Happy Anniversary.....to us

One of the sweetest on-stage moments we've ever had happened day before yesterday.

Just to catch up (since our last entry contained the opening night horrors), our run here in Orlando at the Fringe Festival has gone quite well. With the exception of our late-night shows (of which we had two) all were well attended, and for the final three we really caught our groove. We are done now, and boy could our livers use a break.

On to the sweetness.

Audiences are always very pleased to find out that we are married, and even more pleased to find out that we have been married for so long. Well, our final performance was on May 27th, our anniversary, and we decided to let the cat out of the bag. Our final show was at the unreasonably early hour of 11:00am(!!!!!) so we kept telling people to bring their own mimosas. Not to be outdone, of course, we brought our own fixings to the theater. We had a nearly full house (90 people or so) and at the end of the show Llysa made the announcement from the stage that we had been married for 18 years, while I brought on the champagne and popped it. A lovely, sweet and very long ovation followed, after which something quite wonderful occurred. The lead reviewer for the major paper, The Orlando Sentinel, having just seen the show for the second time, stepped to the front of the stage and handed us a gift bag with a bottle of champagne inside and thanked us for being at the Fringe. The is the same reviewer who saw at wrote about Notes From Underground (1994) and Justice (1997, the last time we were in Orlando). Very nice.

We are home tonight, and then next Tuesday turn right back around and fly to Atlanta for the last of our out of state-country-continent tours.

Looking forward to summer in Seattle.