Opening night!!!!

Day three. Opening night in New York! Holy moly! We did it! Had a full house, a couple of reviewers (we'll see what they have to say tomorrow), some family and friends and even an audience member who was there simply because he loves puppets so much.

Those butterflies in my stomach had grown to prehistoric proportions (with about 9 foot wingspans) by the time the house opened and it was all I could do to greet our audience and hand them their programs. I was a flipping WRECK. The work had been done, the rehearsals were over, the preview was history and now we were in New bleeping York! Could I trust my actors and their puppet pals to do it right? ABSOLUTELY! They ROCKED!!!!!!! I really don't think we could have asked for a better opening night. It was a great place to start, and I expect that each performance will get progressively tighter and better.

After the show, President and Mrs. Bush were seen having a quiet celebratory dinner at East Cuisine in Brooklyn. Cheney and Rumsfeld stayed in the Village where they could enjoy the night life with their cronies Julie Myers, George Deutsch, Phillip Cooney and Claude Allen. Condi went back to her hotel where she visited the spa, then she practiced the piano for an hour before turning in for an early bedtime.

The puppets and their human friends are looking forward to another great show tomorrow night and participating in the filming of the documentary commemorating the 10th anniversary of the International Fringe Festival.