April 21

Today is a day to catch up after the rush of opening Tuesdays with Morrie. The box office staff has the day off because of working the weekend. Story Theatre is out on tour today and April is teaching in the schools this afternoon. Marsha Cash is in the office trying to catch up on volunteer work. I'm working from home today on the set designs for Zink and Anything Goes.



I learned this morning from April that Roy Hensels mother passed away yesterday. Travis Hensel who is on tour with the Story Theatre tour told April. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Hensel family. Last month Michael & Rick Brewer's mother passed away just before Easter. Market House Theatre truly is an extended family. I have had the pleasure of getting to know both Mrs. Hensel and Mrs. Brewer at shows when they came to watch their children and grandchildren perform. The Brewers and the Hensels have been connected with the theatre for many years. The image I have of both women are of them smiling as big as can be as they watched their family members perform and afterwords just glowing.



Many wonderful people have made an impact on the MHT over the years. Some of them performed on the stage and others attended and supported the theatre and came to think of some of our local performers the same as if they were family. Yesterday after the show JC Dudley came up with the winning raffle ticket. JC has been involved with MHT since the first founding meeting Oct. 13, 1963. He and his wife were a major driving force that got the organization off the ground and laid the foundation for what it is today. When JC collected his winning from the raffle, he laughed and told me that he would turn around with his winnings, add a couple of dollars to that amount and buy an MHT Derby Party Fundraiser ticket.



In Tuesdays with Morrie, the character of Mitch, played by Tom Dolan, says that he's finally figured out what Morrie meant. If you live your life giving to other people, then when you die you're not really gone. You still live on in the lives of those you gave to. MHT has been truly blessed by those who have given so much and I know that I feel their presence every time I walk in to the theatre for a rehearsal or a performances on our stage.