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Okay. Too busy putting this show together to really blog this week.
What's there is great, but there are pieces barely there. 42 hours, and the show will be starting its first performance. Woah.
In lieu of anything else new to write, for those not on my email list, the promo email (adapted from the press release):
What's there is great, but there are pieces barely there. 42 hours, and the show will be starting its first performance. Woah.
In lieu of anything else new to write, for those not on my email list, the promo email (adapted from the press release):
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The Brick Theater, Inc.
presents
a Gemini CollisionWorks production
That’s What We’re Here For
(an american pageant)
written, designed, and directed by Ian W. Hill
assisted by Berit Johnson
as part of The $ellout Festival
with Gyda Arber, Fred Backus, Danny Bowes, Josephine Cashman*, Maggie Cino, Jorge Cordova*, Bryan Enk, Stacia French, Ian W. Hill*, Roger Nasser, Yvonne Roen*, and Alyssa Simon*
Saturday 6/17 at 7.00 pm / Tuesday 6/20 at 8.45 pm
Wednesday 6/21 at 7.00 pm / Saturday 6/24 at 3.30 pm
Sunday, 6/25 at 3.00 pm and 8.30 pm
With That’s What We’re Here For (an american pageant), noted NYC independent theatre creator and artsy curmudgeon Ian W. Hill joins the spirit of the $ellout Festival by creating a peppy original (and sincere, really!) patriotic revue focusing on the history of America from 1945 to now. A celebration of freedom. A 1970s TV variety show. A collision of art, industry, irony, and wide-eyed musical numbers. Robert Wilson meets Up With People. An original play about America, Money, and God is in there underneath it all, but that’s not important if you just want to listen to the pretty songs and look at the pretty pictures . . .
A stock musical-theatre Angel and Devil guide us through two days (weekday and weekend) in the life of an American family as it goes about its daily business in an America that is a combination of the last 60 years into an Eternal Present, relating this story through a series of musical numbers, tour-de-force theatrical tableaux, slides, puppetry, and video. This show is a must for all who wish to be better citizens, and better salesmen! Inoffensive, and a strengthener of one’s moral character! Any dark undercurrents you may experience are probably just there as a sop to the theatre critics. Please rise for the flag salute.
Mr. Hill has, with his company Gemini CollisionWorks, created almost 50 full productions since 1997, by playwrights such as Richard Foreman (including the world premiere of Foreman’s 1966-written farce Harry in Love in 1999), T.S. Eliot, Clive Barker, Mac Wellman, Ronald Tavel, Jeff Goode, Mark Spitz, and Edward D. Wood, Jr., as well as several original plays by Hill including, previously at The Brick, the critical and popular 2005 hit World Gone Wrong. He also directed the world premiere of Eugène Ionesco's The Viscount (in its first-ever English translation, by Hill and Berit Johnson). As a designer and technical/artistic consultant he has worked with many other stage artists in the USA and abroad, and he has also produced a number of theatre festivals throughout NYC.
A stock musical-theatre Angel and Devil guide us through two days (weekday and weekend) in the life of an American family as it goes about its daily business in an America that is a combination of the last 60 years into an Eternal Present, relating this story through a series of musical numbers, tour-de-force theatrical tableaux, slides, puppetry, and video. This show is a must for all who wish to be better citizens, and better salesmen! Inoffensive, and a strengthener of one’s moral character! Any dark undercurrents you may experience are probably just there as a sop to the theatre critics. Please rise for the flag salute.
Mr. Hill has, with his company Gemini CollisionWorks, created almost 50 full productions since 1997, by playwrights such as Richard Foreman (including the world premiere of Foreman’s 1966-written farce Harry in Love in 1999), T.S. Eliot, Clive Barker, Mac Wellman, Ronald Tavel, Jeff Goode, Mark Spitz, and Edward D. Wood, Jr., as well as several original plays by Hill including, previously at The Brick, the critical and popular 2005 hit World Gone Wrong. He also directed the world premiere of Eugène Ionesco's The Viscount (in its first-ever English translation, by Hill and Berit Johnson). As a designer and technical/artistic consultant he has worked with many other stage artists in the USA and abroad, and he has also produced a number of theatre festivals throughout NYC.
at
The Brick Theater
www.bricktheater.com
575 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211
½ a block from the Lorimer stop of the L train / Metropolitan/Grand stop of the G train
All tickets $10
Tickets available at the door or through theatermania.com
(212-352-3101 or toll-free: 1-866-811-4111)
* Appears Courtesy of Actors Equity Association
The Brick Theater
www.bricktheater.com
575 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211
½ a block from the Lorimer stop of the L train / Metropolitan/Grand stop of the G train
All tickets $10
Tickets available at the door or through theatermania.com
(212-352-3101 or toll-free: 1-866-811-4111)
* Appears Courtesy of Actors Equity Association
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Date: 2006-06-15 07:56 am (UTC)From:You did it !
I hope it goes very well !