Really, folks, when I say I get to work with some of the most incredibly talented people? Shrew Opening – this is the opening theme for Shrew. Listen to it. It’s gorgeous. I gave Dave a laundry list of pie in the sky wishes for the music. He gave me stuff that’s beautiful. (if anyone [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Theatre location
I have had a few people email me asking for the location of the theatre. We are performing in Elmira Theatre Company’s space at 76 Howard Ave., in Elmira. To give you a frame of reference, I’m coming from the south west edge of Kitchener, and it takes me about 20 minutes by car. Oh [...]
One week
So we are a week (technically 8 days) away from the preview. This morning, Chris & I met with Gord from Elmira Theatre Company to pick up keys, do one last walk through of the space & start the load in. Over the weekend, much work happened. Chris had a pre-build weekend which gave us [...]
New Theatre Company Cannot Be Tamed
This July, director Anita Kilgour and her new theatre company TenBareToes Entertainment bring Shakespeare’s classic battle of the sexes, The Taming of the Shrew, to the Elmira Theatre Company. After many years in community theatre, with sold out productions as both director and producer, Anita Kilgour realised she was looking for a company that dedicated [...]
Rehearsal pics
Just a quick note – there’s a new gallery for Shrew with the candids that I’ve been getting from rehearsals now that we’re starting to get costumes. Please – be gentle – I’m no Sean Puckett…
Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast
Hello all, Today was a rough morning – full day of rehearsal yesterday and then an evening of personal obligations left me with little sleep. Call me one grumpy director. Then I opened an email from Dave-the-composer. It had all the music he’s worked on this past week for me (11 different pieces, where he’d [...]
Okay – that’s it!
Anyone out there who’s looking to get pregnant or have a sweetie get pregnant and having ANY trouble? Lemme know – apparently there’s an easy cure. Come work with me on Shrew. My costumer, Adrienne, has a baby – she’s now 6 months old – pregnant shortly after we started talking about the show. My [...]
Sweet baby gods
You have to understand – there’s a reason I direct. There is a rush I get when things start to come together. When the characters become more visible than the actors; when the chemistry on stage starts to sizzle; when the actors start riffing off each other – that’s when I can feel my heart [...]
Progress – characters, costumes & set!
Rehearsals continue apace. Started seeing the characters showing up amidst my actors, which is a good and glorious thing. I know that sounds silly, given that we’re talking about the actors I’ve been looking at in rehearsal for over a month now, but hear me out – there’s a point where they stop being Nick [...]