Well, dear readers, we’re flying on a wing and a prayer here but hopefully I’ll get these here notes posted. Last night, just before I went to post, everything went down. That was at one-thirty. The good thing about our web guy is that I can text him at that hour and he will deal with it. This was a whole other problem that had to do with his data center. There was/is some piece of equipment there that’s malfunctioning. I was so incensed and I was up until three-thirty waiting for it to be fixed. I finally got fed up and went to sleep at three-thirty with the promise that he’d stick with it until we were up, which he did. We came back up at five-thirty. I woke up at six-thirty for unknown reasons, and I posted the notes then and changed the topic of the day on the board, then went back to sleep until ten.
At eleven-thirty I arrived at our theater and worked a bit with Leslie Stevens’s understudy, Jill Marie Burke. Our cast arrived at noon and we ran all the musical numbers. Then they went to the dressing room and ran lines. We had only about twenty-two people (first week matinees are almost impossible to sell), but they were a wonderful and very vocal group, so the actors really responded to them. Jill got through the show just fine, which is astonishing as she didn’t have a proper put-in rehearsal. She’s been coming to rehearsals from the beginning and studying videos and how the changes work. There were some dropped lines and that sort of thing, but it all went rather smoothly and she’ll be on again two more times, including this coming Saturday evening. Leslie will be back with us on Friday night.
After the performance, a few of us went over to the Burbank Granville – Doug, Adryan, me, Adrienne Visnic and her parents, in from Philadelphia. We all had fun and I had my yummilicious mac-and-cheese. After that, I stopped at Gelson’s to get some Drano for a clogged sink drain, then came home. I poured the Drano and it did the trick. Then I caught up on a plethora of e-mails and just relaxed and played on the computer.
Today is apparently a holiday and there will be no mail and no banking. I think schools are out, too. Therefore, I will finally take a half-day off. But I need to finish casting the Kritzerland show (one gal, one guy, one guest star), and gather up the rest of the music. I did get one of our singers all of their stuff, so that’s one down four to go. I have some liner notes to type up for our next release, which I have to prep this week and get announced. I’m sure I’ll eat something at some point.
Tomorrow, I’m lunching with our very own Mr. Lanny Meyers, and I also have to finish writing patter for the new Sandy act, which will basically be based on our new album. The rest of the week is meetings and meals and Kritzerland stuff and hopefully by today all the site problems will be fixed.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, finish casting, finish choosing songs, finish gathering music and get everything to our singers, eat, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your favorite films of Miss Audrey Hepburn? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, hoping that these here notes will be posted, as we’re flying on a wing and a prayer.