Archive for August, 2004
Tuesday, August 17th, 2004
Patience Screening this Sunday
Well, have been hard-pressed to get all the updates up in time, so y’all’ll just have to bide your time until I return. But you are invited over to mi casa on Sunday, August 22 at 7pm to view the DVD(!) of the production of Patience that Jonathan and I are doing this evening.
BTW, [...]
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Sunday, August 15th, 2004
UK Trip - Day 23
Not called until 1:30, so got to sleep late again, then Jonathan and I went to check email and exchange our tickets for Friday’s Ruddigore and get some for Saturday, to allow us to attend the ‘cast bonding’ dinner the Ariana and Joseph arranged. Successful in both endeavors, we lunched at the Chinese place [...]
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Friday, August 13th, 2004
UK Trip - Day 22
Slept in late, then got the rest of the travel diary entries done, as well as completed writing the encore verse for Heavy Dragoon. Went to rehearsal, and we got halfway through the finale of Act I. We lost a male chorus member, so it’s going to be pretty scant onstage, but the ones [...]
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Thursday, August 12th, 2004
Postings update
Ok, I’ve just about caught up. I’ve got all the past due travel diaries posted, and caught up on some more pictures:
Buxton Pt. 1
Buxton (and London) Pt. 2
UK Trip - Day 7
UK Trip - Day 8
UK Trip - Day 9
Will link properly later…and rename, since I think I screwed up the day numbering.
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Thursday, August 12th, 2004
UK Trip Day 21
Cereal and tea for breakfast that I bought at the Safeway, then off to the first Patience rehearsal (though I’m not called ’til the afternoon, I wanted to see how things were). The director, Pamela, is doing some really neat things, and the other principals and chorus all sound great…this is going to be [...]
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Thursday, August 12th, 2004
UK Trip Day 20
Neill found us some rooms in a little house on Fairfield Road. It appears to be used as student housing…at least our neighbors are. There are communal baths, toilets, and kitchen, but there is also a washing machine and a dryer, which means that I don’t have to make another huge journey to [...]
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Thursday, August 12th, 2004
UK Trip Day 15
[Forgot to do this at the time, so relying on the itinerary and my faulty memory]
Nice leisurely morning, then meet at noon:30 for a rehearsal for the concert that we’re doing that afternoon. I sing in the group that does the kingsingers’ arrangement of ‘Ah, leave me not to pine’ (one of my favorites) [...]
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Thursday, August 12th, 2004
UK Trip Day 14
[Forgot to do this at the time, so relying on the itinerary and my faulty memory]
Despite little sleep, wake up and have a very nice breakfast (the day before I had become an ‘official’ guest of the hotel). Get a call from Pamela Leighton-Bilik, asking me to do Col. Calvery. I accept, and now [...]
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Thursday, August 12th, 2004
UK Trip Day 13
[Forgot to do this at the time, so relying on the itinerary and my faulty memory]
Get up early and help with the load in for the Mikado at the opera house. It goes very quickly, so then help focus the lights by holding the genie. Finally time to do some laundry. I find the [...]
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Thursday, August 12th, 2004
UK Trip Day 12
[Forgot to do this at the time, so relying on the itinerary and my faulty memory]
Ken and David have arranged a day trip to Chester, a town that dates from Roman times. After “a bit of a cock-up,” we get a very fun and informational tour from a guy dressed in a centurion’s uniform. [...]