Being Candid
I promised that I'd be candid in this blog, and admit the bad stuff in addition to the shilling over the good stuff, because how can you track a new production with just the good? And so, I'll now say something negative...
Um... the production costs more than one imagines an "Oedipus for Kids!" should cost. No more $1.50 Path Train to work. From now, on, it's swimming across the Hudson.
Also, I'll say that we've cut some of my favorite lines, so I'll put some here for you:
It was a scene that had to go much, much faster, so we got rid of this bit. The reason I liked it is that it's one of the three or so in-jokes in the show. This entire bit is pretty much a verbatim e-mail from one of our team members after his/her first visit to the theatre that NYMF booked us in.
The Sage's disco ball that would have been used in this scene (and may still be used for the Oracle number) is the "smaller one" pictured to the right, but we were also consideing trying to make use of the "larger one". I don't have a picture, but because the Sage used to be a Strip Joint it has this other, really huge, heavy, mammoth, almost-as-tall-as-you-are Disco Ball left over from its glory days. Apparently the reason it's there has nothing to do with sentimentality; when they sealed off the space, the case became that the stairs down and the doorway out were just too small to fit this giant disco ball. And so, it's been left backstage ever since.
Um... the production costs more than one imagines an "Oedipus for Kids!" should cost. No more $1.50 Path Train to work. From now, on, it's swimming across the Hudson.
Also, I'll say that we've cut some of my favorite lines, so I'll put some here for you:
LAURA
Oh come on. Have you taken a look around? This is like the
second crappiest theatre I have ever worked in. The Hoboken
Public Library was better! The stage lighting is way...
(looks out towards house)
Waaaaay out in the house. And not even a self respecting
community theatre would use that board. Is it even
programmable--
GAVIN
But look at all the great technology we have.
LAURA
Like what?
The disco ball lights up and revolves.
GAVIN
We have a disco ball!
REED
(confused)
Agh! Everything got shiny!
It was a scene that had to go much, much faster, so we got rid of this bit. The reason I liked it is that it's one of the three or so in-jokes in the show. This entire bit is pretty much a verbatim e-mail from one of our team members after his/her first visit to the theatre that NYMF booked us in.The Sage's disco ball that would have been used in this scene (and may still be used for the Oracle number) is the "smaller one" pictured to the right, but we were also consideing trying to make use of the "larger one". I don't have a picture, but because the Sage used to be a Strip Joint it has this other, really huge, heavy, mammoth, almost-as-tall-as-you-are Disco Ball left over from its glory days. Apparently the reason it's there has nothing to do with sentimentality; when they sealed off the space, the case became that the stairs down and the doorway out were just too small to fit this giant disco ball. And so, it's been left backstage ever since.
Oedipus for Kids! plays as part of the