Old Man Winter, that Old Man Winter

Sheriff Joe Sutter, all decked out in his winter best, is prepared to face Old Man Winter as he comes blistering his way into Gilead, Wisconsin. If you need anything during these cold and bleary months, you can count on your local sheriff's deparment. Call the office, leave a message with Nancy if you have to, and Joe will get out to your place just as soon as he can. But keep in mind the winter conditions will make out-of-town traffic dangerous, only to be undertaken with extreme care. If you can take the law into your own hands, Sheriff Sutter advises that you do so.

The weather around here has been pretty awful lately. Normally, that wouldn't be a subject of discussion for this blog, except that we have had rehearsal cancelled on us for the last two nights in a row. Tuesday night was bad all around, calling for all sorts of freezing rain and "wintery mix." But last night, the area near me was perfectly clear with temperatures in the high 40s. But Allentown was still getting hit pretty hard, so the campus was a mess. And so it was cancelled last night as well. Let's pause for a moment and realize...

We had a three-day weekend. We rehearsed Monday, then had two more days off. So out of the last six days, we rehearsed once. Our tech rehearsals start on Saturday, so this is really the worst time that something like this could happen. It's my favorite part of rehearsals, where we have a little breathing room to play with the scenes and see what we can find. But since we missed those last two days, there is just a little bit of crunch going into this weekend. It's nothing that we, and our fearless director, can't handle. Given enough cigarettes and coffee...