Julie's blog has a post that I can't get to (that's so wrong for so many reasons) that mentions that in the acknowledgements for Harry Benford's 3rd edition of the Gilbert & Sullivan Lexicon my name appears! In a real book! A book of actual value to the G&S community. I haven't seen this acknowledgement - I have the second edition - but I trust Julie completely. I'd also like to borrow her copy so that I can see my name - in print - in a book. A book!!
To be honest, I have no idea why Harry (a lovely man, by the way) would include me in the acknowledgements unless he included all 700-some members of Savoynet, although this is lending some credence to the belief held by many of my friends that I know everyone connected to G&S/theater. Or just flat everyone. Brett believes that I went to high school with roughly 80% of the human population.
And, unlike those poor people named Michael or David or Lisa or Debbie, I can be pretty confident that I'm the only "Leta" that Harry has met. There are a couple dozen people named Leta in the world, but I think (mind you, I say "I think") that I'm the only G&S geek named Leta.
Me! In a book! A real book!!
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"So, Leta, is it difficult to live your life so that whenever you need to illustrate a point, you have an anecdote from your personal experience?" No, not really.
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"On a break" is community theater for "spend more time with my family" which is politics for "unemployed." (Leta)
"If you want to help the American theater, don't be a performer -- be an audience." (Tallulah Bankhead)
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- Footnotes for drip-drip-drip
- As every week should be
- Ratting myself out
- How to generate calls to a radio station
- Here come the cows!
- Mercury at Sunset
- My theater rings
- Blushing slightly
- Our weather is special
- mature and immature audiences
- Oh, my aching head
- How to scream like a banshee
- The words were so much alike
- Still an English major at heart
- Iambic Pentameter
- I remembered!
- I wish I could be there
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By coincidence, I was just consulting my 3rd edition about 15 minutes ago. Upon reading this, I checked the acknowledgements, and sure enough, there you are: p. xvi, second paragraph, spanning the second and third lines. Congratulations.
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