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Spring Awakening on Broadway

Katherine and I just got home from seeing Spring Awakening on Broadway which was an outstanding production. Smart, with an excellent cast, the musical is both moving and funny. It’s based on an 1891 play by Frank Wedekind which deals with themes that I can’t even imagine audiences watching back then. Sexuality, puberty, homoeroticism and […]

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Distressing a table

First you start by taking the table firmly in your hands and saying, “Stupid table, you’ve got no future and you’re poorly designed.” If it still looks chipper, discuss the economy until you can get the varnish to peel. It shouldn’t take long. In all seriousness, sometimes in theater we need a piece of furniture

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Last minute change of venue

Hannah and the Hollow Challah is supposed to open tomorrow, but there’s this slight question of where. Apparently work on the theater means that the building will be closed tomorrow. We just found out yesterday that it might happen and today found out that it will happen. Thank heavens I built a touring set, eh?

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Almost finished with tech

It’s 2:40 am and I’ve just gotten home from the theater. For the first time in a week and a half, it’s not because of a crisis, but because we went out for drinks afterwards. I’m almost out of the woods. I think I’ll even begin to dive into the email piled up in my

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I have blood on my hands

Zesty, mint flavored blood. That’s right, it’s time for another show with blood. The effects in this show are significantly easier, which makes me a happy camper. One stabbing and one razor cut. All fairly run of the mill. BUT. I’m in tech week for two different shows for the next week. I will be

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Shakespearean Pie

A mashup of Hamlet and American pie which amuses us. A long, long time ago I can still remember How, alas, poor Yorick’s jokes drew groans He’d dance and sing and kiss my hand Like Elsinore was Neverland But then he went and joined the Skull and Bones

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Buying an ax in NYC

The first thing you should know when you call hardware stores in NYC to see if they have axes, is that all of them, without exception, will ask you who you are planning on killing. The second thing you should know is that after you pick up the axe, you will have no problems finding

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The Scottish Play

One of the things Mom had wanted to do while she and Dad were here was see some theater. So, her birthday present to me was to take us all out to see Macbeth, starring Patrick Stewart. When we realized that we had two tickets available, Rob and I invited Rick Bowes and Emily DeCola

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Blurbs and context

When we get reviewed in the theater, there’s always a moment of scanning the review looking for the pull quote. We’ve got to have something we can plaster on brochure’s and flyers. It is always tempting to pull something out of context like pulling, “Amazing!” out of “It’s amazing that anyone came back after intermission.”

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The Odyssey Experience

I’m designing props and masks for The Odyssey Experience for McCarter Theatre’s education department. Here are the drawings I’m sending up to them for review. The idea is that rather than masks, each character has a helm which they wear, to signify which character they are. Athena has her classic helm, which I want to

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Farewell 2007

Rob and I have a tradition of making sushi New Year’s Eve and staying in. Tonight, on my way home, our neighbor was standing in the lobby and ready to hop on the elevator. I rode up with him, chatting about New Year’s plans and, quite spontaneously, I invited him and his wife to join

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