Well, dear readers, we played our penultimate show to a nice crowd – a couple of cast members are still fighting illness but got through the show fine. I knew several audience members, plus there were two gents there who came to me and were very complimentary about my albums and career and the direction – always lovely to hear that stuff. I’m writing these here notes whilst waiting for some wings to arrive, as I haven’t eaten but a shrimp cocktail and wedge salad with very little dressing despite my asking for a lot. Hopefully, wings will fly this way in the next ten minutes. But the big part of yesterday was the recording session. First of all, I only got about four hours of sleep – annoying. I got to the studio at nine-thirty and settled in. We were scheduled to wrap at four even though we had the studio till six if we needed it. But the chorus of adults and kids were very prepared, we began right at ten and got levels and let them sing through the first song, and then we recorded it. Then we doubled the voices and it all sounded really good. There were a few solo lines, but we didn’t do any of those until we were done with the chorus stuff. Anyway, I always love being in the recording studio – like a second home to me. It all went very smoothly, we were ahead the entire time, and we wrapped at two-thirty, ninety minutes ahead. We got all the solo bits, so all the ensemble stuff is done and now we have to cast the lead roles and record those. We’ll be figuring that out in the next couple of weeks, and we’ll probably do it in late March or early April. Anyway, it was fun and the kids especially had a great time. After the session, I came right home and ordered food, which took about forty minutes to arrive. I answered a ton of e-mails and at five-thirty, I sat on the couch like so much fish, just to put my feet up and maybe watch a couple of YouTube videos before leaving at six-thirty. Of course, I dozed off instantly and then woke up, trying to figure out if it was the middle of the night or what day it was – it was dark out. Then I realized what had happened, got up, and checked the time, which was six-forty. I changed sweaters, put my shoes on, and jumped in the car (no mean feat) and got to the theater a little after seven. Then we did the show and I came right home, ordered wings, which I’ve now partaken of, and they were very good – Wingstop – and now I must finish writing these here notes because it is now late.

Today, I’ll be up by eleven at the latest and I’ll leave here around twelve-thirty for our last performance. After the show, I’ll come home for an hour or so, then mosey on over to the cast partay. I’ll probably stay an hour or two then come back home and watch, listen, and relax.

Tomorrow and all this week will be book stuff, writing liner notes for our next foreign cast album release, have a couple of meetings and meals, catch up on things, get a galley, which I’ll give the once-over and they’ll do any fixes necessary, then all that stuff goes to the publisher and we’ll begin taking pre-orders for the book. In fact, I’ll reveal the title and cover this week, too.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up by eleven at the latest, see our last performance, attend a cast partay, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you dear readers get to make with the topics and we all get to post about them. So, let’s have loads of lovely topics and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy to have been in my home away from home, a recording studio.