Well, dear readers, this week is flying by, like a gazelle twirling a baton and singing Yes, We Have No Bananas. Yes, We Have No Bananas has always been a favorite song, especially when it’s sung with a twirling baton. I sang it quite often in my younger years, albeit without the baton. I could never twirl a baton and could therefore never be a baton twirler. But I’ve always depended on the kindness of baton twirlers – Tennessee Williams did, too. I feel we should all get a baton and twirl it, even those of us who don’t know how to do such a thing. I feel that today should be declared Baton Twirling Day. I can be stopped easily if someone would only tell me what the HELL I’m talking about? What does baton twirling have to do with the price of bananas? Of course we have no bananas so price is irrelevant. This entire paragraph is irrelevant in a sort of relevant way – which is an enigma wrapped inside a conundrum if you get my meaning and I know you do.
Whew, I’m certainly glad that paragraph has ended as I was about to not only twirl a baton but do the splits whilst doing so. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen a sixty-six year old Jew do the splits, but it isn’t that pretty. In any case, yesterday was a day of many moods. I got up at six and announced our Encore Edition. I went back to sleep around seven-thirty and didn’t get up again until eleven-thirty and then I had to rush to get ready for the noon work session with Lloyd Cooper, our musical director for the April Kritzerland show.
He arrived and we spent about ninety minutes going over all the material and I think it’s going to be a very fun show – more comic material than we usually have, so that’s fun in itself, but some beautiful ballads, too. Lloyd was very prepared and it all went very smoothly and effortlessly. Then he left and I went and picked up a couple of packages and then came back home. I had to do some work on the computer, mostly having to do with the problematic eBook version of Red Gold – that should go back up online in the next week or so. Then I sat on my couch like so much fish.
Yesterday, I finished watching the first episode of season two of Sherlock. It will be my final episode watching via Netflix – the quality is awful and they have a glitch on Netflix when you’re watching one episode after another – they skip the pre-credits sequence. How stupid is that? Season one ends with a cliffhanger. Then I start season two and it’s not resolved or so it would appear. So, I went online to see why and sure enough there were all these complaints about Netflix and this problem. I went back and pressed rewind and it went back to the real beginning and they of course resolved the cliffhanger right there. I thought the season two premiere was very good – it’s just stylishly done and the actors are great. So, I’ve got season two and season three Blu-rays arriving on Wednesday and then I’ll watch in wonderful quality.
After that, I had dinner with the Brown family – that would be young Brennley Brown and her mom and dad. They’re really nice folks and we had a fun dinner and talked about all manner of things. Brennley is starring in a one-night staged presentation of Ruthless! for the Musical Theatre Guild. Unfortunately, that organization, whose shows have always been on Monday nights, have, this season, done them on Sundays, frequently conflicting with our Kritzerland shows, which is the case for this one. It’s a shame – we lose some of our audience to them and I am here to tell you that they certainly lose some of their audience to us. Such is life and I’m just sad I won’t see Brennley do the show. I had a cup of chili and a grilled cheese and bacon sandwich with some onion rings, all great.
Then I came home, did more work on the computer and that was that. I also got word that Red Gold shipped yesterday and should be here within five days, much faster than I thought. We will ship them out the day they arrive.
Today, I have a Sandy and Lanny work session at noon, then hopefully I’ll pick up some packages, then I’m seeing a staged reading of three one-act musical things written by Adryan Russ and Doug Haverty.
Tomorrow, I have an eleven o’clock meeting at LACC to see some preliminary set designs for Li’l Abner, then in the evening it’s back to mixing And the World Goes Round. Thursday may or may not be a Sandy and Lanny work session, and I may or may not have a production meeting at LACC, but I will be hopefully finishing the mix that night. Then it’s more meetings and meals and I think I’m seeing some show on the weekend.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, maybe jog, have a work session, eat, hopefully pick up some packages and then see a staged reading. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your favorite novelty songs like Yes, We Have No Bananas – the ones that really tickle you? And what was your first introduction to the wonderful world of Sherlock Holmes. Mine was reading a couple of the Conan Doyle stories, and seeing a few of the Rathbone films on TV in the 1950s. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, after which I shall attempt to twirl a baton whilst singing Yes, We Have No Bananas and doing the splits.