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My take on the Shows I saw in NYThe Addams Family I haven’t read any of the reviews of this show but I’d heard that the show was panned. At the end of Act one I was baffled as to why. Here we are in a world that we are all vaguely familiar with (from the TV show if NOT from the Movie or the actual comic strip), the characters are fun and witty, the writing is good with lots of belly laughs,

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The Whisper House -- At the Old Globe in San Diego It’s a Duncan Sheik show, so you gotta compare it to Spring Awakening right? This one was even more of a play with music than Spring was. The show is 90 minutes with no intermission but there was only about 20 minutes of stage worthy material there. With Spring you had the raw energy of the kids sexuality all over the stage to carry through the

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What Do You See!!The gripping tensile strength of art lies in its complete subjectivity. Take Andy Warhol’s can of tomato soup. Whaddaysee? Take a second and think about it, what DO you see??Uwannaknow what I see? A ticketing system. A metaphor of the business that I’m in. You go to the store you grab the soup you go to the register you pay your 2 bucks for the soup. BUT there’s more than soup in

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An Hour and a Half of Belly LaughsI guess my blog is turning into a series of Movie Reviews. That's so strange because I'm so NOT a movie guy. Maybe that's why I find that the rare times I DO go, I need to blog about them. There's probably something psychological in this phenomenon. There's got to be a particularly compelling feature to get me to go see a film, and this one certainly qualified.

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Not your typical Chick FlickMamma Mia the movieOh a chick flick it is, and that’s for certain. Unless you happen to belong to the sick and twisted group of people who owned every ABBA 8 track ever put out, AND you played them nonstop at high decibels in your 68 Mustang all through your salad days; then the demographic for this film shifts firmly in your direction. But I can’t imagine there are a

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This beautiful image of Paula and what appears to be her moron husband was shot by Sean Capshaw http://www.resolusean.com/Did you know that there are vineyards in San Marcos? I sure didn’t, but last Sunday night I found out that they do indeed exist when we had an amazing meal at a table set up between two vines under the night sky, awash with wine and candles and attended by lovely people and

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Phantom, the longest running show on Broadway since . . .April 10th, 2008 by Tim Heitman Check this out. On December 2, 1979, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (July 14-19, 2009) lost its title as the longest running show in Broadway history. It fell to the perennial favorite GREASE. GREASE (March 3-8, 2009) was the longest running show on Broadway till it was knocked out of the top spot by A CHORUS LINE (

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The World is Focusing onTorrey PinesI had the rare opportunity to take a day off work and focus on it myself yesterday. I've had very few experiences where I was able to experience first hand the transformation that happens to a place when it becomes the center of Major Media Attention. Some of the 49er football games were like that; the playoffs at Candlestick Park in the late 80s. The

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Attend the Tale ofSweeney ToddGo see it, but be prepared. It’s a horror film, no question about it. How much fun to watch a treatment of a show that I’ve known and loved for decades in its stage form, get all of that Hollywood glitz and glamour. And then to get the amazing artistry and point of view of the best sick and twisted director of our time, Tim Burton, is just gravy. This movie is

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Our Furry ChildrenThis is our entry into the Papillion Picnic Club calendar. They spelled Fiyero wrong on this initial picture but they fixed it when they put it into the actual calendar. They made page one -- January -- as well they should have.Paula and I just came back from a trip to Palm Springs where we stayed at a timeshare with some friends. We took the cable tram up to the top of the

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A Catered Affair Went to see this show at the Old Globe last night, yeah it’s Broadway Bound. It’s a Harvey Fierstein project, also staring Faith Prince and Tom Wopat. A beautiful message and a lovely little tale, lots of emotion but most of it on the dark side. Lovely melodies and sweet orchestrations, the show was very easy on the ear. But it felt like the whole of the show could be condensed

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Qualcomm Stadium, Jack Murphy StadiumThis place has turned out to be THE place in San Diego for this catastrophe. It's been a central place to go to if you are in need, a place to bring your donations for distribution to all the outlying evacuation centers, and a spiritual place of community. That's the real untold part of the story. This building made for the assembly of those that love San

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Over The Hump Last night when I got home, the affiliate channels were showing commercials. That tells you that the biggest part of the horror has passed. The local channels were still 24/7 though. And this morning Qualcomm was down to 500 or so refugees. The winds have mellowed considerably and I’ve heard as much as 20% containment on some of the fires. There are still plenty of new evacuations,

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Welcome to Sunny San Diego!We are lucky! We are in a clear spot between the northern and southern fires in San Diego County. We have relatively clean air and blue skies. We’re the exception certainly. I thought we had seen it all at the Cedar fires, those fires were closer to us but they were a campfire compared to the damage being done this year. Half a million people have been evacuated so far.

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Papillion OutingFiyero, Paula, Elphaba and Tim (left to right). There were 12 Paps and one mini French Bulldog at this wonderful dog walk in Balboa Park. As you can tell by our expressions, it was absolutely delightful.

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Forgot My PasswordI've been to the blog page a dozen times since the last time I blogged, I'd just forgotten my login and password so each time I got turned away. I just got lucky this time. Very cool to see Brandon doing the blog thing. It's good to see what's up in Texas.It sounds like all the children are having children. Oh wait, I think I forgot to have children! Well I remembered to have a

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TarzanHere's the last of my NY Theatre reviews for this trip. So Disney is trying to recreate the formula it had with Lion King by transferring a seasoned pop musician’s score from the movie to the stage. Well as far as that’s concerned, they succeeded. But that isn’t very high praise. Sure Lion King was a spectacular success but how much of that would you contribute to the work of Elton John? I

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Frost Nixon and Legally BlondeI saw Frost Nixon, a play, at the matinee today. It’s based on the David Frost interviews of Nixon and the deal leading up to them. The play was brilliant. Frank Langella was channeling Nixon. It must be fun to play someone that is such a distinctive character. He’s got him down really well. Michael Sheen plays Frost and while watching him play his character, you can

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A Nearly Perfect ShowI just got back to my hotel room after The Color Purple and figured I should review this while it’s still fresh. This show just wrecked me. It was that rarest of rare shows where you leap to your feet when it’s over. No hesitations. Fantasia from that reality show played the lead, Celie and she was the embodiment of that character. She exuded a quiet and vulnerable strength

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My Week in NYYou know your going to have a great day when you are in NY for a Theatre Conference and the first person you speak to in the morning is Marvin Hamlisch. I was blocking his way to the coffee and he walked up behind me and introduced himself. I just gushed and told him how I’d written papers on him in grad school. He was speaking at the conference (they are reviving A Chorus Line). He

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Everything I could have hoped for and MORE!I’ve never been so happy to be wrong. I am in NY and I obviously hadn’t gotten my dates right because not only did I just see 110 in the Shade but, my God I was absolutely blown away by he performance of Audra McDonald. The show is a true gem. Beautiful sweeping music, ripe and juicy drama, and great musical theatre moments—the kind of stuff that makes

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Gearing up for NYI just got the paperwork for our annual trip to NYC for the Spring Road Conference of the League of American Theatres and Producers. Paula won’t be able to join me this year as she’s right in the middle of some special school projects at that time, so I guess its all business this year. Well come to think of it, last year she brought along so many projects and errands that we

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Well here's the text of a blog that I'd thought I'd posted but obviously I didn't.Merry #@%&* ChristmasPaula and I had a wonderful cruise. It was relaxing and lovely. The best part was waking up on the first morning, opening the curtain and seeing Catalina spread out before us like some Mediterranean island paradise. It was quite breathtaking. Paula and I had a very nice and relaxing time. When

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Back to the BlogI had what I hope is my last day of work for this year on Friday. Paula and I are off on a Cruise on Monday. It leaves out of Long Beach and does Catalina and Ensenada then back. It’s a one weeker and the following Monday is Christmas. Our office is officially closed the week after Christmas. We have a ton of work to do but we can’t do any of it unless we get the prices for next

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Canary Clan at OublietteI’m so happy to have Cheryl, Al, Brandy and Taylor at Oubliette for a few days. We’ve been having too much fun feeding the wildlife, watching them run after each other (and us) and climb high in the tree to drop acorns leaves and twigs on us. We’ve been eating to much and drinking just enough—its been a relaxing good time.Paula will be joining us in a couple of days. She’s

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Paula is in Oxford!She's giving her paper at the very prestigiuos Oxford Round Table. I had too many shows to miss so I couldn't go along with her. She prepared really well. She had one of her students help her by creating an animation to go along with her paper. When she returns, we'll get the vid on the blog along with the paper so you can see exactly why she was the hit of the conference. I

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Zhivago, A TragedyJust got back from watching Zhivago at the Playhouse. The music was by the same person that did The Secret Garden and the score is equally as beautiful. The show was intense and emotional with lots of passion but it was like looking at a beautiful painting all done in different shades of yellow. The show was equally mono emotional, beautiful but entirely performed from the same

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Home Again Home Again Jiggity JigNew York was amazing, but exhausting. Paula got her paper done. I learned tons of stuff from my cohorts at the conference. We had terrific New York experiences.My staff did really great without me. I love having such competent people do my job while I’m gone. But I still came back to tons of work. But I kept up with my email and phone message while I was away so

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In New York CityI’ll take Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island too, NYC just got here this morning, 3 bucks, 2 bags, 1 me, Have you ever been to the Big Apple, have you ever been, New York New York a helluva town. The Bronx is up and the Battery’s down, the people ride in a hole it the ground. You can help but sing all the NY songs you can think of when you first see the most famous skyline in

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Time for an updateI finally built another show. It’s been a year and a half but I guess I still got it. It was the season announcement rollout for our new season at Broadway San Diego. www.broadwaysd.com/shows.php check it out. We had 2 local media celebrities Kimberly King and Terry Burhans as our announcers. Both weather and traffic people. They were great—they are pros. Give them a script and

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The Refer is in the HouseWell in the garage anyway. They're coming on Monday to install it (its over 850 pounds). That's the last, biggest, part of the kitchen puzzle. We've still got some painting to do and I've got a reverse osmosis system that we can't seem to get to work, but we'll get that fixed soon. Just think, next week we'll be able to buy a full gallon of milk! You just never realize

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Taxes! Woohoo!This is our first year completely away from the Stage Company. That completely changes our tax picture. I was a bit nervous before our appointment with our tax accountant Donna Tello (yes that’s really her name). I didn’t have any idea what to do with all the changes. But she gave me a number of tasks to do to get it together and put my mind at ease.We were up at Oubliette last

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Growing so fast I can’t catch up!Our subscription department had to hire 3 more people this week and I had to augment the infrastructure to accommodate them. We are bursting at the seams for space but at least I had the foresight to purchase fully scalable systems. Adding computers to the network or phones to the system costs money but it’s quite easy. I’m learning so much about Computer Server

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Hard Drives CrashNot as often as they used to but still it's surprising that with all the solid state parts in our computers that we are still saddled with what is basically a phonograph arm and needle scraping across a magnetic wheel at the very heart of everything we do. It's the only moving part left in the box and so it's also the most vulnerable. The hard drive in our Cox Cable HDTV DVR

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The Blog that Never Wuz!I’m remembering bits and pieces of the blog that I created and then accidentally deleted before I had a chance to post it. I had just taken the test that Angie and Cheryl had taken. The results of my test were exactly the same as those of Angie’s test—The Phoenix. I knew there was a reason I dug that broad.Paula and I are going to be in NY in May. I have a conference that

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DOH!!Have you ever done a whole blog entry and then didn't save or publish it? All it takes is the merest interruption at the most inopportune time and you're hosed. Oh well, it's just a blog. Paula submitted a topic to the Oxford Round Table and was accepted to present her paper this summer. So she's off to England to discuss how the consumers of the products of Artists value that product

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Our Web Site is LiveI didn't get to work as much on the website as I'd like to have while we were in Idyllwild but at least its a good head start. Check it out. www.heitmanandheitman.com. We've also put a link called "Our Web Site" right here on this page beneath Broadway San Diego and SDSU. The main page is almost untouched. I've left the template stuff there as I created the Oubliette page. Its

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OublietteI'm writing this from our cabin in Idyllwild. I'm so glad Paula and I decided to do this. It's such a wonderfully fulfilling thing to see the place looking so good and to know that we made it happen. The leak that I was afraid might be in the wall has reared it's ugly head. The closet in the Hudson Bay Room had mold on the wall. (heh thanks to internet we found out you can kill mold with

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Super Bowl 40It almost more fun to watch this when you don't care who wins. It's rare when the game is any good, you can count the really good Super Bowl games on one hand. But it is amazing to this aging shadow baby boomer to watch those superbowl numbers keep growing. Wasn't it just last year that the superbowl logo was an X superimposted over a ref signaling touchdown? Feels like it anyway.The

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The First BlogAt last a little bit of time to try this blog thing. The Lion King is roaring loud. We are going clean (selling every single ticket) for every performance now and that's how it's going to be till they leave town. Everyone's making money so everyone's happy. And we are already selling out Wicked, and it's not coming until next July. When a show is a hit it's a hit all the way. So

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