friday i sat next to munson hicks and charlie hyman - looking up charlie hyman on imdb, i find the guy's been on the a-team and a slew of other shows. at the first break, i leaned over and introduced myself to him.
ME: hello, i'm tim.
CHARLIE: hello. i'm charlie.
ME: you were in john bull's other island, right? [a show geva did a while back.]
CHARLIE: no. i was in inherit the wind.
so right off the bat i mistake the guy. nice. then comes the read-through and there's a bit of confusion. i end up reading the part of "man in the auditorium" since i thought this was my secondary role; there is no "man in the balcony." but as it turns out the "woman in the balcony" that was in my script was updated to "man in the balcony" in a newer version of the script, and i was reading someone else's lines. and whose lines were they? charlie hyman's. thankfully enough, he's a right nice guy and we laughed it off. but sheesh - what a way to make a first impression.