Grinder's Grumblings

The Grinder Store is now open! Click on the titleof this post and check it out on the website. Just another way you can support your friendly neighbourhood theatre company.

There's a new document in the sidebar today marked "Tip Cards." This is a handy sheet of several small slips of paper you can use. The front of these cards contain the Grinder logo and information about how to find out about our shows and what's going on at the company. But on the back you'll find a chart that will tell you the appropriate amount to tip your server when you're out at a restaurant. No more trying to figure out what's expected, no more tricky math, it's all there for you. Don't want to print it off? Look for hard copies at the shows this summer. Just one more way to make your life a bit easier, courtesy of Grinder Productions.

We've almost finished our rehearsal process for Farmer's Daughters. In just over two weeks this wonderful little show will make its debut. We've made quite a few changes and additions over the course of rehearsals, and I thought that I would put the updated script online for your perusal, feedback and enjoyment. I'm still open to any thoughts and suggestions, and once the show is over I will sit down and write a final draft that will be for sale through the Grinder Store and other outlets. Enjoy! What? You haven't heard of the Grinder Store? Tune in on Friday and find out all about it.

Just thought I'd let you know that the website now has an extensive photo gallery, containing all the images I can find from our past shows. If there's anyone out there who has pictures from shows that aren't represented, I'd love to get copies of them and post them in a future update. To find the photo gallery, just go to the "Past Shows" page and click on the link.

Here's your exclusive sneak preview on the 2008 - 2009 Fall - Winter - Spring season at Grinder - there's going to be one! If you want to know what shows we're doing, you'll have to come and see one of our shows this summer. The Fall line-up will be listed on the back. ...come on, you didn't think I was going to give it up that easily, were you? Grinder

I've updated and revised the website again. We now have a comprehensive links page, and the photo gallery has been completed. Click here to check it all out! Grinder

Just in case you were wondering, I still haven't reached my bet with The Cat Whisperer. And you know what will happen if I don't make it. No more Grinder, at least not the way it is these days. We have made so much progress over the past few months, bringing this company back from the dead, I don't want to see it go all for naught. I will continue to work tirelessly to promote Grinder, and I am urging all of you to do the same. Your support and encouragement over the winter has been wonderful, and for it I am truly grateful, but you don't need to tell me how great Grinder Productions is, it's the people who don't know that you and I need to tell, in the coming days and weeks and months. We have seven great shows, priced well below anyone else this summer, and getting tickets has never been easier, so there's nothing standing in the way of our success except our own reluctance to toot our own horn. So let's sound the charge!