Well, dear readers, it’s after midnight and we’re gonna let it all hang out from the song of the same name. Being late, I shall have to write the notes in a hurry and get them posted lickety-split and also split-lickety, if you get my drift and I know you do. So, no knew BK Stories in today’s notes, but I have a few more up my sleeve for the rest of the week. So, let’s cut right to the chase and chase right to the cut, last night’s LACCTAA event was wonderful and we had more people attending than ever before. Our guests, Jason Robert Brown and his ever-lovin’ Georgia Stitt were candid, funny, honest, touching, and really open in their responses to my questions. They each played a song – Georgia played the title song from her album An Ordinary Thursday, and Jason played a very funny cut song from The Last Five Years. I’d originally planned for them to each do two songs, but the conversation and answers were so interesting and fun that I didn’t want to take that extra ten minutes. The audience was really responsive and the open Q&A, while brief, was terrific. We also had a really interesting crowd, and for the first time we actually had more than a couple of alums in attendance, and one of them was a complete surprise – Miss Linda Hart, she of Hairspray and many other shows. I hadn’t seen her since NYMF – she’s about to start rehearsals for Catch Me If You Can in Seattle. Calvin Remsberg was there (the original Beedle Bamford in Sweeney Todd), our very own Alet Taylor was there, writers Lissa Levin and Adryan Russ, Lissa’s ever-lovin’ Dan Guntzelman, and quite a few cast members from Georgia’s new musical, which is having a reading for the LA Festival Of New Musicals. I think we got quite a few LACCTAA converts tonight, so that’s great. All in all, a fantastically fantastic evening.
Prior to the fantastically fantastic evening I’d done the long jog, done errands and whatnot, had lunch at Hugo’s, picked up a package, shipped about forty packages, imported e-mail addresses into Constant Contact, and finished reading the new version of the long musical, which is much better now, although there’s still a bunch of work to be done.
After the event, I had a little sweet tooth so I stopped at the House Of Pies and am I glad I did. As some might remember, a couple of years ago I went on a tear here wanting Peanut Butter Pie. I had such a craving. But nowhere in all of LA could you get such a thing as Peanut Butter Pie. I began to despair that the only way I’d have it was to make it, which wasn’t going to be happening. And in two years, that story hasn’t changed. Until last night. The minute I walked into the House Of Pies I saw the sign that said their special pie was Peanut Butter Pie. Of course I immediately ordered it. And it was superb and spectacular, not necessarily in that order. I’m sure I’ll have to return there in the next few days to have another piece. Of course, I had globs of whipped cream on it, which only made it better. The pie was, in fact, surprisingly light and airy and not what I expected at all. But enough about pie. I’ve got to get these here notes posted before the cows come home so why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because it’s late, I’m tired, and I can’t get Peanut Butter Pie off the windmills of my mind.
I’d have to say that our four LACCTAA events were really successful, and I’m really looking forward to our Series Two events, which I’m just starting to plan – those will start in September.
Today, I will be paying the theater fee for our reading of Nudie Musical. I hate paying theater fees but pay it I must. In two weeks, we begin casting, which I’m looking forward to. I have some errands and whatnot to do, and I think I’ll see if dear reader Jeanne wants to have an early supper.
Either Thursday or Friday I’ll be attending the “layback” session for the Kevin and Sean show DVD, and I’ll sign off on it at that point. Then we gather next Tuesday to record a commentary track for the DVD – which might tell you that yes, we’re issuing the DVD on Kritzerland, hopefully in early summer. Other than that, I have a little more book proofing to do so that I can then enter those fixes and get the book to the proper proofers to properly proof.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do the long jog, pay a fee, do errands and whatnot, and maybe even have an early supper and relax. 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 and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I dream of Peanut Butter Pie.