So we've had our first few rehearsals for Macbeth, which I'm dramaturging/AD-ing for Andrew. (I frankly attach more importance to the former title than the latter--he told me I could do anything I wanted, I chose dramaturg, and later he added the AD function.) Rehearsal for this week has been all readthroughs and table work and hence at Christine ( Read more... )

I'm in the middle of a writing project of sorts right now. I met with Dave a few weeks ago to discuss how TTC is going to do Xmas Carol this season, and we also came up with another project, a fundraiser, Scary Stories Along the Waterfront. I have to write this one as well, and I've been doing a ton of research. It's harder to write a good ghost ( Read more... )

Saturday was busy--I had rehearsal for much of the day for both of my shows (Macbeth and my cabaret, about which more later) and then got a pedicure. Both rehearsals went well--for the cabaret I was sight-singing a lot of new music, and Donna was revising her score on the spot so I got to exercise my notation skills, which have lain fallow for lo ( Read more... )

I had an old pumpkin in my freezer from last fall that I froze, planning eventually to process it into puree. I meant to do it earlier this winter, but finally got around to it tonight! I defrosted, chopped, blended and poured, and now I have 5 neat little 1.25 cups of puree suitable for making pumpkin bread or pie. (Or pumpkins Alexander!) Yes ( Read more... )

I was talking with someone about how St. Patrick's Day is so huge in the North and Northeast and how the Scottish don't seem to have as much of a presence. I think comparatively fewer settled in those areas, but they're quite well represented in the South which was settled by the Scottish and English (which explains the Virginia Tidewater accent, ( Read more... )

Yay! Today I received the book I'd ordered through Amazon, called Gazetteer of Scottish Ghosts. My dad had this book in the '70s and I think it's been tossed because I haven't been able to find it the last few times I've visited Dad and Liz. It's an awesome book about spooky Scottish haints and such. And there's a ton about Glamis Castle, home of ( Read more... )