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I just finished making my first white model today, I didn't expect it to be such a relaxing, entertaining activity. I almost want to show you guys out of pride but I'm afraid I'd get booed. I also want to make more more more
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My 10 minuter ('If You Are') is NOT opening this week. The festival was canceled, via facebook. This was by the roommate of the person who was originally going to run 'Apocrypha' this semester. I think looking back at my posts in this thread would be very sad now, and very funny in five or so years.
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Apr 10, 2011 16:54
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drat dude, you should probably just move to Chicago already and get it over with. We'll produce your poo poo, I promise.
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Moving away from the hometown is in the cards. If I get an offer from [CHICAGO'S HUGEST WEB STARTUP], I won't hesitate to come out west. Edit: Offer is not gonna happen, but they told me really quickly, so that's life. Golden Bee fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Apr 30, 2011 |
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Apr 11, 2011 16:42
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I swear by this time next year half the people in this town will work for Groupon.
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Apr 11, 2011 16:59
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Ha, two of the improv groups I was involved with disbanded this year because more than half of each troupe got a job at Groupon. That company is growing like mad.
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Update with "Macbeth" -- We're in out last few rehearsals and we open next Wednesday. Despite this fact, our Ross and our Duncan keep forgetting their lines, and as a director I've had to refrain from freaking out and getting rid of them. But since recasting would be misery, and so would cutting the characters to make the production still work, I've decided to keep them on. With Ross, I've decided just to drastically cut his lines to the point that he never really has more than four sentences in any given line. It's frustrating, but I suppose this is what comes from working with non-professional actors. Next time I hope to set aside a budget to pay people, because in Austin (just like anywhere) there are tons of free actors, but only so many of them are worthwhile. Here are some promo-photos we've taken!:   
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Apr 14, 2011 21:35
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So, I just ended my first play recently, and I enjoyed it enormously. Unfortunately, since I'm still looking for a job, and I'm a student as well, free time and experience are not things that I have, so it's not like I can just do another play. What do you guys do to cure your post-show blues?
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Apr 15, 2011 05:36
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Go see more theatre while you wait for another show to happen. Or just drink, I guess.
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Apr 15, 2011 17:49
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OSheaman posted:drink This is traditional. My advice would be to read plays, just for the fun of it. Don't worry about looking for audition pieces or anything, just read to enjoy (and photocopy great audition pieces when you find them). OSheaman's advice to go to more shows is also wise and if you find a company who's work you really like, start networking with them.
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Apr 15, 2011 19:37
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By "networking with them" he means "sleeping with one of their company members"
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OSheaman posted:By "networking with them" he means "sleeping with one of their company members" That's the holy grail right there (choose wisely).
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Apr 15, 2011 20:53
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OSheaman posted:Or just drink, I guess. OSheaman posted:By "networking with them" he means "sleeping with one of their company members"
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Inventing Van Gogh opened last Friday. I should have some pictures ready to show off in 2 weeks or so. Random question I have been thinking about : What is everyone's opinion on Thorton Wilder's works? Our Town is the first show I ever worked on and it really turned me off of reading anything else of his because it was just so dry. But earlier this year I was designing The Skin of Our Teeth and I loved it. So does anyone else have the same feeling towards Wilder or is there another playwright that you were not a fan of at first, but later found enjoyable?
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Apr 19, 2011 00:29
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Charles Mee I don't particularly like. His dialogue is so on-point that it's bland, and his stage directions are film directions ("the stage bursts into flames, but if that's not possible, try something else"). He calls for songs that don't come with the plays. His popularity is a mystery to me.
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Apr 19, 2011 01:42
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Question for Playwrights adapting other author's works for the stage: What's the process of negotiating the rights for using the original story as basis? I'm adapting some short stories by Raymond Carver and I'm completely unfamiliar with who to talk to and what the process might be to put these performances up legally. I'd like to do a collection of short play performances of material adapted from Carver, and I'd also like to gain some legitimacy by doing the proper legal work.
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/playwriting/62178/2 This is the first result Google gave me, It looks like you should contact the publisher of the works you want to adapt and go from there, if that site is accurate.
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Burger Crime posted:Random question I have been thinking about : What is everyone's opinion on Thorton Wilder's works? Our Town is the first show I ever worked on and it really turned me off of reading anything else of his because it was just so dry. But earlier this year I was designing The Skin of Our Teeth and I loved it. So does anyone else have the same feeling towards Wilder or is there another playwright that you were not a fan of at first, but later found enjoyable? I've been in one production of Pullman Car Hiawatha and seen one production of Our Town, so I'm no expert. That said, I think he's been High Schooled to death, sort of like Agatha Christie's The Mouse Trap or Diary of Anne Frank.
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Just found out I'll be playing Oscar in The Odd Couple this summer for our community theater group. I'm really looking forward to it, but the whole point of my friend and I suggesting this show be done was because we wanted a money maker (we need one pretty badly) and we wanted to play the titular characters together. Well, I got the role I wanted but the director picked someone other than my pal for Felix. The guy will do a great job, but it's just not what we had in mind. Ah well. The cast is almost all friends of mine (including Felix), so we'll have a blast. For the record, the guy cast as Felix has honest-to-God-Aspberger's and will do an amazing job. A guy who can't relate to people other than when he's acting like them playing the world's biggest fussbudget will be great. My friend and I have just not had a chance to play off of each other in a full-on production though, so we were looking forward to it. Anyway, it turns out I'll be in Chicago Monday-Thursday next week and I'm wondering if any of you Chicago goons have any productions going on that would be cheap entertainment for my brother-in-law and I. I'm unemployed, so auditioning for The X-Factor seems like a good idea (I have no illusions about getting through or doing well since I'm a 33 year old, overweight married man who hates most pop music, but I don't have anything to lose). I don't know how much time the auditions will eat up and we're both broke as hell, so we don't have much in the way of cash but I'd like to support some of you folks while I'm out there if I can. I know I'm not a pro, but you've all been supportive and helpful in here and I'd like to give back a little.
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Apr 20, 2011 06:01
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I'm doing a staged reading of a heavy goddamned piece on Monday (just reading stage directions though), an amazingly well-written piece about autism. I'd try to get you to the all-female Romeo & Juliet my girlfriend's theatre company has up now but if you're leaving Thursday, that won't work.
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Apr 20, 2011 12:34
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Hey, maybe I'll get a call-back and have to stay an extra day or two. That Romeo & Juliet sounds awesome.
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Geekboy posted:Hey, maybe I'll get a call-back and have to stay an extra day or two. That Romeo & Juliet sounds awesome. It's a hell of a production and the fights are incredible, though that's what the Babes With Blades do. There are some amazing performances and some staging choices that make me want to slap the director. All-in-all it's the best production of the show I've seen. Where are you staying? It would be cool to actually get to meet you after all these internet years.
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Apr 20, 2011 18:11
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. . . Chicago Theatre Goonmeet part 2? And rantmo where is this staged reading taking place
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OSheaman posted:. . . Chicago Theatre Goonmeet part 2? Hell yeah! OSheaman posted:And rantmo where is this staged reading taking place It's at the Stop Smiling studio, 1371 N. Milwaukee at 8 pm. It's part of the Inchworm Playreading festival.
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Apr 20, 2011 21:52
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Man, I should just move to Chicago. You guys have great stuff going on, I would love to see that production of R+J. Are you all doing theatre full time in Chicago?
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Burger Crime posted:Man, I should just move to Chicago. You guys have great stuff going on, I would love to see that production of R+J. Are you all doing theatre full time in Chicago? Not full-time, but pretty consistently. Most of us work at the storefront level, which operates on the assumption that everyone involved has a day job of some sort. I know a number of people who are able to work exclusively in the arts, usually by doing children's theatre and teaching and then doing other random things like Standardized Patient programs at medical schools (OSheaman, did you email Rick?). Not a ton of shows pay much, if at all, since everyone is broke but the quality of work is very high. We do have plenty of Equity houses and that's another world entirely, but not one that can't be accessed. Chicago really is the best place to do theatre so far as I can tell. The community is great, the shows are the best in the world, the theatre goons are attractive and prone to drinking.
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Yeah I e-mailed Rick, no word from him. I have an interview with a hair salon tomorrow for a front desk gig and I'm going to study for my personal trainer certification . . . we'll see how that goes. And I'm coming to that staged reading. It's free, right? Free rules.
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Apr 21, 2011 03:30
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OSheaman posted:And I'm coming to that staged reading. It's free, right? Free rules. I see absolutely nothing to indicate that it's not free.
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Taking away from ChicagoChat for a second (not that it's not interesting, but there's a Pacific Ocean between us) - I received an email a week or so ago from the people who'd commissioned me to write a first draft based on an outline I sent to them last year as part of a competition they were running. They liked my first draft, it seems - at least, enough to commission three more drafts of it. I'm just waiting for them to lock down a script advisor for me and then we're out of the gates. Which is awesome.
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Apr 21, 2011 13:26
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What's your script about? Also, what's it like in Hawaii?
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I'll be staying at the Super 8 in Elgin because it's less than 4 miles from the audition spot and is cheeeeeap. PM me if you can or something and we'll work something out, rantmo. That's awesome, Pigeon Shamus. Live the dream!
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Apr 21, 2011 21:08
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Is the play *about* Hawaii? Can I play the white imperialist aggressor?
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OSheaman posted:Is the play *about* Hawaii? Can I play the white imperialist aggressor? loving Method actors.
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Golden Bee posted:What's your script about? It's a conspiracy thriller set in a high school - three rugby teammates show up dead on the same night and a student journalist recently expelled from his old school starts investigating, only to find things may not be what they seem at his new school. The people commissioning it are a fairly prominent youth development group where I am, so if the drafts all go well (and I'm the first to admit there's a lot that needs to be tightened and worked on) then it could potentially be performed next year as part of their big festival for 15-25 year old performers to cut their teeth. And in the meantime, I'm getting paid, so it's all good.  quote:Also, what's it like in Hawaii? New Zealand, bruv. Wellington is to NZ what Chicago is to the US. OSheaman posted:Is the play *about* Hawaii? Can I play the white imperialist aggressor? You can be a sheep.
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Hardly a stretch for him. I'd love to take a look at it if you have a draft; my email's in this thread every other page.
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Golden Bee posted:I'd love to take a look at it if you have a draft; my email's in this thread every other page. I'll check the contract, see if I'm allowed (oooooooooooooo  ) but if I can, I'll shoot you the first draft soonish.
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I was in my college's production of Julius Caesar that we finished up last week. I played Popilius/Lucilius (due to the fact that we didn't have nearly enough people, the new characters from Acts 4 and 5 of the play were combined with their rough counterparts from the first three acts). It was a "modern re-imagining" type deal but I think it was pretty good. Here are some pictures of the set:  
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Apr 24, 2011 20:23
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Nice pictures! Makes me want to do some Shakespeare really badly . . .
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I know a lot of you guys are Chicagoons. The Neo-futurists/Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind is holding auditions. Send an e-mail to: neoauditions @ gmail dot com They will send you back an e-mail with info about signing up.
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Here are some shots from Inventing Van Gogh. I think my lighting design turned out pretty well considering I was only contacted 3 weeks before the show opened.      
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