I loved I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter. I have renewed faith in the theatre. The next show I'm seeing is Avaaz, which is about Iranian New Year. I'm seeing it right after Election Day.

Last week I drove to King Soopers (1.25 miles away), went into the store and bought groceries. This is something I haven't been able to do since April. It could have gone better--I still don't feel entirely comfortable turning the wheel, especially on right turns, and I ended up placing another King Soopers order for delivery to cover all the stuff I couldn't find in the store, starting with Lay's Poppables. 

I love fall in Colorado. This week, high temperatures are forecast to be in the 70s, which is lovely weather for taking somebody out for a walk.  I've got my office window open. (Of course, it could also snow at any time. We usually get dumped on at least once in October.)

My big profound thought of the day: I really like Timbuk 3--everything except their one big hit. Right now I'm listening to "Facts About Cats." I'm also partial to "Reverend Jack and His Roamin' Cadillac Church."

I've been out of the loop this summer, but now that I've got some time to myself, I recently caught up on the Majestic Theatre renovations post-Phantom.  They were unveiled by McDonald, Wolfe and the Gypsy orchestra at a ceremony last month:



More photos here and here and here.  The contrast with PotO's enveloping Gothic atmosphere is striking, to put it mildly — newly-repainted exterior (and sign) very much included.  Covering all that black, inside and out, must have taken a buncha coats.

Today is Monday. Yesterday, I was freaked out for a few minutes because I thought it was Monday and I had missed my neurology appointment, but everything is fine, and I made it to and from the appointment today with nothing remarkable happening.

I guess it's the start to an unremarkable week. The most exciting thing that is happening this week is seeing I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, which is not until Thursday. I've heard that it's much more interesting than Hamlet. (Not that the bar is set very high. I've been thinking, and that production of Hamlet may be the dullest theatre production I've seen in at least five years.)

I can't wait until Election Day is OVER, when all the election ads and e-mails will go away. We have 14 statewide ballot issues, which is far, far too many. 

Hamlet was boring.  It was set in Denmark around the year 1200, and everybody had the same hairstyle (the wigs were amazing), so it was hard to keep track of who was whom. I had Claudius and Horatio mixed up. It reminded me of The Lord of the Rings. I know I dozed off just before intermission, and I was having a hard time keeping still for Acts IV and V.

In other news, there is now fraud on my new credit card account, a month and a half after the last time, so I again get to try to remember all the places where I just changed the number. 

Today is October 1, and I am seeing a production of Hamlet tonight. It should be an especially long night because I'm planning to stay for the talkback. 

I saw Creel play Hollis when I saw Bounce. Unfortunately he didn't leave much of a lasting impression on me  , probably because Howard McGillis and Richard Kind left so much of an impression. Fortunately I've got the cast recording to remind me.

Richard Kind was also very nice after the show, signing autographs as he was waiting to ride away on his bike.

R.I.P. Gavin Creel.



I think his Hollis, on this OCR (which is to say, this song) was my introduction to Creel — even, if memory serves, before his Jimmy on the Thoroughly Modern Millie OBCR, although that would mean I must've waited almost two years after the Millie album's release to buy and listen to it, which seems unlikely but not altogether unimaginable, especially at that point in my life.  In whatever order, I enjoyed both cast recordings and kept his name in mind as a talent worth watching out for, though I never saw either production.  In fact, I think his Kodaly in She Loves Me may have been the only work of his I ever managed to see onstage, once in person and then again later when it was livestreamed.  (That capture can currently be viewed on BroadwayHD).

This weekend was not very fun. I am trying to learn how to design things in Canva, and I don't like it much. It feels counterintuitive to me.  I know that's because I'm used to doing things with the Adobe Creative Cloud. I'm trying to get used to Canva because the client, being a nonprofit, gets a free subscription, as opposed to $60 per month for Adobe Creative Cloud.

I did get the postcard designed and to the mailhouse/printer, and I'm hoping they can read and print from the PDFs I exported from Canva.

Thank you. (And DUH.)

Sometimes people leave you,
Halfway through the wood.
Others may deceive you.
You decide what's good.
You decide alone.
But no one is alone.

Today was a   day. I would say that it's nice for it to be Friday, except that means I will be working on Saturday and Sunday to try to get something ready by Monday morning.

UK premiere at the National Theatre in April! https://www.whatsonstage.com/news/cast-announced-for-sondheims-final-musical-here-we-are-premiering-at-the-national-theatre_1633574/