Holiday

My goodness. I haven't written a blog in two and a half months. That's probably because after my lovely summer on the cape I went right back to Ohio to continue on to my second year of graduate in acting training, and I've been busy ever since. One of the things that has kept me so delightfully busy is playing Linda in Holiday here at OU. If you've never seen the old Carey Grant, Katharine Hepburn version, watch it! It's lovely! We're going into tech weekend tonight and will begin previews on Wednesday, opening night is Friday, November 3rd! Wish me luck!!

Cape Cod Journal 12: Much Ado About Nothing

So today is the day, or rather, tonight is the night. We are opening Much Ado About Nothing here at the Monomoy Theatre, and I am playing my first actual dream role. That's not to say that I haven't been exceedingly proud of a lot of other parts I've done, but that I have literally been dreaming of playing Beatrice since I was a very young teenager. I mean, she's Beatrice. What more can I say?
The show looks truly gorgeous. Set in 1945 in a post WWII Italy, our costumes are beautiful and we step out onto the stage to find a war ridden Italian town square. Green shutters on the implied buildings and the horizon of the Mediterranean Sea in the background.
I must confess that I am a little nervous to be playing such an iconic role, but I'm sure as soon as Benedick (Jonathan Silver) marches up in his army uniform, I will forget all about that and fall in love with him.

Cape Cod Journal 11

It's coming up quick!

Cape Cod Journal 10

We're working on Much Ado About Nothing right now! It's set in 1945 Italy and the town of Messina is welcoming the American troops back for a post war visit filled with love, betrayal, good wit, and good wine! Here are some photos we took today all in costume before the publicity shots were taken. They're of Marissa Wolf as Hero, Chris Young as Claudio, Jonathan Silver as Benedick and me as Beatrice!

Cape Cod Journal 09

So, sorry I haven't written for a little while, but things have been a little crazed around here. Primarily because we successfully launched Blithe Spirit which the producer here at the Monomoy Theatre aptly titled, Noël Coward's Hamlet.
We've been having such a fantastic time doing the show, despite how hectic it was getting it to fly (technical rehearsals until 2:00 a.m. and whatnot). The audiences seem to love us, and I am getting recognized around town as Elvira, the mischievous ghost.
As usual a couple of the local papers have written quick reviews on the show. It's always fun to see what they have to say.
The Barnstable Patriot
The Cape Cod Times
The days have also been a little nuts because for the last several days my family was here to see the show! My father came all the way out from Oregon, and my sister, Jennifer, who lives in Maine and her family (including their four small children) came. She brought the girls, Anne (8) and Sarah (6) to see the play, and they were just enthralled. She also had me give them a tour of the whole theater, and with how excited they were about the whole business, I think Jennifer had better watch out lest her little girls get swept up by show business like us poor souls.
During the day we're all working very hard putting together the second big musical of the summer, Once Upon a Mattress, which is most definitely the silliest comedy I've ever been involved with. It's absolutely ridiculous. We've all been here for several weeks now, and the demands of the theatre don't let up for an instant, so things from time to time get admittedly a little tense, but this particular play must simply be cheery no matter what, so it's kicking us up into high spirits every day.
Ah! Time for rehearsal! Bye!

Cape Cod Journal 08

A really nice review of The Dining Room, which sadly closed last night. Please check it out at The Barnstable Patriot.
Also some stills from Fiddler on the Roof.

Cape Cod Journal 07: The Dining Room

We've had two performances of The Dining Room so far, and will continue to play through the rest of the week. It's been lovely to see that the Monomoy crowd turns out for smaller shows just as much as they do for musicals. Being onstage with this piece has been a lovely experience so far. It is captivating in it's episodic nature, and the audience always seems to be right with us. I have to admit, I'll be very sad to see it close. I'm so proud of the all our accomplishments, and our director, Rich Cole, was an absolute joy to work with. We'll have to say goodbye to him soon as he's heading back to New York.
The reviews are around today, and I thought The Cape Cod Times captured the nature of the show quite nicely in theirs.
As true Monomoy Theatre fashion would have it, we had hardly begun dress rehearsals for The Dining Room before several of us were thrown into rehearsals of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, in which I am playing Elvira, the blithe spirit of Blithe Spirit. I'm really having a grand time rehearsing this part. She's such a vibrant, deviant, wildly funny, and wildly dangerous little ghost.
Well, I'd best be off. We began the morning with a rather strenuous, but productive and fun Blithe Spirit rehearsal, and now it's on to both a matinee and an evening performance of The Dining Room!