Well, dear readers, we have played our final performance of What If for now. Hopefully we’ll be back soon. We had an almost full house with a nice audience, but the show was not as sharp as the night before, and the sound levels were way too quiet for all of Act One. But still, it went very well and was a nice show to go out on. Interestingly, the lack of Jewish people in the audience made The Yiddish Sondheim number not get the reaction it normally does. My darling daughter attended the show with her friend Skye. I knew several other people in the crowd, too. After the show there was a cast party being held at a friend of Ryan’s (our youngest cast member). This friend is some sort of inventor and he has a huge house up Sunset Plaza Drive, and I do mean huge in every sense of the word. I really didn’t want to go at all, because I knew it wasn’t going to be the kind of cast party where it’s the people who worked on the show and their friends – this was more about Ryan and this guy whose house it was and their 100 boy toys and, upon my arrival, it was exactly what I suspected it would be. I did say farewell for now to Susanne and Paul Haber. Tammy, as is her wont, arrived at least an hour into the party (she was driving up as we were driving down) so I didn’t get to see her at all. It was probably her kind of party, so I’m sure she and the rest had fun. I went out with the darling daughter to eat and we had a splendidly splendid time. Alet is on her way somewhere and didn’t attend the party. She was a brunette for the final show, which was very disconcerting and frankly she just doesn’t have the sparkle she has as a blonde with the dull brown hair. But, someone has told her that they think she’ll have a better shot at some shows she’s auditioning for as a brunette. I feel that her entire face disappears with brown hair, and I’m not the only one who felt that. Ah, well, if we end up doing the show again, either here or in New York, and if she is to be a part of it, she will be a blonde because that’s what our show needs. It has been a rather enjoyable and incredible journey with this show and I’ve had a great time doing it and I do think we will be back and hopefully sooner than later.
Yesterday, I wrapped up everything on the new book and now I have to make some real decisions about when it will come out. I’m quite nervous about this book – it’s so not what the other books are and one person who’s recently been reading it was taken aback by that fact. But, I had to do something the polar opposite of the Kritzer books and I’m glad I did it. But even as a mystery it’s slightly unconventional and while several people who’ve read it really liked it a lot, a couple of others thought the unconventional aspects were slightly weird. But, that’s the book I wanted to write and I suppose people will like it or not. I could, of course, not put it out at all, but then I’m playing into that feeling that all I can write is a Kritzer-type book. I’m also very anxious to start on my new idea, a new novel whose theme and subject I really like. I was going to start on it in June when all this play stuff took over my life, but I’ve got extensive notes and I’m rarin’ to go. However, before I can do it, I have to do a little rewrite job on a movie screenplay, which I must begin this week. It’s really going to end up being an extensive redo as the original script just doesn’t work at all. I’m hoping it will be fun to do – sort of a comedy horror film, actually a remake of a rather beloved “bad” film from the sixties. I’ll have more to say on this topic at a slightly later date.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I must get these here notes posted and then hit the road to dreamland.
It’s going to be strange not going to the theater next week, but I also will be able to catch up on so many things that I’ve let go during this whole megillah.
Don’t forget, Donald will have a brand new radio show up for your listening pleasure, and I think our Unseemly Live Chat will be this very evening at six o’clock Pacific Mean Daylight Savings Time. Be there or be round.
I’m so tired that I can’t even think about anything else to write so perhaps I’ll just wrap up these here notes while I can still see out of my barely-open eyes.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must relax and smell the roses, the coffee, and the English Muffins with grape jam, I must do some errands, I must begin watching season three of Alias and I must finish the hanging of the pictures. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you dear readers get to choose the topics and we all get to respond to them. If you have any questions about What If, or if you’d like to know about the new song we put in for Ryan, just ask and I shall answer. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we?