Well, dear readers, there are so many interesting things going on right now and it’s very frustrating because I want to share all of it with you but, as I’ve said before and will say again, I don’t like to talk about things until they’re signed and sealed – I’ve always been this way. However, one of the interesting things I can tell you because it has just been signed and sealed is that we will definitely be doing our Tourette’s Syndrome benefit in New York, on March 3, 2003, at the Danny Kaye Playhouse. It’s one performance only, and the Kaye doesn’t seat nearly as many people as the Alex does, so I suspect we will sell out the house without problem. Several years ago (way back in late 1995, I think) we did an Equity Fights Aids benefit there, based on the Unsung Musicals albums, and it’s a great theater, really comfortable and with a really nice atmosphere. I do hope our East Coast dear readers will be able to join us. I’ll keep you posted on the performer details as we set them (I think, schedule permitting, we’re only bringing one performer from the Los Angeles cast). We’re tightening the show a bit and making a few song changes, otherwise it will be the same show that we did here at the Alex.
As to the other interesting things, they are exciting and fun and I will tell you about them just as soon as I possibly can.
Last night I finished watching the Wolfen DVD. It gets quite strange at the end, but it’s very stylishly done (and very gruesome at times, so don’t say you weren’t warned) and Albert Finney and Diane Venora are very good, as is Edward James Olmos and Gregory Hines. The DVD looks great, too.
We’ve received another excellent Nudie Musical review, this time in the DVD Newsletter, a small magazine that’s usually sold at any store that sells DVDs (for example, Tower carries it). And if you haven’t picked up the latest issue of Scarlet Street, you should – it’s not only a great issue but I was very pleased with the interview with my very own self and our very own td’s review of the film. But Scarlet Street has many pleasures and is very addictive, and its publisher, Richard Valley, loves Broadway and musicals, and is a true genre fan. It’s available at most newsstands and stores, but if you can’t find it, just use the link I provided and you can purchase it online.
Well, today is Ask BK Day, the day you get to ask your excellent questions. Remember, you have to post them by nine o’clock tonight (California time), or I can’t guarantee I’ll be able to include the answer (although I’ll try).
Speaking of trying, try as we did, we are not going to be able to get the Buddy Bregman interview up for this Friday (it is really long and it’s taking a long time to organize), but we will get up our brand spanking interview with Mr. John Treacy Egan, who is currently wowing them on Broadway as Franz, in The Producers. It’s a wonderful interview, full of good and interesting stories about The Producers and Jekyll and Hyde and Mr. Wildhorn, and Mr. Hasselhoff, and Mr. Brooks, and all manner of things. So, be sure to check it out, starting on Friday (that is if the errant and truant Mr. Craig Brockman gets off his butt cheeks and puts it up on time – I know Mr. Craig Brockman has a very busy week this week, but after all this is haineshisway.com and we must be current and hip and with it and happening).
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because, frankly I have nothing more to say in this section. I am written out in this section. This section is over with, done, finished, finito, fine – adios section, adieu section, shalom section, this section is kaput for today.
I do hope those dear readers who have lately been missing in action (MIA, in Internet lingo) will be coming back soon, because we miss you when you are gone, gone, gone (that is three gones). So, let the errant and the truant come back and we will welcome them with open arms right after we bitch-slap them from here to eternity.
I really must do something about my kitchen, dear readers. There are things everywhere, piles of this and piles of that and it is beginning to drive me crazy. So, today I shall get some boxes and box up what I don’t need to be there and I shall move said boxes to the garage and then my kitchen will be sparkling and lovely once again. Luckily, it is quite a large kitchen and most of the piles are off in a corner (the piles contain all manner of papers, and manuscripts of Benjamin Kritzer, and research materials and empty boxes and it’s all just too too, in my opinion (IMO, in Internet lingo).
I will remind you from time to time that the first of our book signings is coming up in less than two weeks, on August 24th, a Saturday, at Bookfellows in Glendale. It goes from 3-5pm, and I will, in addition to signing, be reading excerpts from the book. I hope that some of our dear readers will be able to make it, for we will have cheese slices and ham chunks and even Cissy Wechter’s famous chocolate Bundt Cake. I suppose it would be a good idea for me to figure out what I’ll be reading from the book. If you have any suggestions, do let me know – they should be self-contained portions and not too too long.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must rid myself of these piles, I must get in my automobile and traverse the streets of my fair city. In addition to asking your excellent questions, discuss anything that you feel is worth discussing. I shall check in later to see how we’re all doing, and I do hope we have lots and lots of posts from lots and lots of dear readers like your very own selves, and I hope that lots and lots of our dear reader lurkers will come out of the woodwork and out of the shadows and out of my dreams and out of the frying pan and make themselves heard, loudly and clearly, and then and only then will we be the most popular site on all the Internet, and only then will we be the envy of one and all and also all and one, and only then will we be numero uno, the big cheese, the big Kahuna, the big bus, the top of the heap, the king of the road, the queen of the damned, the high and the mighty, the first and the foremost, the latest and the greatest, the duke of Earl, the Earl of Sandwich, the ginchiest, the grooviest, the coolest, the craziest, and do you know what just happened? I will tell you what just happened, because I am not going to keep such things from you – AOL just said “goodbye”. That stupid bunch of wazoos, can you imagine? Just like that, “goodbye”, when I’m in the middle of a roll and also a role. How dare them. There’ll be a letter about this in the Times tomorrow. Luckily, I write these here notes in Word so I did not lose anything. These here notes are safe and sound. I do believe we must now all bitch-slap AOL from here to eternity. I shall now take AOL off my buddy list, damn them, damn them all to hell. Where was I? I have lost my train of thought. I have lost my plane of thought and my automobile of thought and my scooter of thought. All modes of transportation, thought-wise, have been lost and all because of AOL and their fershluganah “goodbye”. Well, “goodbye” to you, too, AOL, and “goodbye” to Barton, and Kitchell, and Hastings, too. I am not putting up with this, and I am not putting down with this, what do you think of that, AOL? What does AOL stand for anyway? Archaic Old Losers? I’m hopping mad now and I shall get back online and I shall write AOL and I shall write them a nasty note and I shall say “tut tut” and “phut phut” and I will snigger at them and tell them “yechhhh” and “blechhhh”, not necessarily in that order. All right, I must calm down now – it’s time for you all to ask your excellent questions and to post until the cows come home. Post away, my pretties.