Every September Philadelphia has a Fringe Festival. It's a big event for the Theatre community and we always do a show. Last year we remounted some of out favorite sketches. (I hate using the term “Best Of.”)

This year we're doing something different. The first half of the show will be regular sketch (mostly classic sketches, but a few new ones). The second half of the show is us backstage during the first half. Kind of a "Noises Off" kind of thing.

So, tonight we met to start writing the show. We made a list of the sketches we'd like to do and people pitched new ideas for sketches. Then we talked about what we want to have happen in the second half.

Once we have the skeleton I have the utmost confidence in the troupe that we’ll put together a great show. We just don’t have the skeleton yet, so I’m feeling a little uneasy. This is a departure for us and I want it to be great. Sometimes I feel we move too slowly, but we had a hectic year and we needed a vacation. Sometimes it’s hard to come back from vacation.

We did our last show in early June, so it’s been a while since we’ve been together to create. It was nice to be in that mode again. We were cracking each other up tonight. We were also drinking. That’s usually a no-no during rehearsal, but this wasn’t a rehearsal, it was a writing session.

Boy, the people in my troupe like to drink.

A bunch of us went out on Tuesday after a play reading and my friend Lindsay took a photo of John and Kurt doing their best Prison Sex Face. Wonderful, creative Lindsay turned it into a Christmas Card. We all love it. I’m just happy I’m not in the photo.