stared in the distance (thats annoying cause its an inside joke that I would have to explain and then it would make it not funny, when it truth it was REEALLY funny…Okay here’s what it was, I asked Katrina “whats our day off” because we only have one in the month that we are here, and she gazed upon me with a look of pure focus and said…”Tuesday.” And I looked at her with the same level of focus and nodded, then she nodded, then I nodded and about 4o seconds into this, she say’s ” the 17th” !!!!! LO freakin L right….right…no…okay see you had to be there, me I’m having a hard time typing right now because I’m laughing so hard just thinking about it. IF YOU DON’T WANT TO HEAR MY LAME STORIES THEN DON’T PRESSURE ME LIKE THAT)
It was great, got here and found an amazing Thai restaurant where the deliriously exhausted group of us ate (I of course had a burger and a beer, it was so good and only 5 bucks!) next time though I’ll probably try something Thai because it all smelled amazing.
Its beautiful here.
I already don’t want to leave.
aaaaaahhhhhH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
more details to come I hope.
