Weird show today. The lead actress (and in Once Upon a Mattress, that's a lot of work) collapsed fifteen minutes before curtain (from nervous exhaustion, I suspect?), and went to the hospital. One of the ladies of the chorus, who was roughly the same size, shape and voice type, had five minutes notice before going on in her place. Well, twenty ( Read more... )

2010
March 14: Hound!
March 22: Nephew!
December 9: Sorcerer!

Good riddance to all the rest.

In my life I have been compared to worse things than soup and grilled cheese.

Also, I like soup and grilled cheese.

A nice preview of the Ann Arbor Civic Theatre production of The Hound of the Baskervilles that I have directed to open next Thursday.

Happy Unbirthday, rowdiebird229!

Check out the new Hound of the Baskervilles page, with spiffy new publicity photo, culled from here:


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Preliminary auditions complete for The Hound of the Baskervilles. Eighteen participants on Sunday night, twenty-two more on Monday night. Amazing turnout for ten-role, non-musical show. In winter. No actual hounds in sight. And very few dogs ( Read more... )

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a communist ( Read more... )

More Gilbert & Sullivan, with the emPHAsis on 'Gilbert.'

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Newspapers have gone the way of aesthetic poets; nonetheless, UMGASS's Patience receives its review...