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The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee continues to run just fine, and I've realized I never did any kind of real promo for it, despite being quite happy with my show in it, Marshmallow World, by Marc Spitz. Sweet, odd little play, and I think that I, Alyssa, Aaron, and Jason are doing a damned fine job with it. Follow the link above to The Brick's page for the Jubilee for more info. Good shows, good bang for your buck.
And tomorrow is the second part of Bryan Enk and Matt Gray's Penny Dreadful series (this month directed by Danny Bowes), which started with a great intro piece last month -- if you're going to see Part Two and didn't see the first one, it's available to watch online or download for iPod HERE, just click through and follow the links to the first episode - WARNING: If you plan to watch the video, do not read the synopsis underneath, as it tells the entire story, and it's much more fun to watch Fred Backus do it as a 40 minute-long monologue. If you're planning on seeing Part Two and can't watch the video, then read the synopsis (or you'll be kinda lost). It was damned fun to light this simple, pretty piece last month, and I'm looking forward to doing this next one (footlights! I get to use footlights! we got them working!). Follow the links above for more info (NB: Tomorrow's show is scheduled to go up at 10.30 pm, but the Baby Jesus shows are running long, so Penny Dreadful will probably wind up starting more around 11.00 pm).
Meanwhile, I've been pimping the iPod, changing file types so I can get more music on there in less space with no appreciable loss of quality - now I have 21,260 songs on there and several GBs open that I didn't have before. Here's what's been coming up on random as I type:
1. "Body" - The Presidents Of The United States Of America - The Presidents Of The United States Of America
2. "Greg's Theme" - Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra - Ubiquity Studio Sessions Vol.3—Strings & Things
3. "Overtime" - Urban Turban - Overtime
4. "Dreamin' of You" - Noreen Corcoran - The Shoop Shoop Song And Other Great Girl Group Hits
5. "President Gas" - The Psychedelic Furs - All of This and Nothing
6. "Reelin' & Rockin'" - Chuck Berry - The Great Twenty-Eight
7. "I Wanna Kill James Taylor" - Ivan & The Executioners - download
8. "Brainless" - The Deadbeats - Kill The Hippies 7" EP
9. "Woman's Gone" - Brainbox - Nederbeat The B-Sides 4
10. "Mirror Man" - Pere Ubu - Worlds In Collision
I've been trying to have a moderately restful few days off between BJ shows, and mostly succeeded, except for a small car accident on Tuesday night - my first ever (apart from tobogganing a Jeep off an icy, deserted road in Maine and into a snowbank, with no ill effects to anything but the snowbank), and thank goodness the damage seems to have been only cosmetic this time. And I have no idea where other aspects of this will wind up, so I probably shouldn't mention it any more. At least I'm perfectly fine (just a little jittery), and Petey Plymouth is fine.
Next year's shows become clearer. Here's how it's looking right now, assuming this all goes OK with The Brick:
1. Merry Mount, Trav S.D.'s adaptation of Hawthorne, at Metropolitan Playhouse (January).
2. The Magnificent Ambersons by Orson Welles (a reconstruction) in The Film Festival: A Theater Festival - though there may be rights issues to deal with . . . (June).
3. Spell, an original play on terror, obsession, perception, and mental illness (August).
4. another original play - movement/dance-based - about business in America, primarily the business of selling things (August).
5. Harry in Love: A Manic Vaudeville, 1966 "straight" comic farce by Richard Foreman, restaging of my 1999 production (August).
More than enough to think about and work on, and as I'm planning to start work on #2-5 next month (once Merry Mount is settled), I should have enough time to devote to all of them properly. My hope is to have the June-August shows all pretty well together in their entirety by mid-May, and then just keep being able to run them and keep them in shape. We'll see how well this actually works out in practice . . .
