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Thoughts, ponderings, ideas and topics (hot or not) related to, but not restricted to, theatre, acting, directing, narrating and other such BS.
R-ACT Holiday Radio Show
R-ACT performed a holiday radio show this past weekend at the Merrick Free Art Gallery. The show was performed before a live audience as if we were broadcasting over the air. complete with sound effects.
We performed two different shows. The first was Three Men, a tale of three soldiers on leave in France just after the Great War. And the Second was A Child Is Born, about an Innkeeper and his wife in Bethlehem.
These were performed live in front of an audience but they were meant to be listened to.
Enjoy.
Pittsburgh 48 Hour Film Project - July 11 to 13
or My Experiences With Guerrilla Screenwriting
Over the weekend, I joined a team from Gippos Video Studio lead by Nikea and Jamaule to create a 4-7 minute movie in 48 hours. This is my story.
Come see our film. It's playing Friday July 18th. You can buy tickets here - http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/769647
The Waiting Game
So we (the team of writers) were sitting around a table Friday waiting for news on our genre. It was unanimously decided that if we were to draw musical, we were screwed. The only thing we were less prepared for was sci-fi, oddly enough. But I've seen enough episodes of Star Trek to fix that.
We waited patiently. Well, maybe not so patiently; I seem to remember the group chat monstrosity thing going off constantly as we got updates from the Team Leads down at Chatham as well as posts from others, including one poster who felt the need to describe what he was eating. I think it was Tyler and I think it was something with cheese.
And then we got the news - Musical/Western.
Egads!
And people were excited about it... well, at least those people who weren't going to have to write a musical were excited about it. Oh yes, we went with musical because, seriously, how does one do a western in Pennsylvania in July. The wild west was never as verdant as Pittsburgh.
Sherlock Cast Photos
5x7 Photo
8x10 Photo
Sherlock Cast and in Rehearsals
My play, Sherlock Holmes and the Sign of Four, has gone through a table reading and a couple of revisions and is now in the rehearsal stage. I have cast the show with some promising and wonderful people and I can't wait to see it come together.
This will be the first time I will be working with a script I can re-write at will.
Show opens in May, so we better get to it.
CAST:
- Sherlock Holmes - Michael Brewer
- John Watson - Hunter Mehrens
- Mary Morstan - Jenny Mehrens
- Stamford/Bartholomew Sholto/Williams/Captain Pollock - Jim Watson
- Inspector Abernathy Jones - Kevin McGuire
- Thaddeus Sholto/Mordecai Smith - Bruce Travers
- Wiggins/Tonga - Sam Bassett
- Mrs. Hudson/Mrs. Smith - Rachael Rysz
- Mrs. Bernstone/Mrs. Forrester - Cathy Gialloreto
- McMurdo/Constable Murcher - David Wargo
- Jonathan Small - Carl Gross
- Jack Smith - not yet cast
Stage Manager - Kaleigh Ruiz
Update on Sherlock Holmes
We've set a time for the production. My first literary adaptation will go on stage at the Comtra on May 2, 2013 and run for three weekends.
This is very exciting. I have the entire script complete and I'm working on polishing.
I'll need lots of guys, several women and a couple kids, so if you're interested in auditioning, come on out. Auditions are in March. I'll post more later.