The Shakespeare Showcase

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As I mentioned awhile ago, we're remounting it again. Three actresses have left and we have two new ones. We're performing mostly the same scenes but have deleted and added some. Our performance schedule is as follows: Jan. 2 & 3 at some location in the Village (on MacDougall Street?) and then several more at the Midtown Theater Festival, second week in January. I'll be reprising Ophelia, Titania and Rosalind (because performing as Rosalind twice in five months just isn't enough for me!) and we've added the Alice-Princess Katherine scene from Henry V in which I'll be playing Katherine. Most exciting is that Jane will be gone for the Jan. 2 & 3 nights--Julie split up her scenes between Tracie (new girl) and me, so I'll be doing Viola (letter scene with Olivia) and several scenes of Juliet! Julie wanted me to do Viola--she wanted me to do another britches role--but she left it up to us to decide who does Juliet. I went straight to Tracie and said "Listen, I've ALWAYS wanted to do this role. Are you really attached to it or do you mind if I take it?" She had no problem so I get to do Juliet! It's three scenes: the first is the meeting with J., the Nurse and Lady C. ("How now! Who calls?"), the second is the scene after the Nurse comes back from meeting with Romeo. The THIRD is my favorite, that beautiful monologue of hers ("Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds...I have bought the mansion of love..."). It's giving me chills right now to think of it. I cannot WAIT. I am going to knock that monologue right. Out of. The. PARK.