Managing Maxine

I'm sitting in the friday night preview of my new show "Managing Maxine" at the Alliance Theater in Atlanta.

It's funny when you see a show so many times that you lose your perspective. Especially a comedy. Especially a world premiere comedy! The jokes that were once hilarious loose their edge UNTIL you get them in front of an audience, and they're born again!

I've been working on this show on and off for a few months now and 3 days ago, hours after I completed the music for it, my computer (and iMac) was stolen in a home invasion and I lost all my raw files.

I'm sitting here in the back row of the Alliance at the moment listening to the last things I wrote on that computer, and it's funny how much I miss it. Not the computer as much as those little pieces of creation.

All of this falls a little bit harder for me at the moment because (and this is JOYOUS news) Katie and I are PREGNANT! We're both walking around with more appreciation for the gift of life these days. I'm very thankful to not only take part in the creation of music, but also in the creation of a child. I wonder if the similarities stop there?

For those of you still interested, come and see "Managing Maxine" at the Alliance from Oct 15 - Nov 2, 2008.