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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lake County Theatre Co. has rescheduled shows of its latest production, “Chicago,” which had to be canceled due to this past week’s power shutoffs.
The power outage that began Oct. 26 meant that the cast of “Chicago” had to cancel two performances, a huge disappointment after rehearsing four nights a week for months.
This joint production of Lake County Theatre Co. and Mendocino College Lake Center is the latest of a string of Broadway musicals performed each fall in Lakeport at the Soper Reese Theatre.
The show opened last Friday, Oct. 25, to a large crowd of enthusiastic audience members.
Then the county went dark and the Saturday and Sunday shows weren’t possible. Several hundred people had already purchased tickets.
The Sunday matinee was rescheduled for this Saturday, Nov. 2, but last Saturday night’s ticket holders will have to choose from the remaining shows over the next two weekends.
LCTC wants to make sure that the audience sees the best performance possible, so once again they gathered in the cold and dark to run the show outside in a cast member’s carport.
Jeff Pearce, who plays Billy Flynn, did say he would take a hot shower over a rehearsal, but he also was willing to perform by candlelight.
Other cast members bundled up warmly. One wore her giraffe pajamas over her clothes. Not a line or step was missed.
This weekend there will be four shows. Friday and Saturday there are shows at 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday there are matinees at 2 p.m.
There are three shows the following weekend, Nov. 8 to 10.
Tickets are available at the Soper Reese, 707-263-0577, or at www.laketheatre.org.
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Here's a poem by Holly J. Hughes, who lives and writes in Washington state, about finding joy in what's before us.
I found it in “Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems,” published by Grayson Books of West Hartford, CT. Ms. Hughes' most recent book of poetry is Hold Fast, (Empty Bowl Press, 2019).
Mind Wanting More
Only a beige slat of sun
above the horizon, like a shade
pulled not quite down. Otherwise,
clouds. Sea rippled here and
there. Birds reluctant to fly.
The mind wants a shaft of sun to
stir the grey porridge of clouds,
an osprey to stitch sea to sky
with its barred wings, some dramatic
music: a symphony, perhaps
a Chinese gong.
But the mind always
wants more than it has—
one more bright day of sun,
one more clear night in bed
with the moon; one more hour
to get the words right; one
more chance for the heart in hiding
to emerge from its thicket
in dried grasses—as if this quiet day
with its tentative light weren't enough,
as if joy weren't strewn all around.
American Life in Poetry does not accept unsolicited manuscripts. It is made possible by The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2004 by Holly J. Hughes, "Mind Wanting More," from Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems, (Grayson Books, 2017). Poem reprinted by permission of Holly J. Hughes and the publisher. Introduction copyright @2019 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.
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