Planning Ahead

I told you back here that the Ahmanson Theater here in Los Angeles was staging a new production of the musical 1776 this summer and gave you a link for cheapo tickets — a link I'd used myself. Many of you also purchased tickets so you've probably received or will receive notices that it and some other plays there are being postponed. Plays are being postponed or canceled outright all over the country.

The management writes here, "We are…in the process of securing a slot for 1776 in the Ahmanson 2021/22 Season, immediately following its Broadway engagement." I'm not sure how they know when its Broadway engagement (or any Broadway engagement of the future) will start or end but that's what they're saying.

Before I did Stu's Show yesterday, I had exactly three things on my calendar for the remainder of 2020: That show, Comic-Con in July and tickets for 1776 in early August. Now I'm down to one and it's iffy. I've maintained a personal calendar ever since the biggest thing on it was "Go to Randy Jacobs' house and play tether ball." I never had absolutely nothing on my calendar before.