![]() Bonjour à nouveau!! I'm back from five wonderful weeks in France touring with Word for Word Performing Arts Company's production of In Friendship. It was a thrill and honor to spend this time working with the remarkable artists of Word for Word! << Ladies of the Friendship Village Cemetery Improvement Sodality, Friendship, Wisconsin's leading charity organization: (from top left) Delia MacDougall, Susan Harloe, Patricia Silver, Sheila Balter, and Jeri Lynn Cohen. A few favorite moments from Tour de France 2014: -Performing in Paris (!) at a beautiful theatre just steps from the Champs de Mars and Eiffel Tower -Performing in the ancient cities of Nantes, Angers, and Nancy -Connecting with the French lovers of theatre and literature who keep this tour thriving! -Connecting with French lovers. (Kidding! Or am I??) -Sitting with a glass of wine or a café creme, reading and re-reading The Dud Avocado at Le Select -Spending a weekend in a troglodyte home in the countryside outside Angers -Riding bikes through the Loire Valley -Reuniting with friends made during the 2013 tour -Feeling like a badass on the Metro: got this transit thing DOWN by tour #2 -Eating boeuf tartare and moutarde at Le Select -Eating breakfast [un café + une baguette + un croissant; aka, Caffeine + Butter + Bread + Butter + Bread] at Le Select -Making a Kickstarter video at Le Select to raise funds needed for detox from all the food consumed at Le Select -Staying up late in our beautiful Montparnasse apartment and dashing out to the balcony every hour on the hour to watch the Eiffel Tower turn into Disco Eiffel Tower ![]() Opening Night of "You Know When the Men Are Gone," March 2013, outside the Salle Adyar. >>> -Walking the Promenade Plantée and the Petit Ceinture -Patronizing the restaurant of Gerard Depardieu -Following a family of ducks as they swam along the Canal Saint-Martin (very springtime in Paris) -Being poured an old fashioned by a white-gloved, white-haired bartender at a candlelit bar in the 15th -Walking everywhere in the perfect Paris weather -Staying in the 18th century home of the Duke of Lorraine's "Master of the Wolf Hunt" in Nancy. (Yeah, our hosts are pretty cool.) -Participating in the American Library in Paris's reading flash mob under the Eiffel Tower -Riding a very unsafe luge-style roller coaster at a Fun Fair in Nancy with partner in crime Patty -All the wine -All the cheese -All the baguettes A magical trip -- an extraordinary show -- a wonderful spring in Paris!
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