The Covert Report – Volume 19

A Shout Out To Sandra Bullock

In the hopes that maybe she will read this and then decide that we should be besties for life, I am going to throw all of my Oscar juju towards Ms. Bullock. I am doing this for many reasons:

1) She looks like she may occasionally enjoy a brown water

2) My younger brother is and has been obsessed with her since “Speed”

3) She and Jesse James came and saw “Spamalot” and I got to meet her onstage at the Shubert. She was the MOST down to earth celebrity I have ever met.

4) I am hoping that she will return to the Shubert to see another little show that I am also in and that I will get to meet her again

5) She, in my opinion, gave the best performance in a movie last year. One of my favorite performances I have seen in a long time.

Why do I think that? Well, it’s easy. I like simple acting. She was direct, lovely, simple. Never for a second did you not think that she WAS that character. From the first voice over to the last image, I was with her hook, line and sinker. Could this be the same actress from “Speed” and “Miss Congeniality” (btw…my friend Michael and I are working on a musical adaptation of that movie…wouldn’t that be great?….and by working on, I mean we have discussed it a lot for the last 4 years….)

Don’t get me wrong, I have always enjoyed her, but she just BLEW me away in “The Blind Side”. I am still thinking of the performance, and I am using my forum for my hundreds of thousands of readers to get behind her…(well, my hundreds of readers…well…you get the point. I wonder how many people actually do read this? If you are reading, I am running low on brown water…just sayin’….)

What does all of this have to do with MEMPHIS? Not a damn thing really…it was just another kind of slow wintry week at the Shubert. Well, I guess I could correlate the Academy Awards with some impending things happening soonish in the Broadway world, but that makes me want to head straight to a bottle of the Woodford Reserve. I am not prepared to think about that “award season” yet.

Although, I am very confident in MEMPHIS, but even typing about it makes my tummy hurt!! On to another topic…

Do we have any sports fans out there? Well, Stuart Scott on ESPN was commentating on the Memphis Grizzlies game and actually called MEMPHIS the “sleeper great Broadway” musical and then sang a snippet of “Memphis Lives In Me”!!! It was awesome!!!

Last week did bring another snowstorm…I am REALLY tired of the snow…REALLY tired.

The Final Four are still in tact. These bastards won’t go away. I am starting to ply Charlie with clothing that I don’t want anymore…maybe I should put some itching powder in it…hmmm….Even though the final four are still standing tall, there were lots of understudies on this past weekend. Bryan Fenkart was rocking it out as Huey all weekend long. As always, he did a great job!! Rhett also shook his Big Love as Bobby last week and John got to step into Mr. Simmons shoes on Sunday!! Long running show…long running show…

The bowling teams are chugging along. My team was much improved last week!! Maybe the Pin-tasticals are starting their surge to the top of the pack!!!

On a more somber note. I flew to Florida on my day off in order to attend the funeral services of my friend Muire. Muire was one of my best friends from college, Lynn McNutt’s, neice. For the last 2 plus years she had been battling brain cancer off and on. It finally became too much for her little body to handle. Muire had the most pure spirit I have ever known. Her eyes were as blue as the ocean, and her kindness will not be long forgotten. At only 30 years old, it is hard for me to wrap my brain around a tragedy of this magnitude. She leaves behind a very loving family and a beautiful 3 year old daughter. I want to do something to raise money for Duke Medical Center who treated her for the last two years. Maybe I can organize a fundraiser here at MEMPHIS.

Well, it’s nice to be back home and with my MEMPHIS family. Dysfunctional though we may sometimes be, we have a lot of LOVE at the Shubert!!

Hockadoo!!

-Kevin

Celebrity Sighting of the week – SEVERAL! Bill and Giulianna Rancic, and last night….REBA!! Reba Mcenitre!!!! Woo Hoo!!