We must be GOOD!

My apologies for the lack of posting…lots of farming and rehearsing going on around here.

And speaking of rehearsing…

On Tuesday night I had rehearsal for Born Yesterday in Kirtland, a small, very-affluent town about 35 miles away. The rehearsal was at the home of the director. She has a very spacious deck on the backside of the house which overlooks a ravine. It’s all old-growth trees and no other houses visible…a very nice setting.

Anyway, for anyone not familiar with the play, the story is about a brutish thug who comes to Washington to fix some government regulations to his liking. He brings his beautiful-but-crude girlfriend with him. He pays a newspaper reporter to teach her better manners. She falls in love with the reporter and leaves the thug, taking enough evidence to put him away for life. There’s a lot of arguing, drinking and even some physical altercations.

So…we were rehearsing Tuesday and saw a cop sneaking around the side of the deck, hand on sidearm. Then came another, right behind. Out front of the house, there were suddenly three police cars, six cops and our costumer said she met the Kirtland Chief of Police at the door. It seems some invisible neighbors nearly half a mile away had heard the rehearsal ruckus, jumped to conclusions, and assumed drunken debauchery was afoot.

“We got a report of a drunken party and someone beating some woman,” the cop said, doing his best to maintain his coppish air of seriousness. We laughed our butts off. Her wouldn’t believe us, though, until we showed him the scripts and he even checked the IDs of two of the actors.

It must have been the biggest crime of the last 50 years in Kirtland. Thinking about it later, we were glad the cops showed up when they did, because moments earlier we’d been running through the scene where the thug tries to strangle the reporter. Getting an actor Tasered or handcuffed would certainly have put a damper on things.