What a week in New York City! First of all, I was sick as a sick dog. I had this flu/cold/cough thing when we left Cambridge at 8:30am on Tuesday, March 3. Then, as though, the universe was testing me (us), the timing chain in Ron's Cruiser went on the Merritt Parkway in Greenwich, CT - about 60 miles from the Kraine Theater on East 4th in The Village! The car just died. We had to push the car up a hill to a safe spot, because the snow had covered the shoulder and we were sitting in the right lane of the Merritt. Not a safe place to be stuck. That 50 yard push exasperted my cold and wiped me out. Then I called my wife in Cambridge and my friend Jeff in California to get on the web and find us a mechanic in Manhattan to tow the car to. AAA needs an address to tow the car. We found a place on West 29th street in Manhattan. We waited about 45 minutes for the tow truck, the it took 90 minutes to get us to the mechanic in Manhattan. By now it's 3:30pm. Our tech was from 1 to 4 and we open at 6pm! Plus, I haven't eaten! There was no place to get a snack. My cold yearns for food. The plan was to get to Manhattan at noon. Chill, eat, tech, eat, rest, perform... HAH! That plan went up in timing chain smoke! We got to the theater at 4. Teched from 4 to 5:30. Show went up at 6. Great show! When it was all over I felt like death. I have never felt so wrung out in my life. Even hiking the Grand Canyon in one day when I was 18 paled against how tired and sick I felt. I almost passed out. Ron and I went to eat something nearby the theater. When the chicken soup hit my lips at 7:48pm my life jumped and I regained some of my soul. Whew! What a first day at the Frigid.
We performed the show to small, but mighty houses for the next four nights and then came back to Massachusetts on the evening of March 7 at about 12:30am. Monday the 9th we performed a show at Western New England College in Springfield, Mass, to a great crowd of students and faculty. Tomorrow I'm off to San Francisco and we perform the show at the University of California at Stanislaus on Monday in Turlock, CA. Onward and upward. Still have a little cough but am surely on the mend. One good thing that came out of our New York City run was a nice review by NYU. Here it is: http://www.nyunews.com/arts/theater/frigid_shows_offer_a_variety_of_monologues_and_dialogues-1.1605118
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