Well, dear readers, it’s 2016, a brand New Year, so Happy New Year to all of us. And let me say first and foremost that it is my fervent hope and prayer that 2016 will be a year filled with health, wealth, happiness, creativity, and all things bright and beautiful. And it is also my fervent hope and prayer that January will be a month filled with health, wealth, happiness, creativity, and all things bright and beautiful. There, I said it and I’m glad.
And let me tell you that starting 2016 with nine count them nine Robby Award nominations is a wonderful thing. Inside Out is up for Best Production of a Musical, I’m up for directing it, the cast is up for best ensemble in a musical, Sami is up for Best Actress for Welcome to My World, Sandy is up for our It Might Be Fun act that I directed (and which contains all songs by me), I’m up for Best Music and Lyrics for Welcome to My World, and then three of our Kritzerland shows are up – the Jerome Kern show, the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Stephen Sondheim show, and the Andre Previn show.
Yesterday, the final day of 2015, was quite pleasant. I only got about six hours of sleep, but didn’t really care. I got up, I did stuff, we put the script of Welcome to My World up for sale at Kritzerland for signed copies (also available at Amazon), and then I went and had a bacon and cheese omelet and a bagel. After that, I picked up one very tiny package, then came back home. Then I sat on my couch like so much fish.
Yesterday, I finished watching The Bridge series three. I think it’s my favorite season thus far – lots of wonderfully developed characters and interesting goings on. Once you’re on to the trick of these kinds of shows (as with The Killing) you know the routine and it IS a routine – new suspects around every corner, new developments in every episode and you know the culprit has been introduced somewhere along the way. But that’s not what makes this series great – that stuff is all predictable and, for me, is just salad dressing. It’s the main character of Saga Noren that makes this series singular. I don’t want to give anything away about her character for those who haven’t seen it, but it’s pretty unique. And Sofia Helin plays her perfectly, with nary a false note. Her co-star for series one and two is not with us for series three, so we get a new partner. I was kind of not loving his character at the start, and there was a lot of weird stuff going on with his wife, but it all plays out very interestingly and rewardingly. I’m not going to give away anything else other than to say the final two episodes were ever so slightly disappointing, but it’s still highly recommended by the likes of me.
I had a little tuna for my evening snack (no bread) and that and my earlier meal was all I ate yesterday. After all that viewing, we had our amazing New Year’s Rockin’ Eve Bash – not as well attended this year as other years, but still fun and still a large number of postings. We watched our balls drop at midnight and I toasted in the New Year (2016) with my annual sip of champagne.
Today, I’ll be up by ten to begin writing my new novel, which I’m very much looking forward to. Then in the late afternoon I’ll mosey on over to the Pearl household for a New Year’s partay, which I’m also looking forward to. If I’m feeling up to it, I may even do a New Year’s jog. I hope everyone has a lovely, warm, and cozy day.
The weekend is pretty free, but I will write each day, I’ll make a show order and begin writing the commentary, just to get that stuff out of the way. Then the first week of January gets busy – I’m hoping we can get a CD released at some point in the first week, we’ll be setting our rehearsal schedule, I’ll write every day, as well as work on the LA show (and I need to really get my collaborators to buckle down, Winsocki and start getting me material.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, begin a new novel, maybe take a jog, and attend a partay. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player and your DVD/Blu and Ray player? I’ll start – CD, a lot of stuff. Blu and Ray, perhaps an Edgar Wallace German krimi movie from the early 1960s. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, as we joyously welcome in the New Year, 2016. And yes, it is my fervent hope and prayer that 2016 and January will be a year and month filled with health, wealth, happiness, creativity, and all things bright and beautiful.