Opening!
This has no relation to the blog-post, but I just love when Google changes their search image for special days of the year. It's just a nice touch, I think. Enjoy.
As you know, we opened this weekend. Everything went really well, I think. Opening night, Friday, was a hit, and the stalls were at about half, I think (reference to the show…it’s hard not to, actually). Then we had an opening night party in the lobby of the theatre. A good number stayed for that, and everyone was very complimentary of the show and the performances, etc. So all in all: a good opening week. I’m absolutely pooped, but it was good, and I enjoyed it. 
Now: I know you’ve been waiting to see if I’m going to post the review to the show. I haven’t actually read it yet. Someone read to me the parts about the performance, which had nothing negative, apparently, all positive reviews of the performances, the script, the story, etc., so that’s all good! I don’t know when I’m going to read it. I thought I would after opening weekend. But now that that’s Now, I’m not sure I want to. I know that there isn’t anything negative about the acting (in fact, I don’t think they even mentioned anyone by name at all in the whole review, I’m told), but it’s just the principle of the thing. “Don’t listen to the critics,” I’ve heard. Does that mean only when they’re negative? I don’t know. Anyhoo, it went well, and I’m glad that we’re on the path for a good run, barring catastrophe. Knock on a crapton of wood.
My mother-in-law came up this weekend, and she and Ash did some more apartment shopping, as did I on the tailend of it all on Saturday. Verdict: I think we’ve got a place! We applied, and now we’re waiting to hear back from our agent at Chicago Apartment Finders. I’ll post pictures tomorrow. I’ve just been really busy, and posting the pics from my phone didn’t work on Saturday, so I’ve been waiting for the opening weekend to be over, so I’d have time to do it. I’ll tattoo it, of course, all over my social-web-self, but just so you know, it will at least be here (flickr) and probably here (posterous).
I think that’s it for now. Oh, yeah! I’m reading Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief by Hustom Smith right now, and I think it’s gonna end up being one of the best books I read this year, as I told my friend Allison the other day. I’ll post some thoughts on it probably in the near future.
Talk soon,
Neal
