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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Friday, June 22, 2012 - 5:29 pm 
Our local repertory company puts on some pretty darn fabulous shows.
Another "face" of the theater is to sponsor and support new playwrights. One of the students from the playwrights' mentored workshop of three seasons ago is playing on Broadway - "The Columnist."
My own tiny part in the Rep's ongoing "drive to thrive" is coordinating the food for our Look-Ins which proceed each play. At a typical Look-In the Director tells about why she selected the play; the set designer - and we have one of the best EVER - tells about his challenges, and the costume designer tells about her departments' creations. We might also hear from the tech staff who had lots to share On "Little Shop of Horrors" or from the Music crew if something special went on in that area.
My job is to come up with a theme for the food for the event - probably 50's food to go with the first act of CP - write a blurb telling about the theme, coordinating the volunteers' contributions so that we don't have duplications - you cannot conceive of how many people ALWAYS want to bring deviled (or dressed) eggs - setting up the serving line and bar and seeing that everyone has a wonderful time. We have between 70 and 100 guests per event so this can be challenging!
The up-side is that each volunteer gets two tickets to the performance!
However did I get into all this? I guess from saying how freat our local REP theater is!
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Friday, June 22, 2012 - 5:30 pm
The REP may be freat, but I really meant to say Great!
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Friday, June 22, 2012 - 5:32 pm
Teach - don't know about the Tony's, but it won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Friday, June 22, 2012 - 5:42 pm
Finally Escapee is going to read a CJ Box book!! I have said for years that series is for you!! And his books only get better with each one. If you get on here and say you do not like the book...I am not the librarian I used to be!!
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Friday, June 22, 2012 - 5:57 pm
That sounds like a blast, TNT, as it combines two of my favorite things - theater AND cooking! 
As to the Tonys, it won the 2012 Tony for Best Play!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, June 22, 2012 - 6:49 pm
I finished Hurricane and it was pretty good. Will be startingSick by Brett Battles.
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Those events sound great, TNT!
Last weekend we got to to a backstage preview, the first one put on by our gay men's chorus, Men Alive.
They are putting on performances of "Von Trapped" next month.. based on The Sound of Music, which combines their fabulous singing, serious and totally camp.. the guys playing the nuns and Maria and the kids are super.. the wigs, etc. And they have the most hilarious goat puppets to use in the Lonely Goatherd number..
Anyway for the preview they had different people explaining wardrobe issues, showed us learning new choreography, and what they call "chorusogrphy", the movements the guys make while singing, and a hilarious bit on auditions for soloists..
And then performed songs in costume too.
They auctioned off sponsorships in the catalog for groups of characters and auctioned off the four goats (to be picked up after the last performance) and fed us food too.
Really fun and we are totally looking forward to the actual performance even more. They would surely snap you up as a volunteer if you lived out here.
They are attending a huge gathering of gay and lesbian choruses soon in Colorado and they are one of a very small number of choruses asked to put on a complete performance.. of course they are doing Von Trapped. Wish I could be there.
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Friday, June 22, 2012 - 8:28 pm
And I wish I could be there too!
I find it inspiring to see how smaller, local theater advences
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Friday, June 22, 2012 - 9:41 pm
SG: After reading the horrible excuse for literature that was the fifty shades of gray trilogy (worst thinh ever and not just the porn. How are people loving it???) I needed a book to serve as brain bleach. Plus I was waiting to read it until I'd been to Wyoming....I just got back!
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Saturday, June 23, 2012 - 1:10 pm
I'm going back and forth today - instead of just re-reading Raisin in the Sun, I'm watching it on Amazon (free!) and following along in my book (via Kindle). Any time there's a difference, I highlight it (if a section is cut out) or annotate what has been added. Sometimes it's only a word or a phrase that's cut, but it might make for interesting questions once my kiddos are back at school.
Also, thanks to Amazon Daily, I am reading The Winemaker by Noah Gordon. I hadn't heard of the author nor his books, but I am 10 chapters in and loving it. I may be completely biased because it's set in Spain, but I'm enjoying the storyline as well - it reminds me simultaneously of A Walk in the Clouds and 100 Years of Solitude.
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Rieann
Member
08-26-2006
| Saturday, June 23, 2012 - 1:46 pm
Lol-Escapee. I felt the same way about Shades of Grey. I found it soooooo repetitive.
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Bluejaxrock
Member
04-23-2004
| Saturday, June 23, 2012 - 2:58 pm
Just started "We Need To Talk About Kevin" on the Kindle and am revisiting my youth and reading "Go Ask Alice" I picked up at the library.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, June 23, 2012 - 8:13 pm
Bluejax, interested in what you think of We Need to Talk About Kevin.. I read that awhile back.
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Bluejaxrock
Member
04-23-2004
| Sunday, June 24, 2012 - 8:04 am
Sea, it's been a hard start. Is it entirely written as letters to Franklin? I got it because it's going to be a movie and Tilda Swinson is starring in it and I think I saw a post here-yours maybe?
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Scarblizz
Member
07-05-2007
| Sunday, June 24, 2012 - 4:03 pm
I read the first book, Shades of grey, started the 2nd and just couldn't do it. it is god awful. Currently reading the game of thrones on my nook, and the hunger games in book form. Loving both of them.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, June 24, 2012 - 8:20 pm
Well, I think it is worth reading but nothing warm/fuzzy about it, nothing happy..
I finished Sick and bought the next two to complete the trilogy, but my next book is Call Me Tuesday by tvcher Ladybug..
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Jmm
Moderator
08-15-2002
| Sunday, June 24, 2012 - 9:11 pm
Have a box of kleenex close by, Sea, it's a tearjerker of a book.
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Allietex
Member
08-16-2002
| Sunday, June 24, 2012 - 10:08 pm
Reading a series by David Weber. The first book is called Off Armageddon's Reef. It is a science fiction story about a group of humans that escaped the destruction of earth by an alien raced bent on the eradication of humans. The story takes place 900 years after the invasion. I am in the third book and find it a fascinating series.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, June 24, 2012 - 10:33 pm
I will, Jmm, but I've been around SO many people with such stories that I'm hard to shock.. but I still feel those emotions. I'm just happy when someone lives to tell the tale, so to speak.
I did post it as a bargain book on Kindleboards, so that should bring in some sales..
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Jmm
Moderator
08-15-2002
| Sunday, June 24, 2012 - 11:45 pm
Thank you, I know that Leigh will appreciate that.
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, June 25, 2012 - 5:31 am
I have just finished off Bruce Alexander's eleven book mystery/history series about Sir John Fielding, brother of Henry Fielding, and co-founder of the Bow Street Runners. I thoroughly enjoyed the books -
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Ladybug
Member
06-10-2012
| Monday, June 25, 2012 - 5:23 pm
Seamonkey, thanks for posting "Call Me Tuesday" on Kindleboards--your unselfish kindness does not go unnoticed!!
There ARE SO many people with stories like mine, and that is such a tragedy! I just so happened to have been blessed with a half way decent gift for writing, and I like to think the reason is so I can pass my experience on to help others.
Thanks again--sales HAVE picked up, and I think maybe it's because of what you, and others here have done!! I am not very good with the promo part. If you, or anyone else in TVCH, can give me some advice on how to promote the book, I would really appreciate it. I need all the help I can get!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, June 25, 2012 - 6:20 pm
Kindleboards passed 30,000 members quite some time ago and I imagine all the people with Kindle Fires have added to the stats.
Doesn't mean they all read the free and bargain book threads in book bazaar of course.
One tip.. if you join, you get to have a thread about your books, but not just bump it. They spell out the rules, but they also support indie authors and have quite a number of them on the board,
I also wouldn't post it if it didn't qualify as a bargain which it did..
Happy that sales have picked up, for whatever reason. 
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, June 25, 2012 - 6:23 pm
TNT.. in this book that Ladybug wrote, I'm at a point where she visited a grandmother in Nashville.. but what was cool was that when she mentioned "the colluoeum" I had to page back but I was sure it was Nashville, based on our visit there and your great tour guiding.
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Ladybug
Member
06-10-2012
| Monday, June 25, 2012 - 7:28 pm
Seamonkey, I truly appreciate your guidance and advice.
I have found that the best promotion of CMT has been by others--word of mouth, online social networking, etc. It seems that if anyone (other than the author) recommends a book people will take notice. My hope is that (with a little nudging on my part) enough people will read it, be inspired, tell someone they know and sales will then grow organically.
Goodreads, http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13512420-call-me-tuesday a site for serious readers has been most helpful. I don't know if you are familiar with it but since you like to read you may want to explore...
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, June 25, 2012 - 8:07 pm
Sea - It was such a joy to share my deep and abiding love of my city with all of my TVCH friends!
The TN Coliseum is now renamed the L-P Arena. The P is for Pacific, but I forget what the L is for. Some company out of the northwest -
Anyone thinking of coming to Nashville is urged to contact me for free guide services and/or site/event suggestions! There is nothing that I enjoy more than helping other explore and enjoy Nashville -
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