Email from NoNo: Hi Luara [sic], TX for all this. Haven't had a chance to get on the computer since Sat. mid-day. Yup, I know Opening Night is Thurs and preview is Weds - very slowly getting used to the schedule for what happens when - but I can always use reminders. See you Wednesday for Opening if not before. |
Monday, June 15, 2009
Lesson: In Vermont, the days of the week are slippery entities at best.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Lesson: You can't win with the hearing impaired.
Name: Harry C. Age (approximate): 103. Subscriber Number: 47.
HC: (blatantly vexed that someone would be calling him during dinnertime at 4:15pm) Hello?
LB: Hi, this is Laura calling from Dorset Theatre Festival. Could I please speak to Harry?
HC: Who?
LB: Harry.
HC (mounting confusion): Who?
LB: Har. Ry.
HC (utter bewilderment): WHO?
LB: HARRY!
HC (indignant that this strange woman on the phone would yell at him): Speaking.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Lesson: Vermont Childhood is about as harsh as Vermont Winter.
Lesson: Give the people of Vermont what they want.
Name: Margaret M. Age: 97. Subscriber Number: 51.
LB: Dorset Theatre Festival, this is Laura.
MM (high-pitched, crackly old woman voice): Yes, hello, is this Dorset Theater Festival?
LB: Yes.
MM (great relief): What musical are you doing this year?
LB : This year, we’re doing “Marry Me a Little,” a Sondheim musical revue about two lonely people waiting to find love.
Confused pause.
MM (great surprise): You aren’t doing “Altar Boyz”?
LB : No, we’re doing “Marry Me a Little.”
Pause.
MM (escalating panic): But “Altar Boyz” is very popular.
LB : We decided on “Marry Me a Little” instead.
Pause.
Long pause.
MM (accusingly): Did you at least CONSIDER “Altar Boyz”?
LB : We thought about it, but went with “Marry Me a Little” at the eleventh hour.
Long pause, laden with disappointment and barely concealed anger.
MM: That’s a shame. Goodbye.
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