From Chris Stack - about Brian's service

It is a great day.

Friday, Diane and the rest of Brian's family held a service here in New York at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. It's claimed to be the largest Cathedral and Anglican church in the world, but the service, held in what is called the Great Choir, was warm and intimate, even with more than 200 (by my count) in attendance. Brian would have loved the music, aside from the lackluster performance of the congregation in singing Monty Python's "Bright Side of Life," ...but that was addressed later.

Then Sunday afternoon, which would have been his 51st birthday, his friends at the amateur theater club he's been a member of for 26 years held a reception in his honor. More than 150 friends showed up. We had the kayak there that he's been building for the past year with the help of friends. We had a great video montage created last year by his brother to celebrate Brian's50th birthday that showed bits of many of the mundane, embarassing, and exultant moments in the past 50 years. We had another video of Brian in all the plays he's acted in over those 26 years; it was amazing for many of his friends to see pictures of Brian at 26, 29, 31, and 43. We couldn't show the shows he's directed, designed, produced, or steered from behind the scenes because the 93 minute tape would have ballooned to 300 minutes.

We sang "Bright Side of Life" the way it should have been done.

It was a great day.