Archives for February 28, 2011

I was going to tell you all about my visit to Palm Beach, but instead I spent the evening working on Satchmo at the Waldorf, my one-man-two-character play about Louis Armstrong and Joe Glaser, his manager. Now that I’ve seen two readings of the play in front of a pair of live audiences, I’ve cut ten pages out of what was originally a sixty-six-page script, written a new speech for Glaser, and done some restructuring of the first act. (The second act worked pretty much as is.) I think that’s enough for one night, don’t you?
More about my adventures in Palm Beach–and my current trip to New York–in the next day or two. In the meantime, hang loose.

“Among those I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.”
W.H. Auden, “Notes on the Comic” (courtesy of Anecdotal Evidence)