Well, dear readers, we closed our seven-week run of A Carol Christmas yesterday afternoon. We were sold out and chairs were added, too, so that was a nice way to go out. The show itself was very good and the audience was wonderful. In the hilarity department, there’s a chair on wheels backstage that no one is supposed to touch and no one has for the entirety of the run until yesterday – and in moving it it unplugged the power box for the head mics. I heard it immediately when an off-stage actor had no amplification on her lines and then our leading lady’s mic was off, too. Fortunately, our stage manager immediately texted the fellow who attends to the backstage sound stuff and he plugged it in right before a song started, so that was good. It was the only hiccup, but a scary one. The cast did well, the audience cheered and stood at the end – I don’t like the obligatory standing ovations, but the two we’ve had felt real and earned. I filmed the final two minutes of the show, so here it is.
It’s always bittersweet closing a show you’ve worked so hard on, but all things end and we hopefully move on to other exciting ventures, and of course the hope is that this will have a life and we’ll start attending to that right after the New Year begins. I’ll probably have a little withdrawal but I do have a video of the entire show, unfortunately made prior to putting in one important change and adjusting a few things. But it’s a record of the staging, which I really needed to have. I may eventually put up a clip or two on the Tube of You.
Prior to the matinee, I’d gotten eight hours of sleep, got up, answered e-mails, and then moseyed on over to the theater. I knew quite a few people, so hung out and yakked after the show a bit, then went to Doug’s house for our cast partay.
The cast partay was lots of fun. Doug’s wife, Dorathy, made lots of goodies, plus had a honey baked turkey and ham, and I brought a big ol’ batch of tuna pasta salad, which was very popular and was finished off pretty quickly. We watched a little video the kids in the cast made – pretty funny. I stayed about two-and-a-half hours and only had one tiny slice of ham and a tiny bit of seven-layer dip with no chips. So, I stopped at In N Out and got a cheeseburger to bring home. Once home, I ate it all up, and then relaxed and listened to lots of music. The evening ended on a somewhat sour note when one of the nice things that happened late last week turned not nice and now I have to deal with that, but not until after the New Year. I’m hoping that today I can turn the sour sweet again and then that will solve that problem. So, send some excellent vibes and xylophones if you would for the sour to turn sweet.
Today, I’ll sleep in, get up, do whatever needs doing, hopefully pick up packages, and then I’m eating tuna pasta salad and relaxing. And then we have our Annual New Year’s Rockin’ Eve Bash right here at haineshisway.com, and I’m hoping you all will be here to celebrate the New Year, a little year I like to call 2019, and it is my fervent hope and prayer that 2019 will be a year filled with health, wealth, happiness, creativity, and all things bright and beautiful. At eleven-thirty, I’ll do my little contemplation thing I do every year at that time, and then I’ll ring in the New Year with one sip of champagne, another thing I do every year.
Tomorrow, I’ll get up and begin my new book, one of two I hope to do in 2019, although I’ll probably only publish one. I’ll polish off the rest of the tuna pasta salad, too. The rest of the week is who knows what other than writing every day and a work session on Thursday for the Kritzerland show.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do whatever needs doing, hopefully pick up packages, eat, hopefully have sour turned to sweet, and then attend our Annual New Year’s Rockin’ Eve Bash. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your fondest hopes for the New Year? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy to have had a lovelier than lovely closing performance, and looking forward to our Annual New Year’s Rockin’ Eve Bash this evening as we bid farewell to 2018 and say a happy hello to 2019.