Birmingham Blues

Our wonderful leader (and my dear wife Kathy) was born on this day X number of years ago. Happy birthday! I love you.

I just filled out a survey from kiva, a charity I admire and support, and that got me thinking about something I’ve been half-intending to post about, so here goes. A while back, a friend of mine said a group she belongs to was going to collect pull-tabs from soft drink cans for the Ronald [...]

Okay, I am totally taking advantage of the power of Glamour/Society Blog access to share a petty rant. Here goes:
DD is still in the wonderful and all-too-brief “I love my new driver’s license! Got any errands you need run?” phase. Last week at Target she grabbed Energizer rechargeable batteries instead of the regular kind, [...]

Here’s my Pick-a-Little hat for The Music Man.

I realize you can’t actually see the hat under there, but it will be firmly secured to my head on Friday night. The show runs June 6-15 (Friday through Sunday the first weekend; Thursday through Sunday the second weekend). It’s a silly, fluffy show full of [...]

…and this is a society and glamour blog, after all.
Ladies: when you are selecting attire for a funeral, use a little judgement. Just because a dress is black does not mean it is the one you should put on. Some black dresses say “mourning,” and others say “let’s drink dry martinis and then have [...]

Okay, y’all. I had a mammogram yesterday. I have a family history of breast cancer, so (reluctantly) when I turned 45 I dutifully began the annual pink-ribbon ritual. I’m small-breasted and not at all modest, so to be honest it just isn’t that much of an ordeal for me. Physically, that is. Mentally, from the [...]

Okay, for all the, um, one of you clamoring for show pictures, here are a couple of the tree. The costume is incredible! I wish I had a good shot from the back, which shows when I’m “destroyed” and “fallen” in Act Two. Not only merely dead, but really most sincerely dead. [...]

The first weekend of “Into the Woods” is done. I don’t know how many people we had in the audience (couldn’t wear my glasses onstage), but the ones who were there certainly seemed to enjoy it. I’m getting the hang of maneuvering in my tree costume, which means I’m having a lot more [...]

UPDATE on ticket prices: $25, $23 for seniors, $13 for students.
Well, sort of. If you’re in the Birmingham area and you like musical theatre, mark your calendars for the CenterStage Productions presentation of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods, which opens on Friday March 7 at the Virginia Samford Theatre (for details on show times [...]

In a nod to our Glamour/Society rating, I’d like to give a plug to Virginia Samford Theatre’s production of the School Edition of Les Misérables. The School Edition designation means that all the actors must be under the age of 19 and enrolled in high school, middle school, or elementary school. [...]