Performance notes

[chanaleh]

1. This past weekend I saw two different shows at MIT: mitgsp's Princess Ida after shul on Friday (basically good, with casting ranging from reasonable to brilliant, but overall it mostly solidified the impression that Ida is among my least favorite G&S shows); and MTG's A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum for its closing show Saturday night (totally charming and tremendously well cast; even though some of the players were less strong vocally than I would have liked, they made up for it with characterization). Yay! Also, they're doing Pinafore and Ruddigore next year, either of which I would be happy to do, so I may (*cough* assuming I am still in town *cough*) actually consider auditioning again.

2. I had a fairly intense and complex dream last night featuring Jonathan Coulton, with me and cthulhia as groupies -- a central plot point in the dream being the strong real-life resemblance between JoCo and jonathanjo. Heh.

3. Going with a cadre of theatreatfirsties to see the Lyric Stage production of Arms and The Man tomorrow night -- it's so nice of them to keep doing our shows after we do them! ;-)

4. My friend Adam From The Menschen has written a stage musical adaptation of Harold and the Purple Crayon which is now being staged at the Seacoast Repertory Theatre in Portsmouth, NH (Adam's hometown) -- opening this Saturday and running through June 3. There's an article about it in today's Portsmouth Harold Herald. Believe it or not, I've never actually read the book (!), but I helped Adam do some transcription work in preparing the music for this production, and I'm driving a carload up to the opening matinee (11am, thus leaving Somerville at 9:30am).

5. Auditions next week for theatreatfirst's Summer One-Acts. (Unfortunately, though, I don't think I'm going to try out this time either. Sorry, gang.)

There's probably more, but I am going to go try to get this book chapter finished up... and then maybe get outside while it is still 80 degrees out. :-) Also, contras at MIT again tonight, 8pm!

Comments

great, thanks

[cthulhia]

2. I had a fairly intense and complex dream last night featuring Jonathan Coulton, with me and cthulhia as groupies -- a central plot point in the dream being the strong real-life resemblance between JoCo and jonathanjo. Heh.

I didn't see the resemblance before, and, now I do.

Re: great, thanks

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

I try to help. ;-)

Resemblance of the Jonathans

[happyfunpaul.livejournal.com]

Whereas my reaction was "Yay! I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that!"

[navrins]

1. A funny thing happened on the way to A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to the Forum, so lignota and I ended up not seeing it. (Kresge got evacuated before the show started due to Not An Emergency, and we waited until we decided we would be grumpy even if it eventually started, and left.)

3. Huh, I didn't know about this. But I think I've had enough Arms for now, myself.

[coraline]

...did you hear that there was an emergency matinee the next day to make up for it? sorry you missed it... it was all quite grumpy-making...

[navrins]

We did hear about it, but we were busy apartment-shopping.

We didn't actually get grumpy; we just realized that if we stayed, we were going to get grumpy, so we left.

Was there ever any further information about what actually happened?

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

Timmy (Forum's Pseudolus) came by the MITG&SP greenroom to ask us to make an announcement about the extra matinee. He said the water in Kresge got turned off and the sprinklers wouldn't work, so no one was allowed to be in the building--presumably for insurance reasons, if nothing else.

[coraline]

http://www-tech.mit.edu/V127/N24/kresge.html

[tober.livejournal.com]

I saw the MIT Concert Choir performance of the St. John Passion - which was very good - opposite the performance of A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum that you attended. Hopefully it wasn't too audible downstairs.

[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

How's the freelancing thing going?

[hatam-soferet.livejournal.com]

Butbutbut...but Ida is so cool!!

[dushai.livejournal.com]

JoCo is teh sexxay. :)