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Go ye heroes, go and die! Go ye heroes, go and die!
So Dave and I met at Court Street last Tuesday to talk about Pirates. I want to, as I said, streamline the show--some *very* judicious cuts (either Paradox or O False One, plus some of the lamer jokes, like the endlessly jokeboated "orphan/often" nonsense). And I want some sexitude. I want Dread Pirates showing a little chest, I want demurely sexy maidens, I want some eye candy, some FUN with my gorgeous voices. It's such a fun show, so hilarious and witty. I have this hilarious recording of "When the foeman bares his steel" when the policemen come in again after Mabel, Edith and the girls sing "Go to death, go to slaughter!/Die, and every Cornish daughter/With her tears your grave shall water/Go ye heroes, go and DIE!" The policemen come in again only they're going really, really flat at the end of each of the "Tarantara" phrases, as though they're literally running out of air. It's HILARIOUS, I truly cannot do justice to how funny it is. I don't think that's in the score because I've done the show several times now and I don't remember that. Brilliant choice.
He talked about future projects as well, which got me very excited as there are a couple of shows I've been pushing for some time and now we may get to produce them. The space where we're doing Pirates isn't quite ready yet but it should be in a few days--and then I get to go see it. Dave told me it's a small, environmental sort of space which is right up my alley--Pirates is always staged in a proscenium, I get to do something different. That's pretty much the flavor right there--not your mama's Pirates. A little leaner, a little sexier, a lot less stodgily Victorian. In the second act I'm bring the girls on in bloomers. Rowr! And we'll have lots of shirtlessness with the pirates.
We had our first rehearsal for the Midsummer reading--I had a blast, a really strong cast. Shakespeare Saturdays is like that--I had to call in the troops in order to insure good people for Antony and Cleopatra, but everyone wants to be in Midsummer so talent came out of the woodwork. I like my Oberon a lot--he's, shall we say, less than convincing as an icon of hetersexuality but at least he's there unlike some other Oberons I've known. (Ryan was terrific--he's the best Oberon I've ever worked with.) The mechanicals were pretty good, especially Flute who was making us all laugh with his falsetto. Donna's also setting Oberon's wedding song to music--all the fairies are singing it and it's going to be gorgeous. I was so busy Saturday, every moment I wasn't reading a scene--literally every moment--I was reading material for class. We had something like 100 pages assigned this week--Abelard's Historia Calamitatum (40 pp.), plus the intro (35 pp.), PLUS 25 pp. of historical background on that era--the intellectual awakening of the 11th century. And this is dense stuff too--that intro kicked my ass. My favorite sentence from all of the readings is when it says "Philosophy and theology, on the other hand, developed slowly but steadily from onwards, reaching their fullest expansion only between 1220 and 1350, after which a rapid decline began." Hmm, can't imagine why! There's some juicy shit on Eloise and Abelard's relationship as well, but I'll write about that later. But let me tell you, shit got real.
He talked about future projects as well, which got me very excited as there are a couple of shows I've been pushing for some time and now we may get to produce them. The space where we're doing Pirates isn't quite ready yet but it should be in a few days--and then I get to go see it. Dave told me it's a small, environmental sort of space which is right up my alley--Pirates is always staged in a proscenium, I get to do something different. That's pretty much the flavor right there--not your mama's Pirates. A little leaner, a little sexier, a lot less stodgily Victorian. In the second act I'm bring the girls on in bloomers. Rowr! And we'll have lots of shirtlessness with the pirates.
We had our first rehearsal for the Midsummer reading--I had a blast, a really strong cast. Shakespeare Saturdays is like that--I had to call in the troops in order to insure good people for Antony and Cleopatra, but everyone wants to be in Midsummer so talent came out of the woodwork. I like my Oberon a lot--he's, shall we say, less than convincing as an icon of hetersexuality but at least he's there unlike some other Oberons I've known. (Ryan was terrific--he's the best Oberon I've ever worked with.) The mechanicals were pretty good, especially Flute who was making us all laugh with his falsetto. Donna's also setting Oberon's wedding song to music--all the fairies are singing it and it's going to be gorgeous. I was so busy Saturday, every moment I wasn't reading a scene--literally every moment--I was reading material for class. We had something like 100 pages assigned this week--Abelard's Historia Calamitatum (40 pp.), plus the intro (35 pp.), PLUS 25 pp. of historical background on that era--the intellectual awakening of the 11th century. And this is dense stuff too--that intro kicked my ass. My favorite sentence from all of the readings is when it says "Philosophy and theology, on the other hand, developed slowly but steadily from onwards, reaching their fullest expansion only between 1220 and 1350, after which a rapid decline began." Hmm, can't imagine why! There's some juicy shit on Eloise and Abelard's relationship as well, but I'll write about that later. But let me tell you, shit got real.