Category Archives: Deep Thoughts & Fun Stuff
So long, Mr. Sherman…
I was devastated to hear that Richard Sherman passed yesterday.
If you don’t know who he is, the short version: gifted half of the songwriting team (with his brother, Robert B. Sherman, who predeceased him) behind such long-standing classics as “It’s a Small World,” the music of Mary Poppins (“Feed the Birds” was my “time for night-night!” song when I was like four), and “There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow” (Carousel of Progress). His songs were integral to my childhood, and Nathan, Charles and I were lucky enough to get to meet him—and have him sign the copy of my childhood It’s a Small World album—at a Kritzerland event back in 2014. I was so excited to meet him I could barely talk. I recall being absolutely overcome (I don’t fangirl easily but this was massive).
Charles took this photo, and I love it, because we’re holding hands there. Just a testament to what a warm, lovely person Richard was.
He was a lovely, gracious, and Read the rest of this entry
Oh, What a Night! Behind-the-Scenes of CANDLEWOOD: filming and the red carpet premiere!
My photos from filming as an extra in the horror film CANDLEWOOD back in 2022—and from the red carpet premiere at Bank Street Theater in my hometown of New Milford, Connecticut, where the movie was shot—are below! What a magical filming experience and a stellar night—things that’ll always live gloriously in my memory. I’m so thrilled and excited for everyone involved.
Wanna get your chance to see the film everyone’s talking about in a limited run before it goes national? You CAN, right NOW, at Bank Street Theater through the month of February! A new showing was also just added, since several have sold out.
GET TICKETS HERE: https://www.candlewoodfilm.com/tickets?fbclid=IwAR0DGSn13fCXoOpmtixzoiUk6GiT5b16idUICIL1ULJ84pY8GpKg6OMV5cw
I-95 Rock’s “Unveiling the Magic of ‘Candlewood’ – Red Carpet & Beyond” here: https://i95rock.com/unveiling-of-candlewood-world-premiere/
Danbury News-Times Event Coverage: https://www.newstimes.com/entertainment/article/candlewood-horror-movie-new-milford-ct-premiere-18634628.php
And now…
FILMING AT THE MARKET-CT (formerly the Northville Market): October 25, 2022
GETTING READY FOR THE PREMIERE: January 27, 2024
AT THE PREMIERE: Bank Street Theater, New Milford, CT Read the rest of this entry
WELCOME, 2024!
Wishing all of you a joyful, productive, and grounding 2024!
Love,
Kristi, Nathan, Charles, and Mikey the cat (who’s a great sport, dontcha think?)
HAPPY THANKSGIVING 2023!
From our house to yours, we wish you a very happy Thanksgiving!
Krissi, Charles, Nathan and Mikey the cat
If you missed the “Candlewood’s Creepy Tales” I-95 interview… listen here
If you missed the Halloween drive-time Ethan & Lou Show interview on the creepy tales of Candlewood Lake, you can listen to it here…lasts about ten minutes!
The original “7 Creepy Tales of Candlewood Lake,” in case you’d like to read those, are here:
http://nehw.blogspot.com/2016/08/legends-of-candlewood-lake-guest-blog.html
Looking for 7 Creepy Tales of Candlewood Lake as featured on Ethan & Lou?
This map marks the tales’ (approximate) locations.
Did you hear about the tales of Candlewood Lake on I-95’s Ethan & Lou Show today (Halloween?) Here’s where you can go read them all: http://nehw.blogspot.com/2016/08/legends-of-candlewood-lake-guest-blog.html
If you grew up on or near the lake, do you remember any of these? I asked a few people when I was working on this and found out that yes, many do (everyone, especially, seems to recall the one about “The Kids in the Pipe” up at Lynn Deming)…and almost no one didn’t know Chicken Rock!
Anyway, enjoy! If you remember any of this, feel free to share in the comments below.
My sister prepares to jump off a concrete wall into (very shallow) water at the CTTA Beach in New Milford, CT, in the summer of 1982. Ah, unsupervised children. It was a thing.
Theatreworks NM earns a white star with SCOTLAND ROAD
review by Kristi Petersen Schoonover
Robert Ballard’s 1985 discovery of the Titanic wreck promised answers to many questions about that horrific night in April of 1912. What it failed to remind us is that sometimes, when we get those answers, they may not be the ones we want.
This is the crux of Jeffrey Hatcher’s 1992 play Scotland Road—originally produced in Cincinnati and New York City—running now through mid-October in a solid production at Connecticut’s Theatreworks New Milford.
Set nearly a century after Titanic’s sinking, Scotland Road embarks when a woman in Edwardian-era clothing is discovered clinging on a North Atlantic iceberg—and the only word she can utter is Titanic. A wealthy skeptic and a doctor descend to determine her true origin, skirting their ethics in an attempt to gain their answers. To disclose more than that would be spoiling it.
The “ship of dreams” is the big draw here—she’s captivated the world since she sank—but Scotland Road isn’t exclusively for Titanic buffs. Part psychological drama, part mystery, part ghostly tale, this gripping Read the rest of this entry
Getting a CLUE
Sometimes you can make peace with your past in the strangest ways.
Nathan and I love board games, and over the years, we’ve amassed quite a few. Recently—in the interests of downsizing becoming not too much longer than a decade away—I decided to go through them, and keep only those we actually played/enjoyed on a regular basis.
We love Clue, and have two versions: the 1972 release, which I got for one of my birthdays—I’m thinking I was 9 or 10 and yes we played the crap out of it when I was growing up; and Disney Parks’ Haunted Mansion Clue in a shiny tin, which we bought on one of our many Disney trips (not sure which one; I’m sure there’s a photo someplace). But then I found another version in the trunk, one that I’d gotten for Christmas of 1985: the Clue VCR Mystery Game.
The CLUE VCR MYSTERY GAME box. It’s in really good shape for being almost forty years old, although I did tape up all the edges with clear packing tape to reinforce it, because I plan on using it a lot in the near future.
I was actually shocked Read the rest of this entry
HAPPY 4th OF JULY!
Hello everyone!
We wish you a happy, healthy, and safe 4th of July!
— Krissi, Charles, Nathan, and Mikey the kitty
It’s always Tiki Time…
Writer Elaine Pascale and I cocktail it up at TT’s Tiki Bar in Punta Gorda, FL. Photo by Michele Ingram
…when you’re a Gen-Xer! When I was in Florida, fellow writer and I Elaine Pascale got together at TT’s Tiki Bar down in Punta Gorda and had some serious fun with icy tropical cocktails and a few of the anthologies in which we share a Table of Contents.
If you haven’t already, join the party and get your copy of the Generation X-ed anthology full of short shocking trips down memory lane by Elaine, me, and a formidable f-ton of horror-slinging Gen-X writers edited by Rebecca Rowland today—AND you can even get it in good old-fashioned hardcover if you wish!
What the hell’s that pretty blue think I’m drinking? It’s called an Under the Sea Colada. Elaine had herself a Tiki Tai (that’s like a mai-tai. YUM!)
