Hello Me Darlings.
First I admit right out off that writing this is just an act of procrastination pure and simple. I have to write the script for a 2 hour how with all lighting cues, crew movement, plus organize the reception prior to show, the dance following the show, the concessions, the ticket sales, the ad sales, the program design, the ushers, writing articles for various publications, appear on 3 radio and 1 tv show, learn my lines, find $1500 more to cover expenses, call all artists and determine what they need, tell them how long they can perform and organize the rehearsal schedule.
I’m particularly sensitive to all this because last night I saw Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker of LA Law fame do their two person show and how challenging that was and they had a professional sound and lighting person there, but they still had to deal with the our ageing systems and this was just two actors and two musicians on stage.
First I admit right out off that writing this is just an act of procrastination pure and simple. I have to write the script for a 2 hour how with all lighting cues, crew movement, plus organize the reception prior to show, the dance following the show, the concessions, the ticket sales, the ad sales, the program design, the ushers, writing articles for various publications, appear on 3 radio and 1 tv show, learn my lines, find $1500 more to cover expenses, call all artists and determine what they need, tell them how long they can perform and organize the rehearsal schedule.
I’m particularly sensitive to all this because last night I saw Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker of LA Law fame do their two person show and how challenging that was and they had a professional sound and lighting person there, but they still had to deal with the our ageing systems and this was just two actors and two musicians on stage.
By the way they had put together a show called Life is a Duet for Two that was really quite lovely. While I was ushering in the lobby a couple who had driven about 75 miles from a little town in Strawberry AZ walked up to me with a bottle of wine and card for Jill and Michael. It seems that in the pas year the two actors bought a place in Umbria Italy and these two people who also own a place nearby met them and became friends.
Their show began with a well know show tune sung in Italian and the making of a large subway that M. shared with some audience members.
It was a lovely evening all in all though fraught with tensions of the producer because only about 200 seats sold and discovered in the space of 48 hours all the problems of presenting at The Elks Opera House and wants a conference call with me and fellow board member Elisabeth. I tried to suggest that he would want a city of Prescott employee in on the conference call as our mandate was clearly defined a limited to fundraising for restoration and nothing else. He was not deterred assuming I think that E. and I have influence—an assumption I fear is woefully unwarranted—at least in my case.
Well luvs it is 8 degrees F. this am and I am going to get on with more procrastination through the form of domestic chores and working out and THEN I shall tackle the real work at hand.
PS just discovered while getting this pic of the two actors that Jill and I are the same age.
I love you all,
The Matriarch
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