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July 13, 2007
The Button Theatre, Gwinnett’s newest choice for live theater entertainment, previewed its inaugural performance of the popular rock musical
“Godspell” last night at the Jacqueline Casey Hudgens Center for the Arts at the Gwinnett Center before a very appreciative crowd of donors and friends. Seated in the round in the black box theater at the Hudgens, the audience was swept up with the pulsating aerobic choreography of
Kristie Krabe, which kept the entire ensemble plugged into an electric socket. All of the actors had to wear kneepads, in fact! The Gospel According to St. Matthew viewed through flower children made the audience laugh and cry. It was a fabulous first performance out of the chute!
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Button Theatre founders (from left,) Celia
Rosenblum, IJ Rosenblum, and Mary Carolyn Conti.
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Mary Carolyn Conti
and Celia Rosenblum
met in the ensemble of a theater production of Onstage Atlanta last year. They soon formed a collaboration with Celia’s husband,
IJ Rosenblum, and the three founded the non-profit Button Theatre in 2006. Their first cast call produced an incredibly talented cast, which was able to whip together this production of
“Godspell” in just two and a half weeks. The cast includes Equity actress
Chloe Zeitounian
and Equity-eligible actresses Cheryl Rookwood
and Kristie Krabe. It was an unusually balanced cast, my friends;
everybody was good!
You will recognize the names of the Button Theatre board members:
Mary Carolyn Conti, Nancy Gullickson, Larry Larsen, Celia Rosenblum, IJ Rosenblum, Carol Ann Stough,
and Joanne Taylor.
Come see for yourself!
“Godspell” runs July 13 through August 5, 2007. Tickets for this performance are $15 and available by calling
770 831-0591 or e-mailing: info@buttontheatre.com. Please visit the Web site at
www.buttontheatre.com.
The Button Theatre is proud to present its 2008 Theatre Season! All three shows will be performed at the Hudgens Art Center Black Box Theatre. Season tickets are $50 x the number of tickets desired.
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“You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown,” March 6-March 30, 2008
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“Barefoot in the Park,” July 3-July 27, 2008
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“Company,” October 2-October 26, 2008.
See you there!
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On June 12, 2007 Gwinnett Medical Center-Lawrenceville hosted a Christening of the Crane ceremony to begin construction of the new state-of-the-art 155-bed Patient Tower since there was no shovel of dirt to turn. Hospital Chairman
Wayne Sikes
broke a perfectly good bottle of champagne on the crane after it and its mission had been suitably blessed by Hospital Chaplain
Bob Duvall.
This major renovation of Gwinnett Medical Center will greatly alleviate the crowded conditions currently in place. For the past 18 months the hospital has been operating at 100 percent or more capacity, which causes delays in the ER when patients must be transferred to a room and must wait until one is available. I was also interested to hear that in addition to all of the state-of-the-art hospital stuff, there will be a Starbucks in the lobby.
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My life is complete. One of our deer friends, no doubt sensing safety, delivered her fawn in our backyard. I had noticed a big gray doe hanging around our backyard for several days and now I understand. Our backyard is enclosed with a split-rail fence, which the deer hop over regularly. The little fawn, however, was too small to hop over the fence. As soon as I saw this precocious youngster that had to be a little buck, I opened the back gate to the woods hoping to facilitate its exit. I closed the gate at coyote time, but I guess coyotes can hop over the fence as well as the deer can. The next day I thought the little guy was gone, but during the early evening I heard it bleating, calling for mama, after a big rainstorm. I started to walk down the path to the back gate, trying to see through the woods if mama was somewhere near, when I saw the little fawn squeeze itself through the space between the fence post and the back gate. It popped out into the woods like a little cork and scampered off into the dusk.
All night I hoped mother and fawn were reunited somehow in the wooded creek flood plain and that the little guy would not wind up being an hors d’oeuvre for the coyotes. We think mother and fawn found each other though as we’ve seen a big gray doe with her baby since. We hope it was
our baby!
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TMI, folks. TMI! Too much information! I am suffering from information fatigue. The magnitude of all that detail is impossible to process efficiently and every so often I flip out about it. There are too many e-mails, too many phone calls, and too much snail mail. I am picking and choosing to a much narrower degree than before and pitching out quite a lot quickly. It is into these already crowded avenues of communication that the politicians are gearing up to rain yet even more information upon us, probably on a daily basis. It’ll all get a fast trip to the trash at my house!
I wish the newspapers, television and radio would handle all the political campaigns in a reportorial fashion that would truly educate the electorate, not just the obscenely expensive and biased sound bites they sell for ads that we get now. Hopefully that would take this ubiquitous political fundraising out of the picture as politicians claim they need
hundreds of millions of dollars to reach the voters with their “important” messages. They inundate us with multiple requests to stoke their ad campaigns. This is garbage, my friends, literally and figuratively! All those non-tax-deductible dollars could be put to such better use, such as improving our schools and hospitals, for a start. Let the news media deliver the information to us where and when we are free to look or listen to it… or not. Reign in this horrid political fundraising and stop wasting all that paper! And please stop those dialer calls, which are annoying to the extreme. Political fundraising has crossed over into the realm of the downright ridiculous. Why do we stand for it anyway?
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Hope all is well and thanks for reading.
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