This is my last post urging you to go to Vocal Point’s concerts this season. If you are in Hamilton tonight or tomorrow afternoon and you’re looking for something to do… Treat yourself to some four part harmonies and some Sixties tunes! Tonight’s show (May 31, 2024) is at 7pm. Tickets are $20 online. Or…
Dress Rehearsal is over. There were four or five folks in the audience. Enough to feel a little pressure. But they were folks involved in the show. There wasn’t enough of an audience to feel the energy. To feel the magic. To have that extra thing that turns a play into a show. That will…
I get Arnold Schwarzenegger’s daily newsletter. It’s full of tidbits of information about health and exercise. Five days a week. One of today’s nuggets was about dieting. But instead of restricting your food, you add to it. What? Instead of focusing what to remove, the suggestion is to keep a scorecard and focus on what…
One of the things our director, Matt Willson, wants to do for the play is have a pre-show. That means that before the show starts, we actors come out as our characters and do stuff. It’s not part of the play. And you don’t hear us talking. But the idea is that you see our…
I’m still having trouble getting going on my playwriting. It’s weird. First, I was trying to write 5 lines of dialogue a day. Didn’t happen. Then it was 5 sentences a day. Similar but less. Still didn’t happen. Now, I’m hoping to write one sentence a day. I’ve been able to meet that target two…
It’s Monday evening. I don’t have anything on. Tomorrow the gauntlet of rehearsals begins. To get us ready for the Opening Night of Burn. I have a Zoom chat with some buddies in a few minutes. It may go to 9:30 or 10pm. I should go to bed early. It’s my last chance to get…
I’ve written over 130 blog posts this year. And the year isn’t half over yet. Last year, I wrote 15 posts. I’m still writing. But it’s not getting any easier. That’s not exactly true. The posts are difficult to write in the evening. Which is when I usually write them. If I get them written…
Steve Albini died at the beginning of the month. I didn’t know him and wasn’t aware of his work. But Austin Kleon (Steal Like An Artist) posted about him in his weekly newsletter. And I went down a little rabbit hole finding out about Albini. One thing that struck me was a quote from an…
It’s been a while since I posted anything regarding my year of the woo woo. So, I thought I’d share a recent one. I haven’t been able to go to my choir rehearsals since rehearsals for Burn started. The plan was that I would continue to work on the songs and try to get them…
I recall reading somewhere that people prefer easy things over simple things. Makes sense. The problem is that easy things, tend to be complicated in execution. Simple things are frequently hard or difficult to execute. Take weight loss. The easy way is to try the new diet. Or a weight loss pill. Or a specialized…
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