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June 5, 2016:

GETTING MY WITS ABOUT ME

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Well, dear readers, we had a perfectly lovely stumble-through yesterday. Not the smoothest we’ve had, but really fun to hear all these great 70s songs sung so beautifully. We had some lyric fumfers that must be rectified by show time and the fumferers know that. Guy Haines was a no-show so I sang his three numbers and am happy to say didn’t fumfer – so send excellent vibes and xylophones that should I have to sing tonight that I will get through it again sans fumfer. This is just a terrific cast and it’s great having Grant Geissman sit in – he plays on two of my songs and has a solo, but today he also played along on about four others and I think he’ll probably do that this evening as well. Anyway, as you know, the stumble-throughs are the first time the cast is together and there’s just something magical about performing for each other. We only do the music – I don’t do the commentary. After, I gave notes, we ran a few things, and we were done.

Then Sami, her mom, Doug Haverty, and I all went to Jerry’s Deli for some food. I hadn’t eaten anything at all – I had an omelet and a bagel, Sami had her beloved chicken matzo ball soup (shared with mom) and fries, and Doug had a wrap of some sort. We all had a good time. They were also constantly checking on a horrifying and dangerous fire in Calabasas, not so far from Sami’s school, which is not so far from where they live. Scary stuff.

Prior to the stumble-through I’d slept ten gloriously glorious hours, got my wits about me, then did a jog for the first time in months. On the jog I ran my patter and the three Guy Haines songs repeatedly. It’s been very hot here, in the 100s, but I like running in the heat. Then I did some banking, then relaxed until the stumble-through.

After I returned from dinner, I just sat on my couch like so much fish and relaxed. I’d enjoyed that Netflix viewing of The Lady in the Car With Glasses and a Gun so much that I got the Blu-ray of it and I watched it last night – and I liked it even better. After that, I just zoned out, printed out the commentary and got everything ready for today and that was that.

Today, I shall hopefully arise after a good night’s beauty sleep, then I’ll get my wits about me, do a jog whilst running the opening commentary (which I now like to do by heart) and the three Guy Haines songs, then I’ll just relax and rest my voice until it’s time to leave for sound check. Then I eat my beloved artichoke and then it’s the show. After, I’m sure a few of us will go eat some food. I will, of course, have a full report for you.

Tomorrow I attend a banquet for the theater academy at a downtown club. Tuesday I tape a radio show with our very own Mr. Donald Feltham. Wednesday I’m lunching with Richard Sherman, Milt Larsen and a couple of others, Friday I’m seeing a local production of The Fantasticks, and I think I also have to see something else on the weekend.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, jog, rest, do a sound check and do a show. 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, after which I shall get my wits about me and do a show.

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