Well, that was fun. By “that,” I mean the process of getting this new computer up and running to my satisfaction. Yes, the new monitor arrived last week, and I spent a few happy (well, mostly happy) hours with plug-ins and cables and drives (oh, my!), losing hours of productivity in order to get a …
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My poster for Regina Lyric Musical Theatre’s fall show
I’ve been designing posters for Regina Lyric Musical Theatre (previously Regina Lyric Light Opera) for years now. I enjoy it. It’s pretty much the only visually artistic thing I do these days, despite being an art minor in university. Here’s my poster for this fall’s production of The Times, They Are A-Changin’, a 1960s folk …
My poster for Follies
I’ve just sent this poster of Lyric Musical Theatre of Regina‘s upcoming production of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies (in which I’ll be playing Buddy) off to be printed. Designing these things is the closest I come to doing art any more. I always enjoy it! Oh, and let this be first notice of the production, if …
It’s Magic!
I have occasionally made reference to the fact that I can sing, and now I have vidographic proof! This is from Lyric Musical Theatre’s fundraising brunch, which ran the last two Sundays at the Hotel Saskatchewan. Enjoy! Got a little choked up there at the end because I made the tactically problematic though strategically sound …
The first sentence I wrote today
Richard Hansen looked at the man who had appeared on the vidscreen in response to his request to speak to The Avatar.Words today, plus a few from Sunday I didn’t blog: 2,139Total thus far: 15,630Percentage completed: 13 So here I am back in Saskatoon for the last week of rehearsals for Beauty and the Beast …
Laurey is now Aunt Eller
This caught my eye, since I just played Jud in Regina Lyric Light Opera‘s production of Oklahoma!: Oscar-winner Shirley Jones will be featured in the Pittsburgh CLO’s upcoming staging of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic Oklahoma!, according to the theatre’s website. Oklahoma! runs through July 1st. Jones, who famously played Laurey in the 1955 film …
Pore Jud…
…may well be dead, but at least he’s not Ed–not any more. We wrapped up Regina Lyric Light Opera‘s production of Oklahoma! yesterday, and, as the rural correspondents of the Weyburn Review were wont to say when I was editor there, “A Good Time Was Had By All.” I received a lot of compliments on …
Two shows down, three to go
Well, we (Regina Lyric Light Opera, that is) have two performances of Oklahoma! under our belts (or suspenders, actually, for the most part) and it’s going really well. Good houses both opening night and last night, and standing ovations both nights. I’m enjoying playing Jud. We’ve humanized him quite a bit from some productions, so …
Creepy, and possibly psycopathic…that’s me!
Well, that’s me as Jud Fry in Regina Lyric Light Opera’s production of Oklahoma!, which hits the boards at the University Theatre, Riddell Centre, University of Regina this Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., with additional performances Thursday at 7:30, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. Even though I’ve done one or …
Belated Photo of the Weekend: "How Can Love Survive?"
Joan Miller and I ask the musical question “How Can Love Survive?” during the final run-through for Regina Lyric Light Opera‘s musical fundraising brunch, With a Song in My Heart…the Music of Richard Rodgers, at the Hotel Saskatchewan Radisson Plaza Sunday morning. In the program I also perform two solos: “Some Enchanted Evening” and (ahem) …
The shock of the new
The Apple Tree, the Broadway musical Regina Lyric Light Opera is presenting at the Shumiatcher Theatre in the Mackenzie Art Gallery through Sunday afternoon, is a fabulous, funny show that shouldn’t be missed. Unfortunately, judging by the half-full houses on Wednesday and Thursday, it is being missed, by far too many people. Why? Most …
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