Grease!

Alright. One word can describe why my blogging has been sucky for the past few months, and that word is "Grease." Better said, "'Grease' is the word."


I admit it. For the past 4 months I've been moonlighting in a local community theater production of the musical Grease. Let the gay jokes begin.

Despite all the hell I've been given - and believe me, there's been plenty of it - I've really enjoyed being a part of the community theater machine. Our last theatrical performance was last weekend in a downtown Naples theater. We felt big-time. It was great. And of the 7 shows we had, all but one were sold out, meaning we sold around 1400 tickets at $10 a piece! I thought that was pretty good.

I played "Doody," one of the goofy T-birds in Danny's gang. Our biggest number (well, at least the T-Birds biggest number) was, of course, "Greased Lightnin'."


It was fun while it lasted, but, well, lets just say I'm glad we're done. Since late January we've practiced four weeknights per week and for 4 hours every Saturday. It really began to wear on us in the end. Leaving work at 1730 just to go practice til 1930, then rush to get home to kiss Ella goodnight just wasn't cutting it. It also killed our travel schedule; we've not been anywhere beyond Florence since March...

In the end, the productions were awesome, and so were the people. As you can tell from the pics, the cast and audience were both Italian and American. Our last performance in downtown Naples drew a huge local national crowd, which was particularly fun for us. Who knows whether they understood a word of what we said...

I've always said that being a trial lawyer is little more than being a stage actor, and being a part of Grease only strengthened that belief. Maybe I'll bust into a little "Greased Lightnin'" the next time I'm in front of the jury...

Or not.

- pac
For those of you with nothing to do with your time who might like to peruse about a billion photographs of our performances and rehearsals, click here. If you search hard enough you might even find a few shots of me in one of my patented knee-slide-pelvic-thrust dance moves. The dance for this thing was more than I expected, but I think we did pretty well with it.