September 8, 2005
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The Daily News
1 A few of us Drama Workshop people gathered yesterday at the Olive Garden for a fun session. We must have had fun, because some HUGE guy eating fat noodles shooshed us. I never thought we were really that loud, but as far as I can tell, that was the first time in my entire life a HUGE guy eating noodles shooshed me in a restaurant.
2 There were like eight of us, just laughing about good times and shows and stuff, but evidently this guy couldn't do his noodles to the noise of laughter and friends gathering.
3 D00d. It's not my fault you hate your father.
4 The conversation came around to favorite plays, and the votes came in overwhelmingly for This Side Up. Midsummer sort of took a "second", and Songs We've Heard took perhaps a sentimental third. Creature Creeps was a hands-down hit to any who were remotely associated with it, especially the immortal Halloween night, when the Theatre looked like a Tim Burton nightmare, one of the greatest opening nights ever. Those who were there: ask the guy who directed; it WAS electric that night, amazing, and yes, it was REAL.
4 Best Final Scene went to the final Friday night of A Love Letter, in which Charlie Chaplin (Sunshine) walked off with the Girl (Trami), and with the big heart on the back wall, with Joe Brown playing a ukelele and singing I'll See You in my Dreams, and with the mirror ball kicking in, time utterly fell silent for the almost last time...just sweet.
5 The Chaplin character, by the way, was the FIRST character ever to enter a Drama Workshop show. He stepped out on stage in 1982, in a show called Silents. It's fitting that he was the last character to leave the stage nearly 23 years later.
6 We talked of the good times, always the good times. How Jose named Sparky one fine afternoon when Sparky almost killed him with electricity. Or C.B.'s exit into a flat in Hamlet. Or Zack's nimble hands in The Last Flower...or his amazing hurtling of suitcases down the stairs in Creature.
7 I have LOTS of Drama Workshop memories, all very real, and many just fun to look back on.
8 Good times, my friends, good times.
9 Yesterday was really healthy, laughing about good times and saying good-bye to a lot of very recent Drama Workshop memories. When I got home last night and started in on the Daily News, I almost fell into a hundred different stories of the Theatre.
10 But for now, we'll just say a very fond see ya soon to all of it.
11 I'll see you in my dreams...
12 Peace.
finis.
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