Previews!!!

Well, we're finally here! It's the week of opening and tonight and tomorrow night we are previewing the show.

Dress rehearsals are always a bit tempestuous... new playing space, costumes, hair/make up, lights, props, etc. Mondays are always the worst, Tuesdays are 10,000 times better and by Wednesday/Thursday you are just ironing out the final wrinkles and the show gels nicely.

We are at that place in time where our show will reach the beauty it is meant to be. There are always 6 more changes and I have seen some new things from the cast mates even now. It is exciting and I can't wait for there to be an audience and to feed off their response.

This show kicks! I love performing in it, I love working with this group of people and I can't wait to share that love with all of you!

Thank you to all!

Break legs!!!!

Alais

Love Hurts

Inside This Flattering Glass

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Flattering Glass - mini-doc
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Tonight, Tonight

Tonight was the last night of rehearsals before we start the tech/ dress rehearsals at CalArts North. We've grown so much and it shows. Richard remembered to refer to Edmund as Edward's father, not uncle, Isabel remembered to pronounce her R's when she gets mad/crazed, Mowbray did a wonderful job with his fight scene, Bushy did an overall superb job tonight, though his voice did seem a bit high-pitched, Henry and Gaunt's close relationship really showed tonight, Alais was more backstabbingly evil, Eleanor made you sympathize with her more during her monologue and during her reaction to Mowbray's sentence, Edward was more affectionate towards Richard, Joan was more pitiful, yet strong, Edmund was more two-faced, Percy and Hotspur had a stronger father-son relationship....everything's just falling into place beautifully!!!!!

Da Count: Our Actors

Our actors...those amazingly gifted and wonderfully beautiful people that we have been blessed to spend the last four weeks with: Renee "Alais" Newlove, Dave "Bushy" Otero, Hal "Edmund" Bolen, Stephen "Edward" Torres, Jessica "Eleanor" Reedy, Ron "Gaunt" Blackwell, RJ "Henry" Blak, Arthur "Hotspur" Koster, Melissa "Isabel" Geston, Julia "Joan" Reimer, Rene "Mowbray" Lastreto, and Matt "Richard" Otstot.

You rock our world.

For the past two nights, we have played at rehearsal, in addition to working. For the first half of our time, we have had guest star appearances. This means we can be any person or character we want as we play our role. There have been some hilarious results. There were movie stars, a wide range of accents and even song and dance numbers. Next time, we will definitely have to film the event. This group is always game to try new things.
Jessica

promo video

This Flattering Glass promo
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Doin' Bushy Things...

Playing...

An Open Thank You...

as of last night we concluded the first major phase of our rehearsals for "this flattering glass." the language, relationship, emotion, action, and character exploration is done (inasmuch as those things are ever truly "done.") and, while i had absolute faith in the ventoux process , it was always the actors themselves who would prove my faith warranted.

and i now find it "all unpossible" to voice the humility and honor that i have felt in their presence for the last three weeks. they are Actors! each of them, renee, dave, hal, stephen, jessica, ron, rj, arthur, melissa, julia, rene, and matt, in their own way and to their own degree, have taken what i was confident would be a workable and useful tool for actors, and demonstrated, nightly, what Will and Dedication can accomplish when melded with Craft.

as we enter the final shaping phase of rehearsals, let me simply thank you for all you have done, and for all that i know you will continue to do.

and to alissa: thank you for joining our merry troupe and for your enthusiasm, professionalism and dedication. hell, girl, you scare me...and that's just what a good stage manager should do.

and my darling lisa, my partner, my touchstone, my wife, my Love: none of this is possible without you. more importantly, without you, none of it matters.

etonne-moi
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