My pizza can beat up your pizza.
And other fun Friday stuff.
So the big news is tonight is the first paid preview for the Off-Broadway production of CLOWNS LIKE ME.
Ho. Lee. Crap.
We’ve been busting our behinds all week in tech rehearsals, and boy howdy are we ready to have people in the house.
I’ve been able to slide into a bit of a New York routine. Running all over the city in the morning (over bridges and along rivers and even stumbled across the building they used for the exterior shots of the apartments from TV’s Friends!). Long talks with my beloved Rebecca back in Sarasota. Rehearsals. Rinse and repeat.
But also I’ve been sneaking in time on the Page&Stage podcast, as well as giving my personal website, JasonCannon.art, a way overdue facelift. It’s still under construction, but you’re all invited to check it out. Think of it as the “soft opening.” :)
You’ll see there’s a fancy new BLOG over there at Jason Cannon dot art. And this is the key offering I want to make to you today. This Page&Stage newsletter will continue on Fridays, and it’ll include all the fun quick hits: news, updates, recommendations, tips. But the long form stuff I’ve occasionally included? The deep-dive reflections? Well, those are now gonna live over at the blog, dropping each Wednesday. Just like this newsletter and the podcast, it’s totally free, and I’ll always provide a link to it here in this newsletter.
Like this: My pizza can beat up your pizza.
Hey. I’m in New York. Of course I wrote a blog about pizza.
Guess what? I’m not just a podcast host. I am also a podcast guest. Check it out, I’m the guest on the Leveraging Leadership podcast with Emily Sander, who—podswap alert!—is the guest on next Monday’s Page&Stage podcast!
Emily is a former Chief of Staff who is now a leadership coach extraordinaire. She may reside in the business world, but she’s got awesome stuff to say about storytelling, managing people, investing in relationships, and daily improvement. And she digs in with me on how to bring story and artistry into the business world.
Multiple listening options HERE.
Was blessed to chat with Broadway’s own Tony Award-winning Chuck Cooper yesterday. Was asking him about how he got into theatre, his ups and downs, his discoveries and beliefs. He shared how ancestral energies supported his calling into the theatre. He mentioned that before he ended up appearing in 17 Broadway shows he had to couch-surf and even live in his car for a spell. He talked about the constant struggle of the theatre artist to balance emotional fulfillment with paying bills.
And in that particular vein, he shared a Benjamin Franklin-worthy truth-nugget:
If you can’t make two ends meet… make one end vegetables.
Sage, homonym-based advice.
Finally, if you are in/around New York, come check out CLOWNS LIKE ME! And if you are too far away to attend, send us all wishes for broken legs, rave reviews, full houses, and—most importantly—lives impacted by Scottie’s courage and vulnerability in telling his story.
Jason “I Run So I Can Eat Pizza” Cannon