We really don't care about theatre do we?

I had planned to retire from theatrical projects for the year, but as of last night joined the cast of a local production of The Crucible as Hathorne. It was already in progress and it opens next Friday. I get to learn 20-30 lines really fast! But I'm a quick memorizer.

It's like getting to skip right to the fun part!

Nice! I played Cheever in high school and spied a poppet.

hey chilxors, my grad school colleague's play is being staged in this victory gardens season preview. it's free. you should check it out and tell me how it is!

y'allllll! dude got a pulitzer nom for this and it's off-broadway now! <3

― tehresa, Friday, September 11, 2009 9:09 PM

Oh, that dude's a good writer! Saw another play of his in Chicago earlier this year.

oh cool, which one?

Welcome to Arroyo's. The thing I liked the most about it was that, versus being about hip-hop, it really was able to embody hip-hop in language, storytelling, etc.

learned 70% of my lines in one night and didn't do too horribly bad on the blocking. the one benefit of being a good memorizer is that you can do things like this.

now to do things like creating a character and learning the rest of my lines in a day or two. oh and also one of our castmates went to the hospital with chest pains last night :(.

opening night tonight. learned all of my lines in two nights, I'm ready to go...w00t

break a leg!

Eazy and I just had a good chat over beer about the latest Steppenwolf production.

I am definitely seeing a play tonight about robot sex.

wd like to see NYC revival of Angels in America if it didnt, uh, cost money

Good opening tonite I'm in the bag atm

three reviews in for my show, all positive. that has to be a first!

whoever knew wearing a big hot wig would be so much fun?

Our Rebecca Nurse didn't show tonight. I'm backstage right now, nobody knows where she is, we worked around her lines. This is the SECOND time this has happened in a show I've been in during the last year. We're all worried atm...but the show goes on.

Have you ever seen that play where its all naked women strutting about? But no talking. It was very artsy. I felt kind of ashamed of people's "outer body parts".

castmate showed up at intermission, distraught. didn't find out the cause, we were just all relieved as she has a heart condition. worked around her not being there in the first act.

Panic Patterns @ The Citizens Theatre, Glasgow.

i have to say i'm really quite proud of this design so please forgive the indulgence. the show happens in the round, just over 100 seats. there are people in it but they aren't in the photos (too messy!)

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Just seeing these photos now -- nice ^.

I'm restaging a show I did last summer, opening next weekend, in case anyone is passing through Chicago.

thanks Eazy. Good luck with the revive!

keep meaning to see mary zimmerman's candide @ shakespeare theatre in dc. last weekend. i guess maybe i'll go sunday?

did my ten minute short again tonight for a crowd of about ten. size isn't always an obstacle if they're a good crowd but these guys were so silent you coulda thought it was empty.

the whole adage that 'you perform for 10 people the same as you would for 1,000' is very true, but at the same time it's kinda disheartening when you're doing OTT physical comedy in front of people who don't look enthused...especially a bummer when last night's crowd ate it up.

Oh well, tomorrow's another day!

Saw Hamlet at the National yesterday. Shakespeare is a v weak spot for me, but I just followed the emotions in the speeches.

Hamlet as teenager w/ a strop worked.

another bummer crowd. i seriously don't get people who go to comedies and then just sit in silence...first night crowd was great, but then again I think the average age the last two nights was 73.

Mean to say it ramped it up, perhaps? Wore a hoodie, his madness was a bit panto, etc. xp

xyz, i think i'm coming to London for Patrice Chereau's first english language show at the young vic.

http://www.youngvic.org/whats-on/i-am-the-wind

i'm booking tonight once i get hold of sam. shall i let you know if/when we got tickets for it?

Yes let me know.

The trouble with doing comedy for a small audience is a good argument for donation-based performances, where either the audience pays at the end of the show or the ticket price includes a pay-what-you-can option -- better to have a house of 50 paying an average of $5 than 10 paying $25.

This company isn't too well known in Chicago, but they play to sold out houses because they have an usher at each entrance at the end of the show, taking donations. Since they do family-friendly (though not childrens') theater, they definitely do the kind of shows that work better with a full house. And as far as ticket revenue, they do as well and better than similar companies charging $15-$20 a head.

Ugh. Finished a readthrough for my 4th Fringe Festival show. My close friend wrote it. He's always had a tendency to overwrite, but he really turned the corner on the last production (we did a mashup of @nnie and Sw33ney T0dd).

This script tonight was forty five pages of bloated "hey, remember when we..." moments. Almost every line is three-four sentences. Its a comedy too.

Gave our feedback as usual, but as an illustration, we have an hour timeslot...this took 75 minutes to READ. Hoping this gets better before I devote three months to it!

xyz_, sam and i booked for a midweek matinée on tuesday the 3rd of may because it had decent seats available and tickets were cheap on that day.

Tricky situation, 'Te. Hope it turns out to be fun to work on.

yeah but it's best just to bear with it if you can. if it turns out not-so-good you can still be good in it, and if it turns out great then so much the better. with a few weeks to go i was on the verge of pulling out of panic patterns because the director and i were not seeing eye to eye, i was just making too big a deal about the differences and we sorted it out (she was great to work with in hindsight!)and it turned out very well. glad i stuck with it, it was the best thing i have done theatre-wise.

actually j, i just found out c de la b are at sadlers the same week. might rejig the dates for the chereau so i can go to both. will keep you posted x

well the good news is the writer himself admitted to many shortcomings in his script even before I got to my keyboard to send my feedback this morning. I sent him a long email about what I found the faults to be, and he agreed and is going to go back and overhaul a bit.

some whispers of people dropping due to the script are about, and I mind I'm not going to decry anyone for that as it's their right, but I've never quit a production in 40+ shows so I'm not going to give up that easily. especially since we've got time.

and more along those lines, our mashup last year turned out to be a crowd favorite, was well reviewed, and we sold the most ticketsi n our venue despite having the least # of shows. sold out all but one.

and yet a month before we went up, the script was a mess, and the show was awful. we worked as a group to rewrite bits that didn't work...I actually supplied the ending, as well as about 5-6 other jokes/edits. I think every actor had a writing contribution of some degree.

so definitely too early to throw in the towel, I agree.

best to wait til a week before the performance ;)

haha. oh people have done that to us before.

jed - excellent, sounds like a packed week - def try to go to one of these shows, email/txt closer to the time :)

j, booked the ballets c de la b on the 6th of May. i know it's five months hence but it was about 2/3rds sold already - it's in the small studio space and the ticks are a flat £15 so get on it if you can. my seats are c12 & c13.

four months, rather.

gonnna look into this !

yes, nice one!

don't leave it too late.

C14 on a whim :D

just keep your hands to yourself :D

I'll bring some wine gums

desert sorted, i'll bring criss

Just done this, btw - don't know what I'll bring

great!

big 2 ltr bottle of coke?

sure :-)b

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