September, October, November - The months ending with "er" - ER stands for "Endless Regrouping"

This past couple of months since my last post have been a whirlwind.  Mostly, this comes from all of my responsibilities at the Hutchinson Theatre Guild.  There was also a brief relationship which had both a bizarre start and end.  And of course, the many fall activites (fair, Halloween, etc.)

September brought auditions for Other Desert Cities.  It's final performances happen tonight and tomorrow.  Here are a couple of wonderful pictures from the production.

 This has turned out to be my favorite production at the Guild this year.  It is truly a great play and all things considered the best one we've done all year.  It was a great pleasure to work with all of these actors.  The designer of the scenery and costumes, Nancy Sliker, is retiring from a nearly 50 year career in the theatre.  And she felt that this production was the one to exit with.  Very humbling I assume you.  We rehearsed from the last weekend of September to our opening on November 6th.  Thank you to everyone who came to the production (or is still coming :) ).

My next major event was Talking Tombstones.  I participated in this fundraiser for the Hutchinson Theatre Guild.  The fundraiser is literally what it sounds.  Residents of the Eastside Cemetery stand next to their tombstones and tell their stories.  I played Sheriff Thomas Jennings, the much beloved sheriff who's double funeral (his daughter and he both died in a car accident) was the highest attended in Hutchinson's history.  It was fun and the fundraiser went the best its ever gone including $2500 raised for the Guild.

Finally, the last major event was playing the Grade School Outreach events for the Hutchinson Symphony.  We played Peter and the Wolf (the real version) and I had a great time.  Katie Goodenberger, a friend and HTG Board member played the 2nd horn part and I was 1st horn.  Here's a picture of the fun.

And for those of you who want to hear what I sound like now on the French horn, here's a recording of what we sounded like at Faris Elementary - Mom was there listening. :) http://andyaddis.com/peterandthewolf.mp4

Happy fall.  Thanksgiving is around the corner and Christmas is close behind.  YAY!!!!!