Some days ...

... in the middle of nowhere, for no obvious reason ...

I miss my mother.

Today is one of those days.

So much on my mind ...

I'm afraid if I really start here, I may not stop. And I have lines to learn! Things to do.

But I'll go for a few highlights, for now.

First of all, read Amy's blog. Talk about a bad day! Amy, I know you're not much of a hugger, but consider this a well-meaning online hug. :)

The Ovation Awards were this past week. Just the other day. it was the craziest thing: just when I was about to suggest to the Powers That Be at Ark that maybe we might want to stop shelling out money for Ovation registrations when we never, ever, ever, ever see the light of a nomination ... when we got two. Go Team Ark!



This is my size 2 dress, by the by. Ha ha.

Anyway, for the one or two people who might not know this, Dick got a nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Play for his work in A DOLL'S HOUSE, and JoAnna got a nomination for costume design for LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES. Photo of the nominees below.



Even though we scored no wins, it was fun to be there. And there was a GREAT group from Ark who came out to support. I think we managed to match volume of noise against some of the bigger companies!!! Heck, the largest group, up in the balcony, even got called out by Garry Marshall. Hee hee.

Goodness knows it could be another six or seven years before we're at that party again ... but I hope not! :)

So that's mainly what's going on ... TWIST opens the 30th, please come see it ... if you didn't get an Ark newsletter today via email, and you want one, drop a line to newsletter@arktheatre.org and we'll take care of that ...

Then of course, there's the WGA strike. And I can't say it better than Douglas did when he put together a little blurb for the Ark newsletter (we're offering $5 tickets for TWIST for WGA members) ... "without the writers, we'd be a company of mimes."

Notes to the Producers

To the producing team for HEROES:

It's really cool that you've brought New Orleans into the mix. Let's face it, never has a city in our country needed a superhero more. (What they'd really need is for Monica to watch on television an example of a great leader, and then she could run for mayor, and ... but I digress.)

But there are enough native New Orleanians living here in Los Angeles that you could, pretty easily, do the tiniest bit of fact-checking.

"Half the people in this county are living in FEMA trailers," Monica said.

Which would be fine ... if there were such a thing as a "county" in Louisiana.

There isn't.

And the accents! Everybody sounds like they're from deep in Mississippi ... the worst offender being Monica's co-worker at the burger place. And I was willing to accept that, and justified it in my head as "hey, maybe she moved here from elsewhere in the south, either before or after the storm, it's not like no one with an accent *lives* there ..." Until they set up that the two of them had been friends since kindergarten.

Sigh.

It's not hard, folks. Take a page out of K-Ville's book.



Yes, OK, they're actually THERE ... and sometimes they try a little TOO hard ... but at least they're trying.