Hello. I seem to be getting back into my old pattern of blogging. I'm finishing up a long piece on a bit of comic book history which I'll be posting in a day or so. I've been busy with an awful lot of different matters, some of them mundane to the extreme…if that isn't an oxymoron.
Just a reminder: Today, I'll be at the Dark Delicacies bookshop out in what the wonderful Gary Owens used to describe as "Beautiful Downtown Burbank." I'll be interviewing Jeff Abraham and Burt Kearns about their new book, The Show Won't Go On. Details here.
Hey, if you're in or around L.A., this might interest you: I've written before here about a local group called the Musical Theater Guild. They take great old musicals that aren't being produced much these days and they one-performance concert versions of them: No sets, not much in the way of costumes, small casts, actors often reading from scripts, appallingly little rehearsal. Tomorrow night, I'm going out to the Alex Theater in Glendale to see how the hell they're going to do one of my favorite musicals, Barnum, with almost no budget and a cast of nine people who had one day of rehearsal. I know they'll pull it off. I just don't know how.
If you're as curious as I am, tickets are still available here.