Good food, fine drink and elves

Our annual bbq was this weekend and was a blast. In addition to some truly fantastic food and drink donated by Cooper's and Joey's Brickhouse (if you haven't eaten with our new neighbors, you should make plans immediately), we had a truly hysterical presentation by two of our former performers from The Santaland Diaries. Mitchell Fain and Lance Baker recounting bits from their years of performing our little sketch.

After doing some of their favorite sections (and ranting about some of their favorite audience stories), we all strolled over to the theatre. It was enormously exciting to us to see people's reaction to the space. Walking though it is a significantly different experience than seeing it in pictures (although those are pretty cool). I realized that I haven't posted any updates about the building, so that's the very next post I'm doing. Today. Tomorrow. Real Soon Now. It's kind of awe-inspiring to see the space emerging, and I loved showing it to our guests. And I'll share it here. In my defense, organizing lunch for 40 and arranging to tow a roast pig down the highway still cooking really sucks the time up.

There was so much excitement at the benefit. We found it completely reinvigorating to talk to our supporters and the resident company members who came to see the sneak peek. Seeing peoples enthusiasm for what the empty space promises convinces me that this project is exactly what our community of artists, staff and audience needs.

Few days. Big post. All about the new space. Maybe a few words about Santaland. I promise.