Category Archives: the chorus

interviews, moving, the chorus, TV

Going to California

Driving to SF / Menlo Park with Kersti today, via the 5 to the 505 to the 80 to the 680 to the 880 to the 84/Dumbarton Bridge. Bay Area!!! It’ll be very surreal to see Stanford again.

Everything I own on the planet is now down to 9 boxes.
2 books,
2 files,
1 videos/dvds
1 cds
1 photos
1 weirdly shaped objects
1 papers I need to sort through (usually this is more like three, so I’m proud of that.)

Interviews proceed well – talked to Shigeru yesterday, Rob Kendt and Jeff Hatcher the day before. Next week I have a very full slate of interviews plus trying to check in with SFMT, TJT and EMMA – so we’ll see how that goes…

I babysat Rosalee yesterday and we watched Fraggle Rock, and I felt a strong identification with Gobo’s Uncle Travelin’ Matt.

I also checked in with THE LITTLE MERMAID after she was asleep – I’ve always thought that maybe my chorus obsession came from “Under The Sea.” There may be some connection there, but upon watching the number again, I’m not really sure. The movements their choruses do are much more linear and flowy, like lines, than groups.

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directing, the chorus, theater

Wishlist 2007

Straw poll from NOTE is in and neither of the two plays I was most passionate about, CURRENT and EYE MOUTH, are in the lineup. Time to plan to do them elsewhere. I thought it’d be fun to start a list of the projects I really want to direct:

FLATLAND (and adapt)
EYE MOUTH GRAFFITI BODYSHOP by Ron Allen
CURRENT by Aaron Henne
UNTITLED W.H. AUDEN BALLAD PROJECT
“Victor was a little boy,
Into this world he came,
His father took him on his knee and said,
Don’t dishonor the family name…”
THE MISANTHROPE (re-translate)
THE WIZARD OF OZ (choral)
OEDIPUS (choral)
All the Greeks, but starting with this one.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
SOMETHING CLOUDY, SOMETHING CLEAR (All I do is rip off Ted)
LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (And Jean-Marie Apostolides’ production of this was so amazing – I just love the play so much I’d be ready to go on that journey again…)
L’ILLUSION COMIQUE
THE PHILANDERER
THE REAL THING (for old times’ sake…Elizabeth, Fran, & Gary…)
SUNDIATA PROJECT
BEOWULF (so long in the making, and pre-empted by Taymor, but hell…)
GILGAMESH (Dan and Cindy kind of have a jump on this one)
HAMLET
THE COUNTRY WIFE (very high on the list)
THE SEAGULL (Am I finally growing up into Chekhov?)

I think this is going to have to migrate into a wishlist page.

I don’t know why I’m so damn excited about a choral Oz all of a sudden, except that I always think of that “Follow the yellow brick road…” stychomythia as the perfect example of erfroren – gestaffelt – zusammen development (and I think that means frozen – staggered – together, but obviously, my German’s not what it was and it was never much!)

Follow the yellow brick road…A choral Oz with a cast of like fifty. Obviously in the reality of unemployment, my dreams are as big as they can get.

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employment, the chorus, theater

Aspirin Doesn’t Work

I woke up early this morning and revised my resume for SHARES meetings with folks from Utah Shakes and San Jose Rep. It was very interesting. I remember finagling my way into a meeting with folks from SJ Rep when I was 22 and not having a clue what to say to them. I think this one went fairly well – there may actually be some synergies between SJ’s education program and this whole improvised choral theater business…I have to make up some real materials on it.

And Utah! Their AD program is only a few years old, and there’s apparently some room for flexibility. They haven’t chosen 08 ADs yet. Fingers crossed.

It’s been a couple days of information-getting: Mara B and David C gave me some rundowns on Chicago and Canadian theater, respectively, which I’ll post here soon.

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