May The Stars Light Your Way
This month, we met at RONDO’S in the west side of town for Happy Mouth. We had a room on the second floor all to ourselves. The food was very nice. They sent up a couple platters (big ones) of complimentary appetizers, which we all…
I have recently joined a charity called OJFC – ‘Old Jeans for Charity’. I don’t want to come across all Christian-like, but it does seem an excellent — and painless — way to help out needy children.
Things are finally getting back to normal around here.
We just closed GILLIGAN’S ISLAND: THE MUSICAL that Wendy was in (she played Mary Ann) at Falcon Theater. It was a three weekend run and was sold out for half the run.
Just like any show, this production was a tremendous amount of work. However, unlike many other shows, we had an extra amount of work to do since this was Falcon’s first show at a new space — The Monmouth Theater in Newport, Kentucky. At the same time that the show was rehearsing, we were also doing major renovations on the theater space to make it suitable for a production. This renovation included removing a drop ceiling over the stage, drywall & paint, running conduit & pulling cables for lighting instruments, installing dimmer packs, relocating & repairing the stage floor, and extending the stage. And then build the set. Once all that was done, we had to clean everything up to get it ready for an audience.
The show’s run was a good one — the audiences loved the show.
A very nice surprise came on the third weekend. Hope Juber, the lyricist (and spouse of composer Laurence Juber, flew in from Los Angeles to attend the shows on Friday & Saturday nights. As a special treat to the cast, Hope contacted her father — Sherwood Schwartz (the creator of GILLIGAN’S ISLAND and the BRADY BUNCH) — and everyone in the cast got to speak with him. Hope seemed to really enjoy the show, and was a charming and engaging person. We’re thrilled that she came to see our production!
BETHESDA, MD Beautiful, hand-tooled, leather-bound copies of the greatest works of Western literature "really spiffed up" the den of Elaine Gadsen Monday. "I just love the way the gold embossing on The Great Gatsby balances out that plainer-looking Dickens book on the end," Gadsen said.…
For our first HAPPY MOUTH of 2004, the newly-engaged Kristy arranged for all of the “Mouthers” to meet at Pompillio’s in Newport, Kentucky. Pompillio’s was known for being the restaurant in the famous ‘toothpick scene’ of the 1988 movie Rain Man. Chuck, Ron, Tracy, Ted,…
Well, the secret is out… After careful planning and admirable secrecy by the few persons ‘in the know’, it has finally happened. In a surprise ceremony witnessed by family and a small circle of friends, Drew and Wendy got married on December 31, 2003 — at about 11:30pm!
For the two years that we’ve been engaged, we have been considering just what we wanted to do for our wedding… We knew we didn’t want a big church wedding (we’ve had those… several of them between us). We thought about a Scuba wedding, but that would cut out the families and those who couldn’t afford to travel to a dive-worthy destination with us. We had talked about a "surprise" wedding very early on, but couldn’t figure out a good excuse to get people to a location without them being suspicious. We talked about having it at our house during one of our many parties, but Wendy was firmly opposed to cleaning our house for our own wedding. We didn’t really want to have any sort of "wedding event" because no matter what you tell folks, they still feel like they have to bring presents and get all serious about it, which is what we did NOT want.
About 2 months ago, we hit on the idea of having a surprise wedding at our friend Tracy’s annual New Year’s Eve party. She has been talking about making this event a fancy dress party for years now, so this year she did it (we were NOT getting married in jeans & sweatshirts!). We’ve been attending this party with folks for many years now, and one of our buddies happens to be a minister… Tracy agreed to let us do it, so at 11:30 Andrew invited everybody at the party to attend our wedding… RIGHT NOW. We assembled in the living room as our parents arrived, had a little ceremony in front of Tracy’s lovely Christmas tree, poured the champagne, and rang in the new year. Our only concession to wedding tradition was that we had an awesome cake with sugar flowers and all. The cake came from Chef’s Kitchen in Madeira (Cincinnati, Ohio). They did Wendy’s first wedding cake, too… (Nothing like repeat wedding cake customers!). We asked Liz to make it very fancy as it was our only real expense (who says a surprise wedding at somebody else’s house isn’t cost effective?) besides the rings.
We’re in the planning stages of a honeymoon… It can’t be until after March, because Wendy is in a show (she’s playing Mary Ann in a musical version of Gilligan’s Island at Falcon… just as cheesy and silly as you might expect), so we’re thinking somewhere between April and maybe August 2004 (don’t want to pin ourselves down too much).
Check out the Gallery for more pictures of our wedding!
Merry Christmas from Phoebe! Santa Clause is coming. Oh yes. Santa Clause is coming!