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• The Age Of Reason

  

  While standing in line at FedEx yesterday, to work on a present for Ma’s Birthday, I met with an interesting concept by chance. …A man of late forties to... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• One For The Tall, Belting, Redhead

  

  Know what’s awesome about FB…aside from the prime place to go and waste your time while you should be doing other things? The fact that you can find people fro... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Salt-Misery

  

  So I’m being forced to lose weight now, cuz what works for a frumpy school teacher in 1939, doesn’t work three years later as a starving Jewish woman in... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Hardest Part Is Done

  

  Just wrapped up research in Phase 1 for the show…the most difficult part.  …Wanted to get it completed and out of the way as quickly as possible so as not to... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• How To Work With A Hangover

  

  Due to unfortunate circumstances, today has been one of the longest days ever.  And it’s all my own damn fault.  …But no matter whose it is, people have to get... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Oops

  

  Over-study, and loss of time.  It happens.  And then you pass out and wake up and realize you forgot to blog.  …Can I just reiterate how not easy this is, as a... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lessons From Behind The Bookcase

  

  Nose in the books, while streaming Netflix and every bio anything I can find for research on the show.  Playing real people, (and well known historical figures... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Back From Storybrooke

  

  Harriet has travelled 465.9 miles since Friday morning, and made her first International trip, smuggling Americans over the border.…She was very... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Harriet, Marty & Roz “Do” Canada

  

  So this is my “Friday.”…Tomorrow, in the early morning times, I’m driving Harriet south to pick up Marty (and her Sailor Moon pillow and her Snooki slippers),... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Study & Prep

  

  Just finished reading the script for study time, after all last night flipping through the Diary and other materials.  My heart hurts.…It’s also really clamped... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Gov’ment Papers & Study Time

  

  Just finished filing m’taxes, after crawling through a year of well-organized receipts and trying to get them into all the correct online filing boxes. Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Middle Age & Jewish

  

  Because I didn’t just deal with enough drama (apparently)…I’m going from closing the show where I committed suicide every performance, straight to tonight’s... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lessons

  

  Theatre is a fickle business, sometimes.  …Sometimes it’s only just for “show”…sometimes it’s the ride for the ride’s sake…sometimes it means nothing more... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Art.

  

  In honor of good times spent in the company of the fine people in this show, today’s post will be short, but artistically rendered non-the-less.  I give you, a... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dear SWAL 3.0

  

  Welcome back to Dear SWAL…our monthly installment of where Marty fwds me her Customer Service woes and I answer them the way we would all want to, if it wouldn’... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Two Minutes, & A Title Card

  

  So I’ve an audition next Monday, the day after closing…and its the first time I’ve had to do the full process with a monologue et al, in about forever. Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Teakettle Effect

  

  Sometimes you just need to blow off steam. …Funny how something with no “physical” presence can take up so much space in your mind and irk you to such... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Still Hawt, At 200

  

  There’s this man I know…well, a lot of us do.  …He’s all sexy, and moody, and opinionated, and strangely prefers women with a brain in their head, and the... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Joe, In The Dressing Room

  

  So there are only two dressing rooms at this current theatre: an upstairs loft where all the young ladies reside, and the lower dressing room where all the... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• When Boss Fixes Things

  

  Another Road Show opened today, on the other side of the mountain.  …Twenty minutes before the doors opened, we were notified by our client that our display... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2013 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION