Self-Improvement

Well, gawrsh, it's been almost a year since I last updated this blog; This is not for lack of activity, but rather a lack of REMEMBERING I have one!

Here's a recap of 2010:

• A series of readings of works-in-progress by some brilliant writers at the Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program like Dewey Fleszar, Mkhululi Mabija, Diana So, Felice Kuan, Minjoung Hwang, Anita Reyes, Olivios Karaolides, Jake Brandman, Tyrone Robinson, Hyun Suk Park, and Sarh Underwood, Jamie Cowperthwait, Cody Wymore, and Brandon Michael Lowden. Oh gosh, did I forget anyone? There were so many of them and so much talent I was thrown for a loop!
• A bunch of benefits, including one for the new up-and-coming theater company, Leviathan Theater Lab.
• Back to Bacharach, the inaugural offering of the brand-spankin' new Harbor Lights Theater Company in Staten Island, run by some of the most wonderful people you will ever meet: Jay Montgomery and Tamara Jenkins. Don't knock Staten Island: some of the most peaceful moments of my summer were on that ferry. Locals side of course. Tourists, the Statue of Liberty is on the other side, thank you.
• A performance of Felice Kuan and Hyun Suk Park's "Epitaph" at the EAT Illuminating Artists Well-Noted Shorts series at the TADA! Theater.
• Band Geeks! at Ars Nova written by Tommy Newman, Gaby Alter and Mark Allen; Directed by Gordon Greenberg.
• Lizzie Borden resurrects at NAMT! with a new Borden: Beth Malone joining us as Miss Emma, with Jenny Fellner and Carrie Cimma rounding out the gang.
• Playing a Tourette's afflicted manager on Perfect Harmony at Stoneham Theater in Massachussetts, 45 Bleecker in NYC, and at The Acorn on Theater Row, also in NY.

I had no idea what a busy year I'd had till I saw that all written down. Well, bully for me!

The year is coming to a close and my commitments are slowing down; a good time to breathe, relax and plan a wedding. Yes, I am engaged!!! I plan to be a Missus by the end of next year. Whether another blog post makes it on here before then, only time will tell.

Perhaps by that time, I will also be a virtuoso at my new stab at self-improvement: the ukelele! It's not easy. The tips of my fingers are blistered and I can only play three songs, but that's good going I guess for having had it in my hands for 24 hours.

More to come...