Category: Stories
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A Down Home Phone Chat between a Theatre Manager and a Former Subscriber
I’m from Tennessee and, while some recent posts have noted my embarrassment Tennessee because of the antics of a certain Senator, I still love my home state. I also love theatre and enjoyed many years working in a box office in college. In chatting with some friends today (also Tennesseans transplanted to NYC) we were…
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UPS and the Case of the Calamitous Customer Service Snafu
I was an eager pre-order customer for Apple’s iPhone 5. The minute it was possible I was on the Apple website, happily ordering the new technology (thankfully I was due for an upgrade) and everything was going according to plan. Then UPS happened. On Friday, September 21st, I sat at home waiting… all day. According…
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Happy 101st Birthday Lucille Ball!
Today would have been Lucille Ball‘s 101st birthday. My mom and I used to relish watching reruns of Lucy together and would reenact our favorite moments with each other. From “Vitameatavegamin” to her and Ethel’s job at the chocolate factory to “Slowly I Turned,” we would take turns playing Lucy in her various escapades. One…
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BOOK REVIEW: If It’s A Choice, My Zygote Chose Balls by Jeremy Hooper (Good As You)
If It’s A Choice, My Zygote Chose Balls: Making Sense of Senseless Controversy by Jeremy Hooper My Goodreads rating: 5 of 5 stars The LGBT community has been under attack by conservatives and religious fundamentalists since before Adam and Steve had their first chance to shake their groove thing at the first Eden Happy Hour…
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“The Clifton Monroe Chronicles” is a rousing success!
During my extended absence from writing on the blog, we successfully opened The Clifton Monroe Chronicles: Episode 1 – The Case of the Scarlet G. I was in New Orleans for the opening weekend (and helped by running the light board while working with the press) and enjoyed watching this co-creation get standing ovations each night.…
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Theme Songs that Terrified Me as a Chld
I’ve been busier than usual lately so I haven’t posted much, short of some Instagram moments here and there but I was listening to a podcast this morning and one of the panelists mentioned the theme to Unsolved Mysteries and it reminded me that, while I loved the show, the song itself terrified me! Something…
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Musical Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious-Star Robert Sherman passed away at 86
The Associated Press is reporting that Robert Sherman, one half of the legendary Sherman Brothers, passed away Monday in his home in London. The Sherman Brothers were “unknown heroes” to me as a child. I knew their songs by heart, sang them relentlessly, and wore new grooves in my Disney LPs, listening to their music over…
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The Night My Mother Got Peed on at the Theatre
In 1998 I was enjoying a two-week run of Cabaret at the Clarence Brown Theatre. This was a University production (not to be confused with the professional company on the campus of UTK) and I was excited for my mom and stepdad to see this sort of naughty, sort of sexual, very-much-in-the-vein-of the Roundabout’s Broadway revival that I was…
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UPDATE: We are 70% of the way to our Kickstarter goal!
The Clifton Monroe Chronicles We are constantly surprised (pleasantly) by the generosity of our friends, family and future fans. Last night we hit the 70% mark (see our Mattie Meter update below)! We have 44 days to go… and that’s just $13.41 a day left to raise. So, we hope you will share this project’s…
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BOOK REVIEW: Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
I’ve become a fan of Neil Gaiman in recent weeks. I suspect that, for some time, I had been a fan of Neil Gaiman without really knowing it. I adored the film adaptation of Coraline and Stardust and, generally, have a soft spot for the oddly dark yet humorously quirky side of contemporary literature. I…
Tommy Karr 