From the Ledge

In almost a year of From the Ledge, I’ve tried hard to post blog entries 2-3 times a week.  It’s been a way of disciplining myself to make sure that there’s always new, fresh blog content available; it’s also allowed me to keep up with the numerous arts events that I go to.  I’ve found out over the past several months, too, that some very avid From the Ledge readers salivate like Pavlov’s dog whenever there’s a new blog entry, so I want to make sure I don’t disappoint anyone.  For the first time in eleven months or so, I’ve let seven days (a full week!) pass between blog entries, for two straight weeks!  Yikes!  I’ve been travelling continuously for business over the past two weeks, crisscrossing the country, jumping through multiple time zones, pulling atrocious hours, and frankly, it bites! I’m exhausted (whenever someone tells me they think travelling for business is uber-glamorous, I give them the cold shock of reality:  delayed flights. middle seats. bad coffee. really hard hotel mattresses. airless conference rooms.  And it doesn’t matter whether it’s Manhattan or Boise).  And not being physically in Chicago, I’m not able to go to ANYTHING!  Well, I snuck in Porchlight’s marvelous Candide last weekend, but that’s it (more on that forthcoming).  I’ll be in town for the next two weeks and have already lined up my viewing schedule:  Edward II, Taylor Mac, Caroline or Change at the Court, Streamers, and some nudiefest at Bailiwick’s Pride series.  So I’ll be writing more regularly in the next couple of weeks.  Don’t forget me!  Come back again!  The picture by the way is of the late great Ann Miller (love the slit!) who played Carlotta in a production of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies sometime in the 1990s and was the lucky gal who got to belt the brutally-honest anthem of all of us world-weary (and bone-weary) survivors, “I’m Still Here”.

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