Here are some posts from the Greenpage that might be worth your time:
‘Hair’ Closes for One Day So Cast Can Attend National Equality March
NYTimes.com: "Playwrights and producers have used scathing commentary, heartbreaking drama and sharp satire to score political points about war, torture, presidents, AIDS, race relations and women’s rights with New York theater audiences. Now the Broadway musical “Hair” is expanding the concept of stage activism by taking to the streets and urging audiences to follow. The producers canceled a Sunday matinee so that the cast and crew could attend and perform at a march for gay rights in Washington on Oct. 11."1970s Theatre… Now Online
ATW: "Beginning today, thanks to a collaboration between the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League, audiences across the country will have the opportunity to hear “This is Broadway,” more than 70 vintage interviews with Broadway luminaries circa 1977. These short radio features have not been available publicly since their original broadcasts 32 years ago. Even the program’s hosts, Isobel Robins and Richard Seff hadn’t heard them in years."And the Top Jobs for 2009 Grads Are...
CollegeSurfing Insider: "There’s no doubt, job offers are few and far between in these dreary days of layoffs, cutbacks, and hiring freezes. That’s why we can learn a lot from the list of the 10 jobs most offered to the class of 2009 as reported by the National Association of Colleges and Employers in its Fall 2009 Salary Survey."The Marvels Inside the Wyly
Art & Seek – A service from KERA for North Texas: "In planning for its new home in the Wyly Theatre, the Dallas Theater Center was determined to continue its 25-year tradition of 'flexible' theater. The Theater Center's Arts District Theater was flexible in the way it could be completely altered, its seating and staging configuration changed for each production. The basic thinking behind the Arts District Theater was that of a movie studio. It was a tin shed with a concrete floor, and everything inside it could be dismantled and scraped away and re-built differently for the next show."The Next Hot Youth-Magnet Cities
WSJ.com: "If you were a recent college graduate in a recovering economy launching a career, looking for a mate or both, where would you choose to live?
Predicting cities that will emerge as post-recession meccas for the young is easy to argue about, but impossible to forecast empirically. Whether you prefer hip, casual Austin, Texas, over the cosmopolitan allure of New York City is partly a matter of personal taste. Still, we asked six experts which 10 cities will emerge as the hottest, hippest destinations for highly mobile, educated workers in their 20s when the U.S. economy gets moving again."The ups and downs of the Los Angeles theater season
Variety: "To call Los Angeles a nontheater town is wrong. Rather, it’s an audience-unfriendly town.
At the height of the Gotham theater season in late April, I took in 10 shows in one week, and my biggest hassle had to do with keeping straight my dinner reservations
L.A. is different. Seeing 10 shows in one month involves well over 200 miles of car travel (often in rush hour traffic) from my Hollywood home base, and the major decision isn’t where to eat but whom to invite."
The Technical Direction III class (finally) finished their "Smooth Criminal" project today. The assignment was to design and fabricate a rig allowing them to demonstrate the leaning maneuver the dancers do in the video.
Tech Design Project #1 – Smooth Criminal
Everyone was marginally successful. I'm not sure anyone had the process they wanted, and I doubt if they had to do the thing professionally if any of them would transfer their solution completely; but overall the results were positive.
We discovered that this move really strains your back (we were expecting more abs). Jimmy demonstrates it's much easier to go side to side:
Also we found that really the most difficult part of the project is more about modifying shoes not intended for the task than anything having to do with the anchor, interface, or control.
It'd take quite a bit of practice to get the whole lean to the left, travel to the right and then stand straight at the end kind of sweeping motion. A couple of them tried it, but nobody really had it down and Naomi looked like she had it, and then:
That's the kind of thing that coulda ended at the hospital, but didn't, so it's hysterical. What happens that you can't see is the boot upper tearing free of the sole. Better that than your leg snapping mid-calf. Really this project is all about the shoes.
Anyway, big fun. Not sure if I'll assign it again.
