A Born Again Diva

(comma not included...)

i got some pics for you people. hold on while i process them and all.

Ok

So, here's a typical stage. Ryan, down on the mainfloor directing whoever's on stage:



It happens to be the DIVORCE song. That's when Caesar's wife Chlamydia and Mark Anthony's wife Octavia decide to divorce their husbands for cheating.



And here is Caesar (Ryan, left) and Cleopatra (Afrodite, right) doing a love song:

And here is conspiracy in making against Caesar. Caesar is talking to his wife Chlamydia, who is heading the conspiracy (note the conspirators on the right



Secret Senate meeting in Rome:




And here, Caesar's dead. It has quite a different ending then in real history, but not many will know, most likely... plus i ain't gonna say more, cause littlek would have no surprises left in the show...

singing rehearsal:



Chorus looking on to the stage:



Main floor with Kitty, the acting coach, in the middle:

Gads, you're almost making me nostalgic...











Not easy.

you played in a theatre, osso? what play were you in?

i am WIPED out today. came up with a choreography for my tapdance thing - went over that at least 20 times, then showed everybody else, then we did the whole scene at least 10 times on stage... it's a really fast one with some ferrocious tapping. my quads are shot to hell. but i was praised by Himself. Well worth it, if you ask me.

No, though I did help design set backdrop, et al, once.. I am by nature sort of non-dramatic, like more what dramatists shun as epidisodic material... non enthused about most musicals, and many many speeches. Cut!

I could name some plays I liked, would have to get back on that. I think I saw way many overacted mediocre plays, when I myself was not in love with theater. I started out neutral to enthused to be involved, but I understand myself more years later.

I married a playwright and supported him for more (+) than a decade while he did that and screenwriting. (Though that was balanced, somewhat, by his supporting me for a bit. We're talking low money here, but years going by.) I saw 4533 rehearsals, 6220 small theater performances, read 917 scripts, some times four times on rewrite, and before all that I came from a hollywood family. I say all this out of love, of course. I'm still friends with ex who is doing really great, I may pm you on that.

I met my ex when his theater group came to rent space from our gallery. Hah, tricky mix.

Anyway, break a leg, and I am loving your thread.

Oh, yeah, I had theater people over to dinner cooked by me 8340 times.

Also, the second to the last photo looks like a Hopper. Mind if I try to paint it? Well, whatever, pm me on that.

oh sure, please paint it. Can i then share it with the Gold Dust Orphans? I mean, if you paint it, I'll make a quality large print of a photograph of your painting, if you send me one...you know. I know they would absolutely love it.

First I need a good photo. My new new computer can't click on the site and save it gddmit. But, I am thinking that tomorrow, I'll rev up my old computer.

Not that I am painting soon. A couple of months away. In the meantime that's a strong photo...

Whenever. I'll still be with them in two months. I can email you a larger original when you want it.

If I can type...my everything aches like the devil. And I have a boxing practice in ummm, 8 hours. gotta sleep in between. ouch. ugggh. yow.

And the ads are kicking in. Tickets are already for sale!

Behold the soul ... of Egypt's might throne!
Move over, Elizabeth Taylor. The Gold Dust Orphans will be kicking up their own high heels in their new musical extravaganza, Cleopatra!.

Cleopatra! has something for ever Orphan fan. Sex. Violence. Hot Roman bath house employes. With more music (ranging from soul to funk to R&B) and even MORE fabulous costumes and sumptuous production numbers than ever Cleopatra! is not a show to miss!

I promise there will not be a more lavish musical extravaganza in Boston this spring or summer than The Gold Dust Orphans' Cleopatra! pledges Landry. In fact, if I'm wrong, I'll eat my negligee!

Cleopatra! is an original musical written by Landry featuring music by Landry and Bill Hough, starring the legendary Afrodite as Cleopatra, veteran Orphans Mark Meehan as Marc Antony, Penny Champayne as Octavia, Gene Dante as Octavian, Olive Another as Clamidia, and Ryan Landry as Julius Caesar. New Orphans for this production include Cheri Amour as Syphilis, Claudio Day as Ptolemy and Josh Pritchard as Fagonius with Jim Byrne returning to direct his umpteenth Orphans production.

Dag I wonder, when things have settled a little, (hah!) if you could provide a synopsis, script or contact details for the show rights holder. so I can have a little investigate for our company.

Pm those details if you want. We might not go anywhere with it but your show sounds like just the thing to drag our company out of the gilbert and sullivan doldrums.

History's being made on a2k. :wink:

Oooohhhh..... she's pretty!

Wow, sorry they're working you so hard Dag. And I know exactly what you mean about the nervousness of the director being contagious.

When do you open? (Sorry, I'm sure that you've said that somewhere earlier.)