Dave "The Finger" Keeton

So, I’m in sunny sunny Rochester NY (this morning the temperature was 1) to start rehearsal on a piece of west german children’s theater from the early 1970’s…. I don’t know that I’ve ever typed those words near each other before. Still, this is something like my 20th trip to Rochester (I started an improv troupe for Geva here in 2003), and I do love the theater and the town…even if a part of the Florida boy in me dies each time I come.

It’s a tough piece, but I’m always such a geek for the first day of rehearsal. Everything is possible, ideas are aplenty, and it seems as though you’ve got tons of time to explore and play with every aspect of it. All of that fades by the time we get to day 2…but for today we are at day 1.

Dave Keeton, who I met at FSU in 1992, who is one of the founders of Dad’s Garage and one the most brilliant sound designers I know, and is doing original music for the show…it makes me giddy to think about how good the music is going to be…in a west german children’s theater kind of way.