Upstaged?

This past week I was lucky enough to attend not one, but two plays. One play was at my old alma mater, Cambria Heights High School, the one other at Bishop Carroll High School.
CH performed The Wiz, the 1975 Broadway musical adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. The play features [...]

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To Write or To Have Written, that is thequestion.

It’s been said that “actions speak louder than words.” That’s true for writing as it is in any other area of life. Some people claim that they want to be writers, but their actions tell a different story. I think that for some people, writing is not so important as it is to have written. [...]

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A Quick Update…

It doesn’t look like my play is going to be produced during the 2007-2008 school year. Mrs. St. Pierre has already selected the play that they are going to produce. C’est la vie. There’s always next year and other schools to send it to.
On a different note – after talking to some of the children [...]

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A Confession about My Play

My play is not going as well as I had hoped.
There I said it. In fact, I’m not going to have it completed by my December 15th deadline. I should have known better than to try to accomplish something this grand while at the same time driving for FedEx Home Delivery. Particularly during the [...]

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How to Write a Play … in 4 Months or less.

This past May my daughter acted in her middle school play The XYZ Files, by Douglas Winter. The play was a spoof on the X-Files, and was very funny.
Afterwards, her English teacher and the director of the play, Mrs. St. Pierre, and I were talking about the play and all the work that went into [...]

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