Book 35: Murder Most Fouled-Up
Author: Nikki Harmon
Genre: Comedy/Stage Play
Number of pages: 71
Pages Read This Year: 10605
My rating of the book, F- [worst] to A [best]: B

Short description/summary of the book: from DramaticPublishing.com 
As lawyer Seymour Mead finishes reading Ridgely Randolph's will to the assemblage of greedy relatives and servants ( Read more... )

Since the big announcement a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been spending most of my time concentrating on getting Evertime up and ready to go. The script for the first issue is finished, and has been for some time now, so now I’m working on the script for issue two and charting out some future story arcs. I’ve got a lot of ideas, and it’s just a matter ( Read more... )

Well... okay, not the opera, per se, but working the door at the Thibodaux Playhouse for this summer's musical, The Spitfire Grill. As a member of the Board of Directors, I am required to sell tickets at least once per production, if it's a production I'm not involved in. I actually enjoy doing it -- gives me a chance to coverse with our patrons a ( Read more... )

Well, as promised a few days ago, I'm gonna tell you guys a bit today about how It Runs in the Family, my directoral debut at the Thibodaux Playhouse, worked out. I've been performing with the Playhouse on and off since 1997, and in 2003 I joined the board of directors. I wrote The 3-D Radio Show, I assistant directed Mr. 80% and I've been in the ( Read more... )

Final Nights!


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Tonight was the pickup rehearsal for It Runs in the Family -- basically, between the two weekends of the show we get together one time to run the show, more or less to make sure we don't completely forget everything. One night to get all the kinks out is really important -- we get the mistakes out of our system alone before we do it in front of an ( Read more... )

I'm glad you asked! We're dark right now (that's one of them Thespian terms that means we aren't doing a performance tonight), and we will be until Friday, but I was informed earlier at the Thibodaux Playhouse board meeting that the reservations for the second and final weekend of the show are doing quite well. Friday has healthy numbers, Saturday ( Read more... )

Two shows down -- three performances, if you count the audience dress rehearsal, and It Runs in the Family is going along beautifully. Even our numbers have been good -- 96 for the dress, 91 the first night and 130 on Friday. Quite good for our theater for the opening weekend, and the second weekend is when the numbers typically go up, once word of ( Read more... )

I wrote about my show, It Runs in the Family, on Monday at taic, but it's a topic worth revisiting, especially through the filter of a Think About It column. Take a look at...

Running Away With the Family

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