Putting a Face on Theatre

March 2009 Blog Posts (32)

My Personal Theatre History

LAST SHOW ADDED TO YOUR RESUME: Tech show would be Gaelic Storm, I was backstage and did some light prep. Performance would be The Pirates of Penzance, I played Edith. LAST SHOW YOU AUDITIONED FOR: Romeo and Juliet DID YOU GET IT: Unfortunatly no, but there are more auditions down the road. LAST SONG YOU USED AT AN AUDITION: Every Story is a Love Story from Aida FAVORITE MUSICAL(s): Into the Woods for sure, but there are tons that I enjoy. FAVORITE PLAY(s): I don't really have one at this… Continue

Added by Lauren Taylor on March 31, 2009 at 7:07pm — No Comments

New Edition of Concert Lighting by James Moody to be Released in Sept.

Just a HEAD UP. My 3rd edition of Concert Lighting: Art, Techniques, and Business will be out in time for LDI in Nov. I will be there signing copies as well as atUSITT where I will also chair a Super Session on Concert Lighting (Wed. tme?) This edition is greatly expaned to cover Digital lighting, LEDs, Protocols and much more. Jim Moody Continue

Added by James Moody on March 31, 2009 at 2:42pm — No Comments

Love it

It really just warms my heart that this sort of thing (Theatreface) exists. This coming together of people everywhere that do and love the same things I do. I read some of the blogs and find them to sound like conversations and thoughts I've had so many times. I enjoy Facebook a great deal but this is actually even better for me! Love it! Continue

Added by Bo Cecil on March 30, 2009 at 9:33pm — 2 Comments

Lighting 101 podcast

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QRRGcuHMOg Continue

Added by Richard Cadena on March 28, 2009 at 7:07am — No Comments

Lighting 101 - Part 2 Webinar

View This Invitation In Your Browser Lighting Design 101: Part II April 16, 2009 In this followup to the previous Lighting Design webinar, Richard Cadena (editor… Continue

Added by Richard Cadena on March 28, 2009 at 7:04am — No Comments

Woot!

Opening Night of Recent Tragic Events! It's exciting. It's my first lighting design on a play and not on a dance show project. It's been fun, hopefully all my lights are plugged in, hopefully everything goes off smoothly, hopefully Will doesn't freak out too much. I think it will be good!! Plus, Sally's coming out tonight, so that just makes my day! Once this is done I can really go focus on Arcadia props. Continue

Added by Lizabeth Mothershead on March 27, 2009 at 3:03pm — No Comments

Flood update:

I just evacuated my half-basement apartment in Moorhead, MN. They evacuated Concordia College and Minn. State-Moorhead campuses. They're calling for voluntary evacuation in a lot of the city. The river is at 40.75 feet. Continue

Added by Katie Korynta on March 27, 2009 at 1:22pm — No Comments

The Theatre Experience

LAST SHOW ADDED TO YOUR RESUME: Confluence by John Bishop... Fabulous show and I was directed by a fabulous director, Trevor Belt. LAST SHOW YOU AUDITIONED FOR: The children's show "Winnie the Pooh" DID YOU GET IT: Unfortunatly no, but that's the way the cookie crumbles. LAST SONG YOU USED AT AN AUDITION: Now That I've Seen Her from Miss Saigon!! FAVORITE MUSICAL(s): Too many to count, but right now I'm sort of in love with "Into the Woods" and "Singin in the Rain." FAVORITE PLAY(s): I… Continue

Added by Alexandria McCale on March 27, 2009 at 1:13pm — No Comments

Irma Vep Rave Reviews

Check out the review of Irma Vep in the LA Times http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/03/review-the-myst.html Continue

Added by Jeff Davis on March 26, 2009 at 2:45pm — No Comments

Tech Directors with beards.

One of my students asked me the other day, "Why do all tech teachers have beards?". My response was "not all of them do... " But then I got to thinking about it and aside from all the wonderful and talented tech teachers that are women, all the males I know that teach tech have beards, and over 75% of them wear galsses, and are a bit on the heavy side. When we play Bob and Marti Fowler's DVDs in my class, people always ask me if he's my brother. Weird Huh? Continue

Added by Tony Potter on March 25, 2009 at 10:20am — 3 Comments

I am so discouraged...

Unable to cast our spring musical...a musical I was REALLY excited to be doing. Now we are trying to regroup and refocus. I am going to direct something, don't know what...majority want murder mystery, but casting remains difficult (I HATE calendering spring shows as folks tend to be overbooked in the spring). I want it to be easier. When we hold auditions, I want enough turnout that I am able to cast...don't want to have to advertise and beg and cajole to fill out the cast. I want people to… Continue

Added by Lynna on March 25, 2009 at 3:20am — 2 Comments

She swings, she misses... she's out

Three auditions, three turn-downs. Haven't heard from the other two. Sigh. Continue

Added by Elizabeth Finkler on March 25, 2009 at 12:53am — No Comments

Flood:

So, as busy(and awesome) as USITT was, I don't get a break coming home, or even just get to go back to my usual schedule. We drove to USITT this year and left on Sunday morning to go home. We stopped in Minneapolis because we had to pick up prop/costume rentals from the Chanhassen Dinner Theatre for our upcoming production of "The Producers". We did our pickup at 9:15am. The 4 of us in the car had to do all the loading of set pieces and costumes into the truck. We didn't get on the road until… Continue

Added by Katie Korynta on March 24, 2009 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Flying Through USITT - Share Your Pics!

Whew! OK, so now that I have my feet back underneath me after a jam-packed USITT weekend, it's time to… Continue

Added by Jacob Coakley on March 24, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

Congrats to the Apollo Creative F/X Challenge Winners!

Apollo announced the winners of their Creative F/X Challenge, where students were challenged to use… Continue

Added by Jacob Coakley on March 21, 2009 at 10:39am — No Comments

Saturday Morning Pics at USITT

Some pics from Saturday morning at USITT. I've been posting them throughout the day to … Continue

Added by Jacob Coakley on March 21, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

Ask Cirque du Soleil Session - Saturday 3/21 8 a.m.

Finally found the Ask Cirque du Soleil session. . . I know I missed some questions. If anyone was there and knows what I missed -- please add in the comments! Question: With Int'l casts -- do language barriers cause safety issues? Official "call" language of show is English. But this was problem in Japan. B/c all staff was Japanese and they didn't speak English -- so they had to find bilingual SM's. After much discussion, they decided to call show in English, b/c JApanese could learn "go" or… Continue

Added by Jacob Coakley on March 21, 2009 at 6:25am — 2 Comments