"How now spirit - whither wander you?"
Puck encounters one of Titania's fairies:
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the shows that go on...
"Is all our company here?"
Quince and the other mechanicals prepare to rehearse "The most lamentable comedy, and most cruel death, of Pyramus and Thisby":
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"Give it then to me."
Oberon compels Puck to give him the magic flower:
"Wake when some vile thing is near."
Oberon casts a spell on Titania:
"Out of these woods do not desire to go!"
The love-struck Titania prevents the transformed Bottom from leaving the woods.
Amy, That great! I love the look!
Beautiful Amy and Maxfield Parrish is one of my favorite daylilies. LOL
Great lighting, Amy.
Thanks. i haven't worked on the Act 2 pics yet... i have to photoshop them into a small enough size to upload reasonably... (i am backlogged on garden pictures, too!)
Here are links to some of the specific works we were inspired by:
http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/cjackson/parrish/p-parrish4.htm
http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/cjackson/parrish/p-parrish6.htm
http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/cjackson/parrish/p-parris17.htm
(It is a pretty cool site for online art in general...)
My (temporary) step-mother was really into Parrish. Those are great links Amy - I can see how the show relates!
Of course there is a daylily! (And of course Celeste knows about - and has - it!) It is very pretty - i looked up the pictures. But still not as pretty as his paintings...
; )
Amazing lighting in that last scene above, Amy. Beautiful.
Thank you! i had the idea, that when Oberon or Titania spelled someone to come to them, they would be in a "tunnel" of light from the low boom sidelight. The director loved it, and 8 out of 10 of DH's lighting students mentioned it in the paper they had to write...
Which either means it really was way cool, or that my choices are so obvious that even semi-clueless 20 year olds notice.
i also suggested using the colorizers, multicolored dichroic glass filters that DH owns 2 of. Why he didn't think of it is utterly beyond me.
Sorry, i shouldn't boast. (But assistants have good ideas too..! Along with some really misguided ones i spent a lot of time fixing...)
I have directed several community/school performances. I could only explain to the lighting director what I wanted the end result to be, not how to do it, but during a performance of Harvey one time, he was unavailable. There was no one else who could manage the light board. I spent a miserable Saturday in the lighting booth with the director on the other end of the phone. A shadow profile of Harvey done with a spotlight was upside down.
First and last time I ever tried to manipulate a light board or the lights. I have utmost respect for anyone who can come up with lighting that can match the mood that is needed for a scene...and also for those who run the light board. What you do sets the scene. Makes the difference in a laugh or a frown.
i love it! It is almost like making visible music. And i am sure you could do it beautifully if you wanted to. ^_^
Were you using a manual board? No one left Q sheets? yikes! (i am guessing you put in a template right-side up, thus making the image upside down?) Computer boards make everything so much easier - and infinitely more complicated...
i still remember the last complicated show i ran on a manual board - it was 83 Qs on a 24 channel 2 scene preset - whew! (Of course, i was also the SM and thus i was following book, which is a little trickier.)
i think we wrote only about a hundred Qs, using 65 channels for Midsummer... Many musicals i've called have had closer to 200 - and really big shows have many times more...
So, i got back from NYC on Sunday night. i go with Eric, who goes with a group of students who perform student directed pieces in a very small theatre every year. i don't have to work, so i just stand in lines for cheap tickets, and see lots of shows. And stay at the Milford Plaza on 45th street for free.
Wednesday:
Sunday in the Park with George
Eric and i organized a group of tech students to go with us. We'd seen it in February, and it is one of the best things i have EVER seen. It also has the most innovative use of projections i have ever imagined - truly amazing. i think the students even liked it. Interesting to show them that a musical can be a grown-up, intelligent drama anyhow. And they loved the projections.
Thursday:
August: Osage County
People talk about it being 3 and a half hours long, but i have seen much shorter shows that felt much MUCH longer. Theatres are going to be doing this one for a long time - it has great women's roles. And it won the Pulitzer.
Friday:
Cry Baby
i liked it. Fun, goofy, dark weird John Waters edge. Lots of people don't find it all that funny (see the NY Times review, or the gaggle of 14 year old "WhatEVER" girls i was sitting by.)
Saturday:
Curtains
This was the matinee the school took the kids to see this year. i went too, though i saw it last year. Almost the entire original cast remains with the show, but it closes at the end of June. i adore Karen Ziemba and Jason Danieley, but of course everyone is psyched about David Hyde Pierce. (Who totally deserved his Tony.)
Too tired to finish. More later if anyone is interested.
Passing Strange
The 39 Steps
Tomorrow night we are going to drive down to see Boeing Boeing. i am so excited, Mark Rylance, a British actor i love is in it - the only one from the West End production doing it on B'way.
http://www.boeingonbroadway.com/index.html
Airline drama?
er. Not a drama. Very silly farce. There was a movie from 1965 with Tony Curtis and Jerry Lewis. (i'd never heard of it either.) Apparently the original play set all kinds of attendence records and ran for 7 years in London in the 60s, but came to B'way and was a flop.
But this one is up for several Tonys. (It also stars Bradley Whitford from The West Wing, Gina Gershon, and Christine Baranski.)
Ooooh, Bradley Whitford..... gush, gush.
And believe it or not, my DH doesn't know who Gina Gershon is...
Me neither. Am I missing something?
She was in Showgirls. And had a VERY famous sex scene with Jennifer Tilly in Bound.
(If you do a Google image search you can find a lot of pictures.)
Got my interest.
Thanks Amy
Just helping out...
Such a sweet kid, our Amy. Always helpful. ^_^
Notice that she hasn't informed her husband.
i DID. He so didn't care. He was working on some programming thing, though. Difficult to distract him.
The show was pretty dumb, but Mark Rylance was fantastic. i got to meet him after, and he was very nice. He is winning lots of new fans - well, everyone who sees the show, i think he was amused that i went only because of him.
Sounds like a fabulous weekend. Now back to the garden.
Just saw the new Indiana Jones movie. Not as good as the original, but the chase scenes on the college campus were made at my old worksite, Yale U. I especially enjoyed the motorcycle chase ending in the library, but didn't see any of my friends who were hired as extras.
My daughter didn't like it - she thought Harrison Ford was too old! Never!
Several of the SCSU theatre students got jobs as grips, etc on the movie. They enjoyed the experience a LOT, but almost no one seemed to like the movie much.
BIG IMPORTANT job interview (at least to me) tomorrow afternoon. i am nervous. It has literally been about 5 years since i have gone on a job interview in person. Most of the work i've gotten has been via recommendation, and at most a phone interview.
Keeping fingers and toes crossed that come off well. i know i can do the job - i just worry i'll sound muddled and won't get the chance...)
amy
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Amy, I have my fingers and my toes crossed for you - though I doubt you need it!
Is this where I say, "Break a leg" ?
Joy of the day, Amy
Good luck, Amy! I'm sure it's yours for the taking.
Oh Amy, best of luck and many bouquets! Maybe clean under your fingernails - at least that's what I would have to do.
hehehee. i'll try.
Thanks for the good wishes Victor, Michaela, Sherrie and Carrie!
It's just a 5 week job, and the $ is nothing stupendous, but it would really help me get back to what i want to be doing. i lost so much professional momentum pretending to be a student - i want to get back in the game!
Good luck Amy!!