Get to Know Your Presidential Pets!

This just in from the talented and tropical-shirted Sean McNally (aka Mr. Jennifer L. Knox):



As some folks have already heard, I recently entered a short musical play

entitled Get to Know Your Presidential Pets into the Third Festival of

'Wrights, a series of staged readings to be held at the Makor/Steinhardt

Center of the 92nd Street Y, located at 35 W. 67th Street in Manhattan.



I'm delighted to say that my piece has been selected for inclusion. How's

that for something? Pretty good for a first try. Here's what the press

materials say: "Get to Know Your Presidential Pets: An absurd

presidential race pits a president who has a constant erection against a

garbageman who makes sound effects."



Yep, that's pretty much what it's about, all right.



The reading of Get to Know Your Presidential Pets will be performed on the

first night of the Festival, Sunday, August 1st, at 7:30 pm, along with six

other short plays. Total run-time is under 75 minutes. Admission is $12,

if you're looking for something theatrical to do that evening. And if

you're among the far-flung friends, it's an excuse to jump a plane to Nowy

Jork, as we say in Greenpoint.



If the evening's lame, it's an excuse to sock me in the eye. And my eye

hasn't had a good socking in a long time.



Further information can be found here.



So. There you go. Come on down or up or over, if you've a mind to.



Your pal,

Sean



Also, I am extremely tickled to announce that the hilarious poem-thangs on which this musical was based will be making their print debut in LIT 9: 3 "Get to Know Your Presidential Pets" pieces and 2 "Questions and Podiums" pieces. Here is just a teensy taste:



"Eisenhower had a weimaraner, and that's fun to say. Eisenhower had a weimaraner. Eisenhower had a weimaraner!

[...]

Reagan had a sharpened piece of wood named Jabby."



(BTW, I've secretly started referring to LIT 9 in my mind as the "political ire & cussin" issue. Goes with the times, I suppose.)