Recently, a good bud of mine said it was healthy to blog. I decided to take him up on that and try to blog more often. So, here you go.
It certainly has been a week.
Tonight is the opening and closing of "Willy Wonka Jr" at school. My 18th 8th grade play I have musical directed. Interesting fact, we did an adaptation of "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" in 2008. I didn't realize that until I sat down to write this blog. I could document the last 18 years of shows, but I won't. This years 8th grade play is one of the best. This class has worked hard with their acting, music and choreo. Hardly any complaints and the production team has had little to no issues with the production. It's kinda been a breeze. Might as well enjoy it while we can as each year brings its own challenges and experiences.
Speaking of closing shows, we closed The Full Monty at the Hillbarn Theatre on Sunday. Little did we know, that this closing would be one we would never forget. One of our reed players didn't show up for the matinee, and was MIA all day - until we found out that on Saturday night on the way home from the show, Keith's car ended up in a pond in Castro Valley and was found late Sunday night and was pronounced dead at the scene on Monday morning. It had been a very sad week for the Bay Area Theatre Pit Musician community.
Last night (Wednesday) I saw the National Tour of The Color Purple. I wrote about it on the Facebook to the fact that I didn't really like it - again - I saw a production at Hillbarn a few years ago that I didn't "get" either. So we leave it at that.
In 13 days, I'm on my way to Walt Disney World with the Costa's. I'm looking forward to hanging out at one of my favorite places on earth for 8 days or so. Relaxing, not running from place to place, enjoying the humidity - LOL - and just chilling the best way possible.
The boys are asleep, and I should be as well. Today was a good day. Tomorrow, the push begins to the last days of school.
MaestroM
