My stint as Ethel P. Savage--Otherwise Known as Living as a Blue-haired Actress
I haven't written much. Why? Because I have been focusing on someone else's words--John Patrick's most particularly. I was cast as the lead, Ethel P Savage in The Curious Savage . Now, being in a play isn't new to me. I've been in tons of them in the last five years or so. Being the lead, however, is huge. I have avoided getting leads for many reasons. There aren't that many roles for women of my--ahem--maturity. But I have had serious concerns about learning a lot of lines. Here's what happened with this play. A friend of mine told the director about me because they needed someone who was--mature. (I don't really mind the word old but mature is funnier because I often don't feel old or mature!) I emailed the director and began telling him why I couldn't be in his play--before I even auditioned. My reasons: It's far away, relatively speaking, and Jan and Feb can have some wicked snow. (As it turns out, we had one difficult snow trav