Hey whoever reads this blog- Thank you. The NYC production is over BUT I AM STILL BLOGGING. Keep coming back. I ain’t done yet. I have a few more stories, more cool pictures to post. (Still working on continuing the blog on www.margagomez.com)
BUT now that our NYC run is over I can tell you what I really think.
Honestly I have a little post partum unemployment blues but I’ll bounce back. Sunday night, May 14th the closing show was not easy. A dreaded acquaintence sat in the front row. Though he means well, he is known among us peformers as the SHOW DOOMER for his heckling, shrieking ahead of punchlines and yelling out shit like he’s in the show.
Now I love and adore the sound of human laughter but this fellow creates a constant earpiercing, grating mix of prehistoric-creature hysteria, and car alarm which weirds out the audience, and kills the vibe to the point that this guy is all you hear besides me. And sometimes you just hear him. I tried to squelch him with a joke or with a glare. But he was unstoppable in his delusion that his squawking was helping the show or people liked him. Folks if you are ever sitting next to someone like this who is distracting you from the show you paid to see why not roll your program into a tube and jam it down his gullet- so he can still breathe while sufficiently muffled. I’d have done it myself but couldn’t reach him.
Anyways I must admit somehow people in attendance had a good time sent me sweet emails and showed up at my dressing room. I said hello to many good folks in the narow hallway of my disheveled dressing room. One slight gaffe- I tripped and fell against a woman cupping her breasts acccidentally for balance. Sometimes Vertigo works in my favor.
Saturday before closing was a much better day. Our crew arranged a potluck at a park near by. Here is my crew- the ladies and dudes who made this engagement a wonderful family experience.
Left to right: Tony our sound guy and DJ, Scott the stage manager and backbone of the show calling our hundreds of sound and light cues. Hunter the lighting guy. That's the wardrobe and jellyfish wrangler Joanna siting next to me. Joanna knows a lot about a lot of things. Soon she'll be going to a fancy nursing school to help people. What, and give up Show biz??
Look at these two hotties Tony and Hunter- their demo CD is off the chain YO!! Check it on www.myspace.com/greyhoundmusic

Last but not least- Me with our Front of house team, Ramirez, Joseph and (Maria and Tanya- not pictured). Mysterious and always bien chevere.

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Hi Marga,
I have been following your blog from SF since you left for NYC and just want to congratulate you on what sounded like a great run of your show there. I am so happy for you–to be able to perform in New York (any entertainer’s dream) and so close to your roots, plus great audiences and possible awards!
I can’t imagine how you do it–performing 8 shows a week, feeling up or down, vertigo or not, nut cases in the audience, etc.
Again, congratulations!! Hope you are getting a little rest and mayble later take the show on the road.
Betty
ps Love to treat you to a Peet’s coffee when you return to The City (the one on the westcoast).
By Betty Traynor on 05.19.06 10:18 pm | Permalink
Hey Betty,
It wasn’t always easy but I knew that I had a once in a lifetime opportunity. Before every show I remembered how blessed I was. And I miss it already.
Maybe a Peet’s decaf when I’m back- apperently caffeine might not be good for me. But I do love it.
Thanks
Marga
By Marga on 05.19.06 11:56 pm | Permalink
hey homie-
duuuuuude next time I hit yer show up and that cackle-master is there, i’m going to ….%$#@$.
great photos of you!
(Marga censored what her friend Raquel Evita was really going to do because, although justified, it was a bit too outrageous for a family blog like this one. But Cackle-Master be warned!)
By Raquel Evita (me conoces) ;) on 05.26.06 12:22 pm | Permalink
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