Indulging One's Hobbies (Again)
Although completely off the normal topic, I find myself again spending evenings playing the piano for rehearsals of a local San Jose production of a musical theater production. I've been doing this sort of thing since, well, for about 40 years now. It's an expensive hobby, since I must schlep 180 miles from home (where I live, there aren't many community theater products that use full orchestras!), stay in a hotel during the day, and rehearse or perform at night. I figure everyone's got hobbies, and this is mine.
In case you find yourself in the San Jose area over the next three weekends (Sept 28 - Oct 13 2007), and are interested in such things, the Actors Theater Center is producing the 1991 show, Assassins, by the legendary Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman, at the historic Hoover Theater. (Yes, it's really a musical that attempts to explain how, and why, anyone would attempt to assassinate a president. It's unlike any other show I've ever seen.) Yours truly will be covering the Keyboard I book in the orchestra for the entire run. Come by and say hello!