Thursday, December 07, 2006

Rescued from Nokia

[The links are out of date.]

I had been unable/unwilling to download the many photos I had accumulated on my old Nokia phone. Today, however, I put the Treo head-to-head (well, head-to-side) with the Nokia, and I transferred them all over IR to the Treo, then down to the PC, then up to my public gallery with Picasa.

For example, this was my phone's background for a long time:

The full album:

Monday, December 04, 2006

Grinch opening

I posted about opening night at the new Grinch musical on the BoxPop site.

[update 2007-Sep-15]

That link might be down for good, so here's what I posted:

The new Broadway production of How the Grinch Stole Christmas opened on November 8, my birthday. My friend Josh Rosenblum is the musical director for the show. As a birthday present he got my family in on opening night, including passes to the opening night party across the street at Madame Tussaud’s wax museum.

The show runs about 75 minutes, with no intermission. It was mostly not my cup of tea, but both of my kids were riveted and said they would like to see it again. In addition to providing music direction, Josh wrote some of the incidental music and did the vocal arrangements; there were several lovely moments of multipart singing, which is what I go for. There was also one very funny line that I’m told was an ad lib during rehearsals; I won’t give it away, but I’ll mention that it happens just before Cindy Lou Who’s big number.

The party at Madame Tussaud’s was huge. I had never been to a wax museum before, so I had what I gather is the usual reaction of mistaking wax figures for real people and vice versa. I would have liked to stay longer, but we discovered that Tessa, our oldest, is afraid of wax figures, so we had to hustle through quickly and miss a lot.