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[elmore3003]

Joshie just delivered the full score and orchestra parts as pdf files, and i have sent them on to the conductor and his librarian.

[elmore3003]

Page 3 Dance!

[Jane]

We past two accidents which slower traffic.  Hopefully the roads will continue to be clear and free of accidents.  If so we will arrive on time in Ashland.

[Jane]

Keith's phone has an app to take videos and post them directly to Facebook.  The video is no longer on his phone and  appeared briefly on fb.  I only saw it when I opened a comment from a friend regarding the video.  Now both the video and comment are gone, very odd.

[Jane]

Does anyone know how to find all your videos on fb?

[Jane]

 We just had to pay a $5 toll 

[elmore3003]

Does anyone know how to find all your videos on fb?

Aren't they under your photo albums?

[FJL]

We got a rejection email for [your show] from one of the first places we sent it, but it's got to be one of the nicest rejection letters I can recall ever getting.  This is one of the first rejection letters Marian (my collaborator) has gotten as a writer.  I hope she doesn't think all rejection letters are this nice.




Thank you for submitting [your show] to the New Works Program at the [name blocked out] Theatre.

We have enjoyed reviewing your materials for [your show] and are quite taken with the style of your writing. It is great to see this story adapted with heart into a musical. While the premise of this piece is fascinating as a lively journey with a great message, we have filled our development slots at this time.

[bk]

I'm up, I'm up - about five and a half hours of sleep.

[elmore3003]

We got a rejection email for FAMILY MUSIC from one of the first places we sent it, but it's got to be one of the nicest rejection letters I can recall ever getting.  This is one of the first rejection letters Marian (my collaborator) has gotten as a writer.  I hope she doesn't think all rejection letters are this nice.




Thank you for submitting FAMILY MUSIC to the New Works Program at the [name blocked out] Theatre.

We have enjoyed reviewing your materials for FAMILY MUSIC and are quite taken with the style of your writing. It is great to see this story adapted with heart into a musical. While the premise of this piece is fascinating as a lively journey with a great message, we have filled our development slots at this time.

Very nice, DR FJL!  How many places have been sent the show?

[elmore3003]

Fed Ex has come and gone, I've put my mail on hold during my trip, I've got my flight confirmation, I've sent the overture files to Ohio, and I've sent Joshie a thank you gift.  I'm exhausted!

[FJL]

We got a rejection email for FAMILY MUSIC from one of the first places we sent it, but it's got to be one of the nicest rejection letters I can recall ever getting.  This is one of the first rejection letters Marian (my collaborator) has gotten as a writer.  I hope she doesn't think all rejection letters are this nice.




Thank you for submitting FAMILY MUSIC to the New Works Program at the [name blocked out] Theatre.

We have enjoyed reviewing your materials for FAMILY MUSIC and are quite taken with the style of your writing. It is great to see this story adapted with heart into a musical. While the premise of this piece is fascinating as a lively journey with a great message, we have filled our development slots at this time.

Very nice, DR FJL!  How many places have been sent the show?

Thanks, Larry!  I've been sending it in as New Works programs and contests have been showing up on nycp.blogspot and Playbill, and I've lost count of how many synopses we've sent out.  This is the third response we've gotten to the script and score.  The other two were just bland cookie-cutter thanks-but-not-for-us type of form letters. 

[FJL]

Or more accurately, form emails.

[John G.]

It's good stuff, FJL. It will find a home.

[John G.]

Elmore, what was Josh's response to the music?

[FJL]

It's good stuff, FJL. It will find a home.

Thank you so much, John G!!

[elmore3003]

Elmore, what was Josh's response to the music?

Don't know.

[elmore3003]

The Orange Baboon Trump is giving a press conference at the moment, defending the nazi white trash who support him and knocking the people who opposed them.  It's all I can do not to throw the TV out the window.  What a complete ass.

[George]

I was blessed to meet Leontyne Price backstage at the Ravinia Festival where she had just sung the final scene of Salome.  Double points awarded for finally realizing that the gentleman standing next to me, also there to greet her, was William Warfield.

(It was conductor night, too, with James Levine who I knew, and Seiji Ozawa who was at the concert and came back to say hello.)

That's really cool, Chas!

[George]

Last night's pleasure -- the IMAX at the Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk, CT.  It's a "museum" IMAX, so the bulk of what they show are the nature and science documentaries and travelogues and such, but in recent years this one began bringing in a few of the IMAX feature films as well.

And so is this!

[George]

NEGATIVITY BE GONE vibes for BK -- and HEALTH AND WEALTH vibes for the lot of us, damn it to hell.

These are all worth a big DITTO!

TRITTO!

~~~QUARTO!!!!~~~

[George]

We got a rejection email for FAMILY MUSIC from one of the first places we sent it, but it's got to be one of the nicest rejection letters I can recall ever getting.  This is one of the first rejection letters Marian (my collaborator) has gotten as a writer.  I hope she doesn't think all rejection letters are this nice.


Thank you for submitting FAMILY MUSIC to the New Works Program at the [name blocked out] Theatre.

We have enjoyed reviewing your materials for FAMILY MUSIC and are quite taken with the style of your writing. It is great to see this story adapted with heart into a musical. While the premise of this piece is fascinating as a lively journey with a great message, we have filled our development slots at this time.

That is a very polite rejection letter.

[bk]

Back from banking, some chicken tenders, and a small salad.

[FJL]

We got a rejection email for FAMILY MUSIC from one of the first places we sent it, but it's got to be one of the nicest rejection letters I can recall ever getting.  This is one of the first rejection letters Marian (my collaborator) has gotten as a writer.  I hope she doesn't think all rejection letters are this nice.


Thank you for submitting FAMILY MUSIC to the New Works Program at the [name blocked out] Theatre.

We have enjoyed reviewing your materials for FAMILY MUSIC and are quite taken with the style of your writing. It is great to see this story adapted with heart into a musical. While the premise of this piece is fascinating as a lively journey with a great message, we have filled our development slots at this time.

That is a very polite rejection letter.

That's what I was wondering when we got it, and George, maybe you'd know since you work at a theatre which probably gets scripts. Are they being polite for some reason I don't know, or are they saying they actually liked the aspects they mentioned, but it's not right for their audience or something like that.

[Jane]

Driving the last couple of hours, and the most beautiful stretch, to Ashland .  It is a beauday.

[bk]

And now I am on a Duke Ellington kick.  I can't even remember what got me onto the Duke last night - isn't that funny?  But I didn't even get into bed until three because I'd pulled out all the Ellington CDs off the shelf and began getting them into iTunes.  Oh, yeah, I remember now - there was an Ellington suite from The River on one of the William Grant Still CDs.  I loved it and immediately pulled out all the Columbia and RCA CDs I got years ago and probably didn't even listen to or at least pay attention to.  They're incredible - the sound on these, even the one mono Columbia is astonishing, especially the stereo stuff, though.  I had his cover of the B'way show All American, Such Sweet Thunder, The Popular Duke Ellington, Liberian Suite (the mono album), Midnight in Paris, Four Ellington Suites, and the soundtracks to Anatomy of a Murder and Paris Blues.  Fantastic music - this guy was a genius.

[Jrand74]

Such a lovely day here weatherwise......

[Jrand74]

No eating or drinking for me after midnight, so I am deciding what I want that will last me for quite awhile.....

[Jrand74]

My PERF check was $301.69 and my MasterCard bill was $302.38....so I am in the hole by $.69 this month.

[George]

We got a rejection email for FAMILY MUSIC from one of the first places we sent it, but it's got to be one of the nicest rejection letters I can recall ever getting.  This is one of the first rejection letters Marian (my collaborator) has gotten as a writer.  I hope she doesn't think all rejection letters are this nice.


Thank you for submitting FAMILY MUSIC to the New Works Program at the [name blocked out] Theatre.

We have enjoyed reviewing your materials for FAMILY MUSIC and are quite taken with the style of your writing. It is great to see this story adapted with heart into a musical. While the premise of this piece is fascinating as a lively journey with a great message, we have filled our development slots at this time.

That is a very polite rejection letter.

That's what I was wondering when we got it, and George, maybe you'd know since you work at a theatre which probably gets scripts. Are they being polite for some reason I don't know, or are they saying they actually liked the aspects they mentioned, but it's not right for their audience or something like that.

I would hope that people aren't just being polite, but it really might not be the kind of show that their theater group does.  We've gotten things that are completely wrong for TAO, but we do explain (as far as I know) that it's not "our" kind of show.