Dear Friends (friend?)
Here's the long-awaited update on "Mixed Nuts". Have a taste of the script that gives some idea of the pith.
(Enter Dr. Darcy, whistling or humming “If I only had a Brain” which the musicians pick up.)

Mixed Nuts - Theme
I tell people who ask that Mixed Nuts is a screw-ball musical comedy about six inmates who escape from the custody of the Vermont State Hospital in order to make Vermont an Independent Republic. That is the kind of answer that one must give because people need to know the genre, the plot and the motivation of the main characters before anything else. In these terms, yes, that is what the play is about, which is like saying that Pygmalion is about a linguist who teaches a girl to speak standard English.

Looks like "Mixed Nuts" has a music director - perhaps the best guitarist in VT - Doug Perkins.
On the banking front - looks like the candidates are getting a bit bolder re a state bank. And Ellen Brown (Web of Debt) is getting a kick out of it.
Abe Collins is having some success. He's out west convincing them what he can't convince anyone in VT - that rapidly building rich, organic soil is a good idea.
I'll be at St Mikes for auditions on Saturday. Call me if you want to help in any department.
Jim

Mixed Nuts, a screw-ball musical comedy by Jim Hogue, will be performed at the Unadilla Theatre from August 24 - 31 (and later at the Vergennes Opera House).
The play is about 6 inmates from the Vermont State Hospital who escape to make Vermont an independent Republic.
Mixed Nuts is music from the 20s and 30s, and a cast of independence-minded eccentrics from the Vermont State Hospital who have prepared a vaudeville review on the History of Vermont directed by Dr. Elizabeth Darcy. The bizarre crew of entertainers is lead by a re-incarnated, unpredictable, and loveable Ethan Allen.

Mixed Nuts, a screw-ball musical comedy by Jim Hogue, will be performed at the Unadilla Theatre from August 24 - 31 (and later at the Vergennes Opera House).

The play is about 6 inmates from the Vermont State Hospital who escape to make Vermont an independent Republic.

Mixed Nuts is music from the 20s and 30s, and a cast of independence-minded eccentrics from the Vermont State Hospital who have prepared a vaudeville review on the History of Vermont directed by Dr. Elizabeth Darcy. The bizarre crew of entertainers is lead by a re-incarnated, unpredictable, and loveable Ethan Allen.

Maybe it is something in the water (or oil?), but American imperial pop culture suddenly seems to have taken over by some strange apocalyptic vision. Novels like M.T. Anderson’s Feed and James Howard Kunstler’s World Made By Hand; television shows like CBS’ “Jericho,” ABC’s “Lost,” and Fox’s “24;” and recent films like The Road, based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by the deeply bleak but strangely compelling writer Cormac McCarthy all construct stories of a civilization teetering on the brink, or already engulfed in flames.

More than 160 Vermonters threw down $50 per ticket Monday night to join hometown heroine Grace Potter at the Big Picture Theater in a musical benefit for the people of earthquake-ravaged Haiti. The Eames Brothers warmed up the lively audience with an hour of upbeat roots-y blues, accompanied by Nocturnals drummer Matt (a.k.a. Cado) Burr, before Grace took the stage at 9:30 in a rare solo (and I use the term loosely) performance for the standing-room-only crowd.

Maybe it is something in the water (or oil?), but American imperial pop culture suddenly seems to have taken over by some strange apocalyptic vision. Novels like M.T. Anderson’s Feed and James Howard Kunstler’s World Made By Hand; television shows like CBS’ “Jericho,” ABC’s “Lost,” and Fox’s “24;” and recent films like The Road, based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by the deeply bleak but strangely compelling writer Cormac McCarthy all construct stories of a civilization teetering on the brink, or already engulfed in flames.

In The Prince, Machiavelli (May 1469 -  June 1527) wrote:

"The mercenaries and auxiliaries are useless and dangerous, and if anyone supports his state by the arms of mercenaries, he will never stand firm or sure, as they are disunited, ambitious, without discipline, faithless, bold amongst friends, cowardly amongst enemies, they have no fear of God, and keep no faith with men."

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