Well, dear readers, first of all, get out those gaily colored eggs and chocolate bunnies and little marshmallow bunnies, for today is a little day I like to call Easter. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, today is Easter. We had to Passover to get to Easter. Anyway, that’s about all I have to say about Easter. I just got home from some after show food, and I am sitting here like so much fish, listening to the Brahms third symphony, having just finished the second. The third is probably my favorite of the four symphonies, and perhaps that is because it’s gorgeous main theme in the third movement was the first Brahms I ever heard, although I had no idea it was Brahms at the time, the time being 1961. A movie came out that I had no interest in seeing, namely Goodbye Again. Something about it didn’t appeal to me and I don’t think it ever played my neighborhood theaters. But I had one of those United Artists movie theme compilation albums and on it Ferrante and Teicher played the theme from Goodbye Again, and that I loved. I looked at the soundtrack album and found that the composer was Georges Auric. Anyway, only much later did I find that the film’s main theme was not, in fact, by Georges Auric, but adapted from the third movement of Brahms’ third. And, of course, the source material for Goodbye Again was Francoise Sagan’s novel, Aimez vous, Brahms? (Do You like Brahms?). Well, I do! Another beauty of a performance from Mr. Ormandy. Anyway, last night we a bit over two-thirds of a house. The show went fine save for a little too much fumfering for my taste and a couple of lower energy than usual moments, so I’ll make sure the cast knows where we need re-energize. The audience seemed to enjoy it and I knew a few folks in attendance, including our very own Donald Feltham. The director of the original The Little Mermaid, John Musker, was there, too. After the show, a couple of us went for food – I had a chili, cheese, and onion hot dog – not bad – no fries or onion rings. Other than finishing the one ounce of Pad Thai earlier in the day, that was it for food. Prior to all that, I got nine hours of good sleep, got up, answered e-mails, had a telephonic call, watched some irritating YouTube videos, but mostly relaxed until it was time to shower. After that, I moseyed on over to the theater and the did our show.
Today, I’ll be up by ten-thirty, I’ll shave and shower, then I’ll mosey on over to the theater, talk to the folks who need to amp up the energy at the beginning of certain scenes. Then we do our matinee. Dear reader Jeanne will be there, and so will several others I know. Hoping it’s a nice vocal audience. After the show, I’m not sure what’s happening, but I suspect I’ll just want to come home and relax.
This week is busy dealing with a lot of stuff, I’ll pray for a very needed modern major miracle, I’ll have a couple of meetings and meals, then we go into our last week of performances, and I surely will miss this show and cast.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up by ten-thirty, shave and shower, see our matinee, come home, eat, and then watch, listen, 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, and wishing everyone a happy Easter and many gaily colored Easter eggs.