Ruthie Ann Miles Instagram – Part Nine.
And Peanut Butter Co! Remember the massive amounts of PBC we’d receive bc the owner loved our show? I mean boxes and boxes, hundreds of bottles over the months.
Oh man, every year Craig and MuTTT made us the coolest shirts, Team Sound. Craig said he had to photoshop Imelda&my faces together? And then impose it…something about copyright? I dunno, so cool.
Abby was nonplussed about my face in the subway. But she was SO excited when Uncle Jose or Uncle Conrad’s faces were on mailers.
You know, I was actually auditioning for Estrella! Even thru the dance calls I was in for Estrella. But they asked me to learn Imelda’s WholeMan (as a monologue!) & one of her songs. In the hallway, 20 minutes or whenever I was ready.
DB said he’d envisioned HLL being a concert & not necessarily to be sung 8x/week. (He laughed about it but) Conrad & I looked at each other like, ‘oh, that’s why.’ Ninoy sang for the high heavens & Imelda was in something like 20 songs. I suppose I should count again. Nearly every song.
Oskar Eustis is a brilliant dramaturge.
He saw things we didn’t see.
He came upstairs often. Always so encouraging and empowering. Cutting & adding things left & right. It didn’t make sense to me but we were always better off for it. The sculpture of HLL as we know it is largely due to Oskar’s eye.
Years later, Jose & I were running thru an airport, one departing, one arriving, and ran to each other from opposite directions. We were on the phone as we ran to find each other. We finally found each other. Collided….. in front of Gate37. I kid you not.
Unrelated: Karaoke is not a Filipino invention. It’s Japanese, and it means “without-orchestra”: Kara-Oche. But it served, so maybe it’s not important. | Posted on 27/Nov/2023 14:20:05
