Enjoy great singing and dancing, beautiful sets and costumes as The Prizery presents its second season of professional musical theatre June 23 - August 13. Last summer was a huge success and this summer looks like it will be even better with four shows:

Side by Side by Sondheim, a musical review of Stephen Sondheim’s greatest musical masterpieces including “Send in the Clowns;”
The Sound of Music, America's most beloved musical;,
39 Steps,  a comedy thriller where Hitchcock meets the hilarious, and
Seussical the Musical!, a fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza featuring all your favorite Dr. Seuss characters!

More information about tickets, auditions, and making donations can be found here.

Name: Nietzche
Age: 3 years
Gender: Male
Last heard meowing: Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
Just kidding - he's in his warm home, suffering through life as the only male pet in the family.   I just think this is a funny photo; he looks really irritated!

Local musician Dane Ferguson, a prolific singer/songwriter, posted a video of his rendition of American Idol contestant General Larry Platt's song "Pants on the Ground," and it was immediately a hit on YouTube; Dane posted the video on January 13 and as of this morning, in less than 4 days, it had almost 42,000 views with a 5-star rating and 242 comments.

Dane's experience should serve as a lesson for anyone looking to market themselves using social networking; for a long time I've been trying to get clients to understand that the secret to explosive social network marketing is to post something that has a good chance of going viral, and that's exactly what he did.  While he's a serious musician, he knew that no matter how great his original music is, in order to get a lot of people to find it quickly he needed a hook that our pop culture would latch onto and make it go viral - and when he saw  Platt's "Pants on the Ground" he knew he had it.  His one-minute video has resulted in tons of emails from new fans of his serious music. Take a look:

I usually leave the more tech-heavy advice to Kelly since hardware isn't my thing, but this video provides some helpful guidance for those brave enough to try to repair their own computer.  

[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8LYvrCF8B8]