Congrats!

[plumtreeblossom]

Congratulations to the cast of The Margaret Ghost! Also to lillibet for what must have been a difficult job of choosing. I have a new appreciation for the agony of casting a show since directing a play for the Festival. Every actor should do it at least once.

Truthfully, I'm a bit relieved that I didn't get cast. All three of the female roles were a bit of a stretch for a character actress like me, and though I had a great time auditioning and being partnered with some of my favorite Firstie actors, not getting it was all for the best this time around. In fact, I had expressed to one friend in e-mail my terror about what if I got the lead role, and how would I memorize a role that huge with so much else on my platter? And indeed the platter is full -- I've got a bountiful armload of Cabaret just starting, and hopefully you'll be seeing/hearing me in the Radio Drama, if there's use for me. And I'll be wearing cows* for one of the Margaret Ghost performances, of course.

So, mazel tov, all of you, and on with all of the shows!



_{* "Wearing Cows" is Theatre@First-speak for "working house." It was a sentence mis-heard by lillibet that somehow stuck. :-)}

Comments

[marius23.livejournal.com]

Tell us (or maybe just clueless me?) more about Cabaret and Radio Drama!

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Well, the Radio Drama is the project of audioboy and is something of a spin-off to T@F. So I'll let him fill in the details on that.

The Cabaret will be a fundraiser taking place in early December, and I'm co-producing (and will also be performing in it!). More on that to follow. But I can leak to the press right now that there will be cookies and hot chocolate! (even better than punch and pie!)

[marius23.livejournal.com]

Looking forward to the Cabaret, particularly your performance! I think cookies and hot chocolate is a much better idea than last years.

[audioboy.livejournal.com]

Thanks to plumtreeblossom for the plug. :)

The radio drama project is a live "staged radio" show we're producing for Halloween. "Staged radio" just means that we're doing it with microphones, live and recorded effects and music in front of an audience, just like it was done back in the 30s and 40s. (We found last year -- when we did our very first show, which featured a re-creation of Arch Oboler's "Chicken Heart" from the Lights Out! series -- that some people found the term "radio drama" confusing and didn't know what the show really was!)

So, anyway, this year we're going to perform three full-length (half-hour) plays. The first one's a recreation of a Halloween-themed episode of the comedy series Fibber McGee & Molly from 1939. The next is an adaptation of Edith Wharton's ghost story The Lady Maid's Bell, and the last is an adaptation of the classic short story The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs. These last two plays were both originally written for the Canadian horror series Nightfall back in the early 1980s.

The show's going to be October 30th and, while I can't swear to it, I suspect there will also be something akin to cookies and hot chocolate at our show, too. ;)

[marius23.livejournal.com]

That sounds very cool; I've enjoyed the few (audio only) radio dramas I've heard and I've always liked the recreations you see in movies sometimes. I haven't read The Monkey's Paw in a long time, but that does seem perfect for this sort of performance.

The show's going to be October 30th and, while I can't swear to it, I suspect there will also be something akin to cookies and hot chocolate at our show, too.

Hmm, brains and warm blood perhaps? ;-)

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

I felt much the same, except without any fear of being cast as Margaret -- too obviously the wrong choice for me (I didn't even read for her). Actually, though, I think that you and I both would have done well as Anna -- the part I was hoping for -- but hearing that it went to petra_quince was like hearing that the job I was interviewing for went to the internal candidate -- I couldn't resent that, that's how it should be. (Hmm, it's not a perfect analogy, because it implies that being an "insider" had something to do with the casting, when all I really mean is just that I can't resent someone who'll do so well; we're all equally "insiders" at T@F, anyway.) Anyhoo, I'll be around for the show, too.