So, it's official. HR has been notified. My supervisor, his boss and our VP have been notified. My project lead and team have been notified. And my reporting team as well. I'm retiring at the end of the year! Actually, official date is Dec 4th, which is the end of the week after Thanksgiving. This …
Every Brilliant Thing
The one-person show Every Brilliant Thing, which was brought to Broadway this season as a vehicle for Daniel Radcliffe (who was, by all reports, amazing) has continued on, replacing Radcliffe with Mariska Hargitay and now with Tracee Ellis Ross, who will be closing the show this weekend. It had sounded like an intriguing idea - …
BB66
As anyone knows who is privileged enough (*koffkoff*) to have me whine at them, I spent quite a lot of planning and effort gearing myself up for an early-in-the-year audition for a production of Sweeney Todd - and then didn't get cast. But almost immediately, while I was doing a concert of Trial by Jury …
New Hope and Princeton
So, this weekend was the Plan B version of the "get out of town" weekend to Connecticut that had gotten torpedoed. I decided to do an overnight in New Hope, PA - hadn't been in many years, had never been to Lambertville even though it's a five-minute walk across a bridge (honestly, last times I …
Get to it
I do spend an awful lot of my life thinking, "oh, I should take a power walk every day" or "I should practice the piano every day" or "I should do some of the organization projects in the random tote bags in the utility room every weekend" or whatever. And of course it never gets …
Semiquincentennial
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 …
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