This is the email I'm sending to everyone I know, to advertise my show. I don't want anyone to miss it, and tickets are starting to go!
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Annie Get Your Tickets Shout-Out
This is the email I'm sending to everyone I know, to advertise my show. I don't want anyone to miss it, and tickets are starting to go!
An enriching weekend
Don't ever let anyone tell you that San Luis Obispo is a two-bit town with second-rate performing arts. Ever since I moved to this area in 1997, I have been increasingly impressed not only with the huge number of performing arts events, but by the generally very high quality. Last night I went to the Little Theatre, where I'm directing Annie Get Your Gun, and took in a staged reading of Lee Blessing's Independence, a four-character play about a dysfunctional family--a mother and her three daughters. Blessing's ear for authentic dialogue, and his keen observation of American family life, in a performance by four really fine actors, made this a great evening of theatre (in turns hilarious, wincingly honest, and heartbreaking), and for only five bucks! The SLOLT Readers' Theatre program is growing by leaps and bounds, and affords a great opportunity for plays that might not draw huge audiences for mainstage productions to have a chance to be studied and heard. Last night's house was nearly full--always a welcome sight!
Tonight it was a very different kind of evening. The SLO Vocal Arts Ensemble (an internationally award-winning chorus) gave us its annual pops concert at the Clark Center in Arroyo Grande (a beautiful, relatively new performing arts center). The program was a mix of solo, small, and large numbers--all done in costume and choreographed--with a live orchestra on stage (piano, bass, drums, and some ace alto sax playing). Let me tell you, some of those really great singers are pretty gifted actors, too. The highlights of the evening were the several songs from Fiddler on the Roof, "Seasons of Love" from Rent (gorgeous), and the fall-on-the-floor-laughing "Swan Lake" danced by men in pink tutus. I found myself wishing I could have some of these guys in my show. But then I remembered that we had asked almost all the really good ones to audition for the parts we needed to fill, and because of their involvement in Vocal Arts they couldn't commit themselves to our long rehearsal and performance period.
In any case, I really have to get busy with SLO Show, so that I can continue to afford going to all these shows! There are so many I don't want to miss!
Tonight it was a very different kind of evening. The SLO Vocal Arts Ensemble (an internationally award-winning chorus) gave us its annual pops concert at the Clark Center in Arroyo Grande (a beautiful, relatively new performing arts center). The program was a mix of solo, small, and large numbers--all done in costume and choreographed--with a live orchestra on stage (piano, bass, drums, and some ace alto sax playing). Let me tell you, some of those really great singers are pretty gifted actors, too. The highlights of the evening were the several songs from Fiddler on the Roof, "Seasons of Love" from Rent (gorgeous), and the fall-on-the-floor-laughing "Swan Lake" danced by men in pink tutus. I found myself wishing I could have some of these guys in my show. But then I remembered that we had asked almost all the really good ones to audition for the parts we needed to fill, and because of their involvement in Vocal Arts they couldn't commit themselves to our long rehearsal and performance period.
In any case, I really have to get busy with SLO Show, so that I can continue to afford going to all these shows! There are so many I don't want to miss!
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