Your "Good News, Bad News" Quizo Update

Okay, the goddamned "f" key on my keyboard here at work isn't functioning properly - you really have to stab at it quite forcefully to make it work - so if it occasionally gets dropped please bear with me. Also bear with me while I try to compose an e-mail while avoiding the letter "f."

Are we all glad to be back? After a terribly long break for the holidays - which a quick OCD glance at my calendar reveals we'll have again this year - we are back in the Quizo swing of things tonight. And, in the spirit of the soon-ending holiday season, my gift to you is this: there is only one "clue" in this e-mail, and it's pretty simple. So don't wrack your brains. Enjoy.

Last night I was watching the Eagles at my friend Mike's house, and we are (literally, all of us) sitting on the edge of the couch as the Eagles line up a field goal with three seconds to go. After Eli Manning basically stopped being Eli Manning in the fourth quarter ( i.e. started regularly throwing the ball to his own team) and the New York Football Giants had clawed their way back into a game they had no right being in in the first place, it had come down to this.

My thought process while David Akers and Koy Detmer line up the kick:

"Well... if they win, that's a win in a playoff game. But if they win that also means that there will be a game during my show next Saturday night. A loss wouldn't be so bad. I'd get a good house on Saturday night. But I'd feel bad about it because the Eagles had to lose to get it. And no one wants to lose playoff games. And oh, god, on a field goal at the end. What if what happened last night happens here? Koy's better than that punk-ass in Dallas, no worries there. No blown snap here, no sir, not our Koy. I want the Eagles to win, but I want people to see the show on Saturday night..."

Then the kick went up and split the uprights, and my thought process became this:

"YEAH! Fuck. OH YEAH! Fuuuuuuuuuck . YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAHHHHH! Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!"

I was terribly conflicted about this whole thing until I realized that I know someone who lives quite literally around the corner from the theatre, so at worst I will miss the very beginning of the game (when the show starts) and a little bit near halftime (when I have to open the doors after the show ends.) So I still get to see the game, and my thinking is that there probably isn't TOO much overlap between the Eagles and Ancient Greek Drama fanbases, so I should still get a decent house for the show.

By the way, Chrissy, I'll be watching the Eagles game at your house on Saturday night.

Oh, and by now this should go without saying: Medea, opening THIS WEDNESDAY! at the Second Stage at the Adrienne, 2030 Sansom Street, tickets $20. How to get tickets, you ask? There are two ways. The first is by calling the box office at 215-563-4330 and leaving a message. The second is by going to our website, at:

http://www.prosfromdovertheatre.com

I strongly recommend the website. The voicemail fills up very quickly and, frankly, I'm just too goddamned lazy to check it that often. Surely we all know this by now.

Plus it's got hot chicks with knives, what else do you want from the theatre?

(Please don't ask what she does with the knives.)

JLK