Hair can be silly

Am sitting at tech of RESTORATION COMEDY - the wigs! for the love of god the wigs!!!! They're brilliant, and never-ending. If it's gets any colder we may wrap ourselves in them for warmth.

FAMILY DAY!

Hey everybody,

A giant thanks and an even larger “great job” to everyone that made family day the smash success that it was. When was the last time that Saturday at 2 was packed to the gills!?!
It was so great to see an event that had associate artists, interns, board members, cast members, ambassadors, and staff all working together to pull it off. For an incredibly tiny amount of money, we pulled off one of the more charming events in recent history. So, a big thank you to everyone that gave up their Saturday morning to help make it happen. Good times, good times.

THE FUTURE IS HERE!

Through the magic of the intranet, you can now see part of my puppet show on-line.

Puppet Show

My old friend Bill Campbell

My theater in Atlanta was within walking distance of the home of Bill Campbell, former Mayor of Atlanta. Since he was the mayor he always had two cop cars right outside his house. Whenever parties at Dad's Garage got too loud, the mayor would send the cops over to "quiet us up". They'd tell us "you're keeping up the mayor" and then they'd generally hang around till everyone left.

When i finally met Bill Campbell, at some event saluting arts leaders he shook my hand, and then a second later shook my hand again like we hadn't met, I mentioned "this is actually the second time you've met me" to which he responded "well, then you should vote for me twice" - it sounded clever in the moment, but the more you think about it, it doesn't make sense.

Yesterday, Bill Campbell was sentenced to 30 months in a federal pen for "tax evasion", he claims it was just "sloopy bookkeeping". He is the 12th person from his administration to be convicted on federal charges.

I hope all this trouble isn't because we kept him up late....

Another super sweet review

I don't know the Napa Valley Register - but how can a paper from a place that drinks wine everyday be wrong?

Napa Valley Register

SMORES!!!

We spent the afternoon testing out how to make smores in our George Foreman Grill. Why? To get us ready for our camp themed Shindig tommorrow. Crafts, Smores, and a puppet show. - oh, did I mention the adult beverages and the DJ?

Check it out at:

SHINDIG!

Chad Jones' Review

Oakland Tribune Review

1st Review

We opened! I'm in the midst of reintroducing myself to my dogs and to my bed, but the very first review did just come out, so I wanted to post it:

Contra Costa Times Review

More to come - sleep and reviews - yikes.

Final Preview

At dinner before our final preview – the show turned a corner last night, partially because it’s a comedy and it needed an audience, and partially because the cast finally got comfortable and took over the show! Instead of it running them, they ran with it last night. The light at the end of tunnel is starting to appear. Starting…at 3 in the morning I realized that the answer to one of our transition problems was a “Scooby doo moment” – where everyone would run across at exactly the same time – in a clump – we put it in the morning, and we’ll see if it works tonight – sometimes 3 in the morning ideas are the best, and sometimes they’re left there – we’ll see about this one.