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I got a last-minute invite to see a one-man show of "A Christmas Carol" at the International Printing Museum in Carson. If you don't live in south LA, Carson is a place you would probably otherwise go your entire life without visiting; the only reason I'd ever been there before was that it was part of our area when I did disaster relief with the Red Cross.
It was fun! The actor was a charming, talented Large Ham. Also, I got to see various forms of early printing presses, which was bizarrely apropos as the day before I had gotten editorial notes which included, "How are they producing their newspaper?"
But mostly, I wanted to share the moment in which the actor got several audience members to play small roles by giving them hats and a sheet of paper with their lines.
The small boy playing Tiny Tim squinted at his sheet, then read, loud and clear, "God BILGE us, every one!"
My friend Halle and I nearly fell off our seats. Afterward, her son asked us if bilge meant something.
"It's dirty water in the bottom of a boat," I said.
Halle elaborated, "So if you say, 'God bilge us,' it's kind of like saying... 'God, please PUKE on us!"
It was fun! The actor was a charming, talented Large Ham. Also, I got to see various forms of early printing presses, which was bizarrely apropos as the day before I had gotten editorial notes which included, "How are they producing their newspaper?"
But mostly, I wanted to share the moment in which the actor got several audience members to play small roles by giving them hats and a sheet of paper with their lines.
The small boy playing Tiny Tim squinted at his sheet, then read, loud and clear, "God BILGE us, every one!"
My friend Halle and I nearly fell off our seats. Afterward, her son asked us if bilge meant something.
"It's dirty water in the bottom of a boat," I said.
Halle elaborated, "So if you say, 'God bilge us,' it's kind of like saying... 'God, please PUKE on us!"
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