“All I know about Mary is that she pondered in her heart and she wore a blue sheet!”⁣

“All I know about Mary is that she pondered in her heart and she wore a blue sheet!”⁣⁣Thinking back to this exasperated line in one of the Church Basement Ladies musicals, “Away in the Basement.” The young girl destined to play Mary in the Christmas Pageant was frustrated that there was not more information available […]

Who will tell the story of your life?

Who will tell the story of your life? That’s the theme of a musical I performed over the last month at a theatre in Missouri. It’s the seventh in a series of musicals about the “Church Basement Ladies,” which I have been performing at various theaters for over ten years.⁣⁣This one is framed as a […]

Onward with our “Would-Have-Beens.”

Ah, that “would have been” life. This would have been the opening night of my next (9th? 10th?) production of “Church Basement Ladies.” ⁣⁣We all have a few “would have beens” right now. What are yours? ⁣⁣Celebrate them. Mourn them. Maybe recreate a part of them. Perhaps I’ll fling a few peanuts through the air […]

Consider why you were born.

“The two most important days in your life are the day you were born, and the day you find out why.”⁣⁣That quote was near the end of the production of “Church Basement Ladies” that we closed yesterday. It’s the sixth in the series, so regular audience members definitely know the characters, and enjoy seeing them […]