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• Local graduate turns "Oedipus" into a musical comedy

This is listed under the Asbury Park Press's "TOAST OF THE TOWN". That's possibly the funniest name for a section I've ever heard of.

Also, I think I never linked to this: Sophocles and Plato Review Oedipus for Kids

The show starts tomorrow. For those of you who haven't been involved in an NYMF show, here's how your schedule works day-of:

• 8 AM: Load into the space. We already pretty much have all our stuff here because we've been rehearsing at the performance venue from the beginning. But that's when we load into the actual theatre; we've rarely rehearsed in the theatre itself and usually use the back room.
  
• 12:30ish: The Actors show up because by Equity, they can't be around for that long and by sanity, they probably shouldn't show up earlier if we want them to be good.
• 6PM: Actors are done standing around as we change lighting on them over and over again.
• 8PM: Opening night. Insanity.
  

And by the way,
a) For anybody who keeps asking, I did not create the Oedipus for Kids! Wikipedia page. If I did, I would have filled it in with some detail. The cast/creatives also say they didn't do it. Although I must say, 95% of the research for this play was done via Wikipedia.

b) The New York Sun hasn't seen the show but described my lyrics as discomfiting. Says dictionary.com:
dis·com·fit v.
1. To make uneasy or perplexed; disconcert.
2. To thwart the plans of; frustrate.
3. Archaic. To defeat in battle; vanquish.

c) Another Broadwayworld.com picture, this time from the NYMF launch party. I look smug as always.