Fun in the Park

Pete's last show of the season, String of Pearls, opens tonight. Although he took his camera to rehearsal the other night, he forgot to take some pictures, we'll try to get some next week. In the mean time, Pete's parents and our nephews Dominic and Brenden and Niece Madi are here for the weekend. We headed to the park and played in the sand and on the jungle gym. The puppies came with us and right now THEY are crashed, the kids are still going strong, but they're going ice skating tonight while Pete's parents go to my show. I'm assuming all three kids AND Pete will be asleep when we get home!

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill

Kathi's last play of the season opens tonight at the Rep. Lady Day is a play about Billie Holiday. It takes place about 4 months before her death at one of her final concerts at a small bar in Philly. She tells storys of her life and career. Regina Marie Williams plays Billie and she's pretty amazing. Will Knowles (who was the piano man in the Duke Ellington musical that I did last spring) is back tickling the ivories. It's a great play, sad with adult themes and language, but a great play. Susannah Barnes who is a painter at the Rep designed the set and she did an amazing job of making the set blend right in to the Cabaret space - we have already had people ask why we don't use the back wall of the Cabaret more often!! Pete's last show of the season (String of Pearls) opens next weekend and then it's all downhill to summer vacation!

Happy St. Patty's Day

We spent a relaxing St. Patrick's day watching game shows and then took the pups to the dog park. It's been cold here in Milwaukee but it was sunny and we thought it would be a nice day. What we didn't count on was that half the dog park would be under water!! The little creek that runs through the west side had risen to the level of the rest of the park, so it was just under water. And MUDDY!!! Our little mud puppies both had to have a bath when we got home. Mojo is no stranger to the tub, but Puju is usually a little bit over the top in the grooming zone, so has never had to have a bath since we have had her. She was not a happy camper! And looked like a drowned rat by the time we got done. Both kids are curled up and crashed out right now. So Mission accomplished! On a side note, check out the new link to Pete's new flicker site where he will be up loading his photography. There's not that much there yet, but we'll get plenty of pictures there soon. Enjoy!

Second Prize!

It's good to be home from the tour!

Thursday, the Rep had it's now annual Chili Cook-off to raise money for the United Performing Arts Fund. It's a really fun event at the Rep, anyone on staff can enter and then for $5 you get a bowl, spoon and you can be a 'judge'. Last year, I didn't even place, but this year with a new recipe I took second place!!

The new recipe is for a Black Chili -
2 pounds of black angus beef, fried with roasted garlic and lots of black pepper
4 cans of black beans that had been soaked/tossed in lime juice and garlic powder
2 cans of diced tomatos with green chilies
1 12 oz. bottle dark beer
1 46 oz. bottle hot and spicy V-8 juice.

Serve with sour cream and blue corn tortilla chips.

I was in rehearsal, so Pete served at the event and we took second place!

The prize was two tickets to the Milwaukee Symphony. Because of my schedule the only concert we could go to was Saturday night, so we saw a Mother Goose suite (sweet), a violin concerto by John Adams (I didn't really like it, but Pete did and the violinist was wonderful) and finally - Beethoven's 7th Symphony which was fantastic.

It's good to be back in Milwaukee!