Well, dear readers, we had a fabulously fabulous show last night, which was especially gratifying after Thursday night’s rather subdued small house. We were pretty much full up, everyone’s energy was high and a lot of the audience was made up of savvy young musical theater students who knew every reference, every bit of choreography, and who just ate it up. Tammy is still having to sing through her cold, but she’s doing fine. We’re hoping her voice will be even stronger for tomorrow night’s show. Certain things got the best reaction ever, but certain other numbers that normally kill (like Susanne’s A Little Lift) didn’t get quite the reaction they normally get because our older types love those numbers more than the kids do, because they really “get” them. When we got to Oklahoma I thought the theater was going to explode, so loud were the laughs. They were literally screaming and at the end the ovation was so huge that Jose, who normally starts the vamp of the next song about ten seconds into the applause (which is always huge, but that timing always seems to work), had to wait a full thirty seconds for the audience to calm down enough to even hear the vamp and even then they were still howling. Poor Ryan is in the difficult position of doing a ballad (a cute ballad) right after that number, and he’s been doing a great job of not letting the audience go. We’ve gotten partial standing ovations before (which I always find peculiar in waiver theater), but last night everyone in the audience was on their feet instantly. It was a grand night all around. Earlier, when I arrived at the theater at six-thirty and was entering the building I was stopped by a nice fellow who asked if I was me. It turns out he’s a big fan of my albums, and he’d come from San Bernadino to see the show, and he brought more CD covers than I could count for me to sign. I dutifully signed all of them – he eventually got the cast to sign the CDs that they appeared on. He and his wife (or girlfriend) were very sweet and I hope they enjoyed the show (I looked for them afterwards, but didn’t see them). We’re completely sold out tomorrow night, but thus far have only a smallish crowd for Sunday, which hopefully will change for the better soon. And that’s the show report from soup to nuts, not necessarily in that order.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I’m sure I’ve got a few other things to talk about, for example, soup and nuts.
Yesterday I worked out at the gym and have lost five count them five pounds thus far. This morning the packers are coming back for three hours to do the mess in the garage. The move should be quite effortless because of all this pre-packing. At some point today I’ll be signing lease papers for the house up the street from me (it’s literally two blocks north on my street) and that will be settled finally. The move is scheduled for Thursday. My house is being tented on Monday morning, and I’ll be staying in a hotel for two days, which I’m actually looking forward to. Perhaps we’ll do our live chat on location from Hollywood. I’ll post details about it tomorrow. Wait a minute – aren’t I supposed to be writing about soup and nuts. Forget the nuts, I just want to talk about soup, and yet I haven’t talked about soup. Funny that.
Also supposedly happening today, the Fence Man should be finishing the fence on the side of the house (it had collapsed about six months ago and we had to fix it before escrow closes), and the dry rot people are coming to fix the one window that has it, along with some siding on the bottom of two walls in the front of the house. I’m hoping and praying that by next Friday I’ll be writing these here notes from a brand spanking new home environment whilst sipping soup with a splendidly splendid soup spoon.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must watch men working about my home environment, I must attend a little meeting in the early afternoon, I must try to get to the gym for an hour, and then I shall be on my way to the theater. Don’t forget our countdown to excellent vibes and xylophones for our very own Grant Geissman, who will be attending the Emmy ceremony tomorrow. Today’s topic of discussion: Soup. I want to know what everyone’s favorite soups are, and I’d love to have some soup recipes, especially onion soup and home-made cream of mushroom. Yes, it’s soup I’m talkin’ about. Soup. Let’s be in the soup, shall we? I feel these notes have been soup, don’t you? Let’s have loads of lovely soupy postings, shall we? We shall.