Give it up!...for Superman!

Ah! I haven't posted on here in forever! Must do it! Now! Thanks Jess for the arrangement-thingy.

Anyway, the latest I have to give this week about the current season at the Dallas Theatre Center in Dallas, TX. Those silly regional theatres seem to be having a ball with the shows they are performing (including the Yale Repertory Theatre performing POP! in it's world premiere). And included in Dallas' lineup this season is there own world premiere. Give It Up! is about a college and their cheerleading squad's attempt to break the basketball team's 30-year losing curse. Yeah, it's like a weird HSM for adults, (I mean the pictures look like it) but show is backed up by a host of Xanadu alumni, including the director, the playwright for the book, and the leading lady. And Xanadu wasn't the most amazing show to hit the Great White Way, but it's not terrible (and don't say Glory Days was...there is a special place in my heart for that show).

So give it up for Give It Up! to hit the Dallas stage January 15th. Along with the Beauty Plays (The Shape of Things, Fat Pig, and reasons to be pretty) to open in late February, Death of a Salesman opening in mid-April, and finally It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman to close out the season in mid-June. That show is one I would love to see, personally. Superman was a show to satisfy the theatre-goers of the 60's when Superman exploded into the American pastime. The show didn't last long on Broadway...at all...but it is one show that cannot go without a revival. Break a leg, Dallas!

As for myself, the Edge theatre in Rock Hill, South Carolina (a community theatre where I have established roots during my time at Winthrop) is putting on the play, The History Boys February 4-7. It's about a group of boys in who are studying to pass the tests for Oxford and Cambridge as they are graduating in a semester. Oh, and it takes place in England. That means accents for all of us! My character is Posner. For more info, the play was made into a movie in 2006 with the original Broadway cast of the show. It's pretty good, but leaves a lot out of the staged production. The last show I did there, bare: a pop opera went very well with a great review from Creative Loafing in Charlotte. Thanks to everyone who came! Go see The History Boys! Until next time.

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http://www.dallastheatercenter.org/
Dallas!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45OsKkHhv90
trailer to The History Boys

http://tinyurl.com/yh79onp
review of bare: a pop opera by Creative Loafing

ROCKY HORROR SHOW

I'm stoked.
To keep with the flow of the blog, I'm still in bare rehearsals. Yeah, they're good. Last night the cast started to really come together as a family, and I honestly couldn't be any prouder of who I'm working with. This cast is amazing. Come see the show!

Back to now. Alright, so today I'm headed to Summerville, SC to see the Flowertown Players perform The Rocky Horror Show. I. Can't. Wait. I don't think that they're gonna have grab bags since this is the staged version or because of that, we won't be able to do the shout outs. Well, we might do those anyway. Oh, and my outfit is amazing. My friends (who also used to work at Flowertown, Sydney and dody) also have fabulous outfits. It's in general, fabulousness.

As for broadway, opening last night was the revival of Finian's Rainbow. The St. James Theatre is proud to host this revival of a classic. Boy, I wish I could see it.

Happy Halloween!

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Blog Tag

Yeah the show's called, Bare: a Pop Opera, technically. Haven't you seen my tags for my posts, Jess?

Anyway, character is named Lucas.

Sounds like an awesome play! And maybe one day this blog will no longer be a message board!

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real quick

I'm in a show called Bare. Character of Lucas.

What's your play about, Jess?

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Opening Night...Closing Night...Added Show (spoilers haha)

The production came and went, and I have to say that my first college show is one that I will never forget, and could not trade with for anything. The show, Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, was a student-directed production for the 2009-2010 season at WU, and did I mention that it was AMAZING?!?!

It was so different and crazy to actually be in a show where I come in knowing absolutely no one, and leaving with the feeling that I have known these people forever. The cast truly felt like a family where everyone has their souls poured into this show to make it an amazing experience for every audience. And the audience agreed. A few minutes before places was called the night of our second run, our director, David Hutto, told the cast and crew how the Dean of the Department of Theatre and Dance was so impressed, he asked us to extend our run. So, we added a Saturday matinee performance to calm down the ticket sales.

It didn't help much as few people came to see the newly added run time, but every audience left with a smile, a tear, and a thought about what they just saw. Was Beethoven gay? Was CB gay? Was Matt jealous or was their something else? What happens to the kids now? Their lives have been thrown for a loop by the death of a dear friend, and no one got to say goodbye. Though, hope comes to all in a letter of hope written by Charles Schultz.

Using the peanuts gang for this show seems necessary as much as it seems that it isn't. Try to imagine the show without the peanuts and just using the same characters but in a generic fashion. The point doesn't come across as hard. This is because the peanuts gang is a group of kids everyone grows up with, be it the newspaper every Sunday, or watching the Christmas special on CBS. To see these genuine hearts be torn into pieces in one fell swoop is shocking but makes the message that this happens. This message is something that the director was trying to stress. That these issues are faced all the time, and even in what we think is purest, the peanuts, its still there.

On a happy note, we sold out 5 of the 6 performances, with many returning audience members. It just shows how impacting this show can be. Especially for the actors, themselves. It was the first time I had played as the antagonist for any show, and I really had fun with it. I hope I don't get type-casted as the average douche-bag from now on.

All in all, a show so good, words can't fully describe.

At least I'm in another show right now.

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