[Wiganpier] End of Summer Update

[robi@latejoys.com]

Hello all, and welcome back to Wigan and our Wigan Pier project
website, http://www.latejoys.com.

The website's been updated with new material, and more new stuff is on
the way. Surf about (or should that be spelunk?) and find production
dates, photos from the summer fundraiser, the current cast list (almost
complete), and other sundry items (with 100% less tripe, guaranteed).

Write us and tell us what you think.

And do send us money. (No, really. Rehearsals start in 8 weeks, and
it's time to shore up those pesky little details like props, rehearsal
rooms, video rentals (gotta learn those accents!), and all that
glorious PR (lies, lies, and more lies -- but entertaining lies, we
think). Click on the "thank you" lump of coal, and see who's already
helped us out! Click on the "muck in" lump to see how you can help!

And just in case you thought that 1930s Wigan wasnt relevant to
today's America, read this editorial from Wednesday's N.Y. Times about
the growing unemployment problem in our fair land. With more than eight
million Americans out of work, the creation of a new undersecretary post
is at best a feeble effort:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/03/opinion/03WED2.html?ex=1063621551&ei=1&en=3a3dbdc847d08c09.

We're not even going to THINK about listing links that connect George
Orwell's bleak imaginings to current events around the world. There
wouldn't be enough room!

Finally, it's au revoir to drummer Matt Patterson, who leaves The Late
Joys on a free transfer to the English First Division side London Utd.
He'll be juggling balls in good ol' Blighty come the new year.