Holmes

Heredity is a bus, in which all our ancestors ride, and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us.

Oliver Wendall Holmes, Jr.

1841 - 1935

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Dane Allred stand-up -- South America at the Social

Sonnet 1 by William Shakespeare

Sonnet I

FROM fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light'st flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content
And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding.
Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.

Dents in the Van from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Dane Allred

Brain Torture 2

Brain Torture 1

Monday night -- FREE "A Christmas Carol" one-man show at the Provo Library Ballroom -- 7pm

A Christmas Carol clip -- one of my favorite parts

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One guy, all the characters, and you can sing along!!

Hope you can join us on Monday, December 11th at the Provo Library in the Ballroom at 7 PM.

I'll be performing from the same script Charles Dickens used when he did his one-man "A Christmas Carol, and the audience can sing along between the parts.  He call them staves (it is called a carol), and when he took a copy of "A Christmas Carol" edited it to be about an hour long.  He added some fun notes to himself on the pages.  I've included a screen shot of one of my favorites from the original prompt book at the New York Public Library.

I've also included a short clip of one of my favorite parts!! I've also attached the nice poster the Provo Library created for the evening. Performing this one-man show with more than 20 voices always gets me into the Christmas spirit.

The best news -- Scrooge would hate this -- it's FREE!!

Join Sue Smith on the piano and Debbie Allred leading the audience in singing a few Christmas carols.  If I don't get to see you Monday, please have a great Christmas and a Happy New Year...

and as Tiny Tim says, "God Bless Us Everyone!"

Dane Allred