Mike Mariano

My resolution for 2004 was obnoxiously unchallenging. I had given you no new plays in 2003, so I resolved to write something during 2004. And now there are four new plays on the site.

For 2005, I need to clear a bigger hurdle. Let’s list this in order of difficulty.

1. I resolve to complete a full-length play and bring it to the site.
2. This play will be one I mentioned often in the past, such as Eating Disorder or James and Kathryn.
3. To top it off, why not also complete the Marley Show rewrite/adaptation?

I haven’t completed a full-length play since December 2000; it’s time to become a long distance writer again. Can I do it?

Not if I start off the year writing yet another short play. Which I am. Oh well, see you in December!

This is a followup and correction to my post three months ago about the maternity leave of Avenue Q’s Ann Harada.

It seems that understudy and current Christmas Eve Ann Sanders, slandered by my comments in that post, is in fact Asian-American. “My mom is Korean,” says Sanders during a recent interview with Playbill’s Diva Talk. This shows that my prior estimation of her ethnicity was both inaccurate and insulting. Mikemariano.com regrets the error.