Scaling vast new heights of overdisclosure.

Hey Everybody!

I will write real journal entries soon (after I do some heavy-duty rehearsing for "Heebs and Dweebs"), BUT, I wanted to let you know that I now have complete dates and times and stuff for my remaining theatre gigs this summer — I believe when I last left you, I didn’t have show times for the Winnipeg and Edmonton Fringes, and now I do! SO, if you live in those cities, or have friendsrelativesassociateswhatever who do, PLEASE pass on the word that I will be there, at these times, and in these places, and with these shows! Also, you’ll notice I have a wee gig in Swift Current, SK (I seriously don’t expect any of you to have friends in Swift Current, but hey, I could be wrong), and there’s always the Berkshires.

I hope you’re having a great summer so far (I had a total, fantastic, delightful blast at both the Ottawa Fringe and OpenStage Theatre of Harrisburg), and please let me know if you need more info on any of this stuff -- I will be happy to provide!

Cheers,

Amy

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Amy’s Upcoming Appearances!



"SO KISS ME ALREADY, HERSCHEL GERTZ!" at the SWIFT CURRENT CHAUTAQUA FESTIVAL!
The Lyric Theatre
227 Central Avenue North
Swift Current, SK
Saturday, July 11th, 9:00 pm
Sunday, July 12th, 2:00 pm
Tickets $10.00
For more info: http://www.lyrictheatre.ca/chautauqua.html



"HEEBS and DWEEBS" at THE WINNIPEG FRINGE FESTIVAL (Amy’s all-new show about being Jewish and dorky!)
Venue #8, Rachel Browne Theatre, Crocus Building
Thu July 16, 1:00 PM
Fri July 17, 11:45 PM
Sun July 19, 7:00 PM
Mon July 20, 6:45 PM
Wed July 22, 10:45 PM
Thu July 23, 1:45 PM
Fri July 24, 9:45 PM
Tickets $9.00, $8.00 students/seniors with a Fringe button
For more info: http://www.winnipegfringe.com



“CIRCUMFERENCE” at THE BERKSHIRE FRINGE FESTIVAL
Simon's Rock College Campus
Great Barrington, MA
Wed August 5th, 8 pm
Thurs August 6th, 9 pm
Fri August 7th, 7 pm
Sat August 8th, 9 pm
Sun August 9th, 7 pm
Tickets $15.00
For more info: (413) 320 – 4175 or http://www.berkshirefringe.org

“CIRCUMFERENCE” at THE EDMONTON FRINGE FESTIVAL
Venue #3, Brian Paisley Theatre
Acacia Masonic Hall
10433 83rd Ave.
Edmonton, AB
Fri August 14, 12:30 pm
Sat August 15, 4:15 pm
Sun August 16, 6:45 pm
Tue August 18, 10:15 pm
Thu August 20, 8:30 pm
Fri August 21, 10:00 pm
Sun August 23, 2:15 pm
Tix $12.00/$10.00 with a Fringe button
For more info: http://www.fringetheatreadventures.ca

I will be completely up-front about the existence of an audience member who disliked my show enough to blog about it at length, and in detail! In fact, she gives it a "Y" rating, for "YAWN"! Woo hoo! I border on self-pity and therapy onstage! Yeeee Hah!

:)

Yowza, tonight (er, last night, I guess, since it's 4 am) was the best "Heebs and Dweebs" has felt -- I did the best performance I've done so far (gradually gradually memorizing, though still not off book or off music stand), and the audience was amazing -- 62 people, with loud, loud laughers, which is unusual for Ottawa -- a city of modest chucklers. It was really just great, all around.

I wouldn't have known I got a review in The Ottawa Citizen if my friend Tania hadn't told me, so I then went and bought the paper to see for myself. I was the first review, and the only photo -- wow! Here's what Ottawa Citizen theatre writer Patrick Langston said:

To feel like an outsider is nothing remarkable — we’re all misfits in our own ways. What is remarkable is how effortlessly Amy Salloway turns an apparent lifetime of outsiderdom into an hour of very funny, occasionally poignant storytelling/performance that’s at once about her and about all of us.

Heebs and Dweebs bounces from grade school through adolescence and into adulthood as Salloway careens from narratives about cruel classmates and a stepfather who mindlessly twirls his jungle of belly hair while watching television to an anxiety-riddled vignette of dropping her gelato on a city street, a vignette that has somehow shifted to the death of Mama Cass before you realize where the fleet Salloway is going. The show, as Salloway disarmingly states, is a work in progress, so you forgive her the odd weakness. At Studio Leonard-Beaulne until June 23.

Aw! Thank you, Mr. Langston.

I am so tired, and I have so much I have to do and write and prepare (publicity materials for the next two Fringes!), and also the hamster at the apartment where I'm staying just got out of her cage and I am not sure if that is supposed to be happening, so I must go. More blogging very soon, though.

I had NO IDEA this existed until just now. Holy cow. Um. I'm speechless. I don't even know these people...I didn't pay them to say these things, I swear...wow. Verklempt, I be.

Hi everybody --

Hey, just wanted to get the word out quickly: my cell phone just died here in Ottawa, Ontario - it lasted all of 3 days of my "international tour" before kicking the bucket. Some of you may be asking, "Wait a minute -- didn't your cell phone die in Canada LAST summer? And die AGAIN in New York last July? And you were all freaked out because you had no way to make contact with anyone for, like, 3 months solid?!" Why YES, I would answer -- YES, you remember exactly correctly! This same make of phone (Nokia, 6300!) has now expired on THREE trips to Canada and ONE trip to NYC, and I am once again left stranded, unable to call, receive calls, or text. Which is why I'm writing to you all, to say that if anyone is trying to get a hold of me, the only way to do it until at least June 28th (if not longer) is via email. I'm really sorry, and rather frantic, because I will be in Minneapolis for exactly 14 days total this summer -- the entire rest of the time I'm on the road -- and, obviously, being able to communicate with people is pretty important. SO, I will make a point of checking email at least once a day if not more, and will do my best to get back that way to anyone who's looking for me. I'm terribly sorry -- I seriously have the WORST cell phone luck of ANYone I know, and so far on this trip, the worst technology luck, period - but I will cross my fingers that it all changes. :)

Thanks! Sorry! Thanks!

Aw, Winnipeg Fringe, you are so sweet! On the Media page of the still-being-built websites, in the "Performers!" area, you can see a photo of me! From 2006! I had no idea that was there!

In other news, I am so tired I could keel over, ohsoseriously. I had a chiropractor appointment at 9:30 this morning, and it feels like a LIFETIME ago. I can't believe I am still experiencing the SAME DAY. I also can't believe I leave town in 48 hours and my show is still not written, and I have to perform two different versions of it in 4 days and 6 days, respectively. I honestly can't even talk about the terror I'm living with; it will snowball into an avalanche if I let myself pull it into front-focus. I'm going to check out my poster designs that Graphic Designer Guy just sent me, and then maybe nap, and then write some more.

I just made another batch of extremely excellent bacon...that was comforting.

Here is where I am heading to in my state of fear, in the wee hours of Monday morning:

Hi everyone! I said a couple days ago that I would start posting some public journal entries again, after the almost-two-years-now of Shame-Dictated Privatization, and it is true, I will. Just have to do some figuring out of categories and settings and stuff like that, and also some intense writing and rehearsing before I go 100% batwing crazy with pre-Fringe Festival terror. Soooo -- stay tuned. More eventually. :)

I am sorry that recent entries on this blog may have offended people. There were private thoughts posted here hastily that were not meant to be public, and that were written amidst complicated circumstances; I apologize that they upset people.

This journal will be on hiatus until further notice.