Black Folks Guide - Seattle

Hanifah's show was extraordinary tonight. She played to a almost full 300 seat theatre (about 260) full of folks who were genuinely receptive and thoroughly enjoyed the show. Tomorrow we anticipate a completely packed house.

She has revamped sections of the show and it's even better than the DVD version. Who knew that was possible?

Anyway, I'm tired. 'Night!

P.S. - Cute story. We had lunch at the Cheesecake Factory this afternoon. I mentioned to our waiter that he should come check out Hanifah's show. Being modest, Hanifah kinda of protested to my telling him about the show but he had already gone on to ask what type of show it was. She mentioned that it's a one woman show and before she could even mention the venue, he goes: "OH! Black Folks Guide?!" We were like: Yeah! surprised that this white, frat-boy type was even familar. He said he was already planning on catching the show and he said now that he'd met her he'd DEFINITELY make sure he caught the show tonight.

We asked him how he'd heard about it and he said that National Public Radio has been announcing the show practically every hour so...pub on the show is solid and people are responding. In fact, most of the audience was non-African American straight couples. Great group, though, they laughed easily and often and I heard the older man to my right sniffling when Hanifah did her character Louie which is definitely a tear-jerker segment.

At any rate, that's it, just wanted to share our Cheesecake Factory waiter story.