I was 11 years old for the Bicentennial and, oddly enough, was out of the country for the actual day. We were taking a typically weird Peterson vacation. Mom was in South America for work, and Dad joined her in Bolivia (I think). Sam and I stayed with family friends, then flew (by ourselves, which …
Hark, hark, they assemble, these fiends of the night!
I know I explain this every year, but a couple of factoids: There is an annual Gilbert & Sullivan festival that takes place every August in northern England. I work (regularly, but not necessarily yearly) with a multinational group (Savoynet) that puts on a show every year at this festival. So do many other New …
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Wowee
*waves* Hi, everyone, I'm still here. I've just been hip-deep in rehearsals and performances ever since I got back from my mid-May trip. And there will be substantial bloggitude about that, no fear. But we just finished our two-night run of Bastien und Bastienne and Le 66 (aka "BB66") and they went delightfully well and …
Tonys
For years, my (now former) upstairs neighbors Josh and Mariah and (Charles and) I have gotten together for pizza (or whatever) while we watch the big awards shows - Oscars and Tonys certainly, the Emmys sometimes. This has become more of a logistical issue since they moved to Manhattan. I'd actually been pondering trying to …
Pillion
Happy Pride Month! I have all sorts of thoughts about Pride, but this is not the post for that. I finally got to see the movie Pillion last night. I'd been leery of it. By all accounts, it was excellent - and funny. But, as I've found myself motivated to state before, I am the …
June June June
Starting June by celebrating the end of the post-surgery eyedrops routine. Hurrah! I'm loving the new eyes, although I'm now resigned to having reading glasses in every possible spot in the house. Also having to deal with my now-way-too-visible under-eye bags. OK, I am in my 60's. But still! June is largely about BB66! We've …
New Normal down south
So, a couple of weekends ago, after a Friday night seeing Sweeney Todd and a Saturday so busy getting stuff wrapped up that I wasn't able to go see my buddy Manya's Mercedes in Carmen, on Sunday, I flew down to Raleigh/Durham to visit my dad and brother. Nothing eventful about the flight or the …
Life is lifing (and sometimes not)
Just a quick placeholder post before I head to the office. So much going on over the last week or so, some of which I'll cover in detail later. I won't actually bullet these, but they're basically bullet points. My buddy Marc discovered three cut songs from Iolanthe in the British Library! We'd always known …
Operation Mincemeat, Hadestown (and G&S)
So, I had two weeks last month where I had eye surgery on Monday and had to take off work for three days, not because surgery recovery was onerous or tiring, but because the eye doctor had said "no screens for three days". So, on both Wednesdays, since I had to go into town anyway …
Look into his laser eyes
One look and you're hypnotized! Got a ton to blog about, but I guess I'll pick up with the eye stuff. So, the first cataract surgery, three weeks ago now, went just fine and so did the recovery. Since my glasses were immediately obsolete, my vision correction solution for the interim period before the second …
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