The day after opening night
"Oedipus for Kids!" opened last night. And let me say, it went pheomenally.
When you're that close to the show, especially a comedy, you forget what it looks like with your fresh glasses on. You wonder, "People laughed at the Icarus joke? People know that Icarus flew into the sun and died?" Or you're afraid that some of it the audience won't "get", or it might just go over their heads. But it works.
After walking out of the show, I think we all felt like the audience "got" it. The humor hit right, the audience laughed in all the right places (and in some I never imagined them laughing). The show together works as one coherent piece, and it moves well. And by the ending...
Our cast is hysterical. There's no other way to put it. Whether it's Reed as an idiot, Gavin as a blindman, or Laura as the Oracle (it's so nice when a scene that's not a musical number gets its own applause at the end), they kept the show on its toes.
I don't know what else to say. Last night was great. My brain is still decompressing from it (being tired isn't helping much either, I suppose). I want to congratulate all of the creatives, cast, and crew for the phenomenal work they've done on this. A special thank you to Dan Fields, who I'm glad we bumped into. And a thank you to last night's audience, for being such a fantastic audience.
There's still one performance left that isn't sold out, and that's Friday, 9/22 at 11 PM [tickets].
NYMF also isn't very good at publicizing this, so I'll try to make it clear for the other seven "sold out" shows. A big handful of tickets for all NYMF shows are held for industry/press/insiders/VIPs and those that aren't used are released at 7 PM the night before the show. So either come to this webpage the night before, or alternatively you can just show up at the theatre the night you want to go.
I'll try to write some more meaningful comments at some future point. I'm still decompressing. Soon, though.
When you're that close to the show, especially a comedy, you forget what it looks like with your fresh glasses on. You wonder, "People laughed at the Icarus joke? People know that Icarus flew into the sun and died?" Or you're afraid that some of it the audience won't "get", or it might just go over their heads. But it works.
After walking out of the show, I think we all felt like the audience "got" it. The humor hit right, the audience laughed in all the right places (and in some I never imagined them laughing). The show together works as one coherent piece, and it moves well. And by the ending...
Our cast is hysterical. There's no other way to put it. Whether it's Reed as an idiot, Gavin as a blindman, or Laura as the Oracle (it's so nice when a scene that's not a musical number gets its own applause at the end), they kept the show on its toes.
I don't know what else to say. Last night was great. My brain is still decompressing from it (being tired isn't helping much either, I suppose). I want to congratulate all of the creatives, cast, and crew for the phenomenal work they've done on this. A special thank you to Dan Fields, who I'm glad we bumped into. And a thank you to last night's audience, for being such a fantastic audience.
There's still one performance left that isn't sold out, and that's Friday, 9/22 at 11 PM [tickets].
NYMF also isn't very good at publicizing this, so I'll try to make it clear for the other seven "sold out" shows. A big handful of tickets for all NYMF shows are held for industry/press/insiders/VIPs and those that aren't used are released at 7 PM the night before the show. So either come to this webpage the night before, or alternatively you can just show up at the theatre the night you want to go.
I'll try to write some more meaningful comments at some future point. I'm still decompressing. Soon, though.
Oedipus for Kids! plays as part of the