Author Jenny Marie Hatch

Photos of my characters from Little Shop of Horrors

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Little Shop Opening Scene Skid RowWe closed the show a week ago and I have had a few days to decompress.

I feel really good about the work we did and happy to have been involved in this project as a performer and Stage Manager.

Here are a few photos of my characters in the ensemble:

Crazy Cat Lady of Skid Row:

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Mrs. Luce (Claire Boothe Luce is a personal hero of mine, so it was fun to play the Little Shop version of her persona!)

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My Husband Paul came over to the theatre one night after the show and took 250 photos.  Click HERE to view them on drop box.

SUU News did a nice write up in the campus paper HERE.

The Father of the actor who played Seymour took a ton of photos during our closing night performance.  His photo stream is located HERE.

And Dean, who played Mushnik took photos the same night that Paul showed up for his shoot.  His photos stream is HERE.

Dean took a picture of Paul while he shot the cast:
Paul taking photos at the shoot

For the finale the ensemble was Zombified, so here I am in my zombie makeup after opening night:

Jenny Hatch in Zombie makeup for Finale

I did about ten blog entries of the show using video and still pictures that I took myself during rehearsals. I should have asked permission to share this content because some of the cast did not want to be associated with my Blog because of my views on various issues. So I deleted all of that material and have only included a few shots that are mostly just me, with a few cast members in the background.

Here are some final thoughts about this show….

I have watched Little Shop of Horrors live several times, mostly after being produced by high schools and amateur groups. I have watched the movie several times and in preparing to be the Stage Manager for this production I watched and listened to various You Tube clips literally dozens of times. As the show embedded itself into my brain over the past few months I have come to believe it is a redemption show, much more than just a creepy musical.

The desires of Audrey and Seymour to be parents and live a normal domestic life, the Faustian themes of selling our life blood to evil entities who end up eating us in the end, the willingness of Seymour to forgive Audrey for her past, and the chills that ran up and down my spine every time I heard Suddenly Seymour sung by our leads…this is a wonderful show with amazing music and I was so happy to be a part of it.

I am grateful for my families support while I was away rehearsing every night these past few weeks and for the wonderful help from Paul and Shelly who took over the kitchen while I have a few months of doing what I love most. It was a great experience….

Now back to my kitchen…

Jenny Hatch

Have you heard about the Tea Party Conspiracy?

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imageThey want to:

Take Over.
Stop Stealing our Money.
Restore our Liberty.

And then leave everybody the hell alone.

Jenny Hatch
PROUD Teaparty Organizer and Supporter
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My favorite talks from General Conference

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I loved so many of the talks from General Conference. Three of them were favorites that I will embed in this post. Jeffrey Holland talked about emotional illness. I have always believed that we should be as open about mental illness as we are about physical illness.

Which is why I have been so willing to share my own healing story in so many different places.

I experienced a Post Partum Psychosis after the birth of my first child and wrote a book detailing how I was able to extricate myself from the claws of Psychiatry.

To purchase my book on Kindle, click HERE.

Before I took the time to write my own book, I shared my medical records and journal with a writer named Kathy Kendall Tackett. She wrote a textbook for nurses in 1991 and included my story as the final chapter in her book. A few years ago she contacted me and said she was doing a second edition of her book and wanted to include my story with an update.

That book was published and can be found HERE.

My story was also featured on the cover of the Boulder Daily Cameras Fit Magazine the summer of 1996 and My Story was a sidebar article in an issue of Mothering Magazine feature story on Post Partum Psychosis.

Jenny Hatch after 2 Years of "Treatment" by Psychiatry

Jenny Hatch after 2 Years of “Treatment” by Psychiatry

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My next favorite talk was Elder Cooks.

And I truly loved Elder Andersens talk:

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Jenny Hatch Healing Journey in Pictures

Sherri Dew: What do LDS Women Get?

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Hatch Children at Pearl Street Mall in 1997

Hatch Children at Pearl Street Mall in 1997

I do not have anything to add, simply perfect! Love you Sherri!

Jenny Hatch

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The talk by Linda Burton is located HERE!

Wow. What a hateful, ignorant, paranoid woman…

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So I confess to using a comment style in chat rooms and blogs that tends to make people want to kill me…

Or at least want to send me packing as the most divisive troll on the web…

Most of the time when chatting with the well heeled, well coiffed, just a tad too educated and credentialed to be patriotic, smart set of mormondom I am simply given a “gentle” reminder…

Below are our commenting guidelines, just as a gentle reminder:

1. The aim of Blog Segullah is to highlight a variety of women’s perspectives within a framework of shared beliefs and values. Commenters need not be members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but a general respect for religious belief is required.
2. No insults. Critiques should address the argument, not the person.
3. No excessive diversion (or creating a threadjack) from the intended subject of the author.
Comments which violate these standards may be removed at the discretion of the blog editors.

You can decide for yourselves if I was breaking any of those rules with my two comments.

Here is the conversation I had with the author of the piece.

“Jenn Hatch

October 8th, 2013 @ 12:14 pm
I seriously question the “honest desires and good intentions” of some of the leaders of the ordain women group: http://jennyhatch.com/2013/10/06/my-thoughts-on-the-ordination-of-women-in-the-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints/

Jenny

Sandra

October 8th, 2013 @ 1:01 pm

Jenn Hatch-

you are welcome to question their actions- that’s a typical reaction- but what I’m asking is to see people first. From those I know and have had true conversations with- I can’t do anything but love them. Same goes with those I know that have spoken against it. I know them and I love them. They have good desires and intentions as well, but might have not seen the people as people. People first. Most everyone I’ve ever met never deliberately seeks to do harm.

I don’t ever want to cast a stone, or pick at the mote in someone else’s eye when there’s a beam most likely lodged in my own.”

I responded to Sandra with a comment that was pulled. I basically told the intellectuals of Segullah that I hated Feminism and loathed Mormon Feminists.

The reason I started my own blog is because I have continually been chased out of chat rooms whenever I begin to expose the various agendas tied to certain systems of thought control in our society. In this instance, Feminism was the issue.

I continue to struggle to find the language that will allow me to comment without getting banned or deleted, but it is obvious that I have not found that “well modulated tone”.

My sisters at Segullah are like those on the Titanic who were straightening deck chairs as the ship sunk into the ocean.

Western Civilization is imploding in front of our eyes, the enemy is at the gate, or at least in the instance of the Ordain Women crowd – at the door of the Conference Center (where Heavenly Father greeted them with Hail) and all these boobs can do is attempt to shut me out of the conversation.

That’s cool. I know my writing style is not for everyone. And if the ladies who lunch and chat up a storm on the web about how we can be better mothers while leaving the littles in the care of a sitter while they give each other Mother of the Year Awards don’t want me crashing their party, hey, it is no skin off my nose.

I have never fit in with the well mannered Mormon Mommy crowd and probably never will.

But I know what sort of a future I want for my daughters and grand daughters.

And I will continue to speak, yell, write, and expose no matter who gets offended.

It’s what I do.

Jenny Hatch

Jeff with his Mother Jenny

Jeff with his Mother Jenny