Erik Kleven, RIP

James informed me today that Erik Kleven had been killed, in a head-on collision on Highway 16, near Rancho Murietta. (It seems quite the year for head on collisions: first John Hancock and Juan Ramos, and now Erik). Erik played in numerous community theater shows over the years, particularly with RSP.

Strangely, I don't believe I knew Erik, even though he lived on Sloat Way, which runs right next to my house: for all I know, we may have been next-door neighbors. In any event, Erik is an important part of the musical theater community, and he will be greatly missed, not only by those who knew him, but by those many more who knew him only by his music.