Odds and ends

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Okay, recovering from the weirdly scheduled long day…mmm, Corona….and now, some Odds and Ends:

REHEARSAL
Rehearsed both shows for Michigan Theatre Festival today. Gonna be a fun week.

WILLIAMSTON THEATRE PROJECT
Got another nice donation today, hooray. Enough to pay for the whole involvement with the Michigan Theatre Festival, and a little bit more.
We’re scheduling and planning a bunch of readings and a couple of low-tech productions. June 18th join us at the Elizabeth Williams Dance Studio in Williamston for a reading of ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. There will be more info on that and other readings on the website soon – check it out at our webpage!

JOBS
I will be directing, as announced a while back, at the Performance Network in late Fall of ’05. It will NOT be Little Shop Of Horrors, unfortunately, as the rights to that show are unavailable because of the tour. SO, right now the Network is debating which show to put there. More to come in the next few weeks.

AWARDS
The Performance Network Subscribers Choice Awards were held Sunday, a nice event. The Season Ticket Holders (1700 of them, if I’m remembering…) voted me Best Director for SUMMER AND SMOKE, which was nice, and voted Mindy Woodhead Best Actor for the same show. A nice award, since it comes from the people we do the things for!

The Oakland Press Awards (The Opies) were held Monday night, also a nice event. I was nominated for the same category, did not win – no bother, it was nice to be recognized! Mindy also won again, in Best Actress in a Drama category.

Finally, the Wilde awards are being voted on online this year. GO HERE to vote for your favorite. (Especially in the Favorite Local Professional Production – COMEDY category!) 😉

KIDS
So Max says to me “You know, Dad…in Safety Town they told us if a stranger offers us candy, to not go near them, but to run away and yell for a grown up that we know.”

I sagely responded “Sounds like good advice, buddy.”

And Max looks at me, and I could see the little gerbil running a million miles an hour behind his eyes, and he says “But I was thinkin’…if a stranger offers me candy, I would say to the stranger; ‘You THROW me the candy!!'”

As I tried not to hurt myself stifling a laugh, I said “I love that you’re thinking about it buddy, but I think you’d better do what your teachers say…okay?”

He’s got his priorities, I’ll give him that. 🙂 And Hey! Not bad problem solving skills…

MISCELLANEOUS:
Okay, 12 of you have had your brains eaten. Only 3 of you have responded?! There is a LEAVE A COMMENT HERE link, people!! 🙂
(If you don’t know what the hell I’m talking about here, go down a couple of posts and click the ‘click here’ link!)

So, what Odds and Ends are going on in your life today?

4 thoughts on “Odds and ends”

  1. So, Saturday while I was at work, I suggested NOT doing something that management wanted to do, “Not a good idea, could cause alot of problems”, I said, of course they said, “Do it!” So Tuesday night at 9:35 we got the machine running again, after 3 days of non-stop repairs, and I asked them if I should RE-DO what I had told them not to do in the first place, and NOW they want my input on why it didn’t work. Ask the Engineer that planned it…
    Thats the odds and ends in my life, no wonder large corporations go down the tubes, they just don’t listen to the little guy enough.
    By the way, I voted, that Sanville guy kills me. HA! It puts the lotion on its skin or it gets the hose!

    • HA! It puts the lotion on its skin or it gets the hose!


      Oh my God, now I will I go about cleaning up the Starbucks Mocha that I spewed from my mouth when I read that. LMAO. 🙂

  2. Replacement Play
    Tony, I think the new play at PerfNet should be an erotic thriller about a 24 year old Italian Kid form Pittsburgh trying to solve the sexual crises of many of Michigan’s finest ladies. What do ya think?!

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