Dots, I am going and I have four additional tickets on reserve right now because I have four friends who have expressed an interest in going, too. My hubby will take a half day off and stay here with the kids.

I need to go early to sit through a rehearsal. The authors get to hear a read-through and give any pointers they feel important to the actor who is doing the reading. The actor also gets to ask questions and discuss interpretation, etc.

Then there's a supper break and the curtain goes up at seven.

So my "fan base" isn't going with me but are planning to be there for the show. One, who is a writer/assistant producer for a Harrisburg-based production company isn't sure now if she can get away so I may end up with a spare ticket.

As far as I know, Tickets are still on sale. I don't think it's sold out, or anything. So feel free to "come on up!" Why, that'd certainly be awesome.

If you can't make it I can always send you a copy of the short story (it's only 1,000 words) that they're including in the evening's readings, though it'll be interesting to see it "performed." This one's never been published, though it's taken a second place in a fiction competition out of Florida and a mention in an Australian writing competition.

I wish my playwright sister could come, because she and I have discussed her possibly adapting it into a children's musical, but she will be in Florida at rehearsals for her latest production at the same time mine goes up in Phily. Ah well.
At least the director in Phily said he will record the reading and give me a copy. They record the shows and some wind up selected for public radio broadcasts, in which case the author gets a bit more money and a bit more exposure.