The Woodinville Community Band DVDs for the Fall 2009 presentation of “The Story Tellers” came out this week. Thanks goes to Jeff Keith who does a stellar job of creating, editing, and tweaking the final product. Leah MacDuffie is our director and we luv her to bits. Sometimes I wonder how a community band could ever have a director as good as this one.

We had a lot of work with this concert and I think this was the easiest number on the program. I try to put some more video up as time allows as right now Suzy and I are off to lunch and then to the Issaquah Village Theater to see their production of Neil Simon’s “Lost in Yonkers”.

The winner of four Tony Awards, including Best Play, and the Pulitzer Prize, Lost in Yonkers is a remarkable coming of age story. Two young brothers are forced to enter a dysfunctional household consisting of their formidable grandmother, their dim-witted aunt, and their Uncle Louie, a small-time thug. As comical as it is poignant, this Neil Simon masterwork is an examination of lives in an oppressive household, with a dramatic climax that is certain to leave us spellbound. Or so the literature goes…