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Well, dramafreaks,

I just wanted to say how proud I've been of you the past few weeks. Oddly enough, I didn't think I could feel more proud than I was during Sunday's performance. Your pacing was wonderful, our birds were great, best articulation we've mustered, the tech was seamless (and the grill shift Nascar fast) and the audience response rewarded you. I believed every single one of you on stage. (True, Karl's butt dance caught me a little by surprise, but I guess that's what I get for asking you guys to give all the energy you could muster and leave it on the stage!) :-)

But you've melted my heart this week. Theatre offers up many life lessons, among them that you need to trust your instincts, cast and crew, and that you need to learn how to creatively solve problems when they come up. But one of the most important lessons that theatre teaches you is to believe in yourself. When the applause is there and the reviews are fantastic, it's easy to believe what you hear, and take credit for the hard work and the performance.
When the reviews are mixed, it's a little bit tougher. It would be easy to question our cast, me, the crew, the band, the script, whatever. It would be easy to start pointing fingers.

Instead, you've rallied together. Supported each other, both online and in the halls. I remember wondering at auditions how on earth we would form a family out of the rag-tag bunch on the cast list, and now I know. You've reminded yourselves and each other of the goals we set out in drama: that you gave your best performance, that you had fun, that you grew as performers, that you learned something new. You became a family, and I saw the best of that this week, demonstrated with class. You've made me so proud, you can't even imagine. (for crying out loud, I'm gushing sentimental. That's how proud I am of you right now.)

So it's with that note that I think we need to let our current productions page (this one) take a bit of a rest. We're all out of productions for this year.
Now that I'll probably have more time to post, check out the postings over at our green room page from here on out. There are some pretty cool things coming up, and I'll list them there today.

Cool stuff like: Free tickets to JC Superstar, cast party dates and locations, spring cleaning w/Matt, devious plans for next year (forming a first ever BHS production team, play selection, locations), and a field trip for anyone willing to drop some elbow grease with Matt-man's spring cleaning, etc. etc. etc.

I love you guys, more than you'll ever know.
Alb





:-)

You know... now that you mention it ... it is sort of dark...
... for the 30 seconds before Act 1 began :-).
OK, I'll check my sense of humor at the login page ...

A note from another director on Aristophanes

Audra:
Sounds as if you had a successful production. I've always thought Aristophanes was meant to be a little baffling, thought-provoking, controversial, all the things we've said about it. And I know that theatre is supposed to be all of those things.

In this age of realism and representational drama, if you veer off the literal path you might encounter some bumpy roads. So be it, I say. I did that with Inherit the Wind and will with JC; Wait Until Dark was meant to be representational, so it was what it was.

You say you might get this down (directing). Let me know if/when you do; I've been at it for a while now, and am still amazed at all I don't know (as are my audiences).

Best wishes,
Patrick

JC Superstar Anyone?

Updated
We've been invited to view JC Superstar at CLC as the guests of Patrick Spradlin. Anyone interested? I'll post dates as soon as I know more. Looking like this Friday or maybe Sunday night possibly.

For the record

For the record, Jennifer Dens did not alert me to hopelessideologue's review of our show. (he's commented that she rallied the troops to support her. umm. ok.) I heard about it from a kid in my World Lit class. I felt compelled to respond to some of the personal comments, and discuss further our concept and production decisions for the show.

Here it was ---------------
www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13322961&postID=114583325220516547

PSLD

Post Show Let Down.

well, folks, you did it.
You know how incredibly proud I am of you.
Keep peeking back for news on cast party and other spring events.

Great job everybody!
Alb