Well, dear readers, it is the day before the night of our Annual Oscar Bash, the most fun place to be for the Oscars on all the Internet. Let’s make it a big partay with lots of cheese slices and ham chunks. I will miss all the red carpet stuff due to being at our matinee, so I will expect detailed coverage of every single minute – the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Yesterday was a day that was fun in certain ways. I got up at five-thirty with an upset tummy – that wasn’t fun in certain ways. I finally fell back asleep around six-thirty, then the alarm went off at eight-thirty and frankly the alarm was alarming as I was in the middle of a completely peculiar dream, which I then immediately posted about. She of the Evil Eye arrived and I went and had a cheese omelet and a bagel. After that, I did some errands and whatnot, then picked up a couple of packages, then came home. Once home, I answered e-mails and did a few other things, then I buckled down, Winsocki, and spent most of the afternoon writing the Kritzerland commentary, which I actually finished. I think it came out well, but I’m sure I’ll be futzing and finessing a bit. After that, I sat on my couch like so much fish and watched a bit of the homegrown Warner Archive DVD of Mammy, starring Al Jolson. It’s creaky as can be, but any movie wherein the main song is Let Me Sing and I’m Happy is aces by me. When I was around twelve I became a huge Jolson fan thanks to the repeated showings of The Jolson Story on Million Dollar Movie. I never misses a showing of it, and I could do a great Jolson imitation back then. I’ll finish watching it over the next few days.
Then I moseyed on over to the theater. We had a full house last night, and I knew quite a few people in attendance, including my dear pals, Richard and Elizabeth Sherman. I’d sent a handful of general notes to the cast via the stage manager, and thankfully they all took them to heart and last night we had our show back. In fact, it was a rather spectacularly good show and the audience was hugely vocal, with big laughs and hefty mitts after every single number. The pacing was just about perfect and everything landed really well. Our understudy was on for the second time. I’d sent her some notes after her first time on, and she really took them and was much better. The Shermans told me they had a grand time and I got many wonderful comments about the staging and direction, which is always very gratifying.
After the show, a few of us went out for a bite to Harry’s Coffee Shop nearby. I had a chicken salad sandwich and a few fries and onion rings, all good. There were about ten of us and we all had a good deal of fun. After that, it was quite late and I came right home.
Today, I have a lot to do in the morning, all to do with prepping our new release announcement, for which I have done nothing at all. I need to write the blurb, get the web guy the audio samples and prepare our eBlast. If I can’t get it all together in time, we’ll just delay the announcement until Wednesday, but I’m hoping we can announce on Monday morning. Then I’ll attend the matinee and hope we have a decent-sized crowd. We really never know until hours before – last night was very light at the beginning of the day, but we sold it out. So, we’ll see how it is today. After, I may grab a bite to eat and then come right home by six to watch the Oscars and attend our Oscar Bash right here at haineshisway.com.
This coming week is very busy with meetings and meals, writing, hoping we can start the book design, our new announcement, prepping Sandy’s new show, seeing a couple of things and then resuming our performances on Friday, as well as having a work session for the Kritzerland show.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, prep a release, see a matinee and attend our Annual Oscar Bash. 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, so happy we had such a spectacularly good show.