Thursday July 17

I've only been back in the office two days and already I'm covered over again. Saturday is the Fund Run for Charities at Noble Park, Sunday is the technical rehearsal for Lunch box theatre. The show opens Monday morning at 11 am. Yesterday I went to the rehearsal and took publicity photos and last night worked out one for the top of our website pages. The show is really cute and will be lots of fun. The murder mystery casting was worked out yesterday so rehearsals could begin for the fundraiser which performs August 23. The mystery will be called The Wedding of the Year. The subtitle is the Wedding from Hell where everything goes wrong and somebody ends up dead with the audience trying to solve the mystery. We are still working out the details of tickets in the box office and tickets will go on sale next Tuesday for the mystery. There is a mountain of press and publicity to get out for the murder mystery and other upcoming events.

My Way rehearsed Tuesday and Wednesday and we are working out the rehearsal schedule. David Jernigan, Cheri Paxton, Fowler Black, and Victoria Parrish are having a lots of fun with the Sinatra music. Some songs they know well and others they don't know at all. Cheri is a big Sinatra fan and wins the prize for knowing the most songs. She will sing it along with Pat Lynch on the piano so the other actors have some idea of what the song sounds like. Lots of laughs were had last night.

The membership development committee met Tuesday night and we set up some changes in the way we conduct our fund drives. Because of the many ways people donate to the market house theatre it is sometimes confusing as to what is membership donations and what is a non membership donation. We are changing to calling everyone donors which will help consolidate and simplify the process. We will do a new donor drive in fall and the spring each year.

The back restroom for the dressing rooms is going through a renovation. We have put in a new sink and new wall and paint treatments. We are trying to make the back restroom fresh and bright. In the past it has turned into a janitor closet as well as restroom. Aaron Spoden has been coming in to paint.

Jim is on vacation this week so today I will go to the warehouse to get more trees for the Lunch box show and paint the floor green. I also have to do lights and sound for the show. I'm still working on the photo discs for Cinderella which will be available next Tuesday.