Well.. Allen’s show has come and gone and it was absolutely amazing. The people who attended had nothing but good things to say and many have said they wish they would have came to all three shows. It was that funny. I was very proud of everyone in it but especially proud of my wife, Shannon. She hasn’t been in a show for a long time but did an awesome job. The show was very well attended and brought in around $200 dollars in donations which Allen donated to the Small Town Players. Not a bad start. I was a little disappointed at a lot of people in this community… mostly the THEATER people in this community. Very few came and that makes me sad. But that’s okay. One of the reasons I wanted to start this group was to give the other guys a chance and I think this was a great jumping off point. I had originally planned to direct the first show but Ian Arbuckle wants to and I am totally behind that. He is working on an original script but that will come later. For now we STILL have to decide what show to do. We are going to try to suggest one of the Reduced Shakespeare Companies play as they are very funny and inexpensive to perform. More on that later. On to the bad bad news.

Well..actually it is very good news but it makes us all sad. Founding member Ray Pritchard has been offered a job teaching theater at WSU. I give him a lot of crap but we are all very excited for him. This is the opportunity of a lifetime. Imagine being offered the job of Disneyland ride and peanut butter cup tester and that is what it is like for him. We all love you and I was hoping to mooch off of your experience so expect a lot of emails J He has told me he was going to be in my Holiday play and I am going to hold him to it

More later and on with the show

Phil