Well, people seemed to respond really well to the Friday show (and if you're reading this, you'd better DAMN well come to tonight's show)...Morey and his band, Jimmy and the 'nards (Morey, Vince Burnard, Greg Burnard, and Jimmy Younger) did an AWESOME job.
You know, you say stuff at two in the morning to crack your writing partner up, and the next day, Kelly Kiorpes is up there singing it.
This is why we love The Blitz.
Here are some photos from the first dress rehearsal of the show Morey and I wrote, entitled Thug Passion 2: Discordia's Sunhine Death. Granted, the picture quality on most of these suck, but I actually kinda like the composition on this first one:
You know, you say stuff at two in the morning to crack your writing partner up, and the next day, Kelly Kiorpes is up there singing it.
This is why we love The Blitz.
Here are some photos from the first dress rehearsal of the show Morey and I wrote, entitled Thug Passion 2: Discordia's Sunhine Death. Granted, the picture quality on most of these suck, but I actually kinda like the composition on this first one:
Kelly Kiorpes, looking over her lines in preparation for her big closing number, "You'll Never Take Me Alive."
Michal Fischer, the choreographer (who some of you may remember from Cementville), center, working with the rest of the cast (left to right: Major William Latimer, Chameleon, and Jeremy Withald) on the final number. (That's Laura Malischke's arm, down on the left, there)
Jeremy Withald posing, 007-style, with one of my guns.
The cast, waiting to go. Left to right: Anthony Lamarr, Laura Malischke, Major William Latimer, Chameleon, Jeremy Withald, and Anna Marquardt (who you also may remember from Cementville).
Kelly Kiorpes, waiting to deal out a decent dose of murder on Anthony Lamarr.
Special congrats and thank yous to director Bonnie Balke (who you yet again may also remember from Cementville), choreographer Michal Fischer, and the wonderful cast, who all did a fantastic job (particularly Kelly, who came up to me after the show, seemingly honestly concerned that she'd ruined it, which was SO not true): Kelly Kiopres, Anthony Lamarr, Laura Malischke, Major William Latimer, Chameleon, Jeremy Withald, Anna Marquardt, and, of course Pete Rydberg as "Jesus," who we just HAD to have.
And, of course, a big shout-out of DUDE to my writing partner, Morey Burnard (who may remember--oh, you know the drill). DUDE. SWEEEEET.
See you tonight, kiddies.
See you tonight, kiddies.
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[ Friday, May 27, 2005 ]
Having just finished our Blitz 6 script.
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[ Thursday, May 26, 2005 ]
The internet premiere of Morey's song from our Blitz musical, "Lordy Me, I Do Love Beer."
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Just after working for an hour on our Blitz 6 show.
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This is the first of the Blitz 6 audioposts--here's the writers first getting there (or at least as much time as I had until my time ran out).
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[ Wednesday, May 25, 2005 ]
Good evening, ladies and germs!
Man, I almost forgot to plug the upcoming Blitz.
Shame. On. ME!
Yep, I'm writing again for Blitz Mania VI, with a couple of new wrinkles. First, I'm writing on Friday, with the bulk of the new writers, and second, I'm writing with a partner (Morey Burnard), and third...(drumroll...)
It's the musical.
Oh, yes. It's the musical.
I've been doing this every year, and I'm damn excited this time. You can't DRAG me away from a Blitz.
What's the Blitz, you ask?
For those of you just joining us, here's the skinny from the Mercury Players website:
What could be crazier than to write, cast, direct, and produce 8 new plays from scratch, all within 24 hours? How about doing it TWO DAYS IN A ROW?
On both Thursday and Friday, May 26 and 27, at 8:00 p.m., eight writers or writing teams will gather at the Bartell Theatre and randomly pick titles out of a hat. Those titles become their parameters for a 10-15 minute original play. The writers then stay at the theatre overnight to write the plays to fit those titles, with an absolute deadline of 8:00 a.m. on Saturday. At that time, the plays are collected and copies made.
On Friday and Saturday mornings, May 27 and 28, the directors arrive at the Bartell. At 9:00 a.m., the eight directors are each randomly assigned to one of the eight plays. Then at 10:00 a.m., the actors are brought in and cast as quickly as possible. Between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., the casts will rehearse their plays and do their best to learn their lines, with the occasional run home for costumes and props.
At 4:00 p.m. comes the run-through on the Drury Stage, and the final chance to get technical details right.
At 7:30, the house opens.
And at 8:00, the curtain will go up on eight plays that didn't exist 24 hours before!
"Blitz Mania VI" will run for two nights only (with an entirely new slate of plays each time), on Friday, May 27 and Saturday, May 28, 2005 at 8:00 p.m. on the Drury Stage of the Bartell Theatre, 113 E. Mifflin Street, Madison.
Tickets are $12. Call (608) 242-0150 for information. Reservations will NOT be accepted. The Bartell Theatre is fully wheelchair-accessible, and ample parking is available in the neighboring Mifflin Street Ramp.
By the way, here's the lineup of the other writers for Friday:
Patrick Fernan
Ryan Good
Robert Jahrling
Gary Kriesel
Gwen Quirk
Karen Saari & Sunny Shoemaker
Steven Van Haren
Steve, you may remember as Carl, from my show FACEvalue, and oddly, Patrick Fernan wrote and directed the first play I ever saw in Madison.
The Saturday night writers' lineup:
Matt Cibula
George Gonzalez
Phil Heckman
Greg Lawless
Therese Kattner
Jaime Niedermayer
Doug Reed
Andrew Rohn & Catherine Capellaro (musical)
This is really the All-Stars of writing night, where all the veterans come out to play. So please--See BOTH nights. I swear you will NOT regret it.
Yeah. I live for the Blitz, man.
So, for the first time ever, I'm going to be audioblogging DURING THE WRITING PROCESS so that people can get a sense as to how this goes.
Dude.
No, no.
DUDE.
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[ Wednesday, May 18, 2005 ]
Hey, kids! It's my first ever AUDIO POST!
In an effort to just test out the process, my first audio post is mainly about Team America: World Police, which just came out on video this week. At the time of seeing it, I found myself laughing but shaken, saying, "There's a big difference between Eric Roberts getting cannibalized on South Park and Janeane Garafolo getting shot point-blank in the face with a 12 gauge." (The audience I saw it with seemed actually kind of stunned into silence at that scene.)
Do I feel the same way now? Yes and no.
And yes.
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[ Sunday, May 01, 2005 ]
Okay, alternate-universe me is really starting to piss current-universe me off:
I don't know what's worse, the fact that I haven't even put my show up yet and he's got the alternate version ready, or the fact that his one is already sold out in advance.
I don't know if I should be jealous of that or not.
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