Random Stuff

The latest facebook updates suck. What are they doing?

I saw this the other day at UNCG outside the music building:

Kinda sad that they need to lock it down.

Turns out that I will not be doing a show with Susan, contrary to what I reported in my previous blog. They had to move it to spring, at which time I will be doing Violet at Winston Salem Theatre Alliance. It’s the same theatre where I’m doing Kiss of the Spider Woman right now. We had a couple of nights off, and we’re back at it tonight through Sunday afternoon.

Theatre Alliance website--check it out

Uh...what else? ...Oh!

Now that I’m not spending my days trying to rush and finish orchestrating a show, I’m going to get back to writing. I haven’t written much original stuff this year. I wrote music for Silent Pictures & Heck’s Kitchen (1-acts I did with Tommy Trull) early in the year. Then the same folks who did Silent Pictures before, put it up again this summer. Tommy & I made some changes. I’d call it version 1.1. At some point this summer I wrote a couple of short plays (10 pages & less than 10 pages) to submit to Stephen Hyers for the Greensboro Playwrights Forum’s Evening of Short Plays. 

I assume they weren’t selected, but I don’t know for sure. I don’t know if Stephen has stopped sending out GPF updates, or if I’ve been taken off the list. I couldn’t find any info about the plays selected on their website either. I haven’t been to a meeting lately, ‘cause I’ve been in rehearsals much of the year. So I’m officially out of the loop.

So, I’m gonna do some work on Dori & the Executioner, and maybe also get around to finishing Giants Dance. Those are 2 musicals I did a bit of work on last summer.

Hmm...anything else?

I’m not quite half-way through reading a new book: Opening Atlantis by Harry Turtledove. He writes alternative history novels: novels set at some point in history, but with some significant difference, like the South won the U.S. Civil War. In this book, there’s a continent in the middle of the Atlantic. From the cover art, it appears that the eastern part of North America as we know it has broken off and drifted away. So the story is about the settling of this “Atlantis”. I like it so far. It’s interesting, so I’m keeping at it, unlike the last book I read: The Music of the Spheres by Elizabeth Redfern. I finished The Music of the Spheres, but it took a while as I wasn’t really all that interested. It’s a mystery that I just wasn’t all that interested in, and it had a bit of romance-novel quality at times. There was one description that I just found ridiculous: something like “her apple-firm breasts...”. It just sounds unpleasant and unhealthy.

It seems there was something else I was gonna write about, but I can’t think what it was.

Can't remember.

Maybe I’ll go make some muffins. Not blueberry. They were too expensive the other day at the grocery.