a little break

Off to Edinburgh on Monday, back in a week. Probably won't be blogging, so take care out there.

mind melt

Back to back rehearsals with Dave and Matt.

Same lines coming out of two different actors' mouths, me scribbling the same notes on the same legal pad.

And yet the shows are completely different.

The mind is a-melting.

Despite the evil machinations of Rose, Future Bible Heroes is already taken. The New Crazies was the counterfeit band, still a great name in my book.

Back to the grind.

ready, set

It's T minus 7 days for the annual Edinburgh journey. Need to get about a month's worth of work done this week, posting may be a bit light.

Thanks to all who made the LIT party on Friday night a rocking little affair. Cognac Sheena in particular, very nice stuff.

Here's your MMMQ, testing your knowledge of the prodigiously gifted Stephin Merrit.

Most folks know The Magnetic Fields, but Mr. Merrit stays very busy. Which of the below is not one of his bands?

1. The 6ths

2. The New Crazies

3. Future Bible Heroes

4. The Gothic Archies

Winners get the Book of Love, losers run around like a chicken with it's head cut off.

shameless self-promotion Friday

Did a podcast with Trav S. D. for nytheatre.com yesterday, talking about Trav's show Willy Nilly and my show The Event, both of which are playing FringeNYC.

And tickets are now on sale at www.fringenyc.org. Get them quick, we only play five shows.

LIT party tonight at P.S 122, starting around 10:30, free booze for all.

Get Lit with LIT.

And on Sunday,

1st Annual Indie Theater Midsummer Classic (Softball Game and Picnic)

Sunday, July 26th
noon to 4pm
Central Park's Great Lawn
(Enter the park at 81st Street)

Picnic (bring your own) - noon to 1:30
Softball Game - 1:30 to 4pm
Drinks at a nearby pub - 4pm til they run out of beer

Your team captains Tim Errickson and Michael Criscuolo ask that if you have equipment to please bring it and to be prepared to share a glove with a neighbor.

4pm drinking and continued socializing will be done at:
Blondie's Sports Bar on 79th Street (between Broadway & Amsterdam)

See you there.

tomorrow night

Just a reminder, tomorrow night starting at 10:30 a free party thrown by the League of Independent Theater and the undergroundzero festival, P.S. 122.

Join the party.

And apparently the entire state of New Jersey is under arrest this morning for...

everything.

nice night

And a great party thrown by the NYITA crew. Saw some people I hadn't seen in years and met some new folks as well. Congrats to all of the nominees.

Ann is back and eating meatloaf with Stoney, can't throw the Lampshade Queen.

Rose gets the leftovers, but sometimes they're better the next day.

the time is now

Reminder of what's going on this week, MMMQ at bottom of post:

A celebration of Independent theater hosted by the Innovative Theater Awards, The League of Independent Theater and the Community Dish! Please mark your calendars with the following events!

The New York Innovative Theatre Awards
5 Year Birthday Party
& Nominee Announcement

June 1st marked the end of the 2009 season, which means that the nominees will soon be announced.

It also marked the 5 year milestone for the IT Awards.

Please join them:

MONDAY, JULY 20, 2009
at the historic Off-Off-Broadway Venue
Demo Hall / Carmine St. Center at Our Lady of Pompeii
located at 25 Carmine Street (corner of Bleeker)

from 7pm to 10pm

The actual public announcement starts at 8pm, so come early, have a drink, get your picture taken and rub elbows with some of the most talented and exciting theatre artists in New York City!

Tickets are on sale now on our website for $15, on a first-come, first-served basis! $20 at the door.

permalink: www.nyitawards.com

LIT MIXER! As part of the undergroundzero Festival at PS 122

Enjoy parties? Meeting new people? Dancing the night away?

Come to the LIT MIXER!
As part of the undergroundzero Festival at PS 122

Friday July 24th
10:30pm
PS 122 - 150 First Avenue

We in the Indie Theater Community work hard. Very hard.

But we're also the most fun.

Let's prove it. See you there!

1st Annual Indie Theater Midsummer Classic (Softball Game and Picnic)

Itching to dust off your curveball? Meet some fellow Indie Theater folks?

Please join The Community Dish, The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation, The League of Independent Theatre and United Stages for the

1st Annual Indie Theatre Midsummer Classic (Softball Game and Picnic)

Sunday, July 26th
noon to 4pm
Central Park's Great Lawn
(Enter the park at 81st Street)

Picnic (bring your own) - noon to 1:30
Softball Game - 1:30 to 4pm
Drinks at a nearby pub - 4pm til they run out of beer

Your team captains Tim Errickson and Michael Criscuolo ask that if you have equipment to please bring it and to be prepared to share a glove with a neighbor.

Celebrate the summer with a turkey sandwich, a few grounders and some good friends!

4pm drinking and continued socializing will be done at:
Blondie's Sports Bar on 79th Street (between Broadway & Amsterdam)

Hope to see you at all three.

I'm thinking of Meat Loaf this morning, as I do most mornings. Something about that big, sweaty guy I love.

The first album Mr. Loaf ever released was:

1. Bat Out of Hell

2. Stoney and Meatloaf

3. Meat Loaf Soul

4. Freaky and Meatloaf

or

5. Blood on the Tracks

Losers get leftovers, winners get meat loaf.

Naturally.

darkly dreaming Dick

Reading about the secret CIA program run out of the ex-V.P's office all I can think is Cheney saw the Jason Bourne movies and thought:

Now that's what I'm talking about!

Something's got to stick, right?

At some point these guys end up in jail, right?

Sweet Rose takes a swing and a miss, Ann is AWOL and Billy Strayhorn remains the patron saint of the MTA.

underground man

Been rehearsing The Event up at Calvitto's spacious living room in his new digs in Washington Heights. Saving some do-re, but I'm coming from the Lower East Side, so that's about an hour door-to-door.

I could be in the Poconos, for the love of Gob.

To get to Dave's it's the F to the A and then I take the A train just about to the end of the line.

Which leads us to our MAMQ.

For all you jazzbos out there (I'm looking at you, Ann),

Who composed the stunning Take The A Train?

1. Dizzy Gillespie

2.Billy Strayhorn

3. Duke Ellington

4. Count Basie

Losers get service delays, winners ride express.

And all should, naturally, stand clear of the closing doors.

sometimes the good guys win

Saw this on WNYC News:

NEW YORK, NY June 29, 2009 —An arts organization that's been serving the Lower East Side out of a dilapidated tenement for nearly 30 years, is on its way to building a brand new community center, thanks to a grant from the city.

ABC No Rio offers the community access to their 'zine library, silk screening shop, and other collaborative arts and outreach programs. and it says the $1.65 million grant will allow it to nurture a new generation of artists.

Executive Director Steven Englander says ABC No Rio applied to the city for funding three times, retooling their request each time, before succeeding.

Way to go, Steven.

undergroundzero

This from East River Commedia:

The 2009 undergroundzero festival is open! There is an exciting line-up of performances this week including our own Jamal Lullabies, by Emily Conbere opening tonight at 9:00 pm.

Also this week is the South Wing's AOI! at 7:00pm, Eric Dean Scott's Tales from Bordertown, Thinking Persons Theater She of the Voice, and Nora Woolley and Christine Witmer's Selling Splitsville!

Please come and join the festivities! Tickets are available online at http://www.facebook.com/l/;www.ps122.org only $15.00!

We were part of this last year, it's a great festival.

Get on out there and see some shows.

congrats

To Subjective Theatre Company, one of the four new resident companies at Horse Trade Theater Group. Also, Wreckio Ensemble, BE Company and The Assembly.

Don't know the last three, but if Erez is giving them the nod, they must be up to something good.

Ann and Rose, take a victory lap and feel free to polka all along the way.

indie theater week

Something we've been cooking up with NYITA and the Dish.

MMMQ at the end of post.


Can’t get enough of awards season? Join us!

The New York Innovative Theatre Awards
5 Year Birthday Party & Nominee Announcement

June 1st marked the end of the 2009 season, which means that the nominees will soon be announced.

It also marked the 5 year milestone for the IT Awards.

Please join us:

MONDAY, JULY 20, 2009
at the historic Off-Off-Broadway Venue
Demo Hall / Carmine St. Center at Our Lady of Pompeii
located at 25 Carmine Street (corner of Bleecker)

from 7pm to 10pm

The actual public announcement starts at 8pm, so come early, have a drink, get your picture taken and rub elbows with some of the most talented and exciting theatre artists in New York City!

Tickets are on sale now on our website for $15, on a first-come, first-served basis! $20 at the door.

permalink: www.nyitawards.com/news/2009/6/16/NomineeAnnouncement200906

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Enjoy parties? Meeting new people? Dancing the night away?

Come to the LIT MIXER!
As part of the undergroundzero Festival at PS 122

Friday July 24th
10:30pm
PS 122 – 150 First Avenue

We in the Indie Theater Community work hard. Very hard.

But we’re also the most fun.

Let’s prove it. See you there!

------------------------------------------------------

Itching to dust off your curveball? Meet some fellow Indie Theater folks?

Please join The Community Dish, The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation, The League of Independent Theatre and United Stages for the

1st Annual Indie Theatre Midsummer Classic (Softball Game and Picnic)

Sunday, July 26th
noon to 4pm
Central Park's Great Lawn
(Enter the park at 81st Street)

Picnic (bring your own) - noon to 1:30
Softball Game - 1:30 to 4pm
Drinks at a nearby pub - 4pm til they run out of beer

Your team captains Tim Errickson and Michael Criscuolo ask that if you have equipment to please bring it and to be prepared to share a glove with a neighbor.

Celebrate the summer with a turkey sandwich, a few grounders and some good friends!

4pm drinking and continued socializing will be done at:
Blondie's Sports Bar on 79th Street (between Broadway & Amsterdam)
http://blondiessports.com/

Expect to see you all there at all three events.

Our MMMQ goes all old-timey this week. Spent the weekend deep into swing and big band and all of that for some reason. Kept playing Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy and marveling at the Andrews Sisters.

Name the missing sister:

Maxene, Laverne and

1. Patty

2. Betty

3. Rhonda

4. Debbie

Winners do the Victory Polka, losers get beaten eight to the bar.

enjoy

Cutting out early for the weekend.

Enjoy and be safe.

mobius post

Just a quick note to say that I don't have any time today to post anything.

No time to point towards anything interesting in the blogosphere or the mainstream news.

No time to mourn Karl Malden.

Can't relate any amusing personal anecdote or indulge in an over-written rant about the latest political outrage.

Just can't do it.

Wish I could.

No time.