Production photos from “The Yellow Wood” just popped up on Facebook, so I thought I would share some here.
For those who missed the show, as you can imagine from the pictures, I was pretty silly.
I’m proud of “The Yellow Wood” and I’m really impressed with how well the show sold. It’s one thing to sell out EVERY show of Dr. Horrible and to still pack 20+ standing room only people in, but to have respectable houses for a completely new musical not based on existing material is pretty impressive if you ask me.
My father beat me to it yesterday on his blog. BUT I have pictures.
Fall returned in grand style on Tuesday, and now that we finally installed our weather station, this is the first of many photos that I’m sure I’ll post in the future to mark significant weather events.
For your convenience, I’ve circled the two most interesting stats from Tuesday’s rain event. Shown here is the rainfall total for day (0.49 inches) and the highest rain rate for the day, which peaked at 0.19 inches of rain an hour at 7:57 AM.
This weather station is a beast, I’ve got stats on things I’ve never even heard of.
Reviews have all been positive and have mostly been from Blogs and Online Outlets. I think the Times was the first major publication to review us.
The thing is, the reviews aren’t doing us any good. It’s sold-out. We have no more tickets available for run. So people who saw the review in the Times this weekend and hadn’t heard about the show until then, are getting excited until they find out that we are sold out.
As tickets became scarce, I started advocating for jacking up the price, but I don’t think anyone took me seriously. I mean come on! Lets hold 10 tickets at the door and the people willing to pay the most will get in. Let’s work to GET PAID people =)
We DID just announce a few more late-night shows that we are doing in September though. Just one or two a weekend, since they figured out that the next show in the space wants to use the basic parts of our set and lighting plot. So we should just be able to go in and do a few a 11pm shows after their show. Should be interesting to see how that all works out in practice though.
Well it’s been a good run. Christine and I have been living together for like 5 years now and we have always prided ourselves on being a single-car family.
But as we approach this fall, its clear that our time has run out. Christine is starting school and will need to find herself in the U District several nights a week, while I’ll be working in Issaquah 5 to 6 nights a week. And while the bus has worked very well to get in and out of downtown Seattle during regular commuting hours, Burien is otherwise not an easy place to get to via public transportation.
So, we are now in the market in for another car (Boo!).
I loathe the thought of car shopping right now. ALMOST as much as I hate shoe shopping.
One avenue we are casually pursuing right now is buying a car from a guy I know in the theater community. He and his wife are preparing to move to New York after he just got off the national tour of the Legally Blonde Musical. They are selling a 2006 Kia Spectra with low miles and a new transmission. The price is good (and is made even better by savings accrued by NOT buying through a dealership) and I would be glad to be helping out a friend. Additionally, we’d be adding a second car without adding a second car payment (we just cut the check and be done). BUT still, there is something about the Kia Spectra that I’m hesitant about.
All of that said, it might be a good fit for us for us right now. With all of the other expenses that are involved with Christine going back to school, I think we are looking for a cheap stop-gap solution to our car problems. A solution that just gets us through the next two years. After which we can re-evaluate and invest in a longer term solution.
We’ll probably go take a look at it sometime this week.
I know Mike rocks a Kia, lets see if he’s a regular reader of the Blog and see if he has any opinions to offer. =)
I’m sitting here at home like a nervous parent who has just sent their toddler off to the first day of Pre-School.
Today is the “Back to School Day” for the EMBA program (BTW, “Today” is actually Friday. Spoiler alert: I write alot of these blog posts in advance)
Christine has an orientation session this morning, meets her entire class and study group for the next two years, has a few classes, and presumably get a shit-ton of reading assigned (that’s one metric shit-ton). They have a few introductory classes and stuff today, but then they don’t meet again until their week-long intensive at the end of September. This year it’s at a retreat center in Skamania, Washington (near Portland).
Today is a long day, but it is representative of what will soon be a normal class day. It started at 7:30 with a breakfast orientation and the first gathering of her study group and then they move on from there! I’ll be going up at around 4:00pm for a “Program Overview and Orientation” session designed for spouses and stakeholders. Then we all meet up for a dinner before I have to leave to get to the show.
Anyway, I’m nervous. I’m sure she’s doing fine! But what if she doesn’t get along with the other students? What if she’s not playing nice with others? And what if there is a bully or something? Does she know how to handle it? So many questions… so few answers. I just have to be patient, and trust that I’ve raised a good kid.
I’m also nervous for myself. I have to go to several of these events myself this evening, and on my own! What if the other wives don’t like me? What if there is a bully?
… life lessons are being learned all over the place today.
Looks like we’ve just about sold out the next two weekends already.
From the Managing Director’s Facebook status:
“Tickets to all 8p.m. shows are soldout for Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog outside of this Monday’s Pay-What-You-Can (first come, first serve at the door). Tickets still available to the 11 p.m. shows this Saturday, August 28 and next Friday, September 3rd.”
I shot a 127, which is up about 10 to 15 strokes from my last game. That’s not great. On top of that I wasn’t playing well. It took me about 9 holes to remember how to swing my clubs. I never really remembered how to putt.
Oh well, it’s just the frustrating part of the game. I think it’s why people play it. There is nothing like a bad game of golf to make you want to run back out there and take another shot at it… well, except for a good game of golf.
Really, the whole sport has quite the racket going here.
Yesterday also marked my return to my $10 thrift store bag of clubs. And lets just say it felt very inadequate…
I’m never going to make until Christmas waiting for new clubs.
Hell, I may not even make it out of August.
This has all of the signs of a major purchase that I am easily able to justify to myself, but that I don’t really need. It’s just that I really need them…
Another gem that I found while I was going through pics on my phone this weekend was this backstage video that I took last year during Peter Pan. This is the show that was going on backstage during the “I’m Flying” sequence.
The guys are flying our understudies (which is how I was able to film it) but it’s pretty much the same show that they flew for 2 months.
