Good morning, all! I had a very, very peculiar dream involving being driven to an audition by Queen Elizabeth II, who drives like a fiend around London and auditions in a high soprano voice that only dogs for the most part can hear. The really odd part of this dream is that I was in a court room on some litigation case and the Queen showed up, when the whole thing became an audition.
Last night at 8:30, I went down to O'Lunney's on 50th Street next to the threatre where THE FANTASTICKS is playing, for one of David Lutken's hootenanny nights. David replaced Keith Carradine in THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES, and he is a fantastic performer, who knows every folksong ever written. I first ran into him during the City Opera's PAUL BUNYAN, in which he played the balladeer. Whenever he comes into town, he has one of his hootenannies and actors and musicians turn up with fiddles, guitars, basses, tambourines, mandolins, etc. and play along. Since David's in our show, a lot of the cast, producers, and stage manager showed up and it was a lot of fun. I left around 10, got home by 10:30, and I was in bed by 11:15.
Today at noon, we begin rehearsals, and I'm excited. I've got music to photocopy before I show up, but I think it will be a good day.
Fingers crossed.
More coffee!
