Well, dear readers, today is a day that is unlike any other day and will remain unlike any other day until December of next year. And that unique occurrence has to do with today’s date of three elevens – 11/11/11. That’s a lot of elevens, if you ask me. So, this is a day of elevens. And at eleven o’clock in the morning or evening it will be even more elevens. Elevens are running amok, I tell you. All other numbers are, at least for today, left in the dust. Oh, and I’m writing these here notes at the eleventh hour, just for a bit of serendipity. Perhaps I’ll go watch Ocean’s Eleven, just for more serendipity. Perhaps I’ll play a game of craps, just so I can roll an eleven. Perhaps someone will finally reveal that there were originally eleven commandments – this has been kept a secret and hush-hush for centuries. But I have, through keen diligence, unearthed this information and I now know what the eleventh commandment was and I am going to reveal it to you dear readers for the first time. The eleventh commandment was: Thou shalt not have eleven commandments. You can see why this has been kept secret for so long, at least I can. You know, if anyone has a clew as to what the HELL I’m talking about please keep it to yourself.
Yesterday, which was the tenth, was a rather nice day. I got up at nine – that was rather nice. Then I answered a plethora of e-mails, completed act one of the Lost and Unsung script, had a couple of quick visits, did the four-mile jog and got ready for a production meeting. Before I was on my way to the meeting I stopped and picked up four count them four packages. Then I went to LACC for our production meeting – associate producer Adryan Russ was there, as was dear reader Jose, our lighting person, our wonderful stage manager, Tony, our ASM Alysha, the head of the costume department, and various and sundried others. The meeting was quick, easy/breezy, and fun.
After that, Adryan, Tony, Jose and I all went to the House of Pies, where we ate some lunch. I had their rather excellent chicken salad sandwich with some cole slaw (no fries for me), and Jose seemed genuinely pleased with his chicken liver and onion dish. Jose and I, of course, had to have pie, he the coconut cream, I the peanut butter pie. It was a very nice meal, and then we all toddled back for rehearsal.
We began with Alet and ran as much as we could – Damon is gone, so we couldn’t do their two duets, but she’ll run the staging by herself, and when Damon is back next Tuesday, we’ll probably have he and Alet come in a little early to play catch up on those numbers. Then we moved on to the LACC gals. I staged their group number, which is adorable, and their just taking to it like ducks to water, presuming ducks actually take to water. They’re all very cute and they’re finding their energy level and, I think, starting to enjoy playing out. I staged all of the solos but one, as one gal we have to share with another show that’s being workshopped at the same time as ours. Then our two guys showed up and we ran their stuff. I then worked out the staging for a number Alet does, but that I want the three guys and gals in, as it’s the end of act one. I had a fun idea for the staging and I tried it out on our guys and it’s going to look really cute – kind of Jack Cole-ish. We were done by nine, after I ran through Evening Star. I’m doing one number in act one (Evening Star) and one in act two (A Wonderful Life – duet with Alet, at her request).
I had so many e-mails to answer when I got home – crazy, but I got it all done, along with getting about two-thirds of act two into the Lost and Unsung script, although I have to do some finessing and rewriting – these were very early Gardenia commentaries – as I got used to the fact I was going to do them for every show, and as I got more confident and began having more fun, the commentaries got freer and funnier, so I have to now make these less dry and more fun – the Lost In Boston ones were better because a lot of the lost songs in that act were done in other later Gardenia shows where the commentary had gotten more fun.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I must get some beauty sleep and awaken to a day filled with elevens.
Today, which, BTW (by the way, in Internet lingo), is 11/11/11, I shall arise, I shall do the four-mile jog, I shall spend time in the editing room with the editor locking the last three episodes of season one of Outside The Box, then I have errands and whatnot to do, hopefully some packages and an important envelope to pick up, then I have a dinner meeting, and maybe, just maybe, I’ll actually have time to watch a motion picture.
Tomorrow, I have a noon rehearsal that will probably last three or four hours – everyone is called except Damon and Will Collyer, so we should be able to complete the two numbers I’m still working on and then drill, drill, drill (that is three drills). After that, I know not. Sunday there’s something going on but I have been very remiss in writing things down. I do have to finish the Lost and Unsung script, do liner notes for our next soundtrack release and hopefully find a moment or two to relax.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do the four-mile jog, go to the editing room, do errands and whatnot, hopefully pick up packages and an important envelope, and have a dinner meeting where I will meet and eat, not necessarily in that order. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player and your DVD/video player? I’ll start – CD, too many to list. Blu and Ray, also too many to list, but trying to watch The Collector next. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland where, instead of counting sheep, I shall count elevens.