It turns out that the director from Little Shop will not be directing Noises Off! after all. Add to that, the new director has decided to do the show in dialect (British dialect, that is), and I ended up getting cast as the female lead!! This is a first for me. I will be following such greats as Patricia Routledge, Patti LuPone and Carol Burnett in the role of Dotty Otley. I know about half the cast, and they’re all really good actors, but I’ve never heard them do an English accent. First read-through is tomorrow. Really looking forward to it.
Just finished my first audiobook for a new publishing company called Iambik. The book was No Lease on Life by Lynne Tillman. All I had when I made my decision was what you can find on the amazon page, the first few pages and the publisher’s summary. It did sound interesting, so I went for it, though it would have been nice to have the whole book to glance through beforehand.
Still working on Sense and Sensibility for LibriVox. I’m about a third of the way through. And I’m about halfway through Edith Stein and Companions: On the Way to Auschwitz for Ignatius. I intend to get a fair bit more done on it today, as I have the day off.
I’m a bit more than halfway through my next knitting project (Celestine Sox). It’s a twelve-pointed ball. You start with a single point and then, on each successive one, you pick up stitches on the adjoining points, so there’s no seaming! Yay! The amount of seaming involved is why I’ve not done anymore stuffed toys since Toby. It’s also a single skein project, which makes my pocketbook happy.
Nichelle
Congratulations Karen!! I love Noises Off – I’m sure it will be a great show! Sorry we didn’t get to see you while we were in town for Labor Day 🙁
Bob Carver
Karen, Sounds great! Be sure to let us know when the performances will be … might drive up from Austin to attend.
Christine March
HI, Karen! I find your recording through Librivox, and I just wish to write to you to express thanks to the work you have done! Your reading is great, and as a girl from China I listened your ” A Little Princess ” every night before going to sleep here! So your voice has acrossed the Pacific 😉
grdewhurst
Ms. Savage, although you may receive comments like this all the time, as in the case of the comment above, I just wanted to say that I’ve been listening to your Pimpernel and Austen books from Librivox and am enjoying them immensely as I’ve always loved the books and now have a job which allows me to listen to them while I work.
So thanks for doing it and good job.
Dede
I am looking forward to your reading of Sense and Sensibility. I never can decide which Austen novel is my favorite. Whichever one I am currently reading, I guess. Thank you so much for all the time you donate to Libravox! Your fine work is much appreciated.