I am here....finally. I was up at the crack of dawn this morning (no mean feat, or even feet) to play not one, but two, early morning gigs. Ugh. The second was a set of auditions for a new rock musical based on Siddhartha. This theater company used me about a year ago to play their first set of auditions for a workshop production of this show. They were doing these group auditions with lots of body exercises, and they were doing all these very weird movements that reminded me of Betsy's cousin, who is one of the best known mimes and Commedia Dell'Arte movement instructors in the world. I kept thinking, "Wow, that looks like one of Danny's moves." Now, you must realize that this company was new to Portland, had never met me and had hired me on the recommendation of another theater company I've MD'd for many times. So anyway during a break two of the company's employees were talking and mentioned a little town in northern California where I know Danny is teaching. And I ask them if they've studied with "Danny". They look at me aghast and say, "Danny? We would never call him Danny!" But it turns out they had been studying with him for two years and one of them had actually been his administrative assistant. So that is my small world story of the morning (actually a year old, but I'm telling it this morning).
To JR re: Starcrossed. Now, now, I only said I might be getting that present. Nothing is finalized (or even formally beginningized, really), it's just looking very promising, so keep fingers crossed and/or starcrossed.
