Final Goodspeed Party Pics

Here is the last installment of leaving Goodspeed Musicals.

Aaron is in a daze of some sort while Patrick amazes Betsy with his amazing... wit?

Jaron made Lasagne!!

David A. Anderson and Guy Paul pose as Jaron examines his Chili

A group of Pot-Luck Crazies!!

My Mark Sanders... what bright shoes!!

Family Portrait (Inside Joke... all for you Monique!!)

Goodbye for now Goodspeed Opera House!!

A Quote from Mr. August Wilson

Today this section of Jitney caught my ear again. Its fantastic advice that is pure poetry in this play... think about it...

BOOSTER. Fine, I'm doing fine. Just trying to figure out what to do.
FIELDING. If you in the treetop you can't do nothing but jump to the ground. But first you got to know how you got up there. Did you climb up to get some apples or was you run up by a bear? You got to know that cause you might have to start running when you hit the ground.

If you trying to figure out what to do ... you got to first figure out how you got in the situation you in. That's something simple. But you be surprised how many people can't figure that out.

I know I know!!

I have fallen off the blog-o-sphere!!

Things have just kicked into high gear over the last week or so. I still have pictures and stories from the drive home from Goodspeed to share... and I will I promise.

Last week was the Last Garage Hurrah at Signature Theatre's old space. I ran follow spot because they already had a stage manager :(

It was very sad. Many of the numbers in the show were from shows that I had either stage managed or worked on in some way at Signature. All of the performances during the week were fine. It was the last show on Saturday that was sad... it was really the final performance.

During that show I cried during One Red Flower.. it was one of my favorite shows in my career much less at Signature. Then I was fine until Mrs. Mig started to get choked up in her beautiful tribute of an encore... thats when I choked up a second time but I held it together. THEN I saw Ronnie Gunderson with her husband Brain. Ronnie was the producing director of Signature for many many years. In addition to her managerial duties she was a resident stage manager. Out of the 65 productions staged in the Garage I would GUESS that she stage managed 35-40 of them. She had been a real mentor to me when we were both working at Signature. I saw her crying and lost it. We just stood in the space awhile crying and then decided we needed a drink... or two.

After the donor-types left and it was down to the Signature family we went into the theatre and had a blast (or 15 as it were). We spray painted the inside of the building and said our goodbyes with parodies, stories and more paint (there may have been a sledge hammer as well).

To the space that was my artistic home for many years:
"Goodbye old friend. Thank you for nurturing my professional life and launching me into the career I now have. You will be missed and never forgotten"

A Charlie Brown Christmas [scubs] style

Me and...

Joel Blum

Donna Lynne Champlin

Patrick Ryan Sullivan

James Moye

Goodspeed interruption

to post this cute picture!!

Kevin and I were very busy today getting things ready for Jitney.

Unfortunately he wont get any EMC points but I have officially started him on the path to becoming a stage manager.

Muah ha ha ha

Closing John Doe: Part Two

Here are some more pictures!!

The stage management team with the big check for Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights Aids!

Erin, Myself and Melissa on the John Doe Express after the closing performance.

This is the creek (or at least thats what it would be in Oklahoma) that was behind the theatre. We often talked about how much we wanted to kayack that thing... still do...

Closing of John Doe Part One

So I have alot of pictures to post here so I am going to do it in episodes.

The Amazing Pat (wigs) and the Amazing Betsy (Wardrobe)

The Theatre all lit up at night!!

My Amazing Stage Management Team on the Set after closing

SR- Erin A. Whipkey; C- Me; SL- Melissa L F Turner

Closing Night

This afternoon was the closing performance of Meet John Doe at Goodspeed Musicals.

It was a very sad day. This was a fantastic group of people performing a terrific show. One thing I have learned in this business is that those your really care about always turn up again.

I can not wait to work with all of my Doe-nuts again.

There will be MANY MANY pictures posted ASAP... until then... I love you all!!!