the final countdown

When you read the title of this post, you have to go "tah tah tah tah...tah tah tah tah tah..." to get the full effect. :) If you don't the Europe song, just skip it...

I'm at White Station Elementary and having a wonderful two weeks here in the library. Friday is the end of the school year here, and of course the children are excited. They had a field day last Friday and it really quite fun. Lots of fun things for them to do, all organized by the gym teacher here, Coach Cochran. He really did a wonderful job of keeping everything moving.

I've been offered my first Equity contract in ten years. There is a new fledgling Shakespeare company starting here, and I'll be doing Amiens in As You Like It. Oddly enough, I did Amiens in 1977 at Theatre Memphis in the Little Theatre. The artistic director is a wonderfully nice man named Dan McCleary, and I really hope this could be the beginning of some decent pay in Memphis for actors.

I also did an audition and callback for Les Miz in Little Rock for Arkansas Rep and felt like it went well. I sang the latter half of the Suicide scene and the director asked for Stars. In the callback, I sang all that again and did the Priest's little scene before the candlesticks are stolen. He must be thinking of me for that with a Javert understudy. I don't know if I can afford to do that, but we'll see.

Deb's had some nibbles on an email we sent out about her potential job change and I'm optimistic about it. I don't know if she is as optimistic as I am about it, but I pray something will be settled soon. She gets very stressed about money and it doesn't help to have an actor for a husband if you worry about money.:)

That's about all for now, I have a class coming in.