There isn't a lot to report, but I will say that my weekend ended on a high note.  I had the surprise of two friends showing up to catch the matinee performance of Around the World in 80 Days.  David and Steve brought my friends-who-came-to-see-me total up to three.  I was ecstatic that they came, and I'm even more ecstatic about David's high ( Read more... )

Whew, what a busy weekend and it's not even over.

Friday night's performance of Around the World in 80 Days was excellent--a nearly sold out crowd.  Afterwards, I began my journey to Tampa, thinking the ride from Mt. Dora would be much shorter than it would be from home.  Of course it wasn't.  In fact, it was only a half hour less in actuality, and ( Read more... )

I got the e-mail today asking me to work on Beauty and the Beast, the first show in Seaside Music Theater's new home at the News-Journal Center!  I'm also excited because of the awesome people I'm going to be working with!  Lester Malizia, my Donna Drake, Tippen Davidson, Ken Goldstein, Annmarie Duggan, Jason Hoffman, and of course a LOT of my ( Read more... )

Wouldn't it be nice if we could just walk away
from all our troubles? But that's just not the way it is, is it?

According to UNAIDS estimates, there are 38 million adults and 2.3 million
children living with HIV, and during 2005 some 4.9 million people became newly
infected with the virus. Around half of all people who become infected with HIV
do ( Read more... )

Well, I have now seen Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire twice.  I went all by myself on Sunday night and then decided to take my cousin to see it on Monday afternoon, only to discover once arriving at the movie theatre that he had already seen it.  But both of us were willing to see it again, and since we were there, we did.

Yes, a lot HAS been ( Read more... )

1. You can press a button that will make any one person explode. Who would you blow up? I'm sure this would change month-to-month, but this month the lucky explodee is Terrence Shank, the artistic director of the Mount Dora Theatre Company in residence at the IceHouse Theatre.  I can't remember the last time I worked with someone with such a ( Read more... )

Ladies and gentlemen, this will serve as my Thanksgiving post, as I hope to stay away from the computer tomorrow with the exception of maybe checking my e-mail in the morning prior to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade--which, for the record, I only watch for the Broadway segments these days, as the floats and balloons start to look more and more ( Read more... )

Dear Higher Beings,

Men absolutely, totally, completely suck.

Love,
Matty

And I mean that quite literally.  It is 49 degrees outside my home, and it finally feels like fall.  Brown leaves are all over the place and the nip in the air touches my nose and cheeks making me breathe a sigh of relief as if the hot weather never existed.  Of course, we all know that I prefer the cold weather.  I'm one of the few freaks who ( Read more... )

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