The blog lives!

 

Here I am friends, back again after a long hiatus.

Well what’s happened since I last wrote… we opened the show! And even though I saw From Up Here 22 times in a row during the first two weeks of April, I’m always surprised and delighted by it again.

 

But I am not the star of this blog entry, in fact far from it, my friends.

The star of this blog entry is Lulu. And who is Lulu you ask?

 

Lulu is Julie White’s dog.

 

I am not a dog person. I am not a cat person. I don’t have a fondness for snakes. I can identify with one of my favorite From Up Here lines, “I don’t even like animals.” I don’t really. I have nothing against them, I don’t hit them with my car, but I just don’t like them. Ironically, real life dog lover Julie White’s character ‘Grace’ is the one who says “I don’t even like animals.”

 

But the strange thing about having a heart of stone is that every once in a while someone comes along and melts it just a little bit. What I’m saying is, some animals are amazing, even to me (Not, however, an old cat named Sea Legs who attacked me when I was four, and not another cat named Killer who resented me for sub-letting his owners’ apartment one summer in Philadelphia, and who did everything he could to make sure I knew who’s apartment it really was. It was Killer’s apartment.).

 

Lulu is like a bouncing puff ball of joy. Throughout rehearsal Julie would make a running joke about all the ways she was trying to get Lulu into the show. Every time a piece of prop food would accidentally land on the stage, Julie would exclaim excitedly “Oh! This is a perfect job for Lulu! She could pop onstage, eat up the fallen lasagna, and run off. Can we put her in the show?” Once I met the dog, I wondered if we should put her in the show.

 

So what I have for you here is an all-star picture. Update your Facebook profiles, friends. Here is a shot of Julie White with her fabulous canine friend.