NECROPOLIS 1 - photos

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I'm still going through all the photos I have from the August shows and fixing them up in Photoshop, but I have the first batch done. These cover the first part of the two-part NECROPOLIS 1&2: World Gone Wrong/Worth Gun Willed.

I still think I'm missing some that I should have . . . I'm positive we set up and shot scenes that I don't seem to have any pictures of -- such as the backlit shadow band from the club scene. The closest I have to that are a couple of behind-the-scenes shots, like this one of Art Wallace blowing his two-dimensional cardboard trumpet:

So, inside the cut (which I hate, but I keep being reminded that cuts are "polite"), the first part of the show.



Bill Mist, the Fall Guy (Ian W. Hill) starts his day with his girl, Dolores Everly (Gyda Arber)

Then he spends time at his office with his Gal Friday, Rachel Keyes (Rebecca Collins) . . .

. . . before meeting rich nympho-girl Aurora Wright (Jessica Savage).

Several scenes pass without photos, until Bill winds up looking for answers as to why he's been fatally poisoned, with a flashback (within a flashback) to meeting Art Perdue, a Doomed Man Who Knows Too Much (Mateo Moreno) . . .

. . . who has his own flashback to a memory of the murders he committed for the woman he wanted . . .

. . . Kitty Savage, a Harpy (Yvonne Roen).

Having reached a dead-end, he looks for information from a regular source, Theresa Malone, a Newspaper Reporter (Iracel Rivero) . . .

. . . who sends him to the El Mocambo club, and faded spitfire Lucille LaCansino (Alyssa Simon) . . .

. . . who sends him to magazine publisher Ingrid Flough (Christiaan Koop) . . .

. . . who has him picked up by a bunch of gangsters, Louis Frontiere, a Torpedo (Jai Catalano), Tiny Stark, a Goon (Roger Nasser), and Johnny Edwards, a Flunky (Bryan Enk).

While the boys wait for instructions from their boss, Bill is guarded by Louis' girl, Bridget McCoy (Samantha Tunis).

Bill is then taken for a ride to the big boss by Johnny.

And from the boss, Thomas Arnold (Ken Simon), Bill learns that the one behind his poisoning is . . .

. . . femme fatale Christina Wright (Stacia French) who laughs in his face and leaves him to die.

And that's just Part One . . .

Ah, yes . . . and here's Mateo, Art, and Alyssa (hidden behind Mateo) doing their number behind the scrim.


More soon.

Comments

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Thanks!

Berit is one of the best board ops you'll ever find. This was a piece of cake for her, pretty much - she always says that now that we're working entirely on a computer light board (she was a whiz on a manual board when we started), she doesn't see what's so special about her work (for this show, she had to "just" hit go on the board and the laptop for lights and projections, and adjust sound levels on the backing track here and there).

It's when I give her mounds of sound and light cues right on top of each other that she gets upset with me (she does it perfectly, though).

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Yep, Berit in my world was Michelle, who stayed up all night to program a brand new Express 24/48 [which I'd just bought, so she got to use it first]! Also was a whiz on a manual, Michelle grew somewhat bored with having simply to hit GO all the time ... but we assured her that she'd been the one to tell the Express where to GO !!

The show was one of Rob Nash's multicharacter monologues and there were so many cues that --- even though the computer "got everything right", the instruments barely had time to respond ...

So: yes, agreed: good CBO's like B and M are worth their gold weight ...