Well, dear readers, I am sigging hre like so much sigging fish, wondering what the HELL sigging hre means. This is what happens when you are seeing double. In any case, I alm also sitting here like so much fish, tired but happy with yesterday’s rehearsal. I staged the theft of the Japanese Idol “ballet” and got it finished. We’re not doing the Kabuki thing, but I think my take on it is fun, there are several laughs built into the ballet, and everyone had a good time doing it. Of course, it will tighten up and needs to be sharp as a tack, but it’s fast and it gets the point across in a fun way. We thankfully had people there who stood in for the missing folks. Our choreographer showed up at four and watched what we’d done and thought it worked really well. I had her clean up one section that nobody was quite getting, just to make it sharper. After we finished, I made a Gelson’s stop and got a few things from their deli department – some stuffing, two tiny chicken tenders, and a Caesar salad. I came home and at the stuffing and the tenders and I was stuffed, even though it wasn’t all that much food. Then I answered e-mails, had telephonic conversations, sent off all the final book files to the publisher, watched some YouTube videos, ate most of the Caesar salad, and that was pretty much it for my evening. I did watch the first forty minutes of The Window, starring young Bobby Driscoll and that’s a very good B-movie adaptation of an great Cornell Woolrich short story called The Boy Cried Murder. It’s directed by Ted Tetzlaff, one of a handful of movies he directed. He was much better known as a cinematographer – he shot Hitchcock’s Notorious, My Man Godfrey, I Married a Witch, The Talk of the Town, The More the Merrier, and many others. If you haven’t seen The Window, it’s streaming free on Max. Prior to all that, I got a bit over nine hours of sleep, got up, answered e-mails, shaved and showered, and then moseyed on over to the theater after stopping at the mail place to pick up some mail. The rest you know. And now, here’s Peter Filichia’s blurb for Vegas Can Be Murder.
“We all do it. We’re reading a book, and we stop to check how many pages we’ve read. Bruce Kimmel’s VEGAS CAN BE MURDER is one novel where you’ll find that you’ve breezed through many more than you would have assumed. In fact, there’s a good chance you’ll have finished this mystery before you even think to check how you’re doing on pages. For a book that belongs in the category of noir, it sure is colorful, taking us back a half-century to Sin City and L.A. when the former wasn’t as sinful and the latter as smoggy. Opera buffs find as many references to opera buffa and opera seria as Kimmel’s clever red herrings. Never mind ‘What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas’; what happens in VEGAS CAN BE MURDER will stay in your memory for quite some time.”
—Peter Filichia, Broadway Radio
He was VERY careful not to give anything at all away. We should have this up for preorder by Monday.
Today, I’ll be up when I’m up, I’ll have me a complete ME day, although I will spend a few minutes to type up a proper prop list. I have a return to do at Macy’s, I’ll get something to bring home for food, I’ll finish The Window and then just watch, listen, and relax.
Tomorrow is more of the same and then we’re back Tuesday night, during which we’ll be reviewing all the big numbers we’ve done and if there’s time, I may start staging the finale. Wedensday, our leading lady is finally back with us and over the next two days we’ll be doing all the scenes she’s in, which is a LOT of scenes, the huge number, Dancing with Alice, and the very long scene that follows it. We’ve already staged all her musical numbers. Friday is off and that’s the day I do the CAT scan in the afternoon. After the CAT scan I’ll want to avoid traffic, so I’ll go find somewhere to eat in that neighborhood. Plenty of places to choose from. Saturday, we’ll continue staging scenes and hopefully we’ll be close to finishing.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up when I’m up, have a ME day, type up a prop list, do a Macy’s return, get food to bring home, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you dear readers 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 shared the rehearsal, the blurb, and the sigging hre.