Well, dear readers, this week has flown by, like a gazelle conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra in the style of Eugene Ormandy – random, I know, but there you are. Apparently summer is here, since the temperature yesterday was in the 90s and VERY dry. This, of course, wreaks havoc with my sinuses, my throat, my voice and that I don’t need or want. So, hopefully this will pass because I’ve got to be in good voice for Sunday’s Kritzerland show. Speaking of Sunday’s Kritzerland show, we had our second rehearsal yesterday. One of our singers was also suffering from the dry weather and one singer wasn’t as prepared as I would have liked, but everything went well and I think it will be a very good show. I was able to add some fun stuff to the Staitman girls’ number and gave a few little tips to others.
Prior to the rehearsal, I was up at nine, did a three-mile jog, then went and picked up the Suzie Wong booklets, came home and showered and got ready for the lunch with Suzie Wong herself, Miss Nancy Kwan. I arrived at the restaurant just as she and her husband were arriving. We all sat and chatted – she, Norbert Meisel (hubby), Nick Redman, Brian Jamieson and the likes of me. I found Miss Kwan completely captivating and she still looks very beautiful. She wanted to get the signing part out of the way so we could eat without getting food on the booklets, so she just got right down to it. They’d given me 150 booklets, but I separated out 100, but she was such a good sport that she signed the extra fifty, too, so most people who ordered from Kritzerland will get a signed booklet. Then we all shared various foodstuffs – some pad Thai, some salmon, chicken satay. I ate very little actually. We were there for about two hours and then I left (they stayed for a while longer). I went to JOS Bank and picked up the four pairs of pants that were being altered, picked up one package, and then came home, at which point rehearsal began.
After, I was too tired to watch anything, so I read a little, did some work on the computer, ate two cheese sandwiches (only 170 calories each) and some fruit so well within the 1200 calories. I did forget to mention a motion picture I saw two nights ago, called The Nameless, a Spanish film from Spain. The first ten minutes or so was interesting – a thriller about a young girl who’d been missing who turns up dead. Five years later, the mother, still grieving, gets a phone call from a girl purporting to be her daughter, saying that she’s being held and for the mother to please come rescue her. So, a good set-up for a tense thriller, and part of it plays that way until the real plot kicks in and we find out what it’s all about – it may have worked as a literary thing in the book the film is based on by Ramsey Campbell, but here it just gets sillier and sillier and there’s quite a bit of graphic footage – nothing we haven’t seen before, but kind of irritating. Then the explanations start coming so fast and furious you really don’t know what’s what and then it’s over. Apparently this 1999 film (you wouldn’t know that from the DVD, where they are, I believe, trying to make people think it’s recent – there is no copyright date or film date anywhere on the packaging) had two DVD releases – the current one only has an English-language dub, while the older has the original Spanish language with subtitles as WELL as the dub – that’s the one I got.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I must get a good night’s beauty sleep.
Today, I have to get up by eight-thirty, do a jog, then I have an eleven o’clock appointment with Teddy, who will, I’m sure, do his customary wonderful job on my hair. After that, I’ll do some banking, hopefully pick up some packages, eat, try to relax, although I may start a new set of liner notes, and then I’m seeing a play in the evening, which I hope will not be too long.
Tomorrow, she of the Evil Eye is coming (why does this ALWAYS happen on a show weekend) so it’s another early morning – then we have our stumble-through, after which some of us will get some food, I’m sure. Sunday is sound check and then show. I will, of course, have a full report.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, get up early, do a jog, have a haircut with Teddy, bank, hopefully pick up packages, eat, and then see a show. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player and your DVD/Blu and Ray player? I’ll start – CD, a lot of Noel Coward, since that’s the next Kritzerland show. Blu and Ray, Major Dundee and lots more. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy to have gotten all booklets signed and to have spent a marvelously marvelous lunch in the company of Miss Nancy Kwan.