Happy Independence Day!

I haven’t kept this blog up as actively as I’d hoped to (life is gleefully crazy, and in a few days I start directing a Shakespeare play, having not directed at all in more than a decade), but I do have a few tidbits today….
First and most thrilling: the Vineyard’s very own, supremely talented Katie Ann Mayhew has won the first Boston Pops High School Sing-off. She will be singing with the Pops tonight in their televised July 4 concert, in front of an audience of 500,000 people. Go Katie! Listen if you can; she has an extraordinary voice.
For those seeking an update/synopsis on Moby Rich… please suffice it to say for today that we’re on Chapter 7 and the fundamental parallels with Melville’s original are all in place now. I shall attempt a more specific description next week. I shall probably fail at this attempt, but I hope I get brownie points for trying.