After a nice week celebrating both Dad's and Sam's birthdays, and doing some last-minute planning, Monday morning, Dad and I got up, got cleaned up and ready, and Sam drove us to the airport. Hugs and goodbyes, and Dad forgot his cane in Sam's car. (Dad doesn't need a cane, precisely, but he finds it …
Convivial Merriment
Currently at my dad's place down in Durham NC to celebrate both his birthday (90!) and my brother's. Sam's is a week after Dad's, but we'll miss the actual date because Dad and I will have flown off to Vegas by then. So we're taking him out this weekend before we leave. I'd kinda hoped …
Look to the Western Sky
Quite a week last week, I must say. Short week because of Thanksgiving. I was only working Monday and Tuesday, although there was a meeting important enough on Wednesday that I attended it (remotely, as we all did). Monday I worked from home, but Tuesday I went to the office for a variety of reasons. …
Tarry a While
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 …
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