Well, dear readers, this week is flying by, like a gazelle singing all three parts of Sing for Your Supper. Speaking of Sing for Your Supper, here’s a little video to start your Tuesday on a happy note (Bb) – yes, from Sunday night’s Kritzerland show, here are Samantha Rosenberg (on the left), Sami Staitman (in the middle), and Sierra Morgan (on the right), or the three S’s as I called them. Samantha and Sierra are two of Sami’s talented high school chums – they did a great job on it. They came in knowing it and having done a little staging – I kept some of that and gave them other stuff and the audience just ate it up.
Wasn’t that fun? Isn’t that a way to begin a Tuesday – with a laugh and a smile and a song? And those harmonies are NOT easy. And that’s the original show arrangement, too. I’ll have some more videos as soon as Sami’s mom gets off her butt cheeks and sends them to me.
Yesterday was perhaps a pleasant little day. I got seven hours of sleep, which is more than I usually get after a Kritzerland show. I then had to get ready, after which I moseyed on over to the Dale of Glen where I had lunch at Damon’s Steak House on Brand Blvd. I guess I’ve walked by it a million times and have never even taken notice of it, but it’s been there since 1939. It’s kind of a fun place – tiki design, with an eclectic menu. I wasn’t that hungry, actually, so I had a pastrami sandwich with cole slaw on toasted rye – it wasn’t great but it wasn’t bad, and the cole slaw was actually really good. The meeting was with Michael Sterling, just a thank you from him for helping with his anniversary show. We talked of many things, of cabbages and kings, but more about cabbages, which are much more interesting than kings. He insisted we share their famous dessert, Butterscotch pudding. I only had three tiny bites, but boy was it good. I’ll come back and try their steak next time.
Then I came home, did some work on the ALS script, rewriting the opening patter for our three producers, moving one act one thing to act two, and that sort of thing. I was happy to see Rob Stevens’ review of Sunday’s show – and was really happy he enjoyed it so much. I had a few telephonic conversations, did a two-and-a-half mile jog during which I ran two-and-a-half miles, came home, plotzed, and eventually sat on my couch like so much fish.
Last night, I watched the first twenty minutes of the new Criterion Blu and Ray of In Cold Blood, the wonderful Richard Brooks film of Truman Capote’s non-fiction novel. All these years later, it’s still brilliant – fresh and scary and not dated at all. Brooks’s direction is great and everything just works and I’ll say more when I’ve finished it. I did watch several of the extras first – some of them are interesting.
After that, I decided to have a swim (I’d heated the pool to a nice bath temperature of ninety-four) – I swam for about twenty minutes. Then I went to Gelson’s for a snack. I got a tiny bit of Super Chinese Slaw, and tried a new kind of mac-and-cheese they’re doing – with hatch chiles. I had a bite just to sample and it was really tasty, so I got about three or four ounces – it’s less calories than standard mac-and-cheese – the kind of serving I had was around two hundred calories (stated right on the sign, which Gelson’s has begun doing in the deli section). I also got a little fruit salad. I came home and ate that damn hatch chile mac-and-cheese all up and I’ll be having that again very soon. I had the tiny bit of slaw and the fuit. I also had the fruit because the fuit was not that enticing. I don’t know about you, but I like my fuit to be enticing. Then I just relaxed.
Today, I’ll be up early for a ten o’clock meeting here in the home environment with my lighting designer and her assistant who’ll actually be with me on show day, since the designer has to be away at a funeral or something. So, we’ll go over everything and make sure we’re good to go on show day. After the meeting, I’ll eat something, hopefully pick up some packages, do a jog at some point, do more ALS work, mostly figuring out entrances and exits, and then I’ll relax and finish In Cold Blood.
The rest of the week is meetings and meals, ALS stuff, some rehearsals, and then the countdown to the show.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, have a meeting, eat, hopefully pick up packages, jog, do ALS work, and then relax. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your favorite true crime books, movies, and TV things? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, where I shall not only sing for my supper, I shall sing for my lunch, too.