Posted by Philip on December 8, 2010
School Shows
(To be read in a 1920’s broadcast voice)
This is Philip, reporting from the rehearsal room, about the upcoming STOCKTON performance, featuring a cast of talented Monkeys, directed by the fantastic Kate Staiger. Kate is one heck of a director, keeping all the monkeys in line, even when squabbles break out like who gets the next banana!
Music? You bet there’s music. This highly musical cast has a total of six songs in the show! Probably the most I’ve ever seen performed by a cast of Monkeys. Whether it’s a song about a girl falling into a trash heap, an elevator that keep going up and down, or a serious take on stopping violence, these Monkeys are hee-hawing and hootin-n-hollerin their jowls out.
Pictures? Why yes, this field reporter has managed to get actual footage of the Monkeys in rehearsal.
As you can see, sometimes, fights break out over who gets to play the lead role!
This story featured a monkey who kept tripping and turning into various hilarious characters!
Such as…a Karate Fighter!
A clumsy clown!
And what’s this…some kind of monkey? Well, he already was a monkey, so not much to see here!
Unfortunately, sickness has invaded the cast of Stockton.
Why this actress playing a girl named Litzy can barely keep the tissues in her nose!
It doesn’t help that her two friends keep feeding her more banana splits!
We’ll have more footage of the Stockton rehearsals coming in, including some monkeys in gospel CHOIR robes bringing down the house.
Stay tuned, you lovely people!
Posted by Luke on December 5, 2010
That's Weird Grandma
TWG Weekly Update
This week, largely due to the talents of resident advanced visual trickery consultant Matt Miller, TWG is able to present advanced visual trickery. The piece in question is entitled, What I Believe In, and it makes a persuasive case for investing in an “Up and Gone” (a teleportation device). I was in dire need of an Up and Gone this morning, for example, when I was running late for rehearsal. The Android app Taxi Magic proved to be the next best thing.
Anyway, we will also feature an adventure story this week where our own Ricky Harris attempts to survive a taxing overland journey and a bear mauling. This piece is entitled Ricky’s Travel.
This is the last show of this round. If, like me, you sometimes feel saturated in holiday schmaltz, you can come this week and see a lot of stories that DON’T have to do with the holidays, before they get replaced by stories that do.
Incentives abound.
One more! If you say ‘Ricky’s Travel’ to the box office people, they will not hand you an itinerary, but rather, two dollars.
Running order below.
See you above the funeral home!
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Posted by Luke on November 29, 2010
That's Weird Grandma
TWG Weekly Update
We’re back on tonight!
The current running order is off the chain!
Good times guaranteed.
Password for $2 off at the box office is ‘Konut’ (rhymes with ‘donut’). (BTW, Konut is the featured, tragic character in Dancing Donut Diaries part 2.)
Running order below!
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Posted by Roger on November 22, 2010
School Shows
After School Program
One last blog entry for today, the day of the Loyola Park show!!
Here’s our talented actor/artist Brandon Cloyd, creating props with help from the also talented Jenny Weiner.
Directed by our brilliant Oona Kersey Hatton and starring an amazing cast, this show is going to be fantastic and I can’t wait for it. Just four short hours away!
More pics:
Caleb tickles the plastic.
We love puppets! Some of the cast rehearses for a story about a rock band. Music for this created via GarageBand by the stupendous Anthony Courser.
Tai and Levy find each other hilarious
Jason does not like to be interrupted when he’s working!
Artistic director Luke Hatton steps in to show us all the choreography for the closing number.
Posted by Luke on November 22, 2010
That's Weird Grandma
TWG Weekly Update
Oh Yeah!
The current runlist is packed with hilarious, popular, not-to-be-missed stories: The Shopping Habit, A Guy without Manners, The Dog Was Dead, and Untitled (Beach).
Also, a certain turkey related holiday is upon us. I decided to make a clean break this year. Dipping into the archives can be risky. It’s a fine line between “classic” and “tired”. So I didn’t bring back Thanksgiving. But that’s only part of the reason I didn’t bring it back. Having originated the role of Jenny in Thanksgiving, I found I often over directed the actor stepping into the role. I would go on and on in rehearsal about Jenny’s past tribulations (as I understood them) and what I thought was the root cause of her inner turmoil. Actors would roll their eyes and say, “yeah, yeah, Luke. We know you used to play Jenny. We really need to move on.”
Marika did a good job with the role, actually. Two years ago during a rehearsal of the piece, she said of her character, “I’ve already popped a lot of painkillers by this point.” That signaled to me that Marika had a good understanding of the character.
Anyway, we’re not doing that story this year. I get too emotional about it.
Instead we are performing a story entitled, A Girl that wants to Eat Turkey but cannot Reach. It’s about a woman who has her own set of troubles. She is on a diet, has unreliable friends and can’t resist pigging out on turkey. Come check it out.
We’ve also put in Mission Impossible: Doggy Man in the Water. It’s splendid.
Password for $2 off is “Solid Man”.
And now, an interactive list of the stories.
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