The Daily News
Kiss today good-bye…
1 So…the hopes of bringing the Olympics to the Bay Area walk into a bar…
2 Oh, well…
3 If they ever integrated football and baseball the Santa Clara 49ers would be playing the Fremont A’s in what would sound like the next step would be playing the Coalinga Bucs on cotton candy night.
4 So it goes, so it goes…
5 The Olympics cost me a pretty penny in souvie money.
6 Oh, well…
7 Sparky came and visited today; in fact, I saw Sparks, Peter, and Vivien all at the same exact moment. I’m used to being surrounded by new faces, so the familiar was instantly, well, familiar.
8 It’s difficult to see people these days, and it was very nice to see some familiar faces.
9 We jumped over to YB and watched the rehearsal for the play. I was amazed at how well things have been going! Four student directors were hanging in there through all the stresses and insanities that naturally run through a show, and I saw some really fun things going on.
10 What made me really proud was that they had trained a younger tech crew to build and paint and all. I gave a few minor pointers, but those guys really had much of it under control.
11 I don’t want to jinx those guys, but they all stayed very late and just kept working their hearts out. It’s beginning to show in all aspects of the production, and it’s wonderful to see the Workshop busily building a show that is seemingly impossible.
12 Yet every time I go in there it gets better and better.
13 Their time is restricted and that’s the biggest challenge so far.
14 I saw some red faces, red cheeks, exhausted eyes, but a tremendously live spirit at the end of the night, which went long.
15 I want publicly to salute all the students who have brought the Workshop this far after it had essentially ceased two months ago. They all should be tremendously proud of their production.
16 The Show is entitled Behind Closed Doors and consists of five one-act plays, each of which is wonderfully written and really fun!
17 I’m proud of all the sacrifices and hard work those students have put in.
18 And it was awfully fun seeing Sparky helping out once again. His presence has been missed by many of us for quite some time.
19 That’s about it, just reporting today from the front.
20 It all looks good to go.
21 As they say in the business, wish me luck, the same to you…
22 But I won’t forget.
23 Peace.
~H~
