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(((Sean)))

I'm so sorry about the Playhouse, Sean. (And ND and all our other LA theatre-istas.)

Reminder to self to support my local theaters that see too little of me.

Any news on Bobby, yet, Laura?

He gets his MRI at 2 today. They don't know what is up with him. My maternal instinct thinks it is likely more than one thing, hence the many symptoms pointing in different directions. Poor kid feels like crap but I made him go to school until noon today anyway.

But...theaters open. That's pretty much Theater History. It's very cyclical and longevity is not the byword.

That is very true. It is also very true that it's heartbreaking each and every time to those who devoted a lot of energy, sweat, and love to a place they called home.

Not right now and not in California.

Not anywhere really. The arts have been hit hard by the economy everywhere. Ticket sales, personal contributions and subscriptions are down because people have lost jobs or have taken paycuts. Corporate money is down because corporate revenues are down. Government funding has been cut. It's ugly everywhere.

Sigh. My phone interview just went horribly. I don't think I managed to say anything of substance. I do not like phone interviews.

Yet, in a bit of bright theatre-related news, Abby came home yesterday with a permission slip to ask to audition/be part of the musical theatre group at her school. It's an after school program, twice a week, one of the school's teachers who has drama experience works with an outside music teacher who's been working with the kids for a few years, and they put on a production at the end of the semester.

Elementary school, guys. It's considered a privilege, only for the fifth and sixth graders and the agreement that they sign is their commitment to rehearsals.

Considering that we came from a so-called "good" district in Florida with a vast majority of the families being well-to-do, yet they couldn't muster this kind of activity for the kids, while this one is a far more balanced school district, with families from all over the spectrum, you can only imagine how over the moon I am.

It's a little victory for the arts, but I'll take it.

Rick Krispies:

Laura, much ~ma for Bobby and his tests and to finding out what's going on.

Well, I just finished the last caffeine I'm allowed to have till about noon tomorrow. I've got a thallium heart test tomorrow because they found unpleasant enzymes in my last blood work. Joy. Do Not Want.

{{Sean}}

Bobby~ma, Laura.

As for me - there comes a time in every busy student life where she has to go dark because papers are threatening to drown what's left from her sanity.

Now is my time.

Cya somewhere around the end of this month/beginning of March.