We got up early and jumped on the bus for a trip to San Francisco’s special screening of RETURN TO GREENDALE, our just completed live performance film of Greendale from 2003. All the folks from the Bay Area who we could find were there, Larry Cragg (GRANDPA, guitar and amp tech), Mazzeo (EARL GREEN, art and set design), The Mountainettes – Sue Hall, Nancy Hall, Twink Brewer, (PORCH LADIES) Tim and Erin Foster, (CHIEF OF POLICE and ANNE) Eric Markgard, (EARTH BROWN), Betsy Lewis, (GALLERY OPENING ART PATRON), Twink Brewer (GRANDMA), Nancy Hall (THE WIDOW) and about 50 more people (including THE IMITATORS!) who were either in the cast or worked on the production.
It was an amazing experience to all be there together again!
We had already screened once in LA for cast members Eric Johnson (Jed Green, the Devil), and we will be having more special screenings to celebrate the completion of this project. Then RETURN TO GREENDALE will be released for everyone to see.
Some of the folks in the play were no longer with us, but they were still right there in RETURN TO GREENDALE! Pegi Young (EDITH GREEN. PORCH LADY), Ben Keith (GRANDPA), Lou Grappe, (THE ARTIST), Larry Johnson, (CHIEF OF POLICE, camera operator, producer). I think the film of our stage production played extremely well and all the folks there loved it! Of course, we were all in it!!
Sarah White, (SUN GREEN) could not be located to invite. BILLY TALBOT (CRAZY HORSE), and his wife Karin (ANNE’S FRIEND) were in attendance. CRAZY HORSE played the RETURN TO GREENDALE beat that we all rode on for an over an hour and a half! That awesome performance by the band will soon (2020) be a REPRISE Record!
Sun Green and Greta Thunberg seemed to meet in RETURN TO GREENDALE each one resonating in today’s world, our world.
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