Well, dear readers, today is the day after yesterday and the day before tomorrow, namely Friday. And they say we don’t have any worthwhile and topical information in these here notes. Phut to them, I say. We are always up to the minute here at haineshisway.com with all the breaking news. For example, here’s some breaking news: I had a patty melt for dinner. You see, you see? There is not one other website that has gotten that breaking story yet. Yes, for news, there is nothing like haineshisway.com.
Yesterday was a pleasant day. I slept nine glorious hours, then got up, did the usual morning stuff: Answered e-mails, had telephonic conversations, and did work on the computer. Then I went to the theater to check in with my set and lighting people – I hung out there for an hour, then picked up one package, then came home. Then it was time for the second Kritzerland rehearsal.
I’m thinking that this show is going to really be fun. I will say that the What If is long, but I always have to be true to the original form of the song or it doesn’t work for me. But I’m just hoping we have enough musical theater people who know both Pacific Overtures and Peter Pan that will appreciate it and find it funny. Certainly it makes me laugh. Everyone did a good job and were mostly off book, which is always a good thing for the second rehearsal. And yesterday we had Jason Graae with us, and Sharon McNight. Jason is singing his wacky version of the Rodgers and Hart song, Mimi, and he’s doing She Touched Me from Drat! The Cat!, which he recorded on my studio cast album of that show. Sharon is doing a funny song called Haiku, and then her really interesting and rather brilliant version of The Man I Love. She did the arrangement with someone she worked with quite a while ago. The rehearsal went to about 7:45. All I’d eaten up until then was a couple of pieces of salami and provolone cheese and some Pop chips, maybe about 150 calories all in.
After the rehearsal, I went right over to Jerry’s Deli because they’re kind of dead at that hour. Except, that is, for last night. Last night they were not only not dead at that hour, the jernt was packed to the rafters. I couldn’t believe it. All my usual booths were taken, my waitress was harried and slow and it was quite irritating. I had the aforementioned breaking news patty melt and a cup of chicken soup. After that, I came home.
It was obviously too late for a motion picture, so I just played on the computer and did a little work. I forgot to mention that the other day I was alerted to the fact that someone had posted The First Nudie Musical in its entirety on You Tube. They’d just ripped the DVD on there. I don’t mind a few clips, but I don’t want the whole film there for free. So, I wrote You Tube and asked them to pull it down – once they get that notice from the rights’ holder, they really do act quickly and it was taken down in about four hours.
Today, I have a noon o’clock lunch meeting, then I go directly to the theater to work with our lighting person, doing a dry tech while he writes the show. The stage manager will also be there and learning the cues as we go. Then at five we’ll work through a few things, and then we’ll do a complete run-through with no stops, and the lighting guy will run all the cues while we’re doing so. If there are mistakes we’ll address them after the run.
Tomorrow, I think our call will be eleven, and we’ll begin our run-through at noon-thirty, which will finish us by two. Then we do the Kritzerland stumble-through at three, then, if I feel we need to, we might go back to the theater for some more work. Sunday we’ll have a complete dress/tech at about one or one-thirty. After that, we go directly to The Federal for sound check and then our show. Monday is a holiday and a day off, then Tuesday we have our dress/tech, Wednesday an invited dress, Thursday and Friday previews and then we open our little show.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do a jog, eat, work with the lighting guy, and then have a run-through. 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, Stan Kenton and George Shearing stuff. Blu and Ray, next up is Summer Lovers. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy we are always at the forefront with breaking news.