The theatre named for that...artist...(there are some of his painting inside blown up all huge-like...if you wish, you may ask me my opinion of Mr. T.K., but suffice it to say for the present that one of his best works i've seen lies within this building.)
A creepy dark shot of the trees in the parking lot. As far as i can remember, those trees were just small burgeoning sticks. And wow! A few years go by and there're like huge trees there! Actually i kind of like how the shot turned out with the other trees showing up under the street lamps, the suggestion of a parking lot, and further silhouetted foliage in the distance.
The Broadway musical.
One thing i realized when i walked into my old limelight arena was that my university is just like my high school on steroids. Also, they both managed to open a strikingly similar theatre space (though CU's is for film) precisely the last year of my attendance at each. So i got to enjoy both of them during my time there--barely.
The most intriguing things about the set: a spindle, a skull and an hour glass! Is this in the novel? Is it a reference to something else? It makes me think of Edgar Allan Poe for some reason. "The Telltale Heart" scared the hell out of me when i read it in HS.
The protagonist Jo and her eventual husband Herr Doktor Fritz Bhaer...who look QUITE like my new brother-in-law Jon James! It was hilarious! Jon singing Broadway tunes in a squeaky, awkward high school boy voice and baby face!
All in all i think the kids did a magnificent job as they usually do. The vocals were actually quite impressive considering the age range, though not surprising considering the experience of some and the *upbringing* of others. (runs in the family?) Marmee's vox were particularly swell, and i think she ought to join a rock or jazz group. Though theatre is also a good place for her to shine too, i suppose.There was also a very excellent scene involving about ten or twelve creepy hooded evil-ies (one with giant halloween-like hands), four trolls, a vilian, a hero, and the rest of the cast. Nobody even saw it comin'!
The same director and music director as when i was a student there are still plodding along. Pleasantly and surprisingly, when i passed one of them he recognized me and called me by name. And liked the beard?
During the play i was trying to place the time period by the attire, antiquated language and cultural references, and was assisted by the fact that there was a war going on throughout--and then one of the young men enlisted in the army. So i asked myself, "which war?"
When he came out in a gray hat with a small black brim and a uniform with all complete with brass buttons, i correctly *whew* surmised that it must be the Civil War*, and thus the mid-1800s.
Another thing i discovered was that period clothing from the 1800s is HOTT!! Wow! Hopefully i can get Kirsten to fashion with a needle AND wear a few poofy long sleeve dresses with laced high collars and wrist decor, a traveling cape with hand holes, a stylish black bonnet, a hoop skirt, and bunchy, ripply, flowy white undergarments.
* "American" Civil War = 1861-1865,
the dates of which also exactly span the presidency of Mr. Abraham Lincoln, deceased April 15, 1965
