The Play Begins...

So the play that Ive spent the past month training for opened this weekend. As I was only able to make it to half of the practices (and none of the ones on location) the director didn't quite feel comfortable with letting me open with the first show until I had seen the whole thing.

As such, on opening night, I was given audience seats to see it from their eyes, ( but I couldn't make it there until after the opening scene which Im in) and on Sat. Afternoon, I had a chance to watch it from backstage. With that, I started with the saturday night show. The most complex part is by far the opening scene in which I have to alternate between a security guard and a ninja 2x each, and complete two seperate sword fighting sequences with completely different entrances and exits ... And make the transition (including changing costume in the dark) in 10 seconds flat.

Just to get the costume chance process down to under 10 sec. I had to practice for about two hours. It was the first time in my life that Ive had to develop a systematic and hyper-efficient way of changing clothes. This is definately a different world than working in front of the camera. But Ive grown comfortable with it ....and I love it. I'm really looking forward to doing stage performances more often from now on. Another cool thing about this play is that every one has a guest appearance from a different old school Japanese rocker. I've met three so far, and even had the chance to drink with one of them. All very cool and down to earth people. Thats something I really truly admire about Japanese entertainers.