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remember

Dear me
Remember at drama school
When that director said you didn’t have the voice to do musical theatre
Well here you are in the room
On the stage
Singing Sondheim
And a part of it all
And it feels glorious
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(L-R) Me, Claudia, Tracy, Ralph

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Opening Night

Opening night of The Wolves
A thrill to see it all come together
Feeling pride that I played a part in it
The joy of celebrating with a dear friend
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The Wolves

Finished up stage managing the play
An intense and wonderful experience
Thankful for Sarah deLappe’s writing
Thankful for Claudia and Joanny
Thankful for Ralph
Thankful for the joy of theatre and storytelling
And being in the room
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Into the Words

The utter thrill
Of being in the rehearsal room
And getting to sing the words and music
Of Stephen Sondheim
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The Met

The bliss of hearing
Opera singers
Do their thing
The way a soprano voice
Singing softly
Can carry across the vastness of the room
And pierce your heart
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Patrick Page: All the Devils Are Here

What a privilege and a joy to 
Witness 
A master of their craft
In action 
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The Play's the Thing

The people wrangling was a bit stressful
But once we were there
I was inspired by the work of the dramaturgy team
The level of detail
The extraordinary care
And the work of the design team
The research and the interpretation and
How to bring ideas to life in the space
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luminescence: the emission of light by a substance that has not been heated.
LuMinEssence: the mission of finding light in the dark.

The Parable of the Sower

The thrill of being at Lincoln center
On a balmy summer night
To catch a new opera
Octavia L Butler’s Parable of the Sower
The thrill of live music
Gorgeously sung and played
The power of a carefully positioned light
The power of bodies in space
The power of storytelling
The power of a narrator who can speak to the audience and comment on the action within and outside the literal and figurative walls
And bring the play
Written thirty years ago and set next year
To the immediacy of today
Post apocalyptic America
And still we sing.
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luminescence: the emission of light by a substance that has not been heated.
LuMinEssence: the mission of finding light in the dark.

music and art.

​watching sean hayes play rhapsody in blue
I was inspired and moved
an extraordinary play about a difficult man

earlier in the week
I was witness to
james t. lane telling his story
a difficult journey for an extraordinary man

the stories of music and art
finding beauty in the pain
reckoning with life upon this coil
how we fathom our existence
this difficult extraordinary thing.

music and art
music and art.
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luminescence: the emission of light by a substance that has not been heated.
LuMinEssence: the mission of finding light in the dark.

new york city

tonight I met people
who have traveled from cities and towns
across the united states
and from across united kingdom
and beyond
to make a home (even if temporarily)
in new york city
to make art
on page, on stage, on hair
this is a place that thrives on diversity
a place that literally sings and dances
a place that embraces the different
​the weird
the exciting
a place that pulsates with creativity
(and giant rats)
this vibrant difficult wonderful city
and as I went from place to place
with my friend from another world
another lifetime
and navigated the subways
downtown, uptown, across town
I thought about the me from that other world
that other lifetime
that other place
look at us
look at what we’re doing
isn’t it extraordinary?!

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