2014 Updates

I'm removing this from my updates blog and making it a separate post

From 2014

Performances:

• Passenger in "On the Bus" d Dana Ivgy & Vania Heymann
• Vampire in "Bite School," d James Balsamo
• "Untitled III," d Michael Gellman, Theater 54
• Team "John Lennon's Shoes" d Scotty Watson, Theater 54
• Doctor in "Liv" d Catherine Eaton @LIVthemovie  This movie has been renamed "The Sounding" and currently has a kickstarter kickstarter for "The Sounding"
• Shared a personal story at the Elissa Dauria show, Theater under St. Marks" 
• Nun in "Failing with Grace," web series pilot, d Matthew Mayer photos & video of this role
• The Magnet Theater Circuit Team “Special Socks," d Sebastian Conelli
• Improv Cabaret, at Don't Tell Mama, d Barry Shapiro
• Participated twice The Cabaret Showdown Theater Under St. Marks, d Mark McDaniels  
• Appeared frequently at musical and regular improv comedy mixers/jams at The Magnet Theater, The PIT, QSIC, UCB -- trying to make sure I get on stage at least once a week at such shows

Performance related courses:

Improv

• Musical Improv Levels I & II at The Magnet Theater with Michael Lutton, Ryan Dunkin, Frank Spitznagel, Jon Bander
• Camp Magnet, sponsored by The Magnet Theater with Louis Kornfeld, Alex Marino, David Razowski, Ed Herbstman, Rick Andrews, Rachel Hamilton
• UCB Improv Level 201 with Nicole Despel, Jackie Jennings
• Improv intensive at Artistic New Directions with Scotty Watson, David Razowski, Michael Gellman
• The Magnet Theater Greg Hess: “Scene Rebooted”

Other performance related courses

• Paul Michael's The Network  "Best of the Best" a five week course in musical theater with Stephanie Klapper, Jack Bowdan, Rachel Hoffman, Cindi Rush, Scott Wojcik
• Actor's Connection Bryant Falk: “Voiceover for Video Games”
• Abacus Entertainment Bruce Kroenenberg: “Voiceover Collective”
• Paul Michael's The Network Andy Roth: "Voice Over"
• Paul Michael's The Network Harley Kaplan: “Horror Movies”
• Ear Training At Westchester Community College with Jeremy Goldsmith

• Acquired various performance coaches: Jeanne Lehman; Brad Ross; and Stoddy Blackall

Legal:

Became of Counsel to www.falati.com

Recent CLE courses: 

• New York Intellectual Property Law Association (NYIPLA) Fall One-Day Program; 
• New York Intellectual Property Law Association (NYIPLA) Story Telling for Lawyers
• IIPS: How to Draft claims to Software/Business Methods in a Post-Alice Environment
• JPPCLE: 30th Annual Joint Patent Practice Seminar; 
• IIPS: World IP Day -- "Movies: a Global Passion;" 
• IIPS: "Ethics Considerations in Patent and Trademark Practice;" 
• New York Intellectual Property Law Association (NYIPLA) "Recent Supreme Court Cases;"
• Kernochan Center of Columbia Law School Annual Symposium:  Creation is Not Its Own Reward:  Making Copyright Work for Authors and Performers

Other:

• completed a course of chemotherapy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center 
• completed a course called "Creativity: Music to my Ears" from Stanford, online, taught by Tina Seelig.
• participated in the Good to be Bad contest sponsored by Jaguar photos of villain me with a jaguar and wrote a Villain Song, which still needs to be arranged.
• put my third novel up on Kindle under a pseudonym
• photos from my vacation last summer & more photos

@yahoomail Problems with Yahoo! mail

Strange things are happening.

I have several e-mail accounts that forward to my Yahoo! account.  I've never had a problem with this before.

Recently, an e-mail from one user was not correctly forwarded to my yahoo! account.  I got this error message

Then there was a lot more stuff after that with daemon messages.

I've deleted my e-mail account name from the above picture.

Other e-mails forward to my Yahoo!  account from my microsoft online account are working fine.

Curiously, Microsoft Online is also not accepting e-mails from this one user. This user is also a Yahoo! user.

Then I decided to go to online help for e-mail.  I posted my question.

A couple of people posted phone numbers purported to be numbers of Yahoo! itself.  One of these numbers was from a user called "Yahoo Support."  This number was 866-562-7219

I called that number.  The person there said my account had been hacked by someone in Phoenix and that I would have to pay money to get that fixed.  I became suspicious, because I have no other indication that my account has been hacked.  No suspicious e-mails have gone out.  I asked how I knew he was really from Yahoo!  Then he said it was up to me and hung up on me.

Then I went back to online help and both of the messages purporting to offer me Yahoo! support phone numbers to call to get my problem fixed had vanished.

This is all very unsettling.

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Addendum: when this same user writes to me using his gmail account, there is no problem

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photos and videos of me performing or backstage

Photos first, videos at the bottom (scroll down)

rehearsal at the Clove Creek Dinner Theater

At the Magnet Theater:

Prepping for "Bite School"

Excerpt from web pilot "Failing with Grace"

Musical improv "Global Warming"

You can see me toward the end of this music video

We had a great time hosting the .@magnettheater Musical Mixer last night! Pics: https://t.co/LAvBVr5H5U pic.twitter.com/GrO5H2Ecps

— Goats Musical Improv (@GoatsImprov) August 3, 2016

http://annebarschall.blogspot.com/2016/09/photos-from-musical-mixer-160802.html

Anne Issa Berg in "The Sinking Ship" PIT Theater

With Michael Lutton at Camp Magnet

wicked stepmother in Cinderella 

More at the Magnet Theater

Camp Magnet 2014

At QSIC

Links to more photos:

Playing a crabby nun in "Failing with Grace"

Playing "Willa Mae Wilcox" in "A Bad Year for Tomatoes"

Camp Magnet 2016

Cast photo for A Sketch of New York on twitter

What I've been doing this weekend. One more show tonight at 7:45 Producer's Club pic.twitter.com/tVxROPRnVH

— AnneBarschall (@AnneBarschall) December 19, 2016

Cabaret Showdown 1/8/17

Struggling with things that don't work

It has been one of those days.

Earlier this summer, I upgraded my mac operating system.  Then I noticed that my mac had slowed to a crawl.  Then I found out that I could upgrade my memory.

I installed the memory, but only half of it seemed to be working.  So I did a lot of pulling out cards and switching them, and finally decided something was wrong with the computer.  I took it to the apple store  yesterday, and had to wait for a tech, who told me it would cost $390 to repair.  I decided not to do it.  Then later I realized I probably had not pushed the top memory card in completely, so I went home and tried and got the memory to work.

Then I tried a time machine backup, which failed. I contacted apple support.  They said that I should go onto my admin account (which I normally don't use) and get a log of messages from the console software.  So today I logged in to the admin account and ran the backup successfully.  Then I tried to go back to the secondary account, but the backup still failed.  Then I tried to go back to the admin account, but the computer froze.

So I turned the computer off and on again, and the result was that I only got a white screen and could not get into my computer.

I decided that it was time to go do some yard work.  I went out and tried to water the bushes.  I discovered that my faucet was leaking.  After I finished watering, I dismantled the faucet and took out the washers.

I also tried to dismantle another faucet that was leaking, but that was one that had cartridges -- and the nuts seemed to have frozen so I couldn't get the cartridges out.  I have another faucet upstairs where the cartridge can't be changed, because frozen.  This seems to be an issue with faucets with cartridges.  The cartridges may not have to be changed as often as a washer, but then, if they freeze up, you have to replace the whole faucet.

I tried taking the washers to my local hardware store, which used to carry washers, but they don't any more.  I went to home depot and they also have stopped carrying washers.  Finally Berger hardware had some, tho not exactly the right size -- and no packing washers.  For that I have to wrap something around and try to get the right amount.

So I went out for the evening and just left the house.

The computer is working now, so I was able to get the log of the prior session. I posted it to the apple support forum and the guy there said that my external hard drive is failing.  My son has told me never to get Western Digital hard drives, because they always fail and this seems to be a case in point.  I'm ordering a Buffalo one, which seems to be more expensive, in the hopes that it's better.

Addendum: So, it turns out that the computer starts much faster -- and does not overheat -- when the failing hard drive is disconnected.  I guess the computer was making continuous attempts to access this drive.

Pictures from "The Sinking Ship" 7/29/15 at The PIT Theater

On the Death of John Sperry & my mom's love life

My mother told me the names of 3 of her boyfriends who she dated prior to marrying my father.  This happened a long time ago, so she said she was a virgin when she married.  The word “dating” means something different now, but there weren’t contraceptives then.  I did not find out these names, actually, until after my father died.

They were John Sperry, who she dated in high school, when they were both vacationing in Randolph, NH; Alan Horton, who she dated in college, but also when vacationing in Randolph, NH; and the third was her friend “Ernie’s” brother.  If I remember correctly, the last might have been called Douglas Stowell — but I’m not sure about that.  Mom also dated this third guy in college, but later than Alan.  Ernie was a friend of hers who went to Mt. Holyoke.  The brother went to Dartmouth. I thought I had already blogged about that, but I see I didn't post it.

My understanding was that in High School my mom was totally not ready for any kind of commitment.  In college, Alan Horton proposed to her, but she never could decide, so eventually he gave up and found someone else.  The third guy apparently broke her heart by breaking off with her after college.

I don't think she had any serious romances again after that until she met my father -- tho I couldn't be quite sure about that either.  She met my father in 1949, six years after she graduated in college, so she took her time.

John Sperry died July 2, 2015.  He was 93 years old.  He outlived my mother by almost a decade.

I never met him in person.  He contacted me after my mother died. We became pen pals. He sent me lovely photos, mostly of the west coast.  He lived in Jenner California.

He was constantly out hiking and traveling internationally, showing extraordinary energy and vitality.  His illness was rather sudden and quick.  I gather he died 7 weeks after being diagnosed with lung cancer.

It’s funny.  When my mother first died, I thought he would die in fairly short order. I was scared to write to him, because I was afraid to hear that he had died.

But he was such a reliable correspondent that I started taking his communications for granted.  

Then, in 2013, I was diagnosed with stage 3c cancer.  I started thinking I might die before him. 

Then, this week I wrote him, sending him some photos this time, and found that he had died — so I squeaked by and did not die before him, apparently.  Still I don’t know that it would be realistic to aspire to 93 for me.

RIP

Here’s another blog about him  http://tkmomentsintime.blogspot.com/

Casting Directors I have taken courses from

Erika Foss-DeMeza

Meredith Jacobson Marciano

Leah Shapiro

Ned Lott

Bob Cline

Misha Calvert
Joanne Levenger
Kimberly Graham
Lisa Fischoff
Allison Kirschner
Mia Cusmano
Janet Murphy Butler
Angela Mickey
Rebecca Yarsin
Bryant Falk

Scott Wojcik

Cindi Rush

Rachel Hoffman

Stephanie Klapper

Jack Bowdan

Barry Shapiro

Andy Roth

Harley Kaplan

Tisha Ioli

David Vaccari

Jennifer McNamara

Trey Lawson