Well, dear readers, the long weekend continues and so do I. I, for example, am writing these here notes, which is a form of continuance. To continue the continuance, I shall continue, and I don’t care who knows it. Did I watch a motion picture last night? I did not do anything of the sort. Did I listen to music? I did not do anything of the sort, although I did listen to music the other day, because I was thinking about the musical version of The Comedy of Errors that I wrote with Shakespeare. Well, the adaptation was by James McCloskey, at teacher at LACC and we did a gloriously glorious production at the end of 1972. We were an official entry in the American College Theatre Festival and got to the finals, one of only a few shows to do so. It’s all in There’s Mel, There’s Woody, and There’s You. I’ve been thinking maybe it’s time to do a production again. It was really a good show, audiences loved it, and I believe we would have won the Festival had it not been for Mr. Richard Nixon doing trade things with Japan, because the winner was some Kabuki thing from some other college, a real collegiate show, whereas had we won I believe our show would have had a really long life. But things happen the way they happen and there’s nothing to be done about it. Anyway, I listened to a live recording of the score and it’s really cute and tuneful and fun. If I had money to burn, I’d record it properly. Almost all of the lyrics from the show appear in my book of lyrics. I’d never seen any photos from the production so I asked in an LACC alum group if there were any and one of the actors, Micheal Goodrow, who you might remember from Eight Is Enough, had quite a few, so I thought it would be fun to share them with you. It’s hard to see the set in these, but it was very colorful and clever, a big series of scrim panels that turned so people could come through them. You can sort of see them in a couple of the photos. The costumes were great, too. It was a really professional production. And not only that, it was reviewed TWICE in the Los Angeles Times, once by a second-stringer and surprisingly by the lead critic, Dan Sullivan. He really liked the show, and praised the score in one paragraph and in the next said I was no Rodgers and Hart, a rather ignorant comment, since the entire idea was NOT to be Rodgers and Hart, since we already HAD a Rodgers and Hart version of The Comedy of Errors, called The Boys from Syracuse. We were the antithesis of that show in every possible way. I also staged the musical numbers, which was a lot of fun. Anyway, I thought it would be fun to share the photographs, so here they are.
Aren’t those fun? I think they’re fun. I had fun looking at them and I’m having fun writing about them. Maybe I’ll try to convince someone to do it. A unit set, a small band, and a really large cast with lots of great roles.
Yesterday was what it was, which was yesterday. I got eight hours of sleep, got up, did a little bit more proofing of the copy going to blurber one, and then sent it off. I kind of skimmed to the end and didn’t seen any problems. I got a 50% off coupon from UberEats and checked out the Subway they go to for delivery, which is the one just two minutes from here. The prices were cheaper than the other one – in some instances by three or four dollars and in one instance, five dollars. That’s just nuts. I ordered two wraps – a ham and turkey and a veggie wrap with a little avocado. It cost less to order it than going there. I had the meat one first, then much later I had the veggie. I wouldn’t do two wraps in one day again. I might do one wrap and one six-inch sandwich. Calorie-wise it was under 950 for the two, which is what I wanted.
Then I got proofer two’s fixes, but in a format I couldn’t open, so he had to redo as a Word document. I got the first half of that just before writing these here notes, so that’s what I’ll be doing after I post them. I’ll get the second half on Monday. Otherwise, I did watch a few silly videos on the Tube of You and at some point I did a quick CVS run for more Pepcid – half price with coupons – and I stopped at the liquor store that sells UK candy and bought a few for the next few days.
Today, I’ll be up when I’m up and if I haven’t entered all the fixes, I’ll continue doing that and then I’ll run any I’m uncertain about by Muse Margaret. There are times when a lot of commas are being called for and it’s all correct usages of them, but I don’t like commas if they stop the eye in an unnatural way or break the rhythm of a sentence that is dependent on its rhythm for effect. At some point, I’ll eat, and I’m sure I’ll watch, listen, and relax.
Tomorrow is Labor Day, a holiday in which we ironically do no labor. I’m gonna try to make it a ME day. The rest of the week is rehearsals for Doug Haverty’s play and working on the project with David Wechter.
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, enter fixes if I haven’t finished doing that, run some things by Muse Margaret, 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, happy to be reminiscing about our fabulous production of The Comedy of Errors, our musical version.