Yeah, so I've been home for two weeks. That first week was about the Bear Necessities, such as buying groceries and getting a haircut and a mani-pedi, and combing through a thousand emails and paying bills and so on. I knew this past week would be busier - I had houseguests coming in on Wednesday. …
Month: August 2025
Oh, by the way…
If you're not seeing the links I'm posting on FB or Bluesky, I am in fact doing day-by-day posts of my UK trip, after the fact. But they're back-dated, so they won't display at the top here. Just go to the beginning of August, you'll see them.
Welcome Home
Yeah, so I was traveling for four out of the last five weeks. Happy to be home, so happy. I guess I should do something about the completely empty fridge soon. Lunch yesterday was giving the new wings place across the street a try. Verdict - I'm about 40 years too old to be eating …
Pinazoo, Day 15 (Saturday): Over the Bright Blue Sea
My Manchester/JFK flight was 2:30, so working backward, it made sense to catch the 10:00 199 bus, and I had to be out of the cottage by then anyway. I'd sent a message to host Tiffany explaining to her what I was going to do as cleanup, and also apologizing that I'd broken the adorable …
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Pinazoo, Day 14 (Friday)
Oh yes, forgot a funny bit from late in the rehearsal process. So, as is typical G&S, once Captain Corcoran is revealed to be a common sailor (oh, fie!), he immediately starts talking in a lower-class accent. And then Josephine runs in, all upset, with "My father! A common sailor!". I logically inferred that maybe …
Pinazoo, Day 13 (SHOW DAY!)
So, this is how show day works at the Festival. As early as you can get in in the morning, everyone who can cart stuff loads in the costumes and props, and the sets (which are supplied by the festival) are loaded in and set up on stage. As soon as possible, the cast is …
Pinazoo, Days 11-12 (Tues, Wed)
Things get blurry now, and I didn't take good notes, but I do have the call sheets and some helpful hints from friends. Tuesday morning, we worked on large ensemble stuff while Rachel drilled The Bell Trio upstairs. (The Bell Trio was three verses and two encores and got funnier and funnier throughout. I'll post …
Pinazoo, Day 10 (Monday)
Oo, now we're back into the swing of it and it's show week. As per tradition, I'm now conducting rehearsals out of the full score, not the vocal score. Back for Pirates (10 years ago now!), I started the habit of creating a photocopy of whatever full score I was using up to 11x17", making …
Pinazoo, Day 9 (Sunday)
The Sunday of the Savoynet rehearsal period is a nice little break, as we can't rehearse all day in whatever church we're in, it's Sunday! St. John's, the church that we did the Zoo in, has an annual "Gilbert & Sullivan" service to which a lot of us are invited to sing in the choir. …
Pinazoo, Day 6, 7, 8 (Thursday-Saturday)
Yay, Pinafore rehearsals! Principals only for the first day. One, um, 'fun factoid' of this year is that all of our leads for both Zoo and Pinafore were American. We had not at all been trying to do that, it just worked out that way. Savoynet is an international company, but what this usually means …
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