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May 29, 2016:

TWELVE HOURS

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Well, dear readers, I do believe I slept twelve hours yesterday. Yes, you heard it hear, dear readers, I fell asleep around one-thirty and woke up around one-thirty. I couldn’t believe it, but I really must have needed it. Of course half the day was gone but I didn’t give a flying Wallenda.

I got up, answered e-mails, relaxed, picked up a couple of packages including that nifty photo with George Kennedy, and then had a Chinese chicken salad and a bagel for lunch at Jerry’s Deli. When I was leaving, my waitress was near the cash register bemoaning that she’d just been left a one dollar tip on a sixty dollar check, so either the group of diners were idiots or they thought they left a ten instead of a one – either way, I felt bad for her so I gave her their tip. Then I went to CVS because I had a 30% off coupon, so I got more Sambucol, some Mucinex-D, and some other little stuff at quite a nice savings. Then I came home and sat on my couch like so much fish.

Last night, I watched a motion picture on Blu and Ray entitled The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. I’ve always enjoyed the movie even though I know it’s less than great. Jodie Foster is simply wonderful in it, Martin Sheen is creepy beyond belief, Alexis Smith is nasty, and Scott Jacoby is endearing. I like the music by Christian Gaubert, and it was shot in Montreal, all gray and rainy, which is appealing to me. A lovely transfer from MGM/UA, certainly one of the best I’ve seen from them. I don’t think the movie will be everyone’s cuppa but I like it.

After that, I went to Gelson’s and got a quarter of a pound of ham and some bagels, along with a tiny bit of salad from the salad bar, came home, and that was my evening snack – a ham sandwich on a bagel, and salad. I played on the Internet, and then some clips are finally arriving from the LA show. We shot the whole thing and I’ll have that all strung together at some point next week, but I’ll have nice separate clips of several musical numbers. In fact, here’s one now – the show’s opening number, with the usual caveats – shot from one angle, a bit dark, but you’ll get the idea. My choreographer allowed me to stage this number because she knows I love to do this kind of number – but she knew she could adjust or fix anything she didn’t like, but happily she liked it all and didn’t touch it. Of course that’s Robert Yacko center, and our other pro, April Audia, and then our wonderful student cast.

Wasn’t that fun? I’ll have more over the next few days.

Today, I shall just relax some more because I need to. I’ll eat, watch movies, and that’s about it because this coming week is super duper busy.

Tomorrow is a holiday, of course, but I have a work session with our musical director, then dinner with Richard and Elizabeth Sherman at the Smoke House, where I’ll be getting all the Indiegogo signed musical quotes. Tuesday is our first Kritzerland rehearsals, Thursday morning I’m attending an informal reading of a musical, then we have our second rehearsal and then our pick-up session for the LA show cast album, then we have our stumble-through on Saturday, and our sound check and show on Sunday.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, relax, watch, eat, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you dear readers get to make with the topics and we all get to post about them. So, let’s have loads of lovely topics and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy to have slept for twelve hours.

 

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