IT'S TIME!

Holy shit. "The time has come", The walrus said.

No more rehearsals left. Opening night, is tomorrow.

Are we ready? Can we do this? Is MEDICINE HAT ready? Are we going to be applauded? Brushed off? Branded and flogged?

Although I do have to say, we had 4 dress rehearsals in total. 3 of which we ran with the blood formula. I thought it was important to do so, so that we know where the splatter was going, how much of a chore it was going to be to clean, and if the costumes were going to take the abuse we were about to put them through. Am I ever glad that we did!! It got gorier and messier each night, and we learned from our mistakes. For example, we have now perfected the art of making blood packs, and discovered the sheer awesomeness that urine bags, ketchup bottles and syringes can provide!

So, I decided that to be fair, I would sit in the front row of the splatterzone so as to be a part of the bloodshed. Not only so that I could personally place myself in the audience's sticky shoes, but to give my dear cast members a taste of revenge for putting them through all of this! And they got me back. Boy, did they ever. In fact, at one point, I had an entire dismantled sprayer dumped on my head. I was sticky, I was wet, I was cold, I was red, it was in my eyes, my mouth, my hair, between my toes, in my butt crack.... and I LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT!!! TOTALLY worth the extra $6 to sit there!! The Splatterzone is in for the interactive treat of their lives!

I've also been busy with more promo interviews! We have every radio station in our city talking about us (with the exception of the Christian station... go figure!), not to mention a province-wide radio station, newspapers covering our city and the rural areas surrounding it, both local television channels are doing multiple segments for us... We have certainly created one helluva buzz around this conservative community!! Of course, with all of the coverage and excitement surrounding it, comes added pressure that if we're gonna do this, we had better make it bloody good! I have all the confidence in the world that I have a kick-ass show ready to rock Medicine Hat.

I get the feeling that I will not be getting much sleep tonight. We have a night off before opening night, but of course, in my world, "night off" means heading to the CTAC to tie up loose ends, paint the stage floor, prep the actors' clean-up area, clean the 'dressing room' and sort out what we will be doing for more splatterzone prep. No rest for the Evil Dead!