Feeling much better today, thanks to those who asked!

Michigan Theatre Festival finished up strongly. A nice first year for the festival, I thought. We learned some good lessons, but laid down a nice foundation for years to come. It’s a big event, and one that I hope to be involved in for a long time. Had some very good conversations with a bunch of other folks who produce/create theatre in this state and a couple of others, which were both heartening and useful.

The thing about the Theatre Festival is this: It made me really impatient for The Williamston Theatre Project to be doing more than readings. Much more. Much faster. Like, right now. Our reading of ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS by Ed Simpson was very well received, and I’m ready to put it and a few other shows up and do them. With what $$ and where are the questions – how much/little do we do on production values to get the show up quickly, and run the risk of looking like a community theatre -vs- a professional theatre company? (And before anybody gets up in arms about the ‘community theatre’ reference, don’t bother. I love community theatre, it’s where I got my start in acting, stage managing AND directing and I’m not knocking it in any way – however there is a difference in expectations between something being done as a hobby and something being done as a professional career – that’s not an opinion, it’s a fact – and it’s important that from the beginnning the WTP is understood to be a professional company that pays people and is worth the ticket cost.) So, I have to find a nice balance between my impatience/rush to DO, and the practical side of “Let’s examine this first!”. Right now, after the weekend, my impatience is very much ruling the roost…

Enough ranting about that. Sorry.

Okay, now for something completely different: A Mood Analyzer. I think you can only use it if you sign up for a LiveJournal account. (Which you should do anyway, I soon may be turning off “anonymous” posting, so I can tell WHO’S posting comments back to me!! 🙂 (any thoughts on that?)

Hmmm…apparently I’m happy. And apparently I like fuchsia. (ick)

Go ahead, try it. Let me know what YOU got!!