Well, dear readers, last night we opened our little revue to an enthusiastic and sold out (forty-six) crowd. The show went swimmingly for the most part, with only a couple of things not as good as they were the previous night, and I think there were reasons for it. But the audience really seemed to enjoy it, the pace was great, and there were several quite large applause during the evening – we kind of started to get a standing ovation (about fourteen people) but the way the curtain call is designed we don’t really give them a chance to go all the way because there’s another musical number after the bows. I was very proud of the cast. After the show, the theater had a little bash in the lobby of their main space, with food and drink, and that was a lot of fun, and they very thoughtfully had two birthday cakes there – one for Dana Dewes, whose birthday it was, and one for me, whose birthday it was about to be. On my cake, they had a photo of me from my long ago acting days – fun! So, now we can hopefully settle into our run and just enjoy ourselves from here on in.
Prior to the show, I’d gotten up around ten-thirty after eight hours of sleep, then I printed out some orders, answered e-mails, spent some time on the phone with Apple sorting out a Mail problem (for my Roadrunner accounts Time Warner had, without telling anyone, changed the mail server name and once we updated it everything was fine). Then I had a chopped salad with avocado, picked up no packages, came home, and sat on my couch like so much fish.
Yesterday, I watched the first forty minutes of Murder on the Orient Express on Blu and Ray – in Spain they released a four-disc set of the Agatha Christie films – and it’s really an enjoyable film with a wonderful cast. I’m not sure what I think of the transfer yet, but I’ll keep watching. It’s a film with a lot of opticals done at a time when opticals were at their lowest ebb, or, conversely, their lowest kander. I’m sure it’s the same source material used for the overseas release of the four films on DVD. I’m not sure if I have the old Paramount DVD here anymore – I’ll have to look and see and, if I do, compare. Then I got ready and the twenty-five minute drive to the theater only took forty-five minutes.
I must say, I had a little too much food after the show – a turkey sandwich, small onion rings and a cup of chili. I’m feeling very full right now. But it was good to sit with friends and unwind – it’s been a very tension-filled three weeks – that much I can tell you.
Today I shall hopefully arise after a good night’s beauty sleep. I may try to jog if the weather’s okay (it was rainy yesterday during the only time I could jog, so I didn’t), otherwise I’ll relax and enjoy my new age before I mosey on over to the theater to see our little revue. I do believe dear reader Jeanne will be there with a friend. After the show, I’m being taken for a birthday meal, and then in the evening I’ll stop by Doug Haverty’s to make an appearance at his annual holiday Do.
Tomorrow will be catching up on all the benefit stuff, choosing songs, and seeing where we’re at in terms of the show itself, so I can start figuring out a tentative show order. There’s a lot of work to do. Tuesday is more of that, then we have a put-in rehearsal in the evening. The rest of the week is meetings and meals and benefit stuff, then we’re back to our show on Thursday night.
Let’s all put on our pointy party hats and our colored tights and pantaloons, let’s all break out the cheese slices and the ham chunks, let’s all dance the Hora or the Box Step, for today is the birthday of – ME. I am of a new age as I type this sentence, sixty-six to be exact, and proud of it. And it is my fervent hope and prayer that my sixty-sixth year will be a year filled with health, wealth, happiness, creativity, and all things bright and beautiful.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, maybe jog, relax, attend our matinee, have a birthday meal, and go to a Holiday Do. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you dear readers get to make with the topics and we all get to post about them. So, let’s have loads of lovely topics and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy to be a New Age and hoping it will be a good one.