6-FEB-23 Monday, 1 of 10

[DiveMilw]

Today I (and two other instructors) started our first ten day New Hire class.  The class used to be nine days but we had to add a day in order to beef up training.  This is exciting because this will be the first class to use a brand new module to teach how to run a flight at the gate, when agents work the flight, board the passengers, dispatch the flight, etc.  

[scenicdesign71]

R.I.P. Charles Kimbrough (1936-2023).

I'm not sure I actually knew that he had married Beth Howland, thirty years after they worked together in the OBC of Company.  And I had somehow managed to forget that Howland herself died seven years ago at 74.

I hadn't known that Kimbrough's line in uptight character roles represented a distinct, albeit unintentional and sometimes frustrating career turn starting around age 30 (and essentially lasting the rest of his career); or that he'd spent his twenties, by contrast, playing "sweaty, physical guys who bounded all over the stage".  I did once know (for some reason) that he'd played Voltaire/Pangloss as a replacement in Hal Prince's 1973 Candide revival; but had forgotten that, too, until the NYT obit reminded me.

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Speaking of deceased New York stage actors from a vanishing era, this new novel -- about a less successful real-life contemporary of Kimbrough's -- looks interesting, if perhaps a bit depressing:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/06/books/review-up-with-the-sun-thomas-mallon.html

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/04/1154473985/thomas-mallon-on-his-new-novel-up-with-the-sun