362 breaks out in song




Think I've found the missing days! It turns out I started the "Coronavirus Lockdown Journal" on March 18th, but didn't publish that entry until the 19th. So I shouldn't be on schedule to hit 365 until the 19th. 

Today is the 16th and we're on 362, so I think that works out.

Boy, going back to those early entries is bizarre. I wasn't wearing a mask. Relatively few people were. The supermarket was pandemonium. It wasn't until around #9 that I saw a reference to masks, and it wasn't until maybe #13 that I started talking about wearing them for real, and then it took another week for government officials to embrace that idea. Some of them. Some really important public figures never really did.

That's going to be a pretty big project, going through all those entries and seeing what still resonates. 

Speaking of big projects, Mark Twain's Barbary Coast Revue had it's second table read of the pandemic. It went great, even when I got this message.

Yikes! 

Thankfully one of our readers, our season two choreographer Lara Jean Sullivan, who has been making a bit of a name for herself on the silver screen, stepped up with a pro account, and we carried on.

Director Keith Carames led the readers through a pretty quick reading, under an hour and forty-five minutes. That's good, considering the script is close to fifteen pages longer than season three, when the show ran 90 minutes with no intermission. (It was a weeknight.) 

This time around, I think we're thinking a more traditional run, with multiple shows per week, over a few weeks.

We were lucky to have some guest readers, unfortunately I didn't get to screencap everyone, but here is Kiki The Cat! (Thank you to all of the readers, and the critics... You know who you are!)

Our Season Two technical director Matt made a surprise appearance alongside Stacey Kennedy.

And Evan Kaminsky! His voice and creative power has been huge to the show. He was our first director, but more than that, he took on the character of Shanghai Kelly way back when this was a really loose idea. As a writer working with actors, you learn to play to their strengths, and I can honestly say the fun, dynamic, SF-tastic Shanghai Kelly we have in the show right now would not exist without Evan.

So that was fun, thank you. Stay tuned for more info on how you can get involved. 

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