a leaf and an olive sit in on a bee...

Believe it or not, those are two names of contestants in "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee". 

Leaf Coneybear is the lad wearing the skateboarder's helmet, and a nice cape.

Olive "I love" Ostrovsky is the young lass with the glasses and flower headband.

Together, they were chatting up the audience and trying to convince someone to volunteer to some up on stage with them.

Quite entertaining!

The Tybee Performing Arts' late-summer musical is being held at the Tybee Post Theater, no doubt so more folks can see it. 

That's good for me, as I was able to just walk right up and purchase a ticket!

Of course, this was a Thursday, and it's opening night, so not everyone has the freedom of this sixth-year retiree on a warm summer night.

(smile!)

Did I get up on the stage with them, to spell crazy words?

I did not... this time.

That's what I told Henry Dickerson, the one who ran lights for this show, as well as working at the AMC during the afternoon shifts.

That meant we were both pleasantly surprised when we saw each other tonight, as I'd just seen him, and talked to him at length, about the NASA movie earlier today.

How was the musical?

Splendiferous!

I had so wanted to see it when I first heard about it a few years ago.

Was that the same year I saw "Kinky Boots" in Hilton Head?

Quite possibly, as it played at that same theatre.

I'd gladly see this one again, should time permit... though I doubt it will.

Nice to have seen some familiar face gracing the stage - from Savannah Country Day and from Savannah Arts Academy - and I look forward to seeing them in the future!

social security was worth the wait!

I bet you think I'm going to talk about retirement... nope!

This "Social Security" is a play, written by Andrew Bergman, that opened on Broadway back in 1986.

Unfamiliar with his name?

He's the one who gave us "Blazing Saddles"!!!

Ah, yes, that rings a bell, much like Pavlov did!

And, right on cue, there's a laughing dog in the clouds!

That's quite a nice triangle of nose it has, too.

Doesn't it remind you of a canine version of the masks associated with theatre works?

Right place, right time!

That fanciful creature showed up at one end of the building that houses the Jim Ingham Black Box...

and there's a couple of laughers that greeted me heartily at the other end of the Tybee Performing Arts site!

Mary Ann and Bill Cooper, in the flesh, not just on fb!

How wonderful to sit with them tonight and get hugs!

Yes, and to laugh with them, too, at the shenanigans in the play!

Shenanigans a-plenty there were, of the sexual variety, starting with those of a college girl and working on up to her grandmother and even her art-gallery auntie!

Yes, yes, and those of the college girl, so long sheltered by her repressed mom, were described in great detail!!!

Oh, yes, what glorious fun that was!!!

Then it was time for Kim Trammell and Renee DeRossett to exit, stage left, to greet us in person outside in the open air!

I'm so glad they're both hale and hearty again, as they have been so ill that the play was thrice postponed from the first two weeks of April to this last week and the first week of May.

Kudos to them as the Auntie and Grandma, as well as to Gary Shelby (Uncle), Arnie Correa (Dad) and Casey Bessette (Mom), and Larry Adams (Grandma's artist lover), with all roles in regard to the ne'er seen college girl.

Yes, I'll have to refer others to this for a jolly laugh at the antics of humans in the 1980's!