Don't you love it when you are hanging on by a thin thread, at the end of your rope, lips barely above water and you are safely caught or thrown a life preserver? Actually, while that is how I have felt for quite a while now - my pillow and blanket sitting beside my oven just waiting for me to crawl in, the past few days have been considerably better so I was already beginning to get some color back in my cheeks when, today, I get the best news I have gotten in recent memory...There is a non-profit, professional (equity contracted) theatre company called ArtsPower that chooses several children's books a year, creates entire musical productions around them and tours the USA and Canada, performing for huge numbers of elementary schools that attend the shows as field trips.
And, yes - by now you've probably guessed it, they chose my book Ordinary Mary's Extraordinary Deed to base a musical on that will tour nationwide! How totally and completely incredible is that??? For now that's all I know - more details will come as I get them.
Ordinary Mary: The Musical.
Holy shit!
4 comments:
Holy shit is RIGHT!!!! Wow! I'm doing the 'You Rock,
Emily' Dance! There is greatness in the stars for you. I've always known that. Hold on tight, baby. Here you go!
Three questions. Looking at the ArtsPower website, it looks like they have their 2008/09 season scheduled. So will your book will be part of their 2009/10 line-up? Also, I'm hoping that this group's 'non-profit' status doesn't mean 'no profit' for you. And... do you have plans to write more children's books- perhaps using Extraordinary Mary as an ongoing character in future stories?
Yes, indeed...HOLY! and SHIT! This is wonderfully holy. Magic is afoot for Emily. And shit? Well, yes, it means life as you know it is about to change. I say yayy! Holy shit, indeed. You deserve this and much much more. Your'e the best! Your ever adoring fan. Yep, it's me...
Congratulations! That IS extraordinary! And well deserved.
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