"I will begin again..."

So, a belated Happy New Year to all!!!! 2007 is here (can you believe it?) and we're already off to a flying start. There are some really cool things happening in the area:

Tonight (Thursday the 18th) at AGL- a conversation with Director Benny Sato Ambush, starting at 7pm at the Downtown Arts center. This is the first in AGL's AGL's "Conversations with..." series. Admission is free.

Also, opening tonight PRIVATE EYES at Studio Players, here in Lex Vegas. The show runs through Feb 4th, and features frequent CLONES poster Bob Singleton, Allie Darden-Tipton, the lovely Hayley Williams,Mike Van Zant and Marianne Matthews.

January 25th and 26th-Bluegrass Community & Technical College’s theater program will hold an open casting call for its first production of Laddy Sartin’s Blessed Assurance. Auditions will be held on Thursday, January 25, 2007 from 3:00-5:00 p.m. in the Student Center on the Leestown Campus, 164 Opportunity Way, Lexington. A second audition will be held on Friday, January 26, 2007 from 5:00-7:00 p.m. on the Cooper Campus, 470 Cooper Drive, Lexington. (in the auditorium in the OSWALD building)
For more information, contact me, Tim Davis, Theater & Film Program Coordinator at (859) 246-6672.

These auditions are open to the public, as well as any BCTC studnet or faculty member. So come one, come all!!! We are very excited to produce this Kentucky premiere of South Carolina based playwright Laddy Sartin's play AND- Opening night, Laddy himself will be in the audienceto partciipate in a talk back! Show dates aren't until the first week of April, so more later! (I know all youse former USM Divas are familiar with Mr Sartin's name and/or work. Golden Eagles rule!!!!!)

Sooo....the query today is a simple one: What, if any, New Year's resolutions have you mad, and what are the odds that you'll keep em? I would remind all of you, btw, that my wife and I went for an ENTIRE YEAR (2006) without eating ice cream of any kind, which if you know us you know how difficult that must have been!
So chime in, and good luck!!! 2007 points for the EASY reference...

"...but I'm free from the chain gang now..."

Seems like I'm posting too many obits lately, but unfortunatley, here's another:

Michael Thompson founded Moveable Feast in 1998. The organization provides hot meals for victims of HIV and AIDS. Thompson was alsoactive in area theater groups.Michael Thompson, a Lexington actor and longtime survivor of AIDS whohelped nourish thousands of Kentuckians with the same disease, diedMonday. He was 51 and had been suffering from cancer.Mr. Thompson founded Moveable Feast, which delivered hot meals topeople in Central Kentucky suffering from HIV and AIDS, in 1998. Hegot the idea after nursing a destitute artist with AIDS who starved todeath just a few blocks from Lexington's city hall, said fellowactivist and friend Robert Morgan.

I had the absolute pleasure and privilege of knowing and working with Michael here in Lexington. We worked together at the LSF back in 02 and 03. He was a kind, sweet man with a good soul. I will miss him, and the community will miss his talent and his great charity. Godspeed, Michael...

If you knew Michael and would like to post something, or you have a good story involving him, feel free to write away.