that's really cool working on the stage adaption for Lee Smith's Fair and Tender Ladies!!!

I LOVE HER. she's friends with my friend MARSHALL CHAPMAN...i would love to meet her someday....and i want to read ALL her books....IT'S ON LIST!!  : )

talk soon,

cr

Chelle

Discovered this blog comment today when I received one from someone else. Not sure how it slipped by me before. You are right. Lee is an absolutely wonderful person. With Tommy and Karren, we've shared some shows with her where she read and we sang the songs from the play and I did it solo with her once at a book festival in Charlottesville, VA and I tell you, you get the residual love her fans feel for her; it is an outstanding feeling.

The play premiered I think it was '98 and has had  a number of subsequent productions. This June The Alabama Shakespeare Festival is reprising the original cast (and the lead actress, who was part of the developmental program when we were constructing that first production, Greta Lambert, is first-rate star material) and the idea is this whole production moves off-Broadway this Fall. Got all my fingers crossed.  We're trying to promote it all we can. In fact I need to get a package and CD to DVX.

I told Uncle Gram at WUSC about you. I was down there weekend before last for a radio show and house concert. He'd listened to your MySpace songs and was very intrigued. On the way home, I stopped off in Knoxville at The Disc Exchange figuring that was one place I could get your CD. Nope, their computor said you were only way. If you're up for an exchange, I can send you the F&TL CD for yours (can send you other stuff or a couple of bucks as well---hell I'm getting old and I've got boxes of CD's everywhere my small apartment)

Let me know. Love to hear your work.

Tom 

Ryan

What's up, my friend?  Looks like you're getting down there your picture. Mockingbird is on "The Neighborhood is Changing." Waiting out what winter there is down here. Tried to find you on the map. You must be in Chicago somewhere? Trying to put together a show in Carbondale. Got some friends down there. that's miles from you though, I'd imagine.

Take care

Tom