September 2011

Today was the day from hell. It started with us walking to breakfast. (Good food at the Pepper Mill) It was slow and when we came out, after wolfing the food down. It was raining. So– we drive to Washington Elementary. We’re there at 7:45. No lights. No people. At close to 8:00 J– remembers […]

Today was our 1st 2 set-up day. As usual the morning show is a hazy fog by now. The long Piper cape came undone so there was a length of clothesline stretching across the stage. Lovely. J– turned and gracefully grabbed the cape and pulled it along with him. It actually worked beautifully in the

J– and I just got back from a trip to Kinko’s to print flyers. It was kinda fun. The shows today went pretty well. We set up in an hour! Of course it was a jogging load-in but still! It’s possible. And that includes blowing a fuse and J– looking for a new outlet. So

Ernie if I didn’t think it before, I do now. My body hates me. I’ve got strep throat, an infected glue gun burn, an infected spot on my leg, a place on my face that will leave a deep scar [1. I don’t remember the last two items] and to add insult to injury– I

Well Ernie, old friend of mine, I’ve got strep throat. I haven’t had that since high school. I’m miserable. I performed today, but I’m miserable. [1. I should explain that Pied Piper was a 45 minute operetta with 35 minutes of sung music, 2 performers, and 18 puppets. At one point we had 5 active puppets

I’m sick. It’s our 1st day on the road and I’ve got a sore throat and a fever.  We’re at the E–‘s house. J–‘s family is really nice. His sister K– has given up her bedroom for me. We left at 10:30 this morning and got here at about 7:00 pm. I have to sleep.

Today I woke up at 10:07 which was good ’cause I wanted to sleep in but bad ’cause M– had rehearsal at 10:00 and I was supposed to drive him. I went into TOJ at about 1:00 to paint the rock wall [1. I will say that I find it interesting that we had begun

Technically yes, it’s Saturday but hey–. Today J– and I finished the 1st day of the Pied Piper tour. R– said it was so much better that it wasn’t even the same show. Our set up still takes 1hr 45min hopefully that’ll get faster. F–, M–, and I went to see The Blues Brothers at the Bagdad.

1st night on the road. We’re performing in Pullayup, WA tomorrow. Did 2 shows today at MLK. They were okay. Not good, but okay. The show is there. Our lights kept blowing in the 2nd show. A reporter from the Oregonian came out to take pictures. J– & I read to each other on the way

Bad dress, good show, right? I hope so.[1. I sure wish Retro Mary had been more specific about what went wrong. I no longer have memories of the dress rehearsal.]

I just got home from TOJ. L–,  & K–, & J– stayed late & helped me. Got a lot of work done.

J2– was not pleased about the Piper poster. We’ll see what happens. Left work at 11:00pm. Really tired. Ran Piper 3 times. The mikes are potentially problematic. Feedback from hell.

Yay! I got the children cut out & appliqued to the Piper’s cape today! It took me from 1 til 7:30 to do it what with picking the fabric & everything. Had dinner with F–. That was a good, good thing.