Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Curtis Sittenfeld
- Language: English
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- Genre: Contemporary Literary Fiction
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- Publish Date: April 4, 2023
April 2018
WEEKLY SCHEDULE FOR
THE NIGHT OWLS
Monday 1 P.M. pitch meeting with guest host
Tuesday 5 P.M. start of all-night writing session
Wednesday 12 P.M. deadline for submitted sketches
Wednesday 3 P.M. table read of submitted sketches
Wednesday 9 P.M. preliminary show lineup posted
internally
Wednesday night–Saturday morning rehearsals; scripts
revised; sets built; special effects designed; hair, makeup,
and costumes chosen and created; pre-tapes shot
Saturday 1 P.M. run-through of show
Saturday 8 P.M. dress rehearsal before a live audience
Saturday 11:30 P.M. live show before a new audience
Sunday 1:30 A.M. first after-party
Monday,1:10 P.M.
For the meeting that marked the official start of that week’s
show, I planned to pitch two sketches. But I had three
ideas—you could write and submit more but pitch only
two—so I’d play by ear which ones I went with, depending on
how the guest host reacted to the pitches preceding mine.
About forty writers, cast members, and producers were
crammed into the seventeenth-floor office of the show’s
creator and executive director, Nigel Petersen.
Nigel’s
seventeenth-floor office—not to be confused with his office on
the eighth floor, adjacent to the studio where the show was
filmed—was both well-appointed and never intended as a
meeting place for anywhere close to forty people. This meant
that Nigel sat behind his desk, the host sat in a leather
armchair, a few lucky staffers nabbed a place on the sole
couch, and everyone else leaned against the wall or sat on the
floor.
Nigel started by introducing the host, who, as happened
about once per season, was also that week’s musical guest.
Noah Brewster had twice in the past been the musical guest,
but this was his first time hosting. He was a cheesily
handsome, extremely successful singer-songwriter who
specialized in cloying pop music and was known for dating
models in their early twenties. Though he looked like a surfer
—piercing blue eyes, shaggy blond hair and stubble, a big
toothy grin, and a jacked body—I’d learned by reading the
host bio we were emailed each Monday morning that he’d
grown up in a suburb of Washington, D.C. He was thirty-six,
the same age I was, and had been famous ever since releasing
the hit “Making Love in July” more than fifteen years before,
when I was in college.
“Making Love in July” was a paean to
respectfully taking the virginity of a long-haired girl with
“glowy skin,” “a pouty mouth,” and “raspberry nipples,” and it
was one of those songs that had for a year played so often on
the radio that, in spite of finding it execrable, I accidentally
knew all the words.
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