More understudies and a new president

Well lets start with sunday....

Sara Andreas went on for both shows again...and was flawless as expected. She has this red-brown wig and sings the crap out of it(which is actually really hard to get out of parachute fabric pants).

Since Thursday, we have been collecting for BCEFA after the shows---and its going great. As of last night, we have collected $15,000. Its amazing, cause we didnt even collect on sunday. What with 4 more weeks of collection we could have over 50,000 bones collected.

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Monday, Kevin BeeBee(one of our Company Managers) and I drove up to MAINE for some R&R. This trip completed Kevin's presence in all of the Continental US states. Driving up the foliage was amazing, and the weather...perfect. We ended up in OGUNQUIT, which is actually the P'TOWN of MAINE and has a Political Sign Cemetery as you come off the highway. I worked up at the OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE most of last summer, and fell in love with the town.

It is an artists village that didn't become an official town until the 80's. They don't allow any chain stores in town and won't allow a traffic light. In a word: quaint. One could even say, with a Middle Eastern accent, PARADISE!!!! In the winter, the population goes down to a mere 600 folks.

We met my friend KIM ( former company manager of the playhouse) at the best breakfast place in town---AMORE. Leanne, the owner and one of the most shining people i have ever met, greeted us with a smile and a hug. After shoveling dainty morsels of heaven into our mouths, without their amazing HASH, all three of us went for a stroll down the Marginal Way. This is a picturesque mile-long walk along the oceans edge. It leads from the main beach down to PERKINS COVE. It was as peaceful as i remembered, having run and meditated along its edge every day i could last summer. We then took a scenic drive down to YORK, so I could show Kevin the lighthouse---also giving Kim time so she could go work on publicity for our friend and heavenly hilarious friend Sally Struthers, who is currently on tour with an anniversary tour of NUNSENSE. We froze, watching the fattest seagulls i have ever seen and a class of scuba divers from U of NH dry in the wind. We then drove back up the winding country highway to check in to the ADMIRALS INN. This great hotel, which 20 years ago was a sketchy bathhouse, was left solely to our own private occupancy.

So, some blueberry beer and hottub was had before a search for lobster. Dame Starling(Kim) drove us to three places, all to no avail, before heading back to the infamous FRONT PORCH. Its the piano bar in downtown OGUNQUIT, that also has great food. We gnashed, whilst I was recognized by some locals. I tried to introduce myself, to which they gave me a Cheshire Cat grin sand said " Oh, I know who you are." It was a lil weird thinking that men citywide remember that they have seen me pseudo naked and may not exactly place that it was in a show. Thus is my life........

That night BeeBee enjoyed more of the hottub and Salty Dog, enjoying the night. You can see every star in the sky up there, and helps remind you of why we live. Its a simpler place, and a reminder that we have lost track of what is important in life. All you need is natures beauty, friendship, and not always get caught up in the rat race. A night on the most comfortable beds i have been in for 2 months, and then another great Bfast at AMORE. I shoveled some succulent HASH( that had minimal taters) and then caught a beach walk where we collected shells. the recharge was complete, so we headed home.

tuesday night, MAMIE had a personal day, so Sara Andreas was on again--with Coleen back in business.. We were all excited to get done with the show and see how the election was going, also seeing as how a handful of peeps had gone back to NYC specifically to vote ( not having been able to get absentee ballots). After the show, in which Andreas once again rocked, a group of us gathered in Spencer and my abode. We then witnessed the single most influential event of our lives, now knowing what our parents went through with the CIVIL RIGHTS movement, moon landing, and any other major event between 1950 and 1975. A lot of us sat, cried, and listened to the first BLACK man ever to give his presidential acceptance speech. There was in international party, but none like the group of Boston U kids that joined in the streets and blocked traffic. they siphoned the flow of cars down to a single lane, High-5ing and cheering for close to two hours. That was, of course, until a small army of RIOT GEAR CLAD BIKE COPS showed up and sent the kids scattering. it was an amazing night!!! BPM's roommates Jamie Grayson and Landon Beard also came to celebrate.

yesterday, we all were reeling from the bliss, also attempting to buy OBAMA shirts---none of which could be found. And then, Principal Understudy #3 went on. This time, it was Leslie going on for VIVIENNE. Megan was out. Also, HAL( our lead producer) was in the house. And, my Maine ladies came down to see the skit. So, it was a full house. Leslie rocked, Hal was gleefully happy, now tonite VEN is out and SPENCER is on.

yesterday, Ven was feeling like he pulled something. So, combined with today's U/s rehearsal, Paul Canaan coming in to co-teach a workshop with Nat Joy JO, its going to be another action packed day.