93º and Sunny

I'm pretty much one of the most impressionable people I know - very easily swayed by people's accents (I started talking like I was from Scotland the summer I worked with someone who really was from Scotland - thanks Skippy), people's passionate works and words, and especially by cool, popular and famous people. So imagine my surprise when I found out that a famous actor person was in the play I saw tonight! It was Guber from Boston Legal (aka Anthony Heald) - onstage! acting! live! 7 rows away!

Evidently he's a regular part of the acting troupe at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival here in Ashland. That would be where I currently am enjoying the sunny weather. Well, not right now because it's night and it's a comfortable 76º, but earlier when I drove into town it was 93º, and according to my handy widget it's going to be 106º in the area by the weekend. This is a good way to end my summer travels - getting really hot and wanting to get home to 55º and raining again.

Anyway, back to the theatre. So, watching Anthony "Mr. Guber" Heald acting in The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler was fun for many reasons. Fun to remember putting on the Ibsen play, Hedda Gabler, back in high school in Texas in the one act play UIL (is that right - I can't remember the acronym) competition. Fun to watch the famous people and others - there was singing, dancing, laughter, drama, thinking, good sound, etc. Fun to watch a professional theatre and see that they, too, make mistakes (something went wrong when a piece of the set was supposed to get pulled off-stage and it was stuck there much longer than it was supposed to be and someone had to run across the stage to get off while the next scene was coming up).

So, I'm quiting my job and going into the theatre!

OK, not really. Maybe in my next life...