sweeneytodd

The opera is done (for the time being)...

and now, off for some much-needed sleep.

For, like, three days would be nice.

I am about to be sucked away into a world of 12-hour-a-day opera rehearsals, so I may not be around much for a little while. Here's hoping that nothing happens to the hot naked girls (nor the rest of you lovely folk) while I'm gone.

Today is "National Talk Like a Pirate Day."

So...yarrrrrrr. Shiver me timbers, man the for'ard long-nines, scupper the scurvey lubbers, here there be monsters, pieces of eight!

etc, etc...

I feel like I should update this thing, but every time I try, I find myself at a loss for things to say.

As of this week, I've been single for three months, after a 3-year relationship. On the one hand, I feel like I'm ready to move on, and would love to start dating again or something, though I'm dreadfully out of practice. On...
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...sigh...

So, our show is open, and the crowds have been decent, and the early reviews have been positive. One more weekend to go. If anyone's interested, here are some shots of me in character as Orson Welles. Unfortunately, the grey in my hair is mostly real. Fortunately, the fatness is not (the padding adds about 100 pounds -- and 20 degrees to the temperature onstage)....
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What a day.

Moving sucks enough by itself, but it's even worse when it's not by choice. At least my new place is pretty nice -- small, but enough space for me and my meagre belongings. I think I'll actually enjoy setting the place up, decorating, making it my own, etc. It's just the packing and moving and all the bullshit that comes first that...
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So it's my birthday.

Let me tell you something, boys and girls: if you haven't turned 30 yet, do your best not to have your entire life fall apart just before that landmark date. Trust me.

I may be exaggerating for effect, but I speak from experience. It sucks to have your girlfriend leave you, despite all of your deeply devoted efforts to the contrary,...
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So let me tell you how shitty my last couple of weeks have been...

It all started when my boss (the General Director of my company) came down on me and hung me out to dry for something that was neither A) my fault in any way, nor 2) a big deal to begin with. In fact, he himself (along with two other senior staff...
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I could have sworn I updated this thing more recently than over a month ago, but it seems not.
Well, since I last updated, I finished working on one opera (Rigoletto, with a great cast but a so-so production), and started work on a new one.

Well, technically this one's an operetta, not a full-blown opera -- The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert...
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