Corinna said it was OK for the production team to contribute to the Bette and Boo Blog. So I, who am in charge of props for the show, am posting about my scientific investigation of the Gravy Problem. Emily has to spill the gravy. The gravy has to sit there on the floor, ugly and […]
Free stuff and here we go!
Ask for free stuff and you shall receive… Thus far, I have been very successful in procuring free stuff to fit into our close to $0 budget. I hope my luck holds. The Revels kindly passed along a wedding dress when their show finished last Saturday. Rockefeller Chapel graciously agreed to lend us a robe […]
The Birds Have Flown And The Bones Are Quiet.
Tonight’s staged reading has come and gone. This is my first experience doing one, and I have to say it’s nice to get to direct something without having to give your entire life to it. With basically four weeks, only two rehearsals with the musicians and actors together, and only one run-through in the space […]
February Staged Reading: W. B. Yeats’s At the Hawk’s Well and The Dreaming Of The Bones,
So on Friday, February 3 at 8:00 pm at Augustana Lutheran Church (assuming the world has not yet ended), my hardy band of players, singers, and musicians will do staged readings of two of Yeats’s dance plays: At the Hawk’s Well and The Dreaming of the Bones. Each play runs about 20 minutes and there will […]
B and B: Striking the right note
The challenge to successfully directing Durang is finding the right note to strike. While the content of the show- still borns, alcoholism, verbal abuse, general family dysfunction- are not funny on their own, the vehicle is hilarious, and it is important for the actors to be unapologetic and dive right in. As Durang says in his […]
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