Staged Readings and heading home!
June 21 and 22, 2008
Staged Readings and Symposium on Adapting Novels for the Stage:
All of the readings went well with good feedback from the audiences. One of the great surprises was on Saturday when a familiar face walked through the door. Don Lieber a bass player from Portland brought his daughter to the reading. He had seen the listing in the New York Times and his daughter loves Lois. Don had no idea of my involvement in the play, so we both were surprised to see each other. Nice reunion. As Nancy Swortzell said “Only in New York”
On Sunday we participated in a panel discussion about adapting Gossamer and other novels for the stage. I thought an hour and a half would be long, but time flew by. Cecily conducted a workshop and then the reading. A great day lots of learning. David Montgomery and the staff for New Plays for Young Audiences hosted a reception after the reading and then it was time to head out to Portland. My cab driver to the Newwark airport was a self professed psychic and proceeded to tell me about all of things he had predicted in the past including a friends death. He got lost going to the airport, but predicted I would live to be 99. I can’t imagine a better way to leave New York.
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