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Busy busy busy. That's how I am feeling lately. Hopefully life will slow down a bit now. I got home from Minneapolis a week ago and immediately jumped into tech for Seussical. Thankfully I had a couple of days to decompress, but Seussical went off without a hitch. Everyone looked fabulous, and the show rocked. Kudos to all the lighting/set/crew/costume/makeup people. Oh, and the cast too. I have never put so many false eyelashes on a cast - including the year I did makeup for La Cage aux Folles. Then I only had about twelve people in false eyelashes. This show? Every single one of the thirty cast members was in false eyelashes. Every one - even our littlest, a nine year old boy playing JoJo (cute as a button, in his makeup and red, green, and white costume). We went through tubes of the eyelash glue in the six performances (two rehearsals and four performances-with-audiences) they had makeup on. And I spent part of my time peeling the old gunk off the lashes for the next performance. Eeeewwww.
Sparkle, thanks for the animal designs, they were beautiful. And even though the Wickersham brothers were all big gay monkeys (which I mean very affectionately), they were simply fabulous. Our sour kangaroo was the bomb (and the young kangaroo in her pouch was too!). The Who's were too cute for words. And our Gertrude and our Mayzie were *wonderful*! And the Cat was better than the one I saw in Boston when it was here before it went to broadway.
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gwendolyngrace's performance in Mame the day after I got home from Minneapolis, and I was still half fried. She was good, and there were a few standout performances (including their Mame, who unbeknownst to us in the audience, broke her foot halfway through the show the day I saw it). The lady playing Gooch was very good, as was the lady who played Vera. However, there were some things I was sad about. Firstly, the director cut all the dance breaks. "Open a New Window" which, when my group did the show several years ago took up about eight minutes with a three-costume-change montage for the ensemble, in this production? Maybe two minutes and we saw the ensemble once. Although it made me giggle that Gwen was in a priest costume, big white cross and everything.
And apperantly the director wasn't at all familiar with Mame before he agreed to direct at the last minute. And the man has been in Musical Theatre for *decades* - professional musical theatre, like been on Broadway and everything. To which I responded, what? Has he been under a rock?
This prompted The List. It is Gwen and Amy's list of musicals one should be passingly familiar with if you are going to direct/be part of musical theatre -- especially if you're making it a career... Gwen put it up in her journal, so I'm just gonna provide a link:
Gwen and Amy's big list 'o' musicals
Feel free to comment.
Sparkle, thanks for the animal designs, they were beautiful. And even though the Wickersham brothers were all big gay monkeys (which I mean very affectionately), they were simply fabulous. Our sour kangaroo was the bomb (and the young kangaroo in her pouch was too!). The Who's were too cute for words. And our Gertrude and our Mayzie were *wonderful*! And the Cat was better than the one I saw in Boston when it was here before it went to broadway.
In other news, I saw
gwendolyngrace's performance in Mame the day after I got home from Minneapolis, and I was still half fried. She was good, and there were a few standout performances (including their Mame, who unbeknownst to us in the audience, broke her foot halfway through the show the day I saw it). The lady playing Gooch was very good, as was the lady who played Vera. However, there were some things I was sad about. Firstly, the director cut all the dance breaks. "Open a New Window" which, when my group did the show several years ago took up about eight minutes with a three-costume-change montage for the ensemble, in this production? Maybe two minutes and we saw the ensemble once. Although it made me giggle that Gwen was in a priest costume, big white cross and everything. And apperantly the director wasn't at all familiar with Mame before he agreed to direct at the last minute. And the man has been in Musical Theatre for *decades* - professional musical theatre, like been on Broadway and everything. To which I responded, what? Has he been under a rock?
This prompted The List. It is Gwen and Amy's list of musicals one should be passingly familiar with if you are going to direct/be part of musical theatre -- especially if you're making it a career... Gwen put it up in her journal, so I'm just gonna provide a link:
Gwen and Amy's big list 'o' musicals
Feel free to comment.