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Today's exclamation mark is in honour of "How We Lost the Son", a musical for which I've written music, lyrics and book, which is premiering in seven days, or eight, depending on your level of pedantry and which calendar you use*. 8pm, 19th - 21st April (Tuesday to Thursday NEXT WEEK!) at St Judes Anglican Church, Carlton.
So we're neck-deep in rehearsals and I have to admit, as the writer I have the best job in rehearsals, which is merely to sit around and offer comments when comments are called for, and to generally be nice to everyone, a job I find I enjoy more than not being nice to everyone - I recognize it's a luxury. Many people in the world have the unfortunate duty of kicking butts into gear, slapping faces with wet tea towels of motivation, asitwere, and of watching the tide of public opinion swallow them much like a gazelle in the flight path of a tornado, though what a gazelle would be doing in middle America I've no idea. Perhaps they opened a zoo there. In which case they presumably have lions as well, and unless the tornado reaches the lions first, the gazelle could just as well be swallowed by the lions. Then again, we may presume that they keep the gazelles and lions in separate enclosures. But what if the tornado were to destroy the fencing, allowing the lions to dash into the gazellerium and put an end to their antipodean enemies?
Fortunately, this musical is much less likely to result in death. I highly recommend you come and see it, if only to support a young artist / have your life irrevocably changed.
*According to an ancient Mayan calendar it's actually in 4 days time, and it will also beckon the end of the world. I suppose one of those might actually be true.
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