Well, dear readers, another day, another rehearsal, this one quite good for where we currently are. Everything ran very smoothly, with, for the first time, only a handful of lyric flubs. Actors are getting secure in their songs and it’s fun to watch as they take control, rather than letting the song control them. There’s still stuff to work on, but I felt a whole lot more comfortable at the end of rehearsal, and actually gave very few notes. We’ve shaved another minute or two off each act – they’re running between fifty-three and fifty-four minutes right now, which is actually fine. So, all in all, a pleasing evening with work to be done.
That was factual, wasn’t it? That was just so factual. I have never written so factual a paragraph as that. I just went to the factual place, which is the actual factual place rather than the fake factual place. I did not embellish, I did not embroider, I just stated the factual facts and left it at that. And I must say, it was so boring I fell asleep twice as I wrote it. Prior to our rehearsal, I’d had a day. I so wanted to sleep in, but at seven-thirty in the morning, my heinous (HEINOUS, do you hear me) neighbor had tree people in his yard, tree people with loud buzz saws. There ought to be a law – well, there is a law – there are many laws – but apparently not about buzz saws at seven-thirty in the morning. And when I came home after rehearsal, they were shooting a movie outdoors two streets from me. At eleven o’clock at night, in a residential neighborhood. There ought to be a law. In any case, I just stayed in bed and played on Ye Olde iPad and at some point around nine I fell asleep again for an hour or so.
I got up, and with no procrastinating whatsoever, did the four-mile jog, which I did a little more briskly than usual. Then I went and had a turkey sandwich and no fries or onion rings. It was just what the doctor ordered. And, frankly, I am so tired of the damn doctor ordering what I do that I went up to the damn doctor and called him a twit. After that, I went to the mail place and picked up a couple of packages and an important envelope. I then did part one of my banking, then came home. I finished the liner notes for our new release, got them off to the designer, answered e-mails, finessed a couple of patter things for the LACC show, and then it was time to be on my way to rehearsal.
After rehearsal, dear reader and MD Jose, Adryan Russ, our stage manager Tony, our ASM Alysha, and I went to Fred 62 where we had way too much foodstuffs, or at least I did. I haven’t done a splurge meal in a long time – I had fish and chips (excellent), but with onion rings instead of fries. I shared three of the onion rings so there really weren’t all that many, and frankly, while they were very tasty, they kind of looked like mutant onion rings that had been fused together, like Jeff Goldblum and the fly in The Fly. We had a funky and funny waitress, and I always enjoy that. She told us that everyone who was in the restaurant, everyone but us, was high. And I think she was right. What a motley crew of weirdos.
After that, I came home, and it was already time to write these here notes, which I’m trying to do in a hurry because she of the Evil Eye will be here all too soon and I must be up early and out the door jogging by nine-fifteen. Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below so I can continue writing these actual factual notes.
Today, I shall do the four-mile jog, I shall do part two of my banking, I shall do errands and whatnot, I shall hopefully pick up some packages that are slightly overdue, and then I shall attend a rehearsal, after which I’ll grab a bite to eat. Then I have to proof the packaging for our new release, hopefully announcing on Monday.
Tomorrow, I have to catch up on everything else, most especially the Gardenia show. All the music has been pulled and put in order, but I still have to make CDRs for our performers. I’m also hoping to get some movie watching in, and I have to go to Sterling’s at Vitello’s for an hour to see an act, but I should be home by eight.
Next week, of course, is consumed with rehearsals, and then it’s Thanksgiving and we have five days off. So, that will give me a few minutes to breathe and relax and that will be nice.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do the four-mile jog, I must do banking, I must do errands and whatnot and put gas in the motor car, I must hopefully pick up some packages, I must rehearse, and I must eat. Today’s topic of discussion: What books are you currently reading? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, where I shall dream nothing but actual factual dreams.