Topic: THE UNSINKABLE TITANIC (Read 3947 times)

Jrand74 · « **Reply #90 on:** September 10, 2021, 08:32:52 PM »

With the reviews coming in, perhaps they should call it DEAD EVAN HANSON.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #91 on:** September 10, 2021, 08:33:03 PM »

Page 4.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #92 on:** September 10, 2021, 08:35:01 PM »

Sold out tonight.
Big laughs and nice applause.....hopefully the same for tomorrow.

I think I have thought of a Mr Henderson attitude.....I think that starting tomorrow evening he will talk like Pa Kettle.....which gives me something to play with....and might amuse a few folks in the audience.....

We shall see. Of course I will let Grandpa Vanderhoff know what's coming before I hit the stage.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #93 on:** September 10, 2021, 08:36:06 PM »

Once again our wrestling match got much laughter and applause....which is always nice. Mr Kirby got a few more leg twists than before.....

Jrand74 · « **Reply #94 on:** September 10, 2021, 08:36:19 PM »

So we shall see what we shall see.

John G. · « **Reply #95 on:** September 10, 2021, 09:11:52 PM »

Quote from: Jrand71 on September 10, 2021, 08:32:52 PM

With the reviews coming in, perhaps they should call it DEAD EVAN HANSON.

Nice.

John G. · « **Reply #96 on:** September 10, 2021, 09:12:45 PM »

Quote from: Jrand71 on September 10, 2021, 08:35:01 PM

Sold out tonight.
Big laughs and nice applause.....hopefully the same for tomorrow.

I think I have thought of a Mr Henderson attitude.....I think that starting tomorrow evening he will talk like Pa Kettle.....which gives me something to play with....and might amuse a few folks in the audience.....

We shall see. Of course I will let Grandpa Vanderhoff know what's coming before I hit the stage.

Congrats on a sold-out evening and a good performance.

John G. · « **Reply #97 on:** September 10, 2021, 09:13:32 PM »

We had about 50 people show up for Julie Taymor's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

John G. · « **Reply #98 on:** September 10, 2021, 09:14:05 PM »

We usually show the free movies out on the plaza, but it was in the big theater tonight. That left plenty of room for social distancing.

John G. · « **Reply #99 on:** September 10, 2021, 09:14:42 PM »

I learned shortly before the show that the reason it was moved indoors is because they're having to install a new outdoor screen. The old one just wasn't working anymore.

John G. · « **Reply #100 on:** September 10, 2021, 09:15:10 PM »

Because it was first planned for outdoors, then moved indoors as an indoor picnic, I asked what I should wear.

John G. · « **Reply #101 on:** September 10, 2021, 09:15:50 PM »

We have an outdoor uniform, a polo shirt and black shorts, and we have an indoor uniform on a white shirt and black dress pants.

John G. · « **Reply #102 on:** September 10, 2021, 09:16:18 PM »

I was told that because it was a picnic that I should wear the polo. I did.

John G. · « **Reply #103 on:** September 10, 2021, 09:16:38 PM »

I was the only one who asked and the only one in that attire.

John G. · « **Reply #104 on:** September 10, 2021, 09:17:03 PM »

The manager for the evening wanted to send me home until I showed him the email.

John G. · « **Reply #105 on:** September 10, 2021, 09:17:17 PM »

It didn't matter. We helped everyone as best we could.

John G. · « **Reply #106 on:** September 10, 2021, 09:17:38 PM »

The movie was fun, thanks to that screenwriter chap, Bill Shakespeare.

John G. · « **Reply #107 on:** September 10, 2021, 09:17:58 PM »

Taymor tried her best, but she couldn't defeat him.

John G. · « **Reply #108 on:** September 10, 2021, 09:18:40 PM »

She had a few good images and her Puck was a contortionist, which made the actor seem like a puppet.

John G. · « **Reply #109 on:** September 10, 2021, 09:18:59 PM »

But the play and her actors were really what carried the evening.

John G. · « **Reply #110 on:** September 10, 2021, 09:19:27 PM »

Max Casella, who was Dougie Howser's best friend in the TV show, was an excellent Bottom.

John G. · « **Reply #111 on:** September 10, 2021, 09:21:39 PM »

I haven't really looked at the rest of the cast, but the Oberon was excellent, really powerful and perhaps more of a force than I've seen in other productions. He held the evening together in a way that really worked.

John G. · « **Reply #112 on:** September 10, 2021, 09:24:55 PM »

It was a filmed theatrical production. Sometimes that worked. But occasionally the camera got in the way and didn't focus on the right things. Plus, once there was a closeup that focused too much on exposing the stage magic. It was a shot of Puck as he's attaching himself to a harness that would send him flying around the stage. Too much light on the strings stripped some of the magic away.

John G. · « **Reply #113 on:** September 10, 2021, 09:25:18 PM »

Still, it's the first Shakespeare production I can remember with a chainsaw.

John G. · « **Reply #114 on:** September 10, 2021, 09:26:06 PM »

During the show I got an email with my updated requests. I finally got Stacy Abrams. I had been about 17th in line to get to usher for her.

John G. · « **Reply #115 on:** September 10, 2021, 09:26:42 PM »

I wonder if a lot of the people ahead of me dropped out because we had to submit proof this week of vaccination or negative test results.

John G. · « **Reply #116 on:** September 10, 2021, 09:27:13 PM »

My next show will be Herbie Hancock on Tuesday night.

John G. · « **Reply #117 on:** September 10, 2021, 09:27:51 PM »

That should be interesting because I think it's the first show at the Tobin that will require vaccination proof from the audience.

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