A weekend after my niece came down to visit, I got a call from Andrea, Charles's uncle's wife (I don't think C ever thought of her as his 'aunt'). Charles's cousin Tony had passed away. A little background on the players here. Charles's mother Anna was the second of two sisters (Grace being the older) …
Cinderella, the Baker’s Wife
The mashup you didn't know you needed. No, I saw two community theater productions, one last weekend, one this weekend. Last Sunday, I saw Blue Hill Troupe's fall show, Rodgers+Hammerstein's Cinderella, which, as my buddy Natan wrote in his excellent program essay, is different from the version that's called Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella. What a …
We Miss You
Every time I visit my nieces or spend time with Patti and Peter upstate, or have dinner with Tessa, I'm reminded of how many quality people, who I love dearly, are in my life because of Charles. By the time I'd met Charles, he was an IT office drone just like me, but he'd spent …
Classics
It sometimes feels like my performing career has been (a) discovering great works of music or theater in my formative years and then (b) revisiting them, often in a directorial position, as an adult. When I was a band director, I frequently took advantage and programmed pieces I remembered from high school or band camp …
Give Three Cheers and One Cheer More
So... good news! Great news! Savoynet is doing a fun thing at the G&S festival next summer - we're doing HMS Pinafore as our mainstage production, and The Zoo as a fringe production. I'd applied to music-direct Pinafore, but not Zoo (two separate directing teams). And I found out this weekend I got it! So …
Very normal
October's nice so far. I've deliberately had not much on the calendar, and am actually getting some stuff done (although there's always more that I beat myself up about.) I somehow got the impulse to start doing this particular Jane Fonda exercise video again. I've been doing it for decades, it's not hard at all …
Birthday Week
So, yeah, I did it. I turned sixty. Wow! Too late to die young, I guess. Boy, were my fifties weird. Let' s see what my sixties look like. I'd had some grandiose ideas about hosting a big cocktail party at some famous New York City establishment to celebrate. But I realized I just didn't …
Half a Lifetime
I moved to New York City on my thirtieth birthday. OK, so, actually I did this: on the 24th, the movers picked up my stuff from my apartment in South Philly. I then drove me and my cat up to Manhattan, dumped the cat at my friend Jennifer's apartment, and met the movers at Manhattan …
Cuppla Reviews and Stuff
Wow, three weeks into September. Quiet, mostly. Trying to get my ass in gear with the important stuff that I've been neglecting most of the year. But much as I really don't want anyone else telling me what to do, I'm a poor taskmaster for myself. I know I can ignore myself, and do. Anyway, …
Labor Day Weekend and So On
Not promising, but this post might bring me up to date... let's see how far I get. Saturday of Labor Day Weekend was my 10th wedding anniversary. I'd kept the plan very simple. I had to return my rental car from the road trip, so I got cleaned up and a little more prettified than …
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