So Near And Yet So Far
The show is almost set and ready to go.
The cast is almost there. Chad is still contacting a couple of folks to come in and read to fill roles that couldn't be filled by the auditioners. I look forward to posting the complete cast list when it is complete. Hopefully we will have all in place for Tuesday's first read-through.
The production team is almost there. I ran into a friend at the Orlando Gay Chorus concert on Sunday, and after I told her about the show, she said, "Well if you need help with props or anything..." I thought. Duh. She has done props before. And, yes, in fact, Chad does want a separate props person. This dear wonderful woman was emailed the props list last night and I am fairly sure I will have a commitment from her in a short time.
Costuming still taunts us! Through Debbie's connections at The Rep, their costume manager Virginia has graciously offered to open up their shop to us. That is wonderful, amazing, incredible... but we still need a person to actually pull and coordinate the things. The previously mentioned costumer is unable to do it, and once again it looks like fate may be intervening. A friend-of-a-friend (whom I had met only briefly earlier in the year) called me to say she read the script and fell in LOVE with it. She was so disappointed she couldn't audition for the show due to a conflicting commitment. But she loved the script so much, she read it FIVE times. (I don't think I have read it five times in the last couple of years!) And she has done some costume work in the past with the groups up in the Sanford-Leesburg-Mt. Dora area. With Chad's & Chuck's OK, I have sent her off the info, we'll see what she says. Again, the dream is to have everything in place and a complete COMPANY assembled at the first reading on Tuesday. Cross everything you have two of!
That's all for now! More news as it is available!
The cast is almost there. Chad is still contacting a couple of folks to come in and read to fill roles that couldn't be filled by the auditioners. I look forward to posting the complete cast list when it is complete. Hopefully we will have all in place for Tuesday's first read-through.
The production team is almost there. I ran into a friend at the Orlando Gay Chorus concert on Sunday, and after I told her about the show, she said, "Well if you need help with props or anything..." I thought. Duh. She has done props before. And, yes, in fact, Chad does want a separate props person. This dear wonderful woman was emailed the props list last night and I am fairly sure I will have a commitment from her in a short time.
Costuming still taunts us! Through Debbie's connections at The Rep, their costume manager Virginia has graciously offered to open up their shop to us. That is wonderful, amazing, incredible... but we still need a person to actually pull and coordinate the things. The previously mentioned costumer is unable to do it, and once again it looks like fate may be intervening. A friend-of-a-friend (whom I had met only briefly earlier in the year) called me to say she read the script and fell in LOVE with it. She was so disappointed she couldn't audition for the show due to a conflicting commitment. But she loved the script so much, she read it FIVE times. (I don't think I have read it five times in the last couple of years!) And she has done some costume work in the past with the groups up in the Sanford-Leesburg-Mt. Dora area. With Chad's & Chuck's OK, I have sent her off the info, we'll see what she says. Again, the dream is to have everything in place and a complete COMPANY assembled at the first reading on Tuesday. Cross everything you have two of!
The biggest news is that at our urging, it looks like the run of the show is now going to be THREE WEEKENDS! Yay! In that small theatre which only hold 70 people, we (meaning Steve, myself, and Chad) believe that four extra performances will give more people a chance to see the work and it will also generate additional revenue. So now the performance dates will be:
August 11-12-13-14
August 18-19-20-21
August 25-26-27-28
Thursdays-Saturdays @ 8pm, Sundays @ 2pm.
Again this is all subject to change. Something tells me that 8/11 could be a tech night/invited dress. I have to firm that up before I change the dates at the header of the blog.
And speaking of the blog header, I look forward to replacing it with our poster design which is going to be quite fabulous. Chad had been nurturing his pop-art idea and the original "movie-drama-poster" concept has been replaced with something more abstract and consistent with the overall vision of the show. Steve did up a dummy-design, Cathy is now researching and in the process of making it into a reality.
The budget continues to evolve, and it looks like Chuck is working it out (with the generous approval of PRT President John Goring) that PRT may share the profits of the show with the volunteer staff as well as fortifying the small stipend we are already offering the actors. That is, of course, contingent on the show making any profit at all, and we are fairly optimistic it will. This isn't carved in stone 100% yet. More definites to come later.
That's all for now! More news as it is available!
posted by David Almeida at 9:18 AM
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