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speedmetal wrote:I've never acted on stage. I was usually a prop runner, asm or stage manager. I haven't found a theatre to work at here though. In Texas I was an intern for the community theatre. I built and painted the sets. I really miss it.
You should try being on stage at least once! I've worked all aspects from props to stage manager, lights, mics, costumes, etc. But I love being on stage the most. I was super shy all through school, so my senior year my choir director talked me into auditioning for a musical, and theatre became my outlet to open up and I never looked back. I was hooked.
speedmetal wrote:I've never acted on stage. I was usually a prop runner, asm or stage manager. I haven't found a theatre to work at here though. In Texas I was an intern for the community theatre. I built and painted the sets. I really miss it.
You should try being on stage at least once! I've worked all aspects from props to stage manager, lights, mics, costumes, etc. But I love being on stage the most. I was super shy all through school, so my senior year my choir director talked me into auditioning for a musical, and theatre became my outlet to open up and I never looked back. I was hooked.
I tried out for one musical and I didn't get the part. So I stuck to what I do best, make the show run.
It's going well!! As expected the score is incredibly challenging and there is also the challenge of doing a show that is specifically about the Japanese culture. You want to do it justice and at the same time you don't want to stray into that realm of sterotypes or characature. It's a delicate balance.
We've yet to do a cohesive run...that happens this weekend. It'll be interresting to see how the entire peice flows and fits together.
A "little" Phantom story for the Phantom fans out there, which was in a way inspired after all the Orlando Les Mis excitement over the past few days.
I remember the only reason I actually went to see a musical was to see how they did stuff on stage, being a major tech geek. Maybe that's why I love flat rides so much, leading to this theme park obsession? Since Phantom was marketed by Cineplex, who owned the Pantages, it was marketed like a huge summer Hollywood blockbuster and everyone and anyone saw it as a result, for various reasons, through its 10 year run in Toronto. It was the first musical I ever saw for that reason after the folks said we're having a night out in the city one cold winter night in 1989.
The show itself kinda put me, my sister and the folks to sleep in all honesty when nothing but singing was going on. But, what made me appreciate a musical beyond the the tech and cool stuff was an actor/ singer's ability to wake you up whenever on stage and instantly give you goose bumps. In Phantom's case, it was Colm Wilkinson, fresh off of Les Mis' London and Broadway productions. He'd finish up a song and the whole audience was just "wowed". I saw it more than once and checked out Les Mis because of that. Paul Stanley from Kiss taking over when Colm left kept ticket sales going and actually worked out. Who would have thought? Then, the producers were convicted of the biggest accounting fraud in Canadian business history and all of their shows closed. Many would interpret that as a happy ending I think?
Because Phantom was a marketing machine, they even had an educational program to help fill Wednesday matinee seats. My second time seeing it was for this "Phantom Educational Experience" on a grade 7 field trip. It involved a film about musical theatre and Phantom in the AM, a Q&A with some of the actors, then the show itself. It was bizarre because our teachers told us to get all dressed up and then we rode the yellow cheese wagon into the city. Meanwhile, all the retirees from up-state New York, Rochester and Buffalo got nice coach busses. Consider it like a TPR Bash event for musical theatre.
For all the tech, theater and Phantom geeks, I came across that "Educational Video", promo and documentary that us elementary kids at the time, had to watch.
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