{"id":10215,"date":"2006-05-16T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2006\/05\/16\/10215.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:54:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:54:51","slug":"marvelous-marvelous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2006\/05\/16\/marvelous-marvelous\/","title":{"rendered":"marvelous, marvelous"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The show has gone quite well. We aren&#8217;t a big hit, at least in the ticket-selling sense, but the people who have come have seemed quite appreciative. And, this being a small town, many of the people who have seen the show have subsequently seen Your Humble Blogger in daylight and stopped to say &#8220;I saw you in the play...&#8221;\n<p>So. Because it is evidently needed (although not by my Gentle Readers, I&#8217;m sure), here&#8217;s a little remedial information on What to Say to somebody who you do not know, or have only a nodding acquaintance with, after you have seen them in a small community-theater play.\nAlways Good:\n<ul><li>We had a great time.<\/li>\n<li>You looked great in those costumes!<\/li>\n<li>What are you doing next?<\/li>\n<li>We told all our friends to go (if the show is still running, otherwise &#8216;all our friends went and loved it, too&#8217;)<\/li>\n<li>Isn&#8217;t [director] wonderful? I like every show she does<\/li><\/ul>\nNot actually as good as it seems, so avoid saying, unless you are actually friends with the cast member and having a nice chat:\n<ul><li>How do you memorize all those lines?<\/li>\n<li>You really carried the show (or &#8216;You and [another cast member] carried the show)<\/li>\n<li>I liked everyone except [cast member]<\/li><\/ul>\nUnless we are old friends or have actually been in a show together, do not say:\n<ul><li>Wasn&#8217;t Act One awfully long?<\/li>\n<li>I thought [cast member] was miscast<\/li>\n<li>What was up with [that thing]?<\/li><\/ul>\n<p>Note, by the way, that if we <I>are<\/I> old friends, and particularly if we&#8217;ve been in a show together, then I would love to sit down and have a nice, bitchy talk about how unbe<I>liev<\/I>ably long Act One is, and whether so-and-so was right for the part, and how that thing was a good idea but somehow didn&#8217;t work, and I don&#8217;t know why. But if I don&#8217;t know you from Adam, I do not want to have that conversation with you, and you really don&#8217;t want to have it with me, either, now, do you?\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Acquaintance gives a lesson in handling a temperamental beast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theeyater"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17754,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10215\/revisions\/17754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}