Thanks!

Thank you to everyone who auditioned for Romeo and Juliet! We broke audition attendee records. Calls are going out now; you should hear from us by the end of the day Friday.

FREE Sex, Lies, and Other Distractions TONIGHT

Tonight is the first of two nights of FREE theatre! Come to the Anteroom at the Good Beans Cafe at 8 PM tonight (Dec. 4) or tomorrow (Dec. 5) for a night of short plays:

Beth Kander's "The Last Episode of Intergalactic Warrior Journeymen" and "Sweet Dreams"

John Lane's "Shrink Resistant"

"Pearl Faust"'s "Lyman's Mother"

and John Shanahan's "The Worst Possible Time for Writer's Block"

Join us! If you feel guilty about seeing a show for free, we will take your free-will donation.


Don't forget: Monday and Tuesday are auditions for Romeo and Juliet. Check the FCT website, look to your left on this page, or call Liz or Dan for more info.

Next: More Shakespeare! Also, Dan's Class Show

Thanks to everyone for a fantastic second weekend of La Ronde and for an amazingly productive strike.

The next production in the Anteroom will be Dan's Mott CC class show, Sex, Lies, and Other Distractions. It will be a night of five short plays. Only two performances - don't miss it!

Saturday, November 21 is the FREE Stage Combat Workshop at the Flint Community Players Workshop (behind K-Mart on Miller Road and Ballenger). This workshop is in preparation for our joint production of Romeo and Juliet. Note: while it is freeeeeee, please let us know if you plan to show up so that we can be sure we have enough stage weapons on hand and don't have to resort to real swords. Wear something movable but not snaggable.

Speaking of R&J, auditions for the FCT/FCP joint production of our next Shakespeare will be December 7th and 8th (Monday and Tuesday) at 7 PM at the FCP Workshop. If you can't make it, contact me or Dan Gerics to arrange an alternate audition time. Performances will be in mid-March at Bower Theatre (neat!). All roles are open! Dan Gerics will direct, and Steve Mokofsky will do fight choreography.

More information can be found at the FCT website at www.flintcitytheatre.com; you can also call me or Dan.

Pick-Up Wednesday

Hope everyone enjoyed the break.

Pick-up is at 6:30 tonight in the Anteroom.

Everyone is called; contact me if you have any problems.

Remember: no show tomorrow!

La Ronde Pictures

Thanks again to the Lake Fenton students for taking pictures at our final dress!

This link will get you to some of the pictures - the rest are being cleaned up.

La Ronde Pictures

Enjoy!

La Ronde Continues

We are within the run!

Opening night went well. One more show tonight, one tomorrow, and then nothing until pick-up on Wednesday.

Don't forget that we will have a talk-back session after Student Night next Friday.

FINAL DRESS

IS TONIGHT!

Call is 7 PM; run is 8 PM. We will run as show, so no one may be in the house during the performance.

Enjoy!

First Dress

is tonight. Call is 6 PM; we will run at 7 PM. Remember to sign in!

We will not have the Young Gentleman tonight; we haven't decided yet whether we'll read in for him or just Q2Q the scenes. Wife and Maid, if you have a preference, let me know.

See you there! Let me know before the run if you have any questions/problems.

TECH SUNDAY

Call for Tech is 2 PM.

We will be doing a cue-to-cue first, followed by general notes.
After the cue-to-cue, we will do a dress parade. Make-up and hair are not required.
A full tech will follow.

I hope everyone remembered performance underwear!

Run-Through on Wednesday

Wednesday's rehearsal:

6:45 Run-through at the Good Beans Cafe. I will be taking line notes on Friday's run-through, but if I notice anything that you've been consistently leaving out/changing, I'll let you know after Wednesday's rehearsal. Review your lines for Friday!

We will be running with full music (as full as I can get it, anyway) and props. If you are missing anything, let me know. If you have any questions about translations or weird things in the script, ask me at one of our breaks - I will probably be able to find out for you within half an hour.

Rehearsal for Monday, Oct. 26

Monday's rehearsal is at Site 2.

Call times are:
5:30 for scenes 5 and 6 (Wife, Husband, and Little Miss),
7:00 for scene 7 (Poet and Little Miss), and
8:00 for scene 3 (Parlor Maid and Young Gentleman).

LINE SCRIPTS will start on Monday and will continue until tech. Ask me if you don't know what I'm talking about.

New Link - Pictures of Vienna

Good morning!

I've added a link to our Useful Links section. Strawberry Fields is Merisi's photo blog of (mostly) Vienna, Austria. There are lots of pictures of flowers, and everything is modern, but a lot of the other pictures might give you a sense of the area you're living in. I'd ignore the poetry if I were you and just look at the pictures. A semi-condensed version, Vienna for Beginners, is at http://merisi.blogspot.com/ - this has some nice pics of people and landscapes.

Enjoy!

Ed.: Link has been removed from sidebar, but here it is: http://www.strowberryfield.blogspot.com/

Weekend of Oct. 24 and 25

Oct. 24 is Scream Theatre's final performance! 8 PM in the Anteroom.

La Ronde rehearsal for Oct. 24:

- The 11:00 rehearsal of Scene 10 (Soldier and Maid) has been cancelled.

- 12:00 is call for the Maskers at the GBC.

Scream Strike is at 12:00 on Sunday. We may be able to clean most of it up on Saturday night, so be prepared for changes.

La Ronde rehearsal for Sunday, Oct. 25 (the long day) is at Site 2.

Call times:

12:00 for Scene 5 (Husband and Wife)
1:30 to record announcements (Bob, Liz, James; anyone who is interested in recording in a foreign language should talk to us)
3:00 for Maskers
4:30 for Scene 10 (Count, Whore)
5:30 for Scene 1 (Whore, Soldier)
6:30 for Scene 8 (Poet, Actress)

Anyone who brings snacks gets an A for the day.

SCREAM Opens Tonight!

Hey, everyone!

Come see Scream Theatre tonight at 8 PM in the Anteroom at the Good Beans Cafe!

The show runs only two nights - tonight and tomorrow.

Scream cast, your call is 7 PM. But you all knew that.

Scream Final Dress; La Ronde sc. 7 and 8

Tonight's final dress of Scream Theatre has been moved down to 8:30. The cafe is open late today, so if you show up early, you can hang out with a delicious drink.

La Ronde will be rehearsing scenes 7 and 8 (Poet, Actress, Young Miss) at Site 2. Call is 6 PM for Poet and Actress and 8 PM (or thereabouts) for Young Miss.

If you are missing any prop at this point or have any other questions, leave a comment or email me as soon as you can.

La Ronde run-through and Scream tech

Tonight's rehearsals are both at Mott Community College.

La Ronde is in 1041 Mott Memorial Building at 6:45.
Scream is in 1031 MMC (Dan's office) at 8 PM.

If you don't know how to get to the room, we'll meet in the public parking lot (Lot E, I think) at 6:15 to walk up together. If you head down Court Street from the direction of the Good Beans/UMF, there's a giant Mott sign just after Central. Watch for it after you pass Crapo Street. Turn left here (Bob thinks the road is named Hoffman - there's no light, and you can only turn left).

Once you're on the street, the parking lot will be the first one on your right. It says Public Parking. If you have any problems finding this, call me or Bob.

Scream and La Ronde: double the fun!

Hi, all!

Sorry for the missed entries.

Today's rehearsal is in the Anteroom. Call is 5:30 for scenes 5 and 6 and 7:00 for scenes 3 and 4.

Scream Theatre is going into tech this week; performances are Friday, Oct 23, and Saturday, Oct. 24. Show time is 8 PM. The La Ronde cast is invited to watch the Scream dress rehearsal after Wednesday's run-through; I'll post more information later this week.

Monday at Sunset Village

Hello, all!

Monday's rehearsal is at Site 2. Call times are 5:30 for Scene 3 (Parlor Maid and Young Gentleman) and 6:30 for Scenes 7, 8, and 9 (Young Miss, Poet, Actress, and Count). Let Liz know if you want to try to work without a script today; Wednesday is our Off Book date.

Sunday: Early Maskers and Two Scenes

Good afternoon! Today's rehearsal is at Site 2.

The call for the Maskers has been changed to 2:00 at Site 2.

4:30 is the call for Scene 10 (Count and Whore).
5:30 is the call for Scene 1 (Whore and Soldier).

ZOMBIE WALK

is this Saturday.

BRAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIINNNNNNNS.