Seattle people, have you heard about the play that'swhatshesaid? [link] It sounds fascinating, but the meta story around it is seriously messed up. [link]

Sam French don't mess around. I did a SM'd a production of Grease for charity and Samuel French's granddaughter was on the Board of the charity and they wouldn't even consider letting us put in the final song from the movie.

Snow barely sticking at 7:30, so I'm in the office. Figured less snow to clear off my car that way....

That's fascinating, aurelia.

I hadn't really thought about changing things (a little) in plays until very recently. Of course my first job out of college was at a theatre where the artistic director took three or four scripts of the play, and the book (this was theatre for children), literally cutted and pasted them into a script which we copied, and said that meant she wrote the play, and so we didn't have to pay royalties!

So I felt like changing the Polack joke in Grease was not so big of a deal. Or changing the word "rubbers" to "Galoshes" in an Our Town production that was presented to Middle Schoolers by High Schoolers.

Also, I think this might be a Rochester accent thing, but I just hear, over the loudspeaker, to ignore the three warning tones for the Med Center antics. But the were saying Med Center Annex. Both pronounced ann-ix.

eehhann-ix

I take it as a given that ann is pronounced "eehhann"! :)

ETA: For some reason the man on the loudspeaker most days has a fairly pronounced accent- you should hear him call a code team to the trauma bay! TRAAAHHHH-ma bay, I mean.

Happy Mardi Gras, y'all. Raise your hands if you'd rather be in New Orleans today.

Also, go get yourself some paczki.

I never saw Paczki in Rochester until a couple of years ago, but maybe I just didn't notice until we started talking about them here. I had one this weekend, but I unfortunately got the kind with white cream inside, and I don't really like white cream. The outtards were good, though.