Tuesday, March 22, 2016

All My Passions--Script Note


We just finished a run of performances of All My Passions, a play by Vin Moreale, in which I played the leading character, Everett Montague.  This is a Script note on that play/performance.

It is about a Soap Opera, All My Passions, and the show is sinking.  The leading man, Everett Montague, has become a liability to the show; 14 leading ladies in total and three of them in short succession.  The director, producer, and new head writer know that he has become a liability. 

Everett tells the producer of a past romance and she makes the connection of Everett to Eleanor, the primary sponsor of the show.  They all know that Everett has to go so Eleanor agrees to do it.

In the last scene, she gently removes Everett from the show. Everett enters the last scene in his costume, a smoking jacket, ascot, and toupee.  He takes them off.  After reuniting with Eleanore he puts on his blazer, which has been hanging on the hall tree for the entire performance from before the first curtain, and exits with Eleanor.  The End

The blazer is symbolic of his presence on the Soap; there until it, like he, is removed at the end.

Sunday, February 28, 2016

What Lately? (Haiku)


Our accomplishments
Are but an indication
Of what we can do

Solve the math problem
Move on to newer problems
Dwell not on this one

Deeds are history
The future is yet to come
Dwell not on the past

Capability
With your imagination
Brings satisfaction

Never satisfied
Solving the puzzle of life
One thing at a time

At the end of it
It's as if you weren't here
But you were and are

It's the grandchildren
Who continue our actions
From vague memories

A parallel life
From the past to the present
Liking it or not

Mysterious life
Brings from imagination
What we realize

Imagination
Mind linked to Bethesda's pool
Source of ideas

So go out and do
Whatever is on your mind
Doing it, do more

Sunday, February 21, 2016

Walk Then Run to Get It (Haiku)


Wobbly, unsteady
Taking little baby steps
Walking then running

As a full adult
Taking little baby steps
Will never reach Aim

But even these steps
In the proper direction
Will allow progress

Take the baby steps
With an eye on the big prize
Ready for running

Sooner or later
One must be in the running
Or never get there

Personal assets
Physical and financial
Adding connections

Only if you know
Deep inside your heart of hearts
What you want to have

This we call the dream
Always there, in the background
Guiding every step

Thursday, February 18, 2016

My Home Town (Haiku)


Look not at Paris
Not even New York City
Pictures won't do it.

Live in your city
Experience where you are
Life, not fantasy.

Saturday, January 23, 2016

Finally (Haiku)


At the end of it
Memories are all we have
Woe when they are gone

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

The Ghost of Xmas Past (Haiku)



The company's gone
Echoes of good times ringing
In an empty house

Memories were made
Keeping us close together
Kentucky Christmas

My Birthday dinner
Lunch at the Magnolia
Picture with Sheri

Pandemonium
On Christmas in the morning
Boxes everywhere

Miraculously
Kids got along together
They're getting older

Next the tree comes down
Now the ghost of Xmas past
Shrouded in his sheet

To come up again
One more time at this year's end
Celebrating life

Bon repit!

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

The Familial Trap (Haiku)


The familiar
We wallow in the hollow
Always coming back