One of the results of Monday's dinner and learning about the fall of the New York State Theatre Institute is that I started going through the contact sheets for the shows I scored for them and seeing who's on Facebook. I added several new friends today. My beloved Laura Krause, my intern on A TALE OF CINDERELLA, is a stage manager for the Washington Opera in DC, so I hope I see her next time I'm in DC. Child actor Ben Golub, whose parents were wonderful friends, is grown up and living in Fredonia, and Dominic Fallacaro, who was the smallest and most adorable little boy in the ensemble of THE SNOW QUEEN (I think everyone in the production wanted to adopt him and carry him around), is a working musician in Brooklyn. I just ordered his CD. Dominic and I just exchanged emails and we'll hopefully get together soon.
I am so happy for all of them. I'm still waiting to hear from others.