Saturday, November 04, 2006

Samuel has arrived!

It's about 10 pm on Saturday, Nov. 4, 2006. I just got back from the back-to-back screenings of "Samuel the Lamanite" for the cast and crew. We held it at Dixon Middle School in Provo, the school where we shot the modern-day bookends.

We probably had about 500 people at the two screenings. Between screenings, we had George's World Famous Christmas Snickerdoodles (actually, BYU catering provided them, but for the sake of the tie in to the movie, we prefer to call them George's). Everybody got a free poster, and many people signed autographs.

Two days prior, on Nov. 2, we had the movie's World Premiere. It was held at Thanskgiving Point in Lehi. We had probably 1,000 people in attendance. The evening went fairly smoothly, although the DVDs and CDs of the movie, which were supposed to arrive by 5 p.m. at the venue didn't actually arrive until after show had begun. Slightly nerve-wracking.

The movie seems to be well received. Many people have said it's there new favorite Liken. I think it's mine.

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