drama of the actual kind...
Jul. 21st, 2010 11:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluecastleSo, by the end of today I will have a ticket reserved for a production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" at the summer theater barn next Friday.
and I just reserved a ticket for another local theater group's production of "Waiting for Godot" for this Saturday afternoon.
YIKES THAT'S SOME SERIOUS THEATER THERE!
Interested to see what the professional who is directing Streetcar does with it. (Professional as in someone you probably have seen at some point on your movie and tv screens) The BFF is playing Mitch and the pro was really really pushing him during rehearsals to be a more active actor. Not sure I really see Mitch as sexual predator ... but challenging the BFF is a good thing (even if he hated it at the time. The boy has talent, but doesn't get challenged often enough).
And Godot ... as one of my pals said, I am going because I know the people in it, not because I care about the show as such. All local talent, and one sort of local who used to live here, but now lives in Brooklyn, but comes in over the summer to do theater.
He's Benedick in next month's local prod. of Much Ado as well.
Look at all the pretty theater *pets it* ... sort of regretting not auditioning for Much Ado, but their schedule is nuts. Also, my friend with the bookstore (who is directing Godot) was supposed to be Beatrice, but obvs. had to drop out, and my other friend, Director Cee is taking over. Cee Cee's already been on me to see if I want to be her line coach... :) So I may end up involved in it in some small way.
(As you can see, the local theater crowd is very insular)
Oh, speaking of my friend with the bookstore... not ALL that much to tell. She will almost certainly have to close the current location at the end of the month, but there are talks with realtors and banks ongoing. Also there have been numerous fundraisers in an attempt to get the store some capital to reopen with. They're shooting for a pot of $50,000 and I think they're about 10% of the way there. And the community building goes on...
ETA: Went and looked at the local fundraiser's page ... the goal is $40,000 and we're 31% of the way there :)
and I just reserved a ticket for another local theater group's production of "Waiting for Godot" for this Saturday afternoon.
YIKES THAT'S SOME SERIOUS THEATER THERE!
Interested to see what the professional who is directing Streetcar does with it. (Professional as in someone you probably have seen at some point on your movie and tv screens) The BFF is playing Mitch and the pro was really really pushing him during rehearsals to be a more active actor. Not sure I really see Mitch as sexual predator ... but challenging the BFF is a good thing (even if he hated it at the time. The boy has talent, but doesn't get challenged often enough).
And Godot ... as one of my pals said, I am going because I know the people in it, not because I care about the show as such. All local talent, and one sort of local who used to live here, but now lives in Brooklyn, but comes in over the summer to do theater.
He's Benedick in next month's local prod. of Much Ado as well.
Look at all the pretty theater *pets it* ... sort of regretting not auditioning for Much Ado, but their schedule is nuts. Also, my friend with the bookstore (who is directing Godot) was supposed to be Beatrice, but obvs. had to drop out, and my other friend, Director Cee is taking over. Cee Cee's already been on me to see if I want to be her line coach... :) So I may end up involved in it in some small way.
(As you can see, the local theater crowd is very insular)
Oh, speaking of my friend with the bookstore... not ALL that much to tell. She will almost certainly have to close the current location at the end of the month, but there are talks with realtors and banks ongoing. Also there have been numerous fundraisers in an attempt to get the store some capital to reopen with. They're shooting for a pot of $50,000 and I think they're about 10% of the way there. And the community building goes on...
ETA: Went and looked at the local fundraiser's page ... the goal is $40,000 and we're 31% of the way there :)
