Banning Picasso at the Lapin Agile, part 3

The lock out of Picasso at the Lapin Agile continues. We are continuing our search for a performance venue. After being turned down by the president of Eastern Oregon University and then by the Armory, we've begun contacting private entities. It's interesting to hear familiar voices make the transition from the friendly, genial greeting of the neighbor to the circumspect and even wary tone of the stranger. One guy heading up a fledgling arts group here in town said to me, "Look we can afford any controversy with our donors." His issue is exactly the same as the university president. Him I can sympathize with, his group is small, struggling to get a toehold, but to hear the university president echo the same kind of nervousness is frankly chilling.
The cast is scheduled to rehearse at an off-campus site tomorrow. I wish I could give them some hard and fast performance news. They're going to have rehearse without knowing those things for a little while longer, and then be ready when the time comes.
K