Category: School

Comedy tonight

And here we are again. Opening. Ticket sales are pushing the 600 mark; that’s a good thing. I hope we can score a good profit to put towards the choir’s New York tour in 2014. I think it’s important to point out at this juncture that there was not a single no-holds-barred, nuclear-disaster meltdown during [...]

Tech rehearsal, tech rehearsal,

how I loathe you. It’s not the “rehearsal” part I hate, it’s the fact that I have to yank everyone to school at 8:00 on a Saturday morning — especially when it’s the morning after the last football game of the season for the players in the cast, and the fact that the band/cheerleaders bus [...]

You know you’re getting old…

…when only two of seventy students know who Bing Crosby was. My 7th and 8th grade choir is singing “Perfect Christmas Night” from How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Jim Carrey version). Awesome tune; really swings. The second verse contains the phrase, I got Bing Crosby on, have all my troubles gone… Minutes after the girls [...]

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Juuuust a little frustrated here We are officially behind schedule. Did some math last night, and this show is going to arrive right under the wire. Might even have to cut a number. It’s OK though. It’s happened before; probably will again. Aren’t we funny creatures? Change. Heh. The times, they are a changin’. A change [...]

This…

…is my life for the next seven weeks. ~ How about yours? First tap rehearsal this afternoon. ¡Bailamos! FO