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June 2, 2014:

KRITZERLAND AT STERLING’S 46

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Well, dear readers, Kritzerland at Sterling’s 46 was a wonderfully wonderful show filled with great songs and great performances, a great and warm audience (almost full but not quite), and not even a mid-show earthquake could shake us, to coin a phrase or to phrase a coin.  The patter worked well and the comments after the show were wonderful, too.  Here are some actual photographs taken during the actual show and before and after.  First, here’s our stellar group of player along with me, co-producer Adryan Russ and musical director Lloyd Cooper.

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Here’s the delectable Kim Huber, who was on fire last night.

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Here’s Cynthia Ferrer doing He Had Refinement.  It was in the middle of this number that the earthquake hit – it wasn’t a big one or anything but everyone sure felt it – after her number, I, of course, joked about us always liking to shake up the room.  I have to tell you, this year has seen way too many of these little temblors and they really need to stop, period.

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Here’s Zachary Ford doing one of his three numbers.

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Here’s Sarah Staitman, who did a terrific job with her song.

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Here’s Tara Maureen Browne doing Pink Taffeta Sample Size 10, a song she did in Lost and Unsung at LACC.  This is a girl who really knows how to act a song – simple and extremely moving.  In fact, we worked really hard on it at LACC and once she got it her performance never fails to reduce me to tears.

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Here’s Sami, who really nailed Nobody Does It Like Me – she got the biggest hand she’s ever gotten at a Kritzerland show.  Her growth these past seven months has been astonishing to watch and I’m very proud of her.

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Here’s our very own Robert Yacko, who did his three numbers perfectly.

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Here’s Jenna Lea Rosen doing what has become a regular thing at the Kritzerland shows – stopping the show.

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Here’s our guest star Kerry O’Malley who did a fantastic Where Am I Going, maybe the best I’ve ever heard.  This gal is pure magic.

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And here’s my very own self as I finish Pick Yourself Up.

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We had our usual lovelier than lovely audience, which included a bunch of the LACC Abner kids, many of our regulars (we really do get people coming month in and month out), wonderful Tom Hatten and his ever-lovin’ Pete Menefee, the loyal Howard Green from Disney, and I’m told that the original voice of Disney’s Alice from Alice in Wonderland was with us, too.

After, a few of us went to Little Toni’s for some food.  I had a tiny bit of salad and two slices of pizza.  Then I came home and had what was waiting for me here – my yummilicioius chocolate peanut butter thing from yesterday’s excursion to K’s Donuts.

Prior to all that I’d gotten over ten hours of blessed sleep, I did a two-mile jog and then I relaxed until it was time to go to our sound check.  At the club I had my usual artichoke.

Today, I have to finish the liner notes I began on Friday.  I also have to attend to some business and get something done that’s way overdue – I cannot let that slide anymore.  I’m sure I’ll eat something, and hopefully I’ll pick up some packages, and I’ll start choosing songs for the next Kritzerland shows – our salute to the great shows of Off-Broadway (or B’way shows that began Off-Broadway, too).  It’s a tricky show because there are way too many great shows and only seventeen or eighteen songs we can do – and I really should do some stuff from the huge number of Off-Broadway shows I’ve recorded – so I’m sure it will be daunting but do it I must.  And we have to cast it, too.

Tomorrow, Richard Sherman will come by and we’ll sign the 100 copies of the sheet music.  The rest of the week is meetings and meals, and I’m seeing Doug Haverty’s play at the Group Rep, and at some point this week, I’m hoping the timing is right for me to send my e-mail in about the bad business.  But a slightly lighter week, which I really need.  And hopefully I can get our next release in for approval by Tuesday and hopefully they’ll approve quickly.  And we’ll ship our latest two releases at some point this week.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, finish liner notes, eat, hopefully pick up packages, do what’s way overdue, choose songs, cast, and relax.  Today’s topic of discussion: If you could choose any theme or composer for a Kritzerland show, who or what would it be and why?  Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy we had a hugely successful Kritzerland at Sterling’s 46.

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