Second rehearsal of Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera Fresh Voices XVII Festival of New Works: Feet First Into the Fire! (8pm, Saturdays, August 5 / 12, Bay Area Stage, 551 Broadway, Vallejo; 7:30pm, Saturday, August 19, St. Alban's Church, Albany [CA]; 4pm, Sunday, August 29, Community Music Center, Capp Street, San Francisco -- Harriet March Page, Artistic Director; Frank Johnson, piano) at
Diablo Valley College Music Building,
and first with our full cast for 2017: An Opera in Multiple Unnatural Acts, Op. 261, featuring
Don Hardwick (Donald Trump),
Patrick Brancato (Barack Obama),
Valerie Salcedo (Elizabeth Warren), and Ryann Swale (Vladimir Putin) -- the latter two additionally 2/3 of Doug Brandt's My Little Secret.
Patrick and
Teressa Foss will be featured in excerpts from Cats, Dogs, and Divas, Op. 104; and
Teressa will also co-star in Helena Michelson's The Mysteries (with Meaghan Dibble), as well as
John Bilotta's The League of Minor Characters.
And the entire ensemble -- including Cathy Kuehnert, Phoebe Anne Sorgen, and Gigi Walker -- takes on Alan Crossman's And Now... The Humans!...
Out afterwards to
Gigi and Brian's for dinner,
then down towards
Martinez,
looking
over
Campbell
Theatre
and
taking in the
ambience of
Roxx's on
Main.
99th day of summer,
high down a notch to 108,
as the second-warmest temperature of the year
(topped only by the tie of yesterday and June 22 at 109) --
58 / 33 / 11 days at 80 / 90 / 100+...
Pleasant Hill, 104
Martinez, 100
... composing Page 2 The Decameron: Eighth Day, Op. 266: Novel V - Three Young Men Pull Down the Breeches of a Judge
somewhere
in the
mix...
