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 [...]
Category Archives: Cymbeline
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 [...]
understudying Wayne Carr’s Posthumus
March 5, 2008 – 1:27 am
I had heard of Wayne Carr before I met him (during 2 Henry IV) or had a chance to do a show with him (Cymbeline). Recently I remembered meeting him in February of 2002, observing his MFA voice class at Penn State when I was auditioning there. Having forgotten that, I started to hear about [...]
Kevin Rich saves the day
March 2, 2008 – 4:10 am
Kevin, of course, wrote this blog for Milwaukee Shakes’s previous production, Twelfth Night.
I had 90 minutes for lunch at today’s rehearsal, during which I’d scheduled an audition for Door Shakespeare at the Broadway Theatre Center. I ran over and saw one actor and one understudy from Cymbeline, and, just before I went in to audition, [...]
freakazoid.
March 1, 2008 – 5:54 am
Warning: This is all very Actor-Talkie, and I don’t know if it’ll make sense to anyone but me. But it’s MY blog! Maniacal laughter.
In the past, I’ve sometimes felt like a bit of a freakazoid actor, often being the one guy doing elaborate stretching routines an hour before a performance, sometimes before a rehearsal. I [...]
