SPRING AHEAD!

Wow - I got to go to LA this weekend and be with all my kids AND be with the SUN!! It was so nice to walk around and not have to have a gillion layers on. Saw Whit with his Improv group, The Universe, and that was way fun. Got to play my favorite game, PIT! Grant agreed to play and he had fun - of course. Was so great to stay one night at Whit and Heidi's (fun lunch in Hollywood) and with Chelsea and Grant (got to see Chels in action as the Professor as she is subbing for one of her professors for two weeks.) Also went on tour at Claremont College and ate in a cafeteria that resembles Hogwarts! Yes! It was fast and I lost my glasses somewhere (they were scratched anyhow). Now I have to buckle down and get ready for "On Golden Pond" - only 2 1/2 weeks to go! Ahhh! The only good thing about coming back is Eric didn't go down with me - Mistake!! I am waiting for this stupid white stuff called snow to get outta town!

BACK TO THE FOOTLIGHTS

So my good friend, Dennis Purdie, called me a month ago and asked, or encouraged, or maybe even slightly pleaded with me to come audition for "On Golden Pond" for the role of Ethel opposite his Norman. I knocked it around in my head for a few days because 1)did I really want to give up all my evenings to rehearsal, 2) did I think I could play 69 and 3) how rusty am I really! Short story - I decided to force myself to do it. It's only the Pleasant Grove Players operating in a small theatre in the library building but I am glad I did it and I'm actually having a great experience. Dennis and I go way back to the days of "Harvey" so it's really comfortable and amazingly enough I am actually coming along with my lines - which Ethel has Tons! That never used to be an issue, but it has become one in this chapter of livin' So now I am trying to discover how I want to create Ethel's physical look. Saw Meryl, my idol, in "Evening" the other night and I think I have a base to work from now!! Maybe I have re-discovered I still have some greasepaint in my veins and not just Mountain Dew!!