It's the way I see it.

Ok... so you've read the "what this show is about" blurb.  I will start by saying that it was not at ALL what I was expecting.  I was expecting a heavy, rock laden show.  What I got was a sweet, hilarious and sometimes a little heartbreaking coming of age and out of the closet story.  It was lovely.  The stories wove together seamlessly and Kevin was a delightfully charasmatic soloist.  He played guitar and sang throughout which gave it a bit of a soft "Hedwig" kind of feel.  I enjoyed it.  It was sweet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PQW2K_7ESs


It's mostly for this line:

Well bless my soul, rock and roll, flyin' purple people eater
Pigeon-toed, undergrowed, flyin' purple people eater
I like short shorts
Flyin' little people eater
Sure looks strange to me (Purple People?)

Titus X
Shawn Northrip

In all fairness, I'm helping out with the show as a "roadie", which essentially means I'm running around in fishnets and chuck taylors and helping with costume changes and props... BUT I love this fucking show.  It's so fun and has a great energy.  We've performed for mostly full houses and the audiences have been very receptive.  Caesar and Kevin are giving outstanding, multi-character performances.  Jason Stiles rocks the stage as usual.  Emily Webbe brings a scary guttural Tamora to life.   Annie Dalton's Lavina is hard core and cute at the same time.  Beckett Martin gets the audience rolling right from the go, and Andrew Honeycutt's Aaron is delightful and hilarious!  Come out for our last show, you won't regret it!




The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Adventure Theater

I am so excited this year to see some kid appropriate theater on the Cap Fringe list!  So I took Dennis down to the Mountain to see a show.  What a great show it was!  I don't have my program on me and all the websites fail to mention the actors names, but they were wonderful.  Only two of them, playing all the characters with ease and clarity and tons and tons of energy.  Dennis had a blast.  He smiled uncontrollably and that reminded me that I really need to take him to see more theater.  I will complain that Adventure Theater, a theater company I love dearly, and a theater company that generally sells out weeks and weeks and weeks in advance, has done a really shitty job at marketing this show.  People don't expect to find child friendly shows at Fringe, so you have to sing it from the hilltops.  Dennis and I were the ONLY two people in the audience, and that was a damn shame.  Tell your friends with kids!  It's a great show!




Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Nu Sass Productions

I was super tired going into this show and it was more than a little warm in the theater.   Stoppard is verbose and smart and witty.  Tiffany Garfinkle and Aubri O'Connor do a phenomenal job with the title roles.  The mission of this new company is kinda awesome.  It's not a feminist company, but instead a totally gender blind company.  If a woman auditions for a male role and is better than any of the men, then she gets it.  Done.  That's a mission I can get behind.  The title characters were played like boarding school boys who were in way over their heads.  They had a phenomenal grasp on the language and rhythm of the play.  The rest of the players varied in skill, but Prairie Griffith made the most of the leading player, her grandiose gestures and vocal inflection garnering a lot of humor.  I was underwhelmed with the costuming... which was mostly non-existent.  I didn't need anything amazing out there, but something that would seem like more of a plan would have been nice.  For the most part, R & G aside, the cast looked dumpy.  But the show was well done and Nu Sass should be commended on a great opening!




Closet Land
Molotov Theatre Group

I went to see this on a whim.  K-Fink had an extra ticket and despite extreme exhaustion, I thought, what the hell, Fringe only comes by once a year, right?  Right.  For those of you who don't know, Molotov Theatre Group explores the Grand Guignol (French Theatre of Horror) style.  They pride themselves on excessive violence and sex and would be thrilled if you vomited in your seat.  I appreciate this mission.  I'm in the camp of realism that if you are going to do it, DO IT.  Molotov does it, but I do often feel like they are holding back.  Sometimes I really think they need to go further, and I felt that way with this piece.  The play is about an interrogation/torture.  There is so much you can do with that and I just didn't feel that there was enough.  I expect Molotov to gross me out and make me uncomfortable and never once during this show was I.  Alex Zavistovich and Jessica Hanson do work their asses off (almost literally).  Alex in particular pulls of a schizophrenic character that is at times scary as all hell and at others a kind and sympathetic lost man. 

I don't know what it is today, but I'm so highly unmotivated to work.  I have been, don't get me wrong, but it's been hard.  I just want to go home and sit on the couch and watch some west wing or something.

I suck at remembering to post these!  Today I'm doing what I can to get pumped up to work, because I am tired and lazy this morning!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdB1v6EtlSc

I don't know what to see this year.  I want to see some really amazing shit.  
I want to see some stuff that is fun and fringy and heady and artsy.

I don't want to see all your shows.

I'm sorry if that makes me a jerk, but I just don't have the time/energy and I really want to see stuff that I am REALLY glad I got to see.  That's not to say your shows aren't in that category, just that I don't want to schedule my experience around trying to see all your shows.

That being said.  Does anyone have any suggestions? 

I'm interested in experimental stuff, I saw an AMAZING puppet show a few years ago...

Anyhow, help, I'm overwhelmed!

I made the purchases yesterday.  Posted the blog here and crossposted on FB, got an overwhelming amount of responses!  Nothing brings them out like half naked women!

Turns out there was a huge Victoria Secret Independence Weekend Sale, so I had to modify a bit to take advantage:

The results were pretty even.  Except not many liked #5 or #3

I chose #7, but the bottoms were out of stock, so I had to modify, so put the halter top, with the belted bottoms





Then I bought a second suit, because you need two.  Because one is always wet, right?

I wanted to get one of the string bikinis that jon and many others liked, specifically #6, but it wasn't on sale.  Well, it was, but not the SUPER sale.  would have cost close to $50 instead of $30, so I chose this one instead:

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Poll #1424218 Pick my SwimSuit
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Which Suit best Suits me

I'm doing a little 10 minute ditty for barrygrib at Art-o-Matic this weekend, Thursday and Friday at 7:15pm  It's a fun piece and super smart.  The evening will consist of 10 ten minute plays, I think we are 8th?  Anywho, should be a good show.

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Got an email that really bummed me out yesterday, which was really crappy considering I had just had a delightful lunch with frannyglass 

So I carted myself out of work early and met my friend Karen at the 3 for 12.  That thrift store, is NO LIE, the best kept secret in DC.  I swear.  Anyway, apparently Mondays are $2 special day.  You heard it here first ladies and gentleman, every item of clothing in the store is $2!

The thing that makes the 3 for 12 (formerly the 3 for 10, these be hard economic times) so amazing, apart from the obvious amazing deal, three things for $12, is that more than half of the stuff in there is name brand/designer brand, and even if not, in AMAZING condition.  There are a lot of duds in there too.  It's a thrift store for gods sake, but it's worth it.

Yesterday I walked out of there, having spent $15.  Yeah.  $15.  Lets do the math and put it all together!

I got a gorgeous kimono style dress in red and white (wearing it now, looks beautiful on me!)
A pair of Express Shiney Kakhi dress slacks
A pair of Express Blue dress pants
A J. Crew Black skirt
A sweet flowered skirt
An Anne Taylor pink cotton t-shirt
A Urban Outfitters style sparkley brown top

That's A LOT of loot for $15.  I'm just saying.


cute no?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjplwaIUm-c

Ten Things Theaters Need to Do To Save Themselves

5.Offer child care. Sunday school is the most successful guerrilla education program in American history. Steal it. People with young children should be able to show up and drop their kids off with some young actors in a rehearsal room for two hours of theater games. The benefits: First, it will be easier to convince the nouveau riche (many of whom have young children) to commit to season tickets. Second, it will satisfy your education mission (and will be more fun, and therefore more effective, for the kids). Third, it will teach children to go to the theater regularly. And they'll look forward to the day they graduate to sitting with the grown-ups. Getting dragged to the theater will shift from punishment to reward.


Such an interesting article and really fights to the core of the problems with modern day theater.  I agree with a lot of it, and disagree also with parts.  Noone can produce a season of only new premires.  Let's be smart.  If every theaters every season was all new plays, what would become of the old gems.   There needs to be balance. 

Here's a fun followup article from a DC blogger. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rur_uyPm-w

oops, I fell off... forgot to post my songs... well, here's todays

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSJ3aJ2FjhE 

I've moved.  It's official.  And I love my house.  It's huge and K and I have it mostly put together, save for wall hangings and floor coverings. 

We'll have a house warming extravaganza soon, but not until our show has closed!

Which segways me nicely into:

THIS SATURDAY IS OUR FINAL PERFORMANCE OF:

Cyrano de Bergerac

 

Come see us!   Saturday evening at 8pm!

Bring a blanket, a bottle of wine, some fun snacks and enjoy theater OUTSIDE. 

http://www.chesapeakeshakespeare.com/




Tonight:
GO TO THE GYM
Pick up new kitty cat
Put those rugs somewheres
Hang some pictures
Pick up Kevin's rug
Pick up faucet adaptor for our Brita
Maybe some grocermeries
Pick up painting
PLAY ZELDA on wii  wheeeee!
:-)

DC Theatre Scene:
http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/06/10/cyrano-de-bergerac-2/

"Usually, the success of Cyrano de Bergerac depends upon the perfomance of the actor playing the French swordsman with the heart of a poet and the prodigious proboscis.  Yet in the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s quality outdoor staging of the classic work, it’s the rest of the 40 member cast that supplies the panache which makes the evening entertaining and memorable." (yay myself and madhatternalice !)

"Cyrano de Bergerac is a large work in size, cast, and lyrical themes.  When done well, it offers a host of charms, including comedy, romance, drama, adventure, and tragedy and Chesapeake Shakespeare Company uses its classical background to do it very well."

"Ty Hallmark shines as Roxane, sweet and fair, aristocratic yet girlish at the same time.  She beams the look of love when near Christian, including the second most famous balcony scene in English literature.  It is Hallmark’s reactions that help make many of scenes, including the tragic finale, so touching." (YAY findingjuliet !)

 

Come see us!  Three more weekends, Friday and Saturday evenings at 8pm and Sundays at 5pm!

Bring a blanket, a bottle of wine, some fun snacks and enjoy theater OUTSIDE.  Let's just hope the rain ebbs!

http://www.chesapeakeshakespeare.com/