Opening Weekend, Come & Gone

I have now performed in two shows. Man! Was it a lot of fun! Highlights included:

- Amber “killing” her puppet on Friday night by dropping it on the floor and leaving the stage.
- My puppet giving Amber’s puppet mouth to mouth.
- THE Santa Clara University
- Singing “There is no Santa Clara” when everyone expected me to sing “There is no Santa Clause”
- Amber “Don’t tell me you trusted him to hire the preacher!”
- Dave saying he’d raised my character from an egg.
- The slow motion home run trot.
- Reincorporating Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Knowing the second Dave brought me on stage that we’d time jumped to his wedding without him having to tell me.
- Dave pimping my character to have a complaint at the police department.
- Amy asking Tim’s puppet to use puppets in their therapy session.
- Hidalgo

Mostly I played two characters. I played Tim, a puppet, on Friday night. He was a young kid trying to get the attention of his single dad. Saturday I played Johnny, Thor’s somewhat dim-witted right-hand man. They were both loads of fun.

Here’s a brief summary of the two shows:
Friday: Promises, Promises
Tim (puppet performed by Alan) needs a new coach for his t-ball team. Tim’s father Vince (Dave) needs more time in the day to be a single parent. Debbie (puppet performed by Amy) needs to take her mind off her ex, Steve (Zack). Together they find not all promises are made to be broken.

Saturday: Never Enough
When Thor (puppet performed by Tim) decides to capitalize on global warming by hording bottled water, he soon finds himself in jail robbed of everything he held dear. Soon he discovers all he really wanted was the respect of his girlfriend Debbie (puppet performed by Amber) and the love of his long lost brother Hidalgo (puppet performed by Clay)