Planning a Reading
by Michael B. Druxman on 02/15/14
February 17, 2014
Wife Sandy spent a couple of days in Los Angeles this past week, so that she could attend her brother's funeral. She left Tuesday and was back on Thursday.
While she was gone, I started working on updating my Dinah Shore manuscript. There's not a lot to do with this one and, assuming I don't get distracted with another project, I should have it ready to ship to the publisher in a month or so. Truthfully, I'm not sure how much interest there still is about Miss Shore, but since the manuscript was already 90% finished, I see no reason not to put it out for the public to decide.
Next Saturday (22), I'm hoping to have a reading of my new stage play at my home. An actress friend of mine is asking two of her actor friends to join her for the reading. It's important for a playwright to hear what his words sound like, so that he can make any adjustments before he sends the work out into the world.
The play is entitled B MOVIE, and it deals with the Franchot Tone-Barbara Payton-Tom Neal affair, which was the most sordid and notorious Hollywood scandal of the early 1950s. If you've read my most recent memoir, LIFE, LIBERTY & THE PURSUIT OF HOLLYWOOD, you know that, shortly after I moved to Los Angeles, I lived in the same apartment building as Ms. Payton.
I will let you know how the reading goes, but if it goes well, the play should be available in both paperback and Kindle editions sometime in March.
You have a creative week,
Michael
