SO...

Broadway Bares is over. We raised over $800,000 to fight AIDS!! Thanks to all who helped through online donations or seeing the show.

Right now I am in Oklahoma for my sisters wedding which is on Saturday. I will be here through the 8th and will then be in DC through the 13th before heading back to NYC for a reading, a concert and hopefully many interviews!!

Thats all for now!! If you are in Oklahoma... email me! jspeaker@hotmail.com

Every Penny Counts!!

Many have asked, YES I am still in NYC.

These days I have been keeping myself busy with a very important event. I am one of the stage managers on Broadway Bares this year.

Broadway Bares is an amazing benefit for Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS staring some of Broadway's best dancers.

We, the stage managers, have decided to give the dancers a run for their money in the fund raising department.

Please visit HERE and help us meet our modest goal. You can give as little at $5 and as much as you want.

Don’t delay... go and donate to this amazing cause!

JOBS!?!

Get out your tap shoes Francis! Julian Marsh is doing a show!!

OK, maybe not but after the close of Glory Days on Broadway, my season is finally starting to shape up. Check out the schedule section of my blog to see what I have in the works!!

Oh What A Night!!

So tonight I won the online Virtual Line (for those familiar with Rush tickets, its like an online lottery) for Hamlet at Shakespeare in the Park... in Central Park... NYC, YES THE SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK!!

I have always wanted to go but due to working out of town in the summer or not living in NYC I have never been able to go. It was amazing.

First of all being in the Delacorte theatre was just cool. This is a major place in American Theatre History!! I had great seats and it almost rained but, thank God, it didn't.

Second, it was a glorious production of Hamlet. I have seen several and this was by far the best. Oskar Eustis has always been a director I have been a big fan of... now he is on my "Must Work With Before I Retire" list. The entire cast was stunning. I would love to go into more details but I just don't have the words.

If you live in New York or plan on visiting you must do your best to see this production.

Good Advice

This is from an email I got from my mother's cousin in 2002. I have always held on to it and recently re-read it and thought it needed to be shared.

1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctor worry about them. That is why you pay him/her.

2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.

3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. "An idle mind is the devil's workshop," the devil's name is Alzheimer's.

4. Enjoy the simple things.

5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be alive while you are alive.

7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it is family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.

8. Cherish your health. If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

9. Don't take guilt trips. Go to the mall, the next county, a foreign country, but not to guilt country.

10. Tell the people you love, that you love them, at every opportunity.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.