Well, dear readers, I have literally spent this entire day, with two meal breaks, working on the little theatrical I’m creating for Sami Staitman. Everything I’ve written so far is on separate papers and not in script format, so I decided to get all that done and it took the entire day and the entire evening, non-stop. First I had to get everything into the script format I used for my other musicals. That was on a bit by bit basis – I’d have to enter the dialogue, get it in the right format for character name, stage direction and character direction, then I’d go find the lyric sheet for the song, then put that in the script in its correct form. All the while trying to approximate some kind of sequence (anything past scene four will, most likely, get moved around when I write more stuff). I ended up writing three new things and one new song, plus the ideas and some dummy lyrics for two other songs. It was just one thing after another and was tiring and exhilarating at the same time. When all was said and done I was surprised to see that I’m probably over halfway done at this point. Right now there are eight finished songs and two that I’m just starting to write. There will probably be at least four to five more.
Prior to starting that, I’d finally gotten a good night’s beauty sleep of ten count them ten hours. I really needed it and I felt so much better. At noon I went and had a Cobb Salad with 1000-Island dressing and a bagel. Then I picked up no packages and came home, where I went back to work on the script. At five, our very own Mr. Nick Redman called. He was in Glendale and the freeway was a parking lot, so we decided to go have a bite to eat so he could miss the traffic. We both had creamy tomato soup and we split some french fries. Then he went on his merry way and I went back to work, finished the song I was working on (one of the show’s only ballads), and then finally was done. Usually there is more to report but that was my day and that was my night.
Today, I shall do some more work on the songs, I will hopefully pick up some packages, and then Sami and her mome come at four-thirty and we’ll work on the show until six. Then we’ll go eat, and then they’re coming to see our show, which resumes performances. At this point in time we have about a half a house, and hopefully that will go up tomorrow, which has been the pattern.
Tomorrow, I’ll relax, and then I’ll probably attend the show, or maybe just meet up after. We’ll see how I feel. Sunday I’ll see the first act of our show’s matinee, then attend the closing of George Carlin’s daughter’s one-woman show at the Falcon Theater. Next week we have our Kritzerland rehearsals, and I’ve got a bunch of meetings and meals, too, then we resume performance, but I also have our stumble-through and then our sound check and show.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, write, hopefully pick up packages, have a work session, eat and see our 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, Bernard Herrmann’s Obsession. Blu and Ray, next up is The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy to have had a productive but exhausting day of writing and bit by bit putting it together.