Yesterday was the final production of WCCT’s run of the hilarious play, The Nerd. The play itself is one of my favorite goofball comedies and our interpretation of it was met with great audiences and huge responses (although there was the one performance, but you go on). The final performance began with a few cast [...]
Well…. not really chaos (unless you include Thor…. just kidding, but I was never 8-years-old). Opening weekend of The Nerd went very well. There were huge laughs, audiences for each of the three shows (although today’s performance was questionable… at 5pm Saturday, there were only 6-7 reservations of which 4 were my family members). The [...]
Tonight was the first night that I have ever been the stage manager for any show. There are times when I really find it to be fun; but the idea of not being able to be part of either the on-stage activity or in the audience makes it difficult. I do enjoy the comradery you [...]
WOW… tonight was the final dress rehearsal for The Nerd and to quote our director, “We have a show.” I do however, have a few questions about it beginning with the title of this blog… what exactly is gumption… Let’s find out together, shall we? Merriam-Webster’s on-line dictionary lists two definitions: common sense/horse sense enterprise/initiative [...]
Ah, yes, the weekend clean-up prior to the opening of a show at our community theatre. Those gathered were kept busy by doing various duties around the small space. Hanging vinyl LPs from the ceiling in the lobby (I realize that this may age me a bit; but I even remember 8-track tapes and Betamax), [...]
I’m glad you asked. A rusk is a rectangular, hard, dry biscuit or a twice baked bread, commonly called zwieback. These biscuits are often used in child weaning. They also, apparently, go quite well with garbanzos. The dish plays a pivotal and hilarious role in our fast approaching production of The Nerd. The cast had [...]
With less than two weeks to go until opening night, I would say that our community theatre’s production of The Nerd is coming along quite nicely. Today was the first rehearsal during which no scripts were allowed on stage. For the most part everything went rather smoothly, but of course there were those few “hiccups” [...]
In all honesty, I have to say that the current production I am part of is the most difficult time I have ever had and I do not have to memorize one line of dialog. There are several roles both on stage and off in any show. It just so happens that my presence for [...]