You Won't Be 'Endorphin' For Long!

We had our final dress rehearsal for "Annie" tonight. Things worked well, although the pace suffered a bit in the Christmas mansion scene. As FDR, I need to work on my look a bit: I'm a dead-ringer not for FDR, but rather for one of his presidential predecessors, Woodrow Wilson. Maria banged her finger, Amanda banged her eyebrow, and Kaylynn's dress fragmented at an inconvenient time, but we soldiered on. At least Mike Jones succeeded tonight with his 'Daddy Warbucks' skull cap!

This show can serve to educate the young girls. Last night, youngest Orphan (about age 7) Leona Craig asked: "What's 'The Depression'?" I would have explained it to her, but we were too busy recreating a theatrical version of the Depression to afford to stop to explain it!

It's an outrage that, at the direction of the City of Davis, we had to remove every bit of our materials from the Varsity Theater, in order to make room for a sorority talent show tomorrow night. We'll have to move everything back in there on Friday. Very disruptive, and it would not have happened if the City had been more careful regarding scheduling.

Every arts group I've ever worked with has had a rocky relationship with its facilities provider: the facilities user and the facilities provider have inherently different, clashing interests. In the DMTC New Theater, there will be a better, unified approach!