Dakota

Last night, I played Riff Raff with Magenta. It was an entirely new scenario that Genevieve had never had in our friendship, but I think it went over very well. Throughout the show, however, I had a horrible time staying in character, and I chock that up to the audience being quiet as sickly mice and me not being very convincingly bitter towards Katie, who was Frank.

Katie debuted as Frank, as her bow-out. It is sad to see her go. It's always very strange to see people that are side by side with me on cast who have other things going on and suddenly it doesn't involve Rocky Horror, and especially me seeing them every week. But I like to consider Katie's leaving a retirement rather than a quitting, in the same vein as Chad or Gamsby.

I first performed with Katie when she played Janet. I remember her audition; it was the last in the Screening Zone. She was one of the last 5 performers to have _started_ their Rocky Horror "career" at the Screening Zone (Liz and Sarah also debuted with HOH in the Zone, but they were transfers from other casts). Boggles my head something fierce. As it is, the way cast breaks down, we have 23 castmembers. 11 of those castmembers are since we moved to the Bellevue. Only 5 pre-date me as a castmember. Faith and bejabbers.

Note: the following paragraph has really nothing to do with Katie, but I started writing, and felt the need to finish it, even if it's an incomplete thought, and out of nowhere.( Read more... )

All the same, I wish Katie that best in her thespionic toils. But there's no point in saying goodbye. I can't think of a single castmember that left that I never saw again, and those include people I never really intended to see again. I love Katie. No worries.