Well, dear readers, this week has flown by, like a gazelle twerking. I went down to Ventura Blvd. and twerked – three people asked me if I was having a heart attack. I twerked at Jerry’s Deli and they brought me extra cole slaw. I feel I’m now ready to write a new musical – Twerking, based on the book by Studs Twerkel. Now I’m just trying to get my tongue to be as long as Miley Cyrus’s tongue. You could put her tongue on two pieces of rye bread and have a big sandwich. I believe she has the single most disgusting tongue I’ve ever seen and can someone tell me why she was wearing plastic underpants or were they linoleum? Just think of all the new takes on things we could do. She Twerks Hard for the Money, Whistle While You Twerk, Twerking Girl, Twerkers of the World, Unite, Twerking 9 to 5, okay I must stop and I must get to twerk on these here notes, which, if you haven’t noticed, are hardly twerking.
Yesterday was a twerking kind of day. I did get nine hours of blessed sleep. I got up and did some twerk on the computer, had some telephonic calls and then went and had a ham and Swiss on rye with no fries or onion rings. After that, I picked up a couple of packages, then came home. We are in the midst of a heat wave, a really hot heat wave, a stultifying heat wave, so I couldn’t jog in the afternoon before rehearsal. I got approval on our next release so we now have three releases approved and at the printers, which is really nice. Then it was time for the second Kritzerland rehearsal.
Our lovely cast came one by one and we ran all the numbers. Everyone is doing great, but there are still lyrics to be learned – I really do get more comfortable when people are secure by the second rehearsal, but hopefully those who need to lock in the lyrics will do so by the stumble-through. But the singing is wonderful by all. Sharon McNight was with us yesterday – she’s doing Some People and it is fierce and brilliant. This little musical thing I gave Jane Noseworthy on Getting Married Today got a huge laugh from those who were here. I don’t really want to give it away in case there are those reading these here notes who’ll also be seeing the show, but she did it so hilariously we all just howled. Jenna was not feeling well, so she wasn’t with us, but the Staitman girls ran their part of Three Friends and I’m much more comfortable with leaving it in the show – they really took the notes I gave them and made them work and it’s now subtle and therefore touching. We’re still not sure about their duet on Two’s Company – it’s such a weird song and I don’t even really “get” it – we did have fun doing it on the Emily and Alice album and I’m trying to find that fun for the girls – if it works on Saturday we’ll keep it in – if it hurts our pace or just doesn’t work as a number for this show, we’ll take it out. The girls are great, it’s not them. We shall see. And John Boswell is, as always, his solid, brilliant self. Whatever idea I throw at him he has it instantly – it’s just shorthand by now. He just immediately understands and just as immediately translates it into something magical.
After rehearsal, I did a three-mile jog. This was at seven-thirty in the evening and it was still ninety degrees outside. After the jog, I planked, did thirty sit-ups, and then I went to Gelson’s to get something from their deli, but there were six people waiting and they were all “tasters” and slow so I left and went across the street and got a Subway Club. I netted out at 1200 calories. I also had a few grapes and cherries, not necessarily in that order. Then I just relaxed. Recently I got two monographs on two of my favorite theater people – lighting designer Tharon Musser, and my pal Tony Walton. The Tharon Musser one had arrived first and I’d read through it – it’s wonderful, and they do list the play that I did at the Taper that she lit, but they have the wrong set designers listed, so I found the author online and e-mailed him the correction, should they ever do another printing. I’ve just started to go through the Walton book and it looks lovely. Then I went to find the Tharon Musser book and I cannot find it anywhere. It has disappeared. I don’t get it. It’s not in the book room, it’s not in the kitchen, it’s not in the dining room (which is where it was), it’s not in any of the closets, it’s not in the living room or the den – it’s mystifying how it could just disappear. I have looked high and low and low and high and I cannot find it. I’m sure it will just magically appear somewhere at some point.
Today, I am truly hoping to arise after another good night’s beauty sleep. I’ll eat, I’ll do a jog, I’ll hopefully pick up some packages, I’ll twerk, but mostly I hope I’ll just relax all the livelong day and night.
Tomorrow, I have my appointment with Teddy to be coifed, then we have our stumble-through, then I’ll jog, then I’ll eat something light but fun. Sunday, our sound check is at 12:30, the first show is at 3:00, then we have our second show at 7:00.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, twerk, jog, hopefully pick up some packages, eat, and relax. 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, too many to name. Blu and Ray, still have The Great Gatsby to finish. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland where I shall dream twerk all night long.