Went to IO last night with Tracy to see her friend Laura.
I thought it was a Harold show, but it was not…it was something called “Slugfest”. From what I understand, it’s two people doing…well…whatever. I guess it can be standup, performance art, or whatnot.
The first performer was Michael Perry…this was the show that Laura was in. He did a kind of multimedia sketch comedy thing – she played the author of The Vagina Monologues that he was auditioning with, complete with a vagina sock puppet. That was pretty funny.
The second performer was Susan Barrett. She did an amazing one-woman show…first, it was incredibly clever. Second, she had the most dynamically comedic face I’ve seen in a long time. And a wonderful committment to the comedy. She tooks risks, owned them, and that brought the audience to her side.
I sat there, stunned, at the end. I turned to Tracy and said “Dammit, I wish I was casting a project right now!” and she said “I knew it! I was watching and I thought ‘I bet Matt wants to cast her’.”
So the lessons learned:
1) Always carry business cards
2) Always have a project
I had neither, so I didn’t talk to her. But I got her name. Hopefully Dallas will write something we could use her for. And if so, hopefully she’d be interested in discussing hitching her wagon to our star for a few days.