Last week, between the newsroom's e-mail server going down for a couple of days, and getting a new computer for my desk, I haven't been able to keep up with my blogs.
But I'm baaaccckk!
The first thing is, if you haven't seen "Moonlight and Magnolias," I strongly suggest you go. Especially if you're a "Gone With the Wind" fan. And even if you are not.
The comedy is about the making of the epic movie. Set in 1939, producer David O. Selznick has shut down production on the movie because he disn't like the script. He even fired the director, George Cukor.
But he has a plan. Selznick hires Ben Hecht, who is known as a script doctor, as well as a fine screenwriter, to fix the script. He then hires Victor Fleming, who just finished "The Wizard of Oz" to direct this movie.
Selznick confines them in his office for five days, where they live on bananas and peanuts and manage to finish the script. Selznick thinks bananas and peanuts are "brain" food.
The acting is very, very good -- Springer Opera House's artistic director Paul Pierce as Fleming; Jens Rasmussen as Selznick, Jeff Holbrook as Hecht and Jenafer "Jo" Lester as the long-suffering secretary, Miss Poppenghul.
And if the acting is wonderful, then the director gets some credit, right? Lisa Cesnik is a genius.
The show is hilarious. I got to see it with my friends Oz and V.J. Roberts last Tuesday. Aflac bought out the house for its Employee Appreciation Week. Oz, of course, is an Aflac employee, and helps put EAW together every year.
You have three more chances to see the comedy before it closes. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday at the Springer Opera House, 103 10th St.
Tickets are $8-$35. Call the box office at 706-327-3688.
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