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July 1, 2007:

THE DIP IN THE ROAD

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Well, dear readers, I am home very late, hence the notes are being written very late, and I am very tired, hence I shall not dally or tarry and I shall write like the wind, and I think we all know how fast the wind writes – like a breeze. Now, before I go any further, may I speak of a pet peeve? Yes, Virginia, I, BK, have a pet peeve. I call my pet peeve Gary. Do you have a pet peeve? Is it male or female? Frankly, I like pet peeves – they’re easy to train and they do their business outside. What the HELL am I talking about? Oh, yes, a pet peeve of mine other than Gary. This pet peeve has to do with bumps in the road – well, not bumps, but dips in the road. Now, someone needs to tell me why cars veer to the right when they go over a dip in the road, as if that somehow made the dip less dippy. The dip is the same over there on the right – there’s not less dip over there, so why do people do it? I have never, ever veered to the right to go over a dip in the road. I just go over the fershluganah dip and that’s that. But, every time I’m behind another car and there’s a dip in the road, there they go, veering to the right, going over the dip, then going back to where they were. Last night, I made a point of following some yokel who veered to the right, just to see what the big deal was, and nothing was different – same dip, same everything. I then hurled a vile epithet at the driver and went on my merry way. Of course, I know a few dips that I’d like to go over in the road, but that’s another story. Speaking of another story, yesterday was such a lovely day. For example, I got up. That was lovely. I then packaged up about six orders, took them to the post office and posted them, took one package to Fed Ex and Fed Exed it, and then did a couple of errands that needed doing. I then came home and had a long telephonic call with a choreographer candidate, and he just seemed like a nice fellow and I hired him. I then took the rest of the day and just relaxed and sat on my couch like so much fish.

Yesterday, I did watch one motion picture on DVD entitled Zero Hour. I thought it was an okay film, and it’s easy to see why the Zucker brothers were so keen to spoof the genre and specifically Zero Hour. The true brainy thing they did was use the structure of Zero Hour so that their zaniness could play within a serious and sound structure. They even used the same name for their hero. The film moves right along (a brisk eighty minutes) and it’s certainly competent. The transfer is excellent.

Last night, I saw a musical entitled Cabaret. It was actually a production firmly based on the revival rather than the original. While I thought the revival had good things in it and was interesting, I much prefer the original version in just about every way. I don’t like the movie songs added in, nor do I like the fact that Why Should I Wake Up is cut. Our very own Cason Murphy acquitted himself very well as the Emcee – in fact, he outshone everyone else in the show. The cast worked their behinds off, some more successfully than others. I will say that the first act ran a whopping one hour and fifty minutes, so I hope they tighten it over the run, because that’s really about twenty-five minutes too long. It was fun to see our Cason up there strutting his stuff.

Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below whilst we all ponder the dip in the road and people’s propensity for veering to the right.

Today, I have a work session and/or meeting with Miss Alet Taylor. After that, the day is mine all mine, and I shall watch several motion pictures on DVD and no one can say boo about it.

Tomorrow, I’m sure I’ll have a Joan Ryan rehearsal, and I have an important alumni association meeting to make our agenda for the big general meeting on July 9th. I want to be very organized and very prepared for that meeting.

I’ll also be hiring a stage manager and, more importantly, will trying to set a general manager/line producer and a musical director. And then there’s this humungous twenty-two page contract to fill out and go through and then I must send in the contract and a check for the NYMF fee. It’s all very exciting and all very daunting.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, meet with Alet Taylor and then I must, for example, do nothing. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you dear readers get to make with the topics and we all get to post about them. So, let’s have loads of lovely topics and loads of lovely postings, shall we, and see my second post for my topic suggestion.

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