Well, dear readers, the 4th of July has snuck up on us like a gazelle in a Stutz Bearcat. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, the 4th of July has snuck up on us like a gazelle in a Stutz Bearcat. The best part of that news is that I have the day off, with only a mid-afternoon partay to attend at neighbors Tony Slide and Bob Gitt’s home environment. I shan’t stay too long, but other than that excursion, I shall use the day to organize many stray pieces of paper, to deal with a few NYMF things (I have to send in some papers by Monday) and have to make sure I know exactly where they’re going, and consolidating cast and crew lists of positions that still have to be determined. Speaking of determined, yesterday was a really, really long day. It began when I arose from the bed like an aging Jew. I then immediately had to answer many e-mails and such, and then I had to go to a two-hour rehearsal with Miss Joan Ryan, which went very well, with me doing detail work on the staging of each number. If she can remember it, it will look very good. I then came home to an e-mail from a musical director in New York. A friend in LA had alerted him to the fact I was looking for someone, and he had just the kinds of credits I was looking for – we spoke on the phone, I really liked his energy and passion, and I hired him. He’s worked with several musical directors I know and he did the “Leo” tour of The Producers and therefore had worked with Alet Taylor, who is thrilled he’s on board. I then had to attend to shipping some things, and then had a meeting with a manager friend, who has asked me to supervise a recording with Miss Lynda Carter – I said okay, and Vinnie and I will be working on it in a couple of weeks. I then came home, and waited for Mr. Walter Willison to come by – he ended up being an hour late, so we hurried to dinner and had a fun time. He’s been giving me some suggestions for people, and I’ve duly noted them. After that, I finally came home and sat on my couch like so much stuffed fish.
Obviously, I had no time to watch a motion picture on DVD, but I will be doing just that today.
It’s been very hot in the City of Studio and environs – stultifying, in fact. Actually, it’s been so unbearable that I’ve been turning on the air in my motor car, something I never do.
Well, I could keep typing but why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below, and for once we’ll have nice, short notes (see what happens when I don’t watch a motion picture on DVD?).
As I mentioned in the first section, today is mine all mine. In addition to organizing and the party, I shall watch a few motion pictures on DVD. And then, when I return from the partay, I’ll be able to see the fireworks they do at CBS Radford from the front yard – I always enjoy that. They go boom, they go bang, then they go bang and they go boom, and it’s all very colorful and fun to watch.
Tomorrow, it’s back to work – meetings, rehearsal, meetings, and NYMF business. Friday, it’s more of the same plus attending the opening night of Can Can at the Pasadena Playhouse.
I’m really having to think about which direction to go in terms of casting the Brain. It can be done in so many ways, and it’s maddening to me to try and pinpoint it down and think of people who I’m eventually not going to be able to read, but just offer the part, because they’re all known names and that’s what I’m told we must do. But, I’m pondering and will hopefully figure it all out in the next few weeks.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do as little as possible while still getting a handful of things accomplished. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Ask BK Day, the day in which you get to ask me or any dear reader any old question you like and we get to give any old answer we like. So, let’s have loads of lovely questions and loads of lovely answers as we have a lovely Independence Day filled with merriment and mirth and laughter and legs and fireworks, baby, fireworks.