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kevin_standleeDuring the introduction to Thanks for Playing the Game Show Show there was a promotion for another show called Ric Iverson is Alive and Well and Living in Milpitas. Ric was the actor who portrayed "Tripp MacMurray," the game show announcer. He and I had spoken a few times and got along well. (He remembers me as "Microphone Guy" because of my loan of the ECM-51A "Match Game" microphone during the initial "workshop" stage of the first run of Game Show Show.) This is a completely different show: it's a one-man autobiographical show where Ric sings and talks about his life (see the link for a sample). It's very open and touching and difficult at times. It turns out that he and I are about four years apart in age, and there bits of his story that I could relate to from my life (but perhaps with less drama in mine). So I worked out a way to come down and see this show.
Ric said when he was warming up that it was okay to take photos, so I did so.
I took this photo before the show began. The Cabaret is a small, intimate space. Indeed, I felt slightly like an outsider, as it seemed that nearly everyone else in the theatre was a friend of Ric's a member of his family (his husband was sitting right behind me), or a colleague (several members of the cast of Game Show Show were there). But I am at a lesser extend in that group of acquaintances. Back during the first run of Game Show Show, when I came back to a subsequent performance, Ric told me that he'd looked at my review of the show, and on yet another performance (I ended up seeing it seven times during its first run) he jokingly called himself "my stalker."
After the show, he hung around for a little while talking to people including me before he needed to leave and rescue his car from the parking garage, as he put it. I thanked him again, and he did remember when he did a very brief out of character (microphones off) chat with me on stage during that final performance of Game Show Show. I had a good time. There are two more performances left as I write this (next Friday and Saturday). It's not for everyone, but I'm glad I made the trip. As I said to Lily Guggenheim as I was leaving, "I didn't bother going after any of the show discounts. I went ahead and spent all this money to drive from Nevada and spend two nights in a hotel to see this show. I might as well go ahead and pay full price for the ticket!"
After the show, I briefly walked through the downtown San Jose Night Market and bought some extra food to take back to the hotel room. Earlier today, I took light rail downtown and bought too much food from The City Fish again, but did manage to restrain myself and only eat half of it so I'd have the rest for dinner tonight.
Tomorrow I need to slog my way back home. While I did consider taking US-50 to avoid the emergency construction on I-80, it turns out that there's road work on US-50 as well, so I'm stuck and just need to suck it up and live with the delays.
I hope I manage to make it back down here for at least one of the other 3Below productions happening later this year, but it will be challenging due to my policy of avoiding the Sierra Nevada crossings during winter weather.
Ric said when he was warming up that it was okay to take photos, so I did so.
I took this photo before the show began. The Cabaret is a small, intimate space. Indeed, I felt slightly like an outsider, as it seemed that nearly everyone else in the theatre was a friend of Ric's a member of his family (his husband was sitting right behind me), or a colleague (several members of the cast of Game Show Show were there). But I am at a lesser extend in that group of acquaintances. Back during the first run of Game Show Show, when I came back to a subsequent performance, Ric told me that he'd looked at my review of the show, and on yet another performance (I ended up seeing it seven times during its first run) he jokingly called himself "my stalker."
After the show, he hung around for a little while talking to people including me before he needed to leave and rescue his car from the parking garage, as he put it. I thanked him again, and he did remember when he did a very brief out of character (microphones off) chat with me on stage during that final performance of Game Show Show. I had a good time. There are two more performances left as I write this (next Friday and Saturday). It's not for everyone, but I'm glad I made the trip. As I said to Lily Guggenheim as I was leaving, "I didn't bother going after any of the show discounts. I went ahead and spent all this money to drive from Nevada and spend two nights in a hotel to see this show. I might as well go ahead and pay full price for the ticket!"
After the show, I briefly walked through the downtown San Jose Night Market and bought some extra food to take back to the hotel room. Earlier today, I took light rail downtown and bought too much food from The City Fish again, but did manage to restrain myself and only eat half of it so I'd have the rest for dinner tonight.
Tomorrow I need to slog my way back home. While I did consider taking US-50 to avoid the emergency construction on I-80, it turns out that there's road work on US-50 as well, so I'm stuck and just need to suck it up and live with the delays.
I hope I manage to make it back down here for at least one of the other 3Below productions happening later this year, but it will be challenging due to my policy of avoiding the Sierra Nevada crossings during winter weather.
