The cast has control of the script

[sovay]

Best New Crack of the Day: The Decemberists' "The Engine Driver." Listen for yourself.

And I am a writer, writer of fictions
I am the heart that you call home
And I've written pages upon pages
Trying to rid you from my bones . . .

My other latest obsession is the demo cast recording of Charles Davidson's The Magician of Lublin—based on the Isaac Bashevis Singer novel—whose opening number is a bit like "Comedy Tonight" transplanted to nineteenth-century Warsaw, in a good way. Probably I can't advise anyone to run out and buy the album, because the musical hasn't even been staged yet (and I've got a copy made off someone's computer . . .), but if anyone here happens to attend the Cantors Assembly Convention in May, I think it should be well worth the ticket price. Between these two musical influences, I can expect to write some seriously geeked-out Yiddishkeit in the next few days.

Also, I now have a photograph from the Vestal Review reading. I look downright non-photogenic; but I'm unhappy with most pictures taken of me, so there you go. Everybody else looks pretty good, though.
(Cut in the interests of not blowing out anybody's bandwidth.)


left to right: me, Alex Irvine, Rusty Barnes, Joan Wilking, Lucy Budman; Mark Budman, Sue O'Neill.

Comments

[spectre-general.livejournal.com]

Nonsense! You look marvelous!

[sovay]

Mrgh. That's open to debate.

[gwynnega]

Wow, you look a lot like a friend of mine who lives in my neighborhood. You could easily be her sister...

[sovay]

Weird!

(Do you have any photos of her?)

[gwynnega]

Here she is. (Although she looks a lot more like you when she's smiling...)

[oldcharliebrown.livejournal.com]

I don't think so . . .

[hans-the-bold.livejournal.com]

Pssst! I don't mean to alarm you, but the woman on the left LOOKS JUST LIKE YOU!