Arising From Impulse

Ruddigore II

Inside Bay Area (Oakland Tribune etc)
San Francisco Classical Voice
someone's blog ha ha

Plus I've had a lot of co-workers show up, which is extra nice. These two worlds of mine rarely overlap!

Ruddigore

Hey everyone. I will be appearing as Sir Despard Murgatroyd, Bad Baronet of Ruddigore, in Gilbert and Sullivan's comic melodrama Ruddigore. We open this Saturday July 22nd (tomorrow) in San Francisco for a two weekends of performances at the Yerba Buena theater (across the street from SF MOMA, the W Hotel, and the XYZ Bar), and then move to Walnut Creek for one weekend at the Dean Lesher.

I'm really impressed with the cast, director, conductor, orchestra, and production values. I think this will be a great show, so if you are a G&S fan, please come out and see it!

Charles

More info: http://lamplighters.org/Season0607.html
http://www.google.com/search?q=ruddigore

San Francisco Performances:
Yerba Buena CFA, 700 Howard @ 3rd Street, (415) 978-2787
http://tickets.ybca.org/index.aspx

July 22 Saturday 8pm
July 23 Sunday 2pm

July 28 Friday 8pm
July 29 Saturday 2pm* and 8pm
July 30 Sunday 2pm

* Family matinee Saturday July 29 at 2pm, with a pre-show talk at 1pm. Adults accompanied by children get in for the child's ticket price.

Walnut Creek Performances:
Dean Lesher CFA, 1601 Civic Drive, (925) 943-7469

August 3 Thursday 8pm
August 4 Friday 8pm
August 5 Saturday 2pm and 8pm

More info: http://lamplighters.org/Season0607.html

The Pirates of Penzance

Hey everyone. I will be appearing as the Sergeant of Police in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance. We open this Friday in San Francisco for a two-week run at the Yerba Buena theater (across the street from SF MOMA, the W Hotel, and the XYZ Bar), and then move to Walnut Creek for one week at the Dean Lesher.

"Wacky, irreverent, and as entertaining today as it was when it first opened in 1879, the Pirates of Penzance spins a hilarious farce of sentimental pirates, bumbling policemen, dim-witted young lovers, dewy-eyed daughters, and an eccentric Major General, all morally bound to the often-ridiculous dictates of honor and duty."

I'm really impressed with the cast, director, conductor, orchestra, and production values. I think this will be a great show, so if you are a G&S fan, please come out and see it!

More info: http://lamplighters.org/Season0506.html
http://www.google.com/search?q=pirates+penzance

San Francisco Performances:
Yerba Buena CFA, 700 Howard @ 3rd Street, (415) 978-2787

Jan 13, Friday, 8pm
Jan 14, Saturday, 8pm
Jan 15, Sunday, 2pm (matinee)

Jan 19, Thursday, 8pm ("pay what you can" night)
Jan 20, Friday, 8pm
Jan 21, Saturday, 2pm (matinee) and 8pm
Jan 22, Sunday, 2pm (matinee)

Walnut Creek Performances:
Dean Lesher CFA, 1601 Civic Drive, (925) 943-7469

Feb 2, Thursday, 8pm
Feb 3, Friday, 8pm
Feb 4, Saturday, 2pm (matinee) and 8pm
Feb 5, Sunday, 2pm (matinee)

More info: http://lamplighters.org/Season0506.html

Fan Mail

I walked into the Lamplighters office the other day for a gala rehearsal, and Barbara said I had some fan mail waiting for me:
Front of the envelope:

Back of the envelope:

Inside the envelope:

Written on the back:

My daughter has spoken of you so many times since Saturday night's performance of HMS. And in a good way! She loved that you were "mean" but not really mean. She was the 5 yr old in the bonnet.

Anyway, she's never written a letter before (you prompted her first!) but she wanted to hissss at you one more time.

Thanks for playing such a good antagonist! She was going to be a princess for Halloween, but now she's seriously talking about being you!

Hope you enjoyed the sing-a-long as much as we did!

Sincerely and Avast!
Sadie (arrrrr)
and her mom

How great is that?! Unfortunately, they didn't tell me when the letter first arrived (it is postmarked October 4th) and I didn't receive it until just now, a month late. When I write back, I will say that we've been out on the high seas, and our ship only just received the mail bag when we came in to port. Arrrh!

Here I am in costume:

Arrrh!