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Tech week begins for Disney’s Beauty & the Beast!
Posted by: | CommentsThe final preparations begin tonight for the Musical Theater of Orange County’s production of Disney’s Beauty & the Beast at the beautiful Nechita Center for the Performing Arts, in Orange, California. Opening night is Friday, July 23rd, but tonight is the beginning of “Tech Week” as the MTOC “Crew Monkeys” (of which I am a proud volunteer member) begin to ‘load in’ and assemble the massive production set that we’ve been building for the past few months.
My son, Michael Burrell, a sophomore at Orange Lutheran High School and veteran of numerous musical theater productions, is cast in the role of Lumiere. This is a role he has played once before garnering outstanding reviews. I can’t wait to see his performance with the MTOC.
This is will be a great show with a talented cast and a wonderful family experience for those who attend. We have several participants from the ‘Disney family’ included as directors, technical production crew and current and former cast members to bring the “Disney Magic” to our production.
This is the full-length musical theater production of Disney’s Beauty & the Beast as presented on Broadway, not an abbreviated version that may have been seen at the Disneyland Theme parks. If you are in the greater Orange County area for the next two weeks, you should add this event to your schedule. It will be an enjoyable evening or afternoon (matinees on Sunday!) for those who enjoy the wonder of live theater!
I’ll be posting some photos along the way to show how we’re doing. Anyway, that’s all for now and I’m off to the theater!
Google experiment ends – changes name back from Topeka
Posted by: | CommentsAs you know I posted yesterday about the Google name change to Topeka. Apparently, they had second thoughts (customer complaints? sobered up?) and changed their name back to Google today.
Actually (as you should know by now) it was an April Fool’s Day joke. And it got a lot of ‘buzz’ as you might expect. Google changed their logo from “Google” to “Topeka” and linked it to a complete (bogus and humorous) story about the reason for the change.
This isn’t the first time that the search engine giant has pulled such a prank on it’s visitors. In fact, PC World has a nice article on “Google’s 5 Funniest April Fools’ Jokes” which should check out.
We’re glad to see Google has come back to their senses and when you visit Google, you’ll realize that – like Dorothy and Toto – “you’re not in Kansas anymore.” 
Google changes name to Topeka
Posted by: | CommentsHave you “Topeka’d” yourself lately?
In a move that shocked the online world, it was announced today that the top online search engine, Google, has changed it’s name to Topeka.
The story reported today on the official Topeka (formerly Google) blog states:
A different kind of company name
4/01/2010 12:01:00 AMEarly last month the mayor of Topeka, Kansas stunned the world by announcing that his city was changing its name to Google. We’ve been wondering ever since how best to honor that moving gesture. Today we are pleased to announce that as of 1AM (Central Daylight Time) April 1st, Google has officially changed our name to Topeka. We didn’t reach this decision lightly; after all, we had a fair amount of brand equity tied up in our old name. But the more we surfed around (the former) Topeka’s municipal website, the more kinship we felt with this fine city at the edge of the Great Plains.
The report also includes tips on the proper use of the Topeka site:
For the FULL STORY visit the Official Google Blog.
This is really a game changer and worth the read.
Make sure you read it today because I have a feeling that the if not successful, they might change their name back to Google on April 2.
Your thoughts and comments always welcomed.
Next WordPress Website Workshop starts soon
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Back by popular demand, I’ll be starting another WordPress Website Workshop in February. You’ll build a custom WordPress blog site from a professional theme which is included in your tuition. For more details and to sign up, click here.
