Week Two of the run of Cymbeline and illness has stricken half the cast. The dressing and green rooms are filled with the phlegmy hacky moany sounds of actors soldiering on. Mass amounts of teas, vitamins and lozenges have been procured for us, yet the bug keeps wracking up victims. I’ve watched at least two [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2008
open / out of contact
March 25, 2008 – 6:06 am
It’s Monday and I’m on my weekend. The show is open and I am back in Chicago. I slept till 3 today, believe it. Which means I sacrificed several to-do list activities today in the name of rejuvenation. But it’s a happy time, no doubt, as that show I’m in has turned out pretty good, [...]
As promised, here’s… ANDY v. FIREMAN!
March 21, 2008 – 10:49 pm
Cymbeline opens tomorrow night. Come see us light the Broadway Theatre Center ablaze…with our Acting!
Still snowing, still rehearsing.
March 21, 2008 – 4:20 pm
The Spring Equinox has come and so has Cymbeline’s audience, as we held our first public Preview last night. Yesterday I walked around the Third Ward with an open coat and listened to the glorious sounds of a crowd of people, followed by a crowd of people listening intently. Today it’s snowing like a mother [...]
Smoke + Sweat + Stress = Tech (cont’d.)
March 18, 2008 – 7:59 am
even though exhausted from tech, I have insomnia.
of course.
so this is a bit of a ramble…
hold on and have fun, readers!
So what else, then? The high point of tech so far for me personally was the recreation of the battle sequence on Sunday afternoon. Very little of the battles was planned when we left the [...]
Smoke? Check. Sweat? Check. Stress? Check. (It’s Tech.)
March 18, 2008 – 6:55 am
Howdy loyal blog readers. All eight of you. I’m back in Chicago for the last day off before we return on Wednesday for another tech run, then previews on Thursday and Friday and opening on Saturday. Got your tickets? We’d love to see you there, and please join us afterwards to celebrate once we’ve finally [...]
Cramming. (notes from tech)
March 13, 2008 – 4:14 pm
Hi.
So Cymbeline has made it to tech week. Or tech week-and-a-half, actually. And not yet actually tech yet. We get two days’ reahersal in the performance space before costumes, lights, sound, etc. join the fray. Bonus time to reconfigure staging, get accustomed to sight lines, get comfortable in the space, and run the show in [...]
Rad. (pre-tech pep talk to myself)
March 10, 2008 – 10:39 pm
Monday is Friday, in that we’re off tomorrow, and we’re culminating this week’s work with a run-through for designers today. A design run-through, if you will. It’ll be the first time we’ve put the show together from start to finish. The staff is very excited–Noel is passing and beads and saying “Happy Design Run-Through Day!” [...]
Lupercalia!
March 8, 2008 – 12:47 am
In the grand tradition of Milwaukee Shakespeare themed volunteer dinners thrown for the cast (Cinco de Paco & Twelfth Night), came Lupercalia!, held last Saturday during dinner break, feeding us into a frenzy before our evening slog-thru of all that had been blocked so far.
The Roman theme (the bad guys who war with the Brits in Cymbeline) was [...]
Meanwhile, in Verona…
March 7, 2008 – 11:38 pm
Happy Friday, people with normal lives. Here at Milwaukee Shakespeare, we’re continuing into the thick of our work week, mere days away from exiting the friendly confines of the rehearsal space and loading in to the Broadway Theatre Center’s Studio for spacing and technical rehearsals. Today I reluctantly skipped watching the staging of one of [...]
