New Perth, Prince Edward Island
I'm up way too late - quelle surprise! As I'm sure many of you know, working on web sites takes time. But this "retrofit" was for a good reason - tickets for this year's production at the Carrefour go on sale in 8 hours! On May nine, of course! Click here if you want 'em!
It's been pretty well non-stop since I last left you - didn't I predict it would be? Not a day off, pretty much not a waking moment where something having to do with the show isn't being done. Hard to believe we're only 2 months away from another opening! Aside from all the administrative and promotional stuff I've been up to, in April we went to Toronto, and then in the middle of everything I worked on the rewrite. I had the hardest time finding opportunities to work on it! The last few rewrites, I at least had committed chunks of time for them. Not this time. It was pretty well whenever I could spare, with a few of those chunks available if I was lucky. I know Maud talked about having to write that way and, if I didn't know what she was on about before, I do now!
But, I think it was worth it. I feel pretty good about this one. I stripped out a lot of the detail that I thought was important before and consolidated some things and shortened down others - I just tried to get to the point of things faster and put more emphasis on the characters. We've also been reimagining the staging, since last year's - in retrospect - could have used a little more energy. I think it'll be more kinetic now. I even wrote a whole new song. When I first started it, I thought it was going to be impossible. It had been too long since I wrote the other material and there was so much story that had to be worked into it and I wasn't feeling the magic. But somehow, a piece at a time (even at one point with a lyric coming to me in the car on the way to dinner, which I wrote down on a menu when we got there!), it fell together. Leo just finished orchestrating it. And it will serve to replace some of the talky sections of Act II. I feel pretty good about the song, and pretty good about this new version of the show. You still never know what it's really going to be like until it gets onto the stage, but having already gone through this process now has been a big help to me - kind of overall!
Anyhow, auditions are done (and now you know where a lot of the administrative work went) and I'll be able to announce the cast by the end of the month. Bringin' back some old faces, bringin' in some new faces!
That's the best I can do at 2 in the morning...I'm really wiped...that web site stuff is deceptively exhausting. But we've got a show, and now we've got tickets. Hopefully you'll have tickets, too! (Plug plug.)
Funny...it seems like a lifetime ago since last year's show - yet it feels like this year's show is tomorrow! There's still so much that has to be done...many times I wonder how it's all going to happen. I just know that it did already once, and that's what I base my faith on! For as burned out as I was when we closed last year (secret: I was burned out before we closed!), I do find myself looking forward to doing the show again - only because I think we'll be able to do it better this time! No sophomore slumps allowed in this show!
Sleep really shouldn't be allowed either, not with all the work that needs to be done - but one must have it. So, good night and see you next time!
I'm up way too late - quelle surprise! As I'm sure many of you know, working on web sites takes time. But this "retrofit" was for a good reason - tickets for this year's production at the Carrefour go on sale in 8 hours! On May nine, of course! Click here if you want 'em!
It's been pretty well non-stop since I last left you - didn't I predict it would be? Not a day off, pretty much not a waking moment where something having to do with the show isn't being done. Hard to believe we're only 2 months away from another opening! Aside from all the administrative and promotional stuff I've been up to, in April we went to Toronto, and then in the middle of everything I worked on the rewrite. I had the hardest time finding opportunities to work on it! The last few rewrites, I at least had committed chunks of time for them. Not this time. It was pretty well whenever I could spare, with a few of those chunks available if I was lucky. I know Maud talked about having to write that way and, if I didn't know what she was on about before, I do now!
But, I think it was worth it. I feel pretty good about this one. I stripped out a lot of the detail that I thought was important before and consolidated some things and shortened down others - I just tried to get to the point of things faster and put more emphasis on the characters. We've also been reimagining the staging, since last year's - in retrospect - could have used a little more energy. I think it'll be more kinetic now. I even wrote a whole new song. When I first started it, I thought it was going to be impossible. It had been too long since I wrote the other material and there was so much story that had to be worked into it and I wasn't feeling the magic. But somehow, a piece at a time (even at one point with a lyric coming to me in the car on the way to dinner, which I wrote down on a menu when we got there!), it fell together. Leo just finished orchestrating it. And it will serve to replace some of the talky sections of Act II. I feel pretty good about the song, and pretty good about this new version of the show. You still never know what it's really going to be like until it gets onto the stage, but having already gone through this process now has been a big help to me - kind of overall!
Anyhow, auditions are done (and now you know where a lot of the administrative work went) and I'll be able to announce the cast by the end of the month. Bringin' back some old faces, bringin' in some new faces!
That's the best I can do at 2 in the morning...I'm really wiped...that web site stuff is deceptively exhausting. But we've got a show, and now we've got tickets. Hopefully you'll have tickets, too! (Plug plug.)
Funny...it seems like a lifetime ago since last year's show - yet it feels like this year's show is tomorrow! There's still so much that has to be done...many times I wonder how it's all going to happen. I just know that it did already once, and that's what I base my faith on! For as burned out as I was when we closed last year (secret: I was burned out before we closed!), I do find myself looking forward to doing the show again - only because I think we'll be able to do it better this time! No sophomore slumps allowed in this show!
Sleep really shouldn't be allowed either, not with all the work that needs to be done - but one must have it. So, good night and see you next time!
1 comment:
My mom and I came to see your show last year in July. It was the first thing we did while we were in Prince Edward Island for the first time. When we started to actually read more about Maud at the historical sites, we were amazed at how accurate the details and the portrayals of the characters were. Bravo to you!
Glad to see that you are opening again this year!
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