There were some wonderful moments at this afternoon's memorial service: Rebecca Luker sang a glorious "How Could I Ever Know" from THE SECRET GARDEN, and she and George Dvorsky closed the service with the moving duet from BRIGADOON, "From This day On." My friend Jeanne looked wonderful and the church was packed with people. There were tons of friends at the reception after, and it was great to see so many people I like and care about. I hadn't seen the wonderful conductor Jack Lee in several years and we're going to meet soon for a snack and gossip. I was really happy to see a friend from my dinner theatre actor days, Michael Hayward Jones, with whom I last worked at Goodspeed in 1998. Michael had been in A TALE OF TWO CITIES, which I saw, but we hadn't visited in 12 years. I also saw friends from the NYC Gay Community Marching Band and the Men's Chorus, Donna Lynne Champlin and her new husband, Danny Burstein, who is so wonderful as Luther Billis that I am ecstatic his performance will be committed to video, Mrs Ron Raines aka Dona D Vaughn, mother of my beloved goddaughter, and a lot of others.
I just had a half of a sub and potato salad for dinner, and I will now open today's mail and chill out.
Thanks for the update. But I thought Danny Burstein was married to Rebecca Luther. Am I wrong? Is that over?
Danny is married to Rebecca. Did I imply otherwise? I hope I didn't!
I had a great time visiting with Rebecca, Danny, George, and Donna Lynne and Andy, her new husband whom she met on match.com; I told her it was thrilling to see desperation end so happily. Andy is great and he clearly has as wonderful a sense of humor as Donna Lynne.