On: What is Said (Circle Mirror Tech - Day 1)

Here it is: my blog subject for the next six days! What is Said.

I came to this topic partly from a suggestion from Maria, "dinner break conversations," and partly from today's happenings. I got to the theater at 11:15a, to prep for a 6:00p tech. I was nervous, worried, tied in knots. I felt myself unwind little bit by little bit as we tech-ed and I saw that all my prep was paying off.

My first big laugh of the night was when Beth (playing Marty) walked from the SL hallway to the US portion of backstage and, in the dark, approached one of our masking curtains. I watched her approach and, as she bumped it, she turned to and said (very seriously): "Pardon me, Olivia. Didn't see you there."
When I started laughing from another direction, she started laughing too. And then spent the rest of the night calling me "Black Velvet Curtain" or "BVC" or just "Black Velvet."

So, for tonight, among all the snappy, inspiring, silly, sincere and stressed out things that were said on the Alder Stage at Artists Rep, I choose this one.

And now I informally go by Black Velvet.