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Heidi at 01:38 PM in
That's Weird, Grandma
We’re back from Milwaukee and ready to go! Kurt has promised to write more about the actual AG Bell performance and trip as a whole, so I won’t spoil it by revealing any of the details.
Luckily we all got back in time for rehearsal on Sunday and the show tonight. We’ve added two dialogues to the running order, and under the guest direction of Lauren Sharpe (Laura Grey is on a quick vacation) the show should be fantabulous. Full running order after the jump--and as always, you can buy your tickets online!
Also, remember we have THREE special matinees coming up in July! Tuesdays at 11:00, July 8, 15 and 22.
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Rachel at 01:30 PM in
School Shows
I stopped in at the last rehearsal for the AG Bell show and want to share the pretty faces!
Prince Geoff and Princess Mary Winn—I want her hat!
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Kurt at 10:20 AM in
School Shows
Welcome, Monkey Blog Readers. Lots of news coming up. Pay attention real close, ‘cuz this blog is coming to you from Kurt Chiang, who has only been in the company for about a year and a half, which means he doesn’t have a digital camera yet. So, this entry is going to be flavored a tad differently. You’ll see what I mean in a second. Unless you’ve cheated and you’ve already scrolled yourself down on the digital browser. Let’s get to business…
The upcoming show is for the AG Bell Convention, hosted by the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. The convention will be in glorious MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.
Ten Monkeys involved in this show. Here are their stories…
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Posted by
Heidi at 03:43 PM in
That's Weird, Grandma
Hi!
It’s going to be awesome you guys. I mean, it’s always awesome, but every week I get to come up with another reason. Tonight it’s because it is finally really summer, and that means we’re going to have a good house. We’ve got 50 people on the books already (for a typical show we’d have about 20 reservations, theater capacity is 150), which means we’ll probably get about 100 people at the show. Which is awesome, because when there are a lot of people in the audience the show has extra energy. So, yes, you should come and make it an even bigger audience.
Also, we’ve added “The Crying Woman”, which is a child’s take on a famous folk tale, and is really amazing and moving. Full running order after the jump.
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Barrel of Monkeys, as you know, is ”an ensemble of actor-educators”. We are lucky to have an incredibly talented and attractive (as the TWG robot likes to point out) group of performers, teachers, writers, and musicians in our company. Tai has already told you that after COA we give out awards to the whole company honoring the meaningful, delightful, amazing, and silly things that happen throughout the year. Another great thing that happens after COA each year is that we officially expand the roster of company members.
The new company members come from a typically diverse artistic background. A couple had worked as volunteer teachers for us in years past before being cast in the performing ensemble last October. One, Joe, even started out as monkey intern way back when he was still in college and another, Mike, has provided musical backup at Theater on the Lake and for other public shows. All of them spent much of the last eight months performing in our school shows. We like to make sure that our company members have spent time adapting and performing in CPS gyms, cafeterias and auditoria before inducting them--it takes a certain kind of performer to believe that some of the most important work is done with terrible acoustics, no tech beyond our keyboard, and in front of an audience of fourth graders. We are thrilled to have so many of these performers in our company.
In addition to the people who joined this year, we also celebrated two immensely talented performers who it feels like have been around forever, but who actually hadn’t been around quite long enough this time last year to get the proper ceremony. So while you’ve seen Donnell Williams and Kurt Chiang‘s names on the company roster and in TWG for a while, we still wanted to make sure they got their moment in the sun.
Without further ado, here are the newest members of the BOM company! Please note, they’re so new that most of them don’t have full profiles yet, though their photos are great. Well, for the ones that have photos.
Mikala Bierma
Brandon Cloyd
Erick Deshaun Dorris
Mary Winn Heider
Mike Pryzgoda
Joseph Schupbach
Tim Simeone
Tim Soszko
Bradford Stevens
Mari Stratton
The post Celebration celebration is also one of the three times a year that pretty much everyone in the company who still lives in Chicago gets together in the same room. We were so happy to have co-founders Halena and Erica there as we welcomed this newest class of monkeys into the family.
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