God's Rejection is His Protection

Today's thought from Hazelden is:

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a stroke of good luck.
--H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Managing desires is one of the most crucial elements of being an adult. Children want many things that aren't good for them, and their impulses can often get them into trouble. They need loving, caring adults to protect them from the harm that can come from getting what they want. As adults, our spiritual development includes learning how to regard our desires and how to manage them. On the one hand, it isn't healthy to become so controlled and repressed that we never let ourselves have fun, and on the other hand, we know that indulging every desire will kill us.

Sometimes we want something very badly and when we don't get it, we feel desperate or very disappointed. However, life continuously points us in directions we hadn't expected. Disappointment can serve to reset our lives. Not getting our desires, if we keep our eyes open, points us in directions that can be better than what we had imagined for ourselves.

Today I will be open to the new directions that life points me toward.

Random but Some Meaning CLICK HERE

For some reason I have been drawn to my past, not sure if it's to let something go, make amends, learn something, change or just to be aware.
These pictures represent things to me. The link above is to the Gay bar history in DC. The Lost and Found and Tracks and The Pier and The Other Side were places I went when I first came out. That's where I learned to interact with other Gay men, but I didn't really learn the social skills I needed, which is why I think I am going back to rediscover and relearn.
There is a dance song which goes "Those memories, those memories, haunting me.."
For some reason, that has been going on with me.
Another song is "Goodbye to You" sung by Scandel.
I've made amends as best I can, to those I need to. I've said goodbye as best I can to most.
I walked around the Village Saturday and yesterday, looking for ghosts? Trying to put good energy where bad energy was.
As the sermon in church was yesterday "I can't do everything, but I can do something".
"When I was 17...it was a very good year"....
Odd coincidences...like going to see Bruch Marsh in a play in 1983 in a bad section of NY in a tiny theatre that was in a scary neighborhood..only to find years later in 2004 that I lived a block East of there when I moved to 322 W. 49th Street. It's now a very nice apt building at 424.
Just down the street is a tv studio, which was the site of Keith's memorial service.
I'm an adult now, but sometimes I still have the same childish fears and insecurities. I'm tired of that. I'm letting go!
Acceptance is the answer to all my prayers.
Everything happens for a reason. I wish things had turned out differently, but they didn't so I must make the most out of what I have.
What I have, is a nice life and I'm grateful for it.
My wish though is for hatred to dispel and caring, kindness and understanding prevail. The horrible incident that happened to Keith in 1994 was insanity and hatred at it's most vile. I don't understand that kind of hatred. I try to be as understanding as I can. Sometimes I don't like people or groups or what they stand for, but I try to let that be a part of the tapestry of life. It's when "they" cross the line and try to hurt me or my people or try to make us wrong or bad that I have no tolerance. I try not to hate. Like Maria in "West Side Story" when she says "No I have hate too!" I want to let go of that. Ironically they filmed part of the movie/opening scenes for "WSS" on 49th and 10th in a parking lot.

I pray for those gone. I pray for those who were hurt or in pain. I pray to be the best person I can be. I pray to be free.
We are all in this world together, all God's children.

I will survive...and have survived.

Goodbye Bountiful, Goodbye....

The Biggest Loser

At my show last week, 184
Before all this Celebrity Fit Club etc, I battled (and continue to battle) my own food problems/weight problems. Right now I'm on the down side, 184 as of this morning. I can totally identify with Oprah and Kirstie and John Travolta right down to people I know who have food issues. It is a constant struggle. I have been up down up down up down since I was 6 years old. I was a skinny kid till circumstances around 2nd grade overwhelmed me and I turned to food for comfort. Thing is, comfort food eventually turns on me and becomes discomfort food. It's all about balance and I have teetered and tottered for years.
I hope to get down to 150-156 and stay there. One day at a time, one meal at a time.
My hightest weight was last Winter when I hit 216. My lowest was Christmas late 90's when I got down to 135.
I will be happy if I can just get to my goal weight and stay there.
HOPE full not Food Full!
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Last Winter doing a show...my heaviest ever...216




Oct 2001 at a Halloween Party

Thom Bierdz The Young and the Restless

From my friend Thom Bierdz!
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I wanted to share the latest news. I was just watching The Young and the Restless today, Tuesday, and in tomorrow's coming previews I saw a scene we shot 5 weeks ago where I said to Nina, because we accidentally barged in on a conversation, "We should just go," and my son, Chance, exploded at me, saying "Yeah - why don't you just go because that's what you're so good at!" Finally my polite son and I will talk about deep issues. In the next 3 weeks I will be on The Young and the Restless about every other day. Watch if you can and let me know what you think. And a special thanks to those of you who have written or called Y&R on behalf of keeping my character on the show, at Joe Argazzi's (my manager's) urging. I do appreciate all the support I get from him, and I am very grateful for the ongoing love and support I receive from each of you. This week I am lucky enough to be the cover story in two publications: Canada's national magazine, OUTLOOKS, and Phoenix's ECHO magazine. Also, this week, Tommy Garrett, who writes for a Beverly Hills paper, congratulated me on winning Best Autobiography last week for my memoirs, Forgiving Troy.

Canyon News - Thom Bierdz Honored For Literary Work

""The National “Best Books 2009” awards named Bierdz’s tome the winner in the “Autobiography/Memoirs” division. This award is given out annually by the Best U.S.A. Book News organization. www.USABOOKNEWS.com Thom came to Canyon News exclusively to discuss this great honor. “This was a huge surprise. The autobiography category is the biggest category with the most entries. I had no idea I would have a chance to win it. It is very exciting and a great honor,” said Bierdz. "

The attached painting is a portrait I did last week of Tommy Garrett. If you would like to commission a holiday portrait, email me some pictures. :)


Have a great day,

Thom Bierdz

www.ThomBierdz.com
www.ForgivingTroy.com
www.AmericanArtAwards.com

Address to write to for Y&R:

Y&R Producers
7800 Beverly Blvd.
LA, CA 90036

Shutting the Door Saying Goodbye Moving Forward

Ever since I found out about Keith I have been sad and looking back too much on the past. What could have been, what wasn't, what might have been, what never was. Often times when I do that I tend to romanticize the past. I was doing this with Keith, the "Lost and Found" and the "Disco Era".
The reality is...was...most of the times I went to the L & F I left sad and lonely and tipsy or drunk. I remember one night stopped at a light in Springfield, VA and a car pulled up next to me. A girl looked over and in a nice voice, not condescending, said "Smile, it can't be all that bad". I wanted to say "yes it is nobody wanted me tonight" but I didn't. I smiled!
Keith wasn't even a one night stand, more like a one night almost was. John Nevins was a "summer fling" as was Chuck Hummer. I hung out with Robin Fletcher but most of the time we were both on the prowl. Of all of them, I do miss him the most and wish I could make amends to him. I've looked all over the Internet and can't find him. The last time I did was back in the early 90's. I was in LA working at MCA/Universal Home Video and I found a phone number in Alexandria, VA. I called it and he answered, but it took me aback and I didn't know what to say, so I hung up. When I called back, it went straight to voicemail. I did leave a message, apologizing, but I never heard back from him.
I did run into Chuck once outside the auditorium where The Arlington Players did their shows. He had come to see a friend who was in the show. We chatted very briefly, but then he had to leave. No love lost there it seemed. John Nevins lent me the Beta videotape he had of "Grease" the movie so we could look at the dances for our version of GREASE we did at Radford University back in the spring of 1982. He had already moved onto another boyfriend by then. Nice enough, but no love lost.
My friend Bennie Russell moved to LA and I did see him once. My sister Cheryl had just moved to LA so we both went over to his apartment and spent sometime. We had been friends ever since we both worked at the Roth Mt. Vernon 1 & 2 movie theatres in Alexandria, VA. We came out together, but went our separate ways. I think I found him on Facebook, Bernard Russell, but I haven't heard back from him yet.
The Lost and Found is no more. It stayed open till the mid 80's, closed, reopened under a different name, but now is no more. I drove by once, long ago, and it seemed so small.
I guess the reason I feel such "affection" for it and that time is because, that was my sexual awakening. My "Spring Awakening" as it were. Back then, there was no Internet or chat rooms or Gay and Lesbian Centers per se. If you were gay, you went to bars to dance and find love or romance or sex or a combo thereof. For me, I'd grown up thinking I was the only one. When I went through the doors of the Lost and Found, I was with others. Just like in the song "Different".."then I discovered some others like me....wonder no longer together we're stronger...it's not so bad to be different..."
I have a lot of the songs from that time on my Mini IPOD. John Nevins had made me many dance tapes. Cassettes. I recorded them onto my computer when I moved to NY and then uploaded them onto my IPOD. Now I ride the subways in NY listening to them, with the sounds of the tapes and all on them. Some crackles, some pops. As soon as the songs start I am transported to that time. Music does that for me. I can hear a song and it takes me right back to where I first heard it, or where I listened to it the most. I can still remember dancing to "Let's All Chant" "Lay All Your Love on Me" "Walk the Night" "Dancing is Dangerous/Is There More to Life Than Dancing" "It's Raining Men" "The Boss" "No One Gets the Prize" "Upside Down" "I'm Coming Out" "I Need a Man" "Leave That Boy Alone" and my ALL TIME FAVORITE DANCE SONG "Gloria" by Laura Branigan!!!
She is gone too. Many of that era are, either from AIDS, drugs, after effects of drugs like heart attacks and strokes and brain aneurysms.
For me, it was sort of an innocent time. I didn't do drugs, just drank too much beer. I sniffed poppers but hated the way they gave me a headache after. I remember seeing porn "stars" there. Jack Wrangler. He's gone too.
It was really only a short time. Starting with the summer of 1979 through the summer of 1985. The last time I can recall going there was in the summer of 1985 with some of the cast members of GODSPELL. I did go once with a guy from the cast of CABARET. Kevin. But, the "magic" was gone.
I got involved in Community Theatre and that drew my interest and took up my time.
Except for seeing Keith when he played Hero at Lubber Run in "Forum" or Chuck after that performance of, I think OLIVER or MAN OF LA MANCHA.
The echoes and reverberations of that time fade...then come back...then with finding the articles on Keith, come crashing back. As Liza sang "It was a good time, it was the best time..." but it really wasn't that wonderful. There were some times. Many times though as I said I went home alone.
So, time to shut the door gently again. Sadly now I can say that yes, people my age have passed on and are no longer here. They are, though, in my memories. What did Dickens write "it was the best of times it was the worst of times".
Chic "Good Times"...these are the good times!
Lost and Found The Other Side The Frat House Badlands SE Dupont Circle P Street
Goodbye...Goodbye to you...

Barry Jay Music CLICK HERE

One of the benefits of my show is that I got back in touch with Barry Jay aka Barry Stich who wrote "Quest For Love".
He is writing music again!!! And beautiful music too!

So so happy for him. I sent him the clip of me singing his song and he was pleased!

Me too!!!

One Night Only

Keith Douglas Pruitt
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The Internet is still an amazing tool. Finding lost friends and getting reacquainted.
However, sometimes I find people I knew - have died.
One such person is Keith Douglas Pruitt.
I met Keith one night back in the late 80's at the Gay Club the "Lost and Found" in Washington, DC. In the summers between college for me, I would go to the Lost and Found to dance and try to meet "Mr. Right". Being Gay back then meant you went to Bars to meet and hang out. The Lost and Found was in what was then a "poor" neighborhood of apartments and warehouses. I started going there in the Summer of 1979. I think I met Keith in the Summer of 1980.
I had gone to meet up with my friend Robin Fletcher. As I walked in I noticed a young guy in a jean jacket sitting on the railing outside.
He followed me in and eventually came up and introduced himself. I was a little leery as I wasn't sure if he was "dangerous" or possibly a "hustler" so I kind of remained aloof.
However, eventually we chatted and I realized he was like me, a college student in between semesters home for the summer. He said he was a lifeguard at his neighborhood pool and also taught swimming lessons and competed.
Eventually we went upstairs and he checked his jacket. He was wearing a red tank top and had a swimmer's body. NOW I was interested. Still, I have very little self confidence back then so I just kind of observed.
We hung out together that night, danced, I introduced him to my friend Robin and we danced and talked.
Near the end of the evening as the bar crowd thinned out we sat and talked, then finally started kissing. Very nice and simple. He lived at home, I did too, so we didn't have anywhere to go. All was going nicely, until some guy came over, a bigger, muscled blonde guy, who Keith had met earlier. Well, he invited us over to his place in DC somewhere to go swimming. We all got in a car and went over.
When we got to this place, a nice townhouse, there were 4 of us.
I had NO desire to skinny dip, but went along with it. I was very naive back then and didn't see the "chemistry" that was going on.
At one point me and this other guy, a dark haired nice looking guy, were the only ones in the pool. Keith and the Blonde muscle guy, had gone inside.
I found out later the muscle guy put the make on Keith and they made out, not sex though.
Eventually though we all got dressed, no sex no drugs and they took Keith and I back to our cars.
I followed Keith home and we got off at an exit near his house, which was on the way to mine.
We pulled over in a parking lot and I got into his car. We talked and made out a bit, but were afraid we'd get caught, so eventually we agreed to meet up at Tysons Corner mall the next day.
The next day, Saturday, I drove to Tyson's corner and met Keith. We walked around the Mall and looked at clothes and stuff. It was a bit awkward, but nice.
At one point we went into a music store and he sat down at a piano and started playing. Of course I went into total romantic mode. Being a singer I'd always fantasized about dating someone who played piano, while I sang. I remember Keith sang a bit, nice husky voice. However when I mentioned that I sang, he said he didn't like to accompany people. There went that fanstasy.
Eventually we just parted ways.
That week I waited for his phone call, which never came.
I went back to the Lost and Found that following weekend. He was there and I went up to him. He said he hoped I wasn't mad at him for not calling, but that he'd been busy with swim meets and practice.
We dance once, but then he said he had some other friends to hang out with, which he did. And that was that....
Kind of typical for the scene back then.
I think I saw him a few times after that. He was dating some guy.
And that was that...
Till around 1985. I was supposed to be in the Arlington Players summer show of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" but I had done CABARET before that and was burnt out.
So, I didn't do the production. I did go to see it, and as soon as the charcter Hero came onstage, I recognized Keith.
I ended up going to the cast party later. In typical fashion, at one point I went to the bathroom to wash my hands and Keith walked in. It had been a few years, but he recognized me and said Hi. We chit chatted for a bit and then went out to join the party.
He had a younger kid with him, maybe a nephew. At one point, he and the young boy started breakdancing. That was a hoot.
Unfortunately, I had not gone through my 12 step process and so was not able to process all of this.
Soooo, I ended up outing him to the cast as he was telling everyone he was straight. I was a bit bitter...yes I admit it.
Well, Marge Tisher called me up one night and berated me for doing that because she said now all the guys were hitting on him.
I told her the truth, that he had broken my heart. He had hurt me and I wanted to hurt him back. It wasn't a very nice thing for me to do, but back then I wasn't sober and wasn't thinking clearly.
I don't know if that's really true. He hadn't broken my heart per se, just hurt my feelings and disappointed me. Could have been....that type of thing.
Well, I moved to LA in 1988 and the first movie I saw was the original HAIRSPRAY directed by John Waters. Halfway through the movie there is a scene at a dance competition and Amber makes out with the lead singer for the group The Lafeyettes and it was Keith!! I swooned a little bit I admit it.
And that was that. I never heard about him again and never thought to look for him under any other name.
Till today! Actually Marge Tischer is coming up to NY from VA to see a play and we are supposed to meet up later, hopefully.
So, this morning for some reason I decided to look up Keith. This time I put in his name, Keith Douglas, and put HAIRSPRAY by it. The arcticles below are what came up.
So, he died a year ago. And for the past 5 years we both have been living in NY.
I think I had heard about the horrific hate crime incident that happened to him and his partner Jacques, back in 1994. I was in LA at the time.
What a horrible, horrible thing. I still can't fathom why this stuff happens, why anyone can have that much hate for someone they don't even know and want to kill them. Thank God they survived the attack and pressed charges so those animals were put in jail. I'm sure they are probably out by now, thanks to our legal system. That I don't get at all!
Not sure about the fire incident they mention, but it seems to have been the eventual cause of his death. Ironically we both lived in NY for the 4 years of his life.
Sad. Now Keith joins the list of John Nevins, Chuck Hummer and probably Robin Fletcher, who I knew from my days at the Lost and Found. It seems like a lifetime ago. For me, it was both a fun time and an innocent time. Yet in many ways it was not. John was my first "boyfriend" and Chuck was my second, in the times of summer romances.
When I did my show this past Wednesday and sang "Diffrent" I inclueded the line "then I discovered some others like me at the Lost and Found" which I used to sing back then. I had found "my people" I had found other Gay men.
The Lost and Found closed, then reopened as another bar. I drove by there once but it's been many, many years.
The song "Could've Been" by Tiffany comes to mind, with Keith.
He did some amazing things with his life it appears.
He made some wonderful music...just not...with me.
Rest in Peace Keith. You will be missed.

Keith Douglas Pruitt

Keith Pruitt
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Date of Birth:1961
Date of Death:12 November 2008, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Alternate Names:Keith Douglas | Keith Douglas Pruitt --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Filmography
Actor:
2000s
1990s
Hairspray (2007) (uncredited) .... Leader of Rock Band/Lead Lafeyette
Larry's Visit (1996) .... Frank
"Loving" (1983) TV series .... Flynn Reilly (unknown episodes, 1991-1992)
"As the World Turns" (1956) TV series .... Frank Wendall (unknown episodes, 1990-1991)
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Keith Douglas Pruitt

Keith and Tina Louise
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Composed Major Symphonic Works & Ballets
TV Star Survived Vicious Hate Crime Attack in 1994
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Keith Pruitt
The worlds of classical music and film & television are mourning the tragic death of our good friend And partying pal composer and actor Keith Douglas Pruitt who was found dead in his Greenwich Village apartment on Wednesday, November 12, 2008.Police responding to pleas from his family entered the apartment to find him on a living room sofa. Initial autopsy reports indicate that he choked to death. He had been treated for esophageal problems stemming from a home fire in which he was badly injured last year. Further results are still pending.The Kansas City, Kansas born (October 12, 1961) Pruitt was something of an anomaly in the world of classical music as he supported his composing career by acting in film and soap operas such as “As the World Turns” and “Loving” among others.The son of inventor/engineer Norman Wallace Pruitt and Emma Jean Thompson Pruitt, he was raised in Annandale, Virginia and graduated from Falls Church School as valedictorian and was drum major for the school’s award winning band.Mr. Pruitt attended Duke University as the recipient of the A.J. Fletcher Scholarship for Piano. He was winner of the Duke University Concerto Competition and graduated summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He received a fellowship to attend the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and a full scholarship to the City University of New York Ph.D. Program where he studied with Pulitzer Prize winning composer David Del Tredici.Mr. Pruitt’s compositions have been commissioned and premiered by the Florida Philharmonic, the San Jose Symphony, the New York City Ballet, Pascal Rioult Dance Company, the Guggenheim Museum‘s “Works in Process” series, the Cowles Charitable Foundation, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the New York Chamber Ensemble and the Cape May Festival Orchestra. Mr. Pruitt supported his musical ambitions by starring in a number of New York based daytime dramas including The Guiding Light and As the World Turns as “Frank Wendall” and Loving as “Flynn Riley”. It also allowed him to introduce his music to a wide television audience.It was during his stint on the latter show that he and a male companion Jacques Rosas, holding hands on a Greenwich Village street, were savagely beaten by a trio of young men who shouted anti-gay epithets as they beat the pair with golf clubs. Pruitt and his partner would not have the matter swept under the shroud of corporate communications and participated fully in the prosecution of the men which resulted in their being convicted and sent to prison. Since that time the openly gay artist became very involved in Anti-violence projects.He was also featured in the John Waters’ movie Hairspray playing the lead singer of a rock band and as the lead in Carlo Nero’s film, Larry’s Visit.Several years ago, he founded the Keith Pruitt Piano Studio where he taught gifted young New York area students both performance and composition. Mr. Pruitt is survived by his mother, Jean Pruitt and sister Melanie Pruitt of Annandale, Virginia, a brother Steve Pruitt and nephew Craig Pruitt both of Buffalo, New York.A Celebration of his life hosted by his friends Jacques Rosas , Edward Callaghan, Charles Hamlen, James Edstrom and John Wegorzewski will take place at Shop Studios, 442 West 49th Street on Thursday, November at 6pm. In lieu of flowers the family has asked that donations in his memory be made to Classical Action, Performing Arts Against AIDS, 165 West 46th Street, Suite 1310, New York, New York 10036.
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Free Tracy Turnblad, 24 November 2008

Author: bkoganbing from Buffalo, New York
Hairspray is a very funny film with a very serious message about live and live. In fact that's the main problem with the world today right now, certain people feeling they've got the right through religion or secular philosophy or plain out and out wealth who just feel they've the right to dictate the lives the rest of us are supposed to lead in conforming to how they see the world.

In the remake of Hairspray, Queen Latifah who plays Ruth Brown's role of Motormouth Mabel says to the characters playing the Powers and Prince roles that as a racially mixed couple that those young people should be prepared for a whole lot of stupid in the world to deal with. One cast member of this version of Hairspray had occasion to deal with a whole lot of stupid back in 1994.

In the cast he's listed as Keith Douglas, lead singer of the Lafayettes DooWop group, but he was Keith Douglas Pruitt, a talented musician, actor, and composer. He and his partner were attacked by a trio of suburban rednecks who were dismayed at seeing two members of the same sex holding hands on Waverly Place. Keith sustained a fractured skull and a hearing loss for a while looked to permanently impair his career in music.

It was in my working days with New York State Crime Victims Board that I met Keith Pruitt. I did the claims for both he and his partner, giving them what my agency could provide for both of them. He did go back to work eventually to the applause of his friends and admirers of his work.

Keith Pruitt died only a week ago at the age of 47. He left a legacy in art, but he also left a legacy in life as a genuine hero. One who certainly never started out to be one, but things are thrust upon us in life sometimes. He stood up to the homophobic bigots and bashers with dignity and pride. I'm really proud I knew him and was part of his story in a small way.
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Tammy Konicoff With Don Konicoff, Jacques Rosas And Joyce Herring

An unusual mix of the classical music world’s movers and shakers, aspiring musicians and soap opera fans gathered for an emotion filled Celebration of the Life of composer, actor and teacher Keith Pruitt who so tragically died last week in his Greenwich Village apartment apparently as a result of an esophageal obstruction. His former companion Jacques Rosas who with Keith survived a vicious hate crime attack in 1994, opened his multi-media studio, Shop Studios for the memorial attended by some 130 of Keith’s dear friends. Usually the site of fashion shows for the likes of Donna Karan and Yves St. Laurent and most recently the setting for Diane Sawyer’s controversial interview With Ashley Dupre the call girl that brought down Gov. Elliot Spitzer, the enormous studio took on the air of an old fashioned house party as friends shared their favorite memories of the brilliant artist. Jacques, and Keith’s good friends, longtime publicist and manager Edward Callaghan, John Wegorzewski, James Edstrom, Model John Brand, Charles Hamlen and Kevin Thompson hosted the celebration. Composer and writer, Rev. Jeanne Browne officiated at the memorial.As guests entered, the first thing they saw were memorial displays for Keith at various times in his careers set up by his pals and students. On one wall, a film of acclaimed former Martha Graham dancer Joyce Herring performing a piece set to Keith’s sonata, Rhapsody, by Internationally renowned choreographer Pascal Rioult was screened. Moving tributes to their great friend were given by Jacques, Keith’s one time intern Kate Morgan, best friend from high school Libby Griffin, longtime patron Donald Konicoff and one of his piano student’s parents Tony Shepherd and mentor Pulitzer Prize winning composer who summed up everyone’s feelings when he said of Keith, “He dazzled me”. Following the celebration, a group gathered outside the Shop Studios to release white balloons into the air. As they fluttered off into the night sky, all bade farewell to a fabulous friend and brilliant talent taken far too early.
Photo By: James Edstrom

Keith far left at Broadway Signing Event 2005

Tahoe

Another photo from years gone by.
L to R
Me, Tim, Lisa & Mary Markham high above Lake Tahoe.
July 1, 1990

Mary and I had driven up to visit her friends Lisa and Tim. We went hiking one day and took this photo. I love it as Mary looks so sexy and I look..well..fat but we had fun.
Not sure if Lisa and Tim are still together, but we had such a fun time visiting them.
They both were working on the riverboat that circles Lake Tahoe, so we had a nighttime trip around the lake which was wonderful.
We also spent time in the casinos...the only time I really enjoyed the gambling atmostphere.
Also, one night we sat outside their cabin and the sky was FILLED with stars...the most I'd ever seen. There were so many SHOOTING stars that I like to think all our wishes came true.

Link to DREAMS videos CLICK HERE

Click on the above title, it should take you to Phil's YouTube page and the videos for my show last night.

Tony 1 through Tony 5.

Enjoy...and be kind...:)

THANK PHIL!!


Photo courtesy of Pat Connollys MAN HAT IN

Patrick Connolly and Me

DREAMS CLICK HERE

Thanks to my wonderful friend Phil Riina I have video from last night's show.

Here is the opening two numbers.

Be kind...:) I have to work on my stage banter and movements, but I really just wanted to have it be like me in my living room with friends.
And, I was blessed to have so many friends there.

THANKS PHIL!!


Photos courtesy of Patrick Connolly MAN HAT IN

My Show was a HIT!

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More later...it's late..but my show went so well tonight...better than I had anticipated. I am truly a blessed to man to have so many wonderful people in my life!
We got video and photos, so will post those soon!
Thanks to EVERYONe for their well wishes!!!
I felt ALL the good vibes!

Tony's Gonna Do a Show CLICK HERE

This Wednesday at the Gay and Lesbian Center in the Village I am doing a one man show, with 2 friends as guests for duets.

I wanted to do a show using the tracks from the various songs I have recorded over the years, many for Mike Ricciardi.

If you are in NY come see it. Me...:)

The info is in the flyer so click the title above.

Here is the set list:

Dreams - Vocal (First verse/chorus) sung by Diana DeGarmo

Different TRACK
Say You Love Me TRACK
Home Again
One Kiss TRACK
Will I Ever Know TRACK
Quest for Love TRACK
The Prayer TRACK
All of the Time in the World TRACK
Wherever You Go TRACK
Don't Sweat TRACK

And if you can't make it..hold a good thought for me! Thanks!!