29 Days and Counting

We finally have a full cast, set in stone (fingers & toes all crossed):

The Landlady...........Lynna Snyder Metricin
Gertrude Stein.........Anne McEvoy
Alice B. Toklas..........Pam Matthews
George Sand.............Jen Justice
Alfred de Musset.....Val Kozlenko

Several weeks ago, we held a second reading at the Cleveland Heights Public Library. For that reading, Gilgamesh Taggett took the part of Alfred.

Although we had only a few guests in attendance, the reading was very energetic and muscular.

Tomorrow I have a meeting with Curtis Young at CPT to look through their stock of set pieces and props. Curtis has already informed me that they do not have a bed, which is perhaps the most important part of the set.

I went to see Mark Goodman, who owns an Antique Emporium in Larchmere. He has a good option for the writing desk there and also has a roll-away bed that we can use. It may not be so dramatic as Alice dragging a day bed onto the stage, but it may have its own theatrical effect.

I had called Mindy Herman to inquire about the brochures...and lo and behold, there was an e-mail waiting for me when I returned home. A generic e-mail from Mindy telling all Big Box participants that the brochures were ready. I must have been on some psychic wavelength with her today.