On and off stage at Cyrano De Bergerac
We love Baylen Thomas. Especially when he came back as the Marquis de Cuigy. In Act 2 he came in and shouted the wrong line. “The chair and Porters!” Then he stops and stays still for a bit, and shakes his hands and says “A message from De Guiche” It was probably one of the funniest moments on stage I’ve ever been a part of. We all were laughing hysterically. What was hard is that it was a time in the show when we all are supposed to be serious. It was so funny. Nobody could look at anyone. Poor Baylen. He got ribbed so much but was a good sport about it. He said he couldn’t remember De Guiche’s name! So with Baylen back in the Marquis role, we had Daniel Sunjata back, it was good to have the cast back together again. 
The fog seems to want a role in this show. Sometimes it is too much, other times it is too little, sometimes too high, and sometimes not on stage enough. It’s definitly been interested in having a say. Yesterday, the fog blew up in Jennifer Garner’s face when she was looking out in to the battlefield. Not just a little bit of smoke, an absurd amount, poofed into her face at a very dramatic moment. We all had a giggle offstage watching her try to negotiate the dramatics as well as the smoke.In my first scene as Valvert, Jennifer is insistant that we are here to watch O-KLA-HO-MA. Chris Saranadon always asks her what are we watching today and she tells him a different play everyday. We’ve gotten August:Osage County, Ibsen, Moliere, and a few others…but Oklahoma came back today. Meanwhile Kevin was warming up to Chubby Checker’s “Twist”, warming up like it was a piece of literature from an Edith Skinner book. He was even correcting the lyrics..”Let’s twist again, like we did last summer!”(in a “Shakespearean voice”) Then he says “Chubby!, it’s AS not LIKE!” Sooo funny. He was using it as a vocal warm up. 
