Huh?

Posted on October 24, 2004
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While still blurry eyed and drinking the morning coffee I stopped by Google News and came across this little gem of a mangled headline. I had to blink several times before I figured out that’s what it really said.

Randomness

Posted on October 22, 2004
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Remind me not to do three plays back to back again. I think I am getting too old for this. Really.

I have a couple of weeks before my next load in so should be somewhat recovered. After that there is nothing on the schedule until March. Maybe it is time to get back on stage. Or get back to work on that play I have been hacking out for a while.

The city finally put some asphalt over the gravel that has been what has served as streets over the entire summer.

Maybe I can stop dusting my place with the shop vac now. I am beginning to think they won’t finish this project before the snow falls. Which will make for interesting road conditions this winter. You see they only put one layer of asphalt over everything. So the road surface is a couple of inches below the sewer grates. This is going to result in a nice skating rink effect.

I don’t know about any one else but I cannot wait for this election to be over. Just once I wish there was a candidate I could be like, you know, enthusiastic about.

Opening Nights

Posted on October 4, 2004
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My favorite time in the theater is always that hour or so before the house opens. Opening night there is always an abundance of energy that often seems to teeter on the brink of chaos. Things are being double and triple checked. Actors are warming up, or panicking or throwing up or doing whatever they do as their pre-show ritual. The guys in black, the tech crew, having gotten there long ago and done all their light and sound checks, can be found hanging out at the food table or out back around the stage door smoking and trading disaster stories. You might find an actor or two out there as well. You know you are in theater if you have ever stood around a dark alley smoking with folks dressed in togas, or angel wings or whatever.

If you wander by the dressing rooms you can feel the electricity in the air. I love it. I usually take a few minutes to sit in the house and think through my cues and get in the right place before settling into the booth.

I’ve just TD’d/lighting designed three shows. the first was yet another production of “Mousetrap”

Then there was a staged reading of “Love Letters”. I also did the set design on this.

And the last, “A Winters Tale” complete with thunderstorms and bear.

Exit: Persued by bear….

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