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Summer 2009
The GREAT Mollie Sugden, aka 'Mrs. Slocombe': R.I.P. FMI
SMOKE ON THE MOUNTAIN HOMECOMING is making its regional debut at the Taproot Theatre in Seattle this summer. It runs July 8 through August 8th and is being directed by Scott Nolte. FMI
ARTY Blurs 
r-l: Bill, Jim, Mike and Joe, evening concert, Southern Village, Chapel Hill, 6/28/2009. Captured by David Eustice.
 The Red Clay Ramblers second album STOLEN LOVE is available on CD-R, through my website store. A friend presented me with a very excellent digital transfer, and I figured "Why not?" The disc has some great cuts on it, in particular a gem of a 1920's song by Blind Alfred Reed called "She's Been After Man Ever Since". Also a snappy take of "Kingdom Comin' (in the Year of Jubilo)". Unfortunately these two cuts are considered politically incorrect by some born without a sense of humor. Not me!  link to store
One of my favorite cartoonists, Roz Chast, was asked to describe her typical day. She said she rises "somewhere between 9 and 10. My life is so boring that your brains are going to melt and come out of your eyes. I kind of tend to stay up late just about every night, anywhere from 12:30 a.m. to 3 a.m. I putter. I nurse old grudges. I fold origami while nursing old grudges. I think about the past. I wonder if there’s any grudges I should start."
PERRY  New York based cabaret singer Perry Payne will be featuring "Dear Mister Gershwin" from RADIO GALS in her new cabaret act at the Metropolitan Room . With Michael Rice and his Travelling Three. Directed by Evan Pappas. Showtimes are July 1, 2, and 10 at 7:30, and July 11th at 9:45. Other featured music includes compositions by Adair, Wallowich, Rodgers and Hammerstein, A.C. Jobim, Trisha Yearwood, Michael Rice, Steve Randoy, Ethel Waters, Mancini, Sting and Pink. A singer, songwriter, comic, and cabaret performer, Payne originally hails from Lynchburg, VA. In addition to her musical and theatrical activities, she is an ace real estate broker in Manhattan. Mike Rice says her new club act is really really good! Facebook link
I still haven't recovered from the good times I had in northwest Illinois doing BOSH AND MOOONSHINE this past May.
I threw myself (or was thrown, rather, by my most energetic host, J.C. Buford) into the swing of things in Orangeville, Illinois. The first morning there he forced me to sing in the choir, and I kept it up for the next 4 Sundays! I went to every Masonic Luncheon in Freeport, and visited nearly every media outlet in the Cheddar Curtain. I got to be on first name basis with many of the town's citizens, including the preacher, the mayor and the postmistress! It's beautiful country out there. With all the rich soil, green fields full of dandelions, and red barns and silos in the background, the scene looks like one of those old Borden Milk advertisements. (I've developed quite a taste for aged Irish Cheddar on Breton crackers, and Shock Top. I even visited Baumgartner's three times!) Orangeville is right by the Jane Addams trail, a bike and hiking trail on the path of the old Illinois Central Railroad; so I got to spend many delightful afternoons enjoying the mid-west spring up close. I saw my first Baltimore Orioles, my first Ring Neck Pheasants, Sandhill Cranes, Great American Pelicans, and Great American Egrets, on that trail and on other trails on the banks of the Mississippi, including the particularly gorgeous Caspar Bluff, which is part of the Aiken Mound group.
Oh yeah, and I did the show too. It was a lot of fun getting to be 'Reverend Mould' once more, and singing "When I Was A Little Wee Babe," and "He Was Always Known As The Undertaker's Friend" and getting to clown around in costume and not have to hide behind a piano. I am very indebted to all the hardworking and talented folk picture below who gave their all to our little thespian enterprise. I'd say we pulled it off rather well. There's even talk of doing another show next spring. I'm toying as I speak with a sequel: DAVE AND FANNIE DO ORANGEVILLE, all about these once and future denizens of Dodge on a Victorian steamboat misadventure. >>>BOSH preview article in Freeport Journal Standard 
The Illinois cast. Seated l-r: Sheri Novak, Carl Sanford, A.J. Adams, Joan Sanford, John Buford, Terri Jackman, Jane Van Hamme and Liz Garchie. Standing l-r: Josh Ryan, Emily Evans, Terrie Miller, Peter Woodruff, Mike Craver, Paula Fulton, Chuck Hancock, and Phil Jackman. Photo by Mary Soddy.
I don't know who these Brits are but they are witty, charming, informative and brief.
Favorites are the "How To" sections. Funny and practical.
 The Bible Salesman is still HERE!!! FMI Be the first kid on your block to own one! I've now added GOOGLE CHECKOUT to all my store items, so now there's an customer option to PayPal. Clyde and I will also be doing some performances of the show this coming October in the Wilmington NC area. Stay tuned to these pages for dates and times.
Article/interview with Clyde on Gazette.net
cover CAR painting by Clyde Edgerton
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