SORRY FOR THE DELAY

Time has lapsed since the last post. Sorry about that. We all knew that once the fundraising "kicked off" time would become less and less available to us. Lots of work to do! Here are some updates:

JULY 5TH: THE VARIETY SHOW went well. Attendence was solid, even if it was generously spread out throughout the day (thats a fancy way of saying that there were never more than, like, 20 people there at a time, which is just fine by us!) People also gave many generous donations to the cause, about half of our auction art goods were bid on and sold, and the raffle tickets went like cake. We realized that we had WAY more raffle prizes to announce than we had time to do it, so there were times when we were reading off ten gifts at a time. Always a great thing. We ended up making over $1300 total (including the door monies from The Brown,) which is much more than we expected to get. Throughout the day Erick Bonazza was outside with a "Variety Show Today" sign that he held while unicycling in traffic. He juggled, too. Balls, swords, fire. Yes, the rumors were true: the evening culminated with a fire show in the parking lot behind the players, and dear Eric survived to have a beer with us at The Brown, where our Encore show happened. The Brown was packed, we were very happy. Thank you SO MUCH to all of our performers on that day for volunteering your talents and your time, and thank you to our helpers and, of course, thank you to all of our donors and sponsors. An official THANK YOU LIST will be posted shortly.

JULY 12TH: THE REMAINING GREEN SHOW at Culpeppers went extremely well. Lots of people showed up, and we raised over $200. Soundrive opened the night and Dan Murphy and Dave Antolik of Remaining Green closed it. And I will say this: not only were all the original songs of the evening completely solid and worth hearing, the covers were really great. Not your typical bar covers. Everyone was verrrry happy about that. "The Passenger," Remaining Green? Really? Well done. Well done indeed.

REHEARSALS of Antigone are going. Natalia had to leave us to our own devices to attend a wedding in California, and as of this point a lot of us are very "off book." That is to say, we're almost completely memorized and don't need the scripts in our hands any more, which is EXTREMELY helpful when you're in the woods and trying to, well, act.

Adam Crego, our Messenger and Guard character, has been stricken with Mono and we're trying to figure out what that means for the show. What it means for Crego, personally, is a very crappy and painful end to the summer, and that's the biggest bummer for sure. We'll have updates on him.

That's it for right now. I'll be posting pictures of the Variety Show and the Culpeppers show very soon.

Thanks for tuning in.