Category Archives: Performances

Technicolour Dreams – [04/29/2023]

Tonight I saw the local theatre college’s production of Joseph And the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and I had…an odd reaction. I cried. Don’t get me wrong, they were…mostly happy tears.  I did a production of Joseph many years ago and … Continue reading

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Invitation to the Picture Show – [09/24/2022]

There’s a light…over at the Frankenstein Place… Over a decade ago, I walked off the stage for the final curtain call of Kaleidoscope Theatre’s production of The Rocky Horror Show. I had no real idea at the time, that it was … Continue reading

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Back to Backstage – Victoria, BC – [02/02/2021]

There’s a special kind of aura ’round a Show Person…. Eleven years ago I this April I got a phone call from the hiring director for a major cruise line. At the time I was in the middle of doing … Continue reading

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No Regrets – At Sea – [07/13/2019]

As Paul is carried to the hospital, out of dancing for now, perhaps forever, Zach turns to the remaining auditionees and asks them what they would do if they were faced with the same situation, if this was the day … Continue reading

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It Came Just the Same – Grand Cayman – [12/25/2018]

I feel you Christmas. I know I found you. You never fade away. The joy of Christmas, stays here inside us, fills each and every heart with love. ~ Where Are You Christmas And in the end, it all comes … Continue reading

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Your Table’s Waiting – At Sea – [12/16/2018]

We can’t picture being anything but show people! Civilians find the whole thing quite bizarre! But that hum in our hearts when the overture starts, lets us know how lucky we are. ~ Curtains See also: Isn’t that silly? I’d … Continue reading

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Come Hear the Music Play – At Sea – [05/03/2017]

There are only two piano bar entertainers in the fleet that I have enough of a rapport with that they will trust me to step up to their microphones. I knew that one of them was currently on board, and … Continue reading

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This is a Recording – At Sea – [12/18/2016]

I suppose everyone has their own idea of what it’s like to record a song. Big head-phones, mounted microphone, madly working sound technician, hopefully a band somewhere in the picture…lay things down in one take, go to lunch. Which is … Continue reading

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Radio Airwaves – At Sea – [11/14/2016]

We used to turn the dial And use our imagination Radio, I miss you so-dee-oh-vo-dee-oh-do-de-oh-do Radio, I miss you so The flagship’s radio show dinner theatre performance is always…less of a performance and more of a well-controlled chaotic circus. In … Continue reading

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God I’m A Dancer – At Sea – [09/05/2016]

I, I am a dancer I have come home Let me in God I’m a dancer A dancer dances.. Until the day she doesn’t. Until the day she can’t. I never wanted to be a dancer with a capital “D”. … Continue reading

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