AsianAmericanIdiot: Day 25: Hurry Up and Wait! (#UticaRocks)

Okay, this year I'm not waiting around for someone to fly in a helicopter... Instead, we have flying gypsies, bomb explosions, couple dozen tv screens, shopping carts, cellist on staircases, and of course "Penelope" our scaffold bus.

TECH!!! For the non-theater folks, this is the week that we finally get to put everything together for the first time. A hundred people running around with very specific jobs to do and trying to make the cogs of the American Idiot machine work without a hitch.

So what does that mean for me as an actor?

1. I sign in. Let people know I'm here (and ready to WERK!)
2. Wait in my dressing room in my cozy new robe (wait til I get my hands on a bedazzler).
3. Get called to stage, put on a costume and get to my place (-ish).
4. A lot happens around me. Lights, sound, set, people. I wait.
5. I wait some more.
6. And then some more.
7. Look around the theater (sigh...). I wonder, "is this my life?"
8. Try on some costumes, get my hair did, y'know.
9. We do a couple little dances, sing a couple songs.
10. Rinse. Repeat.

The professional theater is no joke. The amount of time it takes to mount a show is countless. Especially with the technical demands of American Idiot, I am glad to work with a bunch of freakin' geniuses. It is unbelievably worth it in the end. I cannot wait for our first audience in 4 days! Utica, get ready to have your minds friggin' blow. POW!