Monthly Archives: November 2009

Teeny tiny "holy moley!" moment

I just got the first draft of Dave’s opening music for the show. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – DAMN, but it’s good to work with talented people.  If that’s the first draft, I don’t know what I’ll do when he cleans it up….

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The feedback loop of creativity

Sunday night was the read through, as I mentioned in the last post. Sunday, I dreamed all night.  Anyone who’s familiar with the Actor’s Nightmare (where you are suddenly performing a show, but you don’t know the lines, the blocking or anyone else) needs to experience the Director’s Nightmare.  In my dreams, rehearsals took place [...]

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Moments

Being a director is work.  Figure out the voice of the play.  Find the right talent, both on and off stage for to give life to that voice.  Figure out the beats and measures to the story.  Establish what will work, what won’t, and whatever else you do, try to remain faithful to that voice.  [...]

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Just a thank you

My father, grandfather, and most of the men in my family going back as long as I can remember have served in the Canadian Armed Forces. I miss them. From them, I learned how hard it is to do what men and women in uniform do. Thank you. Just thank you.

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Question for you

Hello world! I’ve started talking to my producer for Shrew and we’ve started coming up with a list of places we can list the show in upcoming events. Understanding that we’re going to be taking as much advantage of the Internet as possible, if you were looking for theatre, or even “something to do” in [...]

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Success!

Just a quick note – we appear to have fixed the problem with the server.  Please – if you notice any further problems, drop me an email or comment to let me know.  My tech guys are telling me that it was an known issue with PHP and things should now be working. 7 more [...]

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Waiting and apologies

First off – please let me apologize to anyone who’s been having problems getting into the site recently.  I’m working with our technical people, but it appears to be a combination of problems with Firefox being the browser most often hit with this and some odd server related issue.  I promise, we’re working on it. [...]

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