Everything I touch is everything I am and everything I need is here for me
Have come to the startling realization that The Empress of Sex is not as much a salute to Marivaux as I intended, and is more the plot of a comic operetta. ...a genre in which I've always wanted to write, but never did. Till now. By accident.
I wrote in 14 speaking roles plus a chorus. Of course it's an operetta.
Just need to write the denouement, and I'm done with the shitty first draft.
Probably doing a reading with playwriting group at the end of July.
Now I have to decide if I should add music and turn it into a Gilbert & Sullivan with sex.
Speaking of which, when I saw him at Pride, Jim Allen suggested turning Suckers into a musical- he said it totally sang to him- Jeff's "Come lie down with me" song, the La Cage Aux Folles-style opening number at Le Bras et La Jambe, and of course the Elvis-Romaine tango. Hmmm. Most members of the cast I have do sing... An entertaining idea, but then vampire musicals don't work.
Yesterday went to see Alberto's Maria, an adaptation of Medea, setting it in the modern New York theatre scene, with the lead being an actress playing Medea on Broadway, whose director/boyfriend recasts a TV star in the lead on press night. Some really great stuff. An interesting working environment, sponsored by Resonance Ensemble- Alberto had written 4 scenes 2 weeks ago, and finished the play with the help of the cast over the past week.
Knew a bunch of people in the audience, Elana, Felipe, Jason Wynn. Elana and I discovered that Alberto's wife is the lovely and awesome blonde who we saw in The Cherry Orchard with Resonance. Also said hi to Ryan, who was in the reading, and in 23 Knives, and who I met the other night with the playwright of that.
Got an e-mail from the PR guy for Benny, the latest version of We Call Her Benny. Of course they want me to review it again, since I thought both versions of it I reviewed were awesome. Had to let them down easy, since I'm doing shows in the MITF myself, and directed them in dry_2olives' direction.
And speaking of the MITF, yeah, I was going to see Bartholomew Fair, NJ anyway, but thanks to Facebook, now I'm definitely going:
The hottie takes his shirt off in the show. Good lord, are they trying to kill me?
Speaking of Facebook- Jeremy just added me on there. Blast from the past.
And it's my 2nd girlfriend Katie's birthday today.
Alan, who played Rich in Suckers, has been working on a piece called Silent Night, about the Christmas Truce. The playwright's been working with actors improvising to develop the script. He's been excited about it for months. Now, under the new title In Fields Where They Lay (better, I think), it's having some readings later this month. I'll be going on July 15th.
July 16th I'm part of Drunken! Careening! Writers! Still don't know what I'll be reading for that. I have 10-12 minutes.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Having discovered I can read the minds of animals, I've started a new sideline as a ghostwriter. Here's an excerpt from an interview I did with Prestige, a potbellied pig born under the sign of Gemini.
Brezsny: What do you like best about being a potbellied pig?
Prestige: I'm greedy but cute. I get to eat like a pig, yet not be victimized by the negative judgments people usually project onto pigs.
Brezsny: Is there anything you're worried about?
Prestige: I need to make my caretaker understand that for the next few weeks we Geminis will need more than the usual amounts of food, love, presents, praise, attention, everything.
Brezsny: Anything you'd like to say to my Gemini readers?
Prestige: Don't let anybody make you feel guilty for wanting what you want.
I wrote in 14 speaking roles plus a chorus. Of course it's an operetta.
Just need to write the denouement, and I'm done with the shitty first draft.
Probably doing a reading with playwriting group at the end of July.
Now I have to decide if I should add music and turn it into a Gilbert & Sullivan with sex.
Speaking of which, when I saw him at Pride, Jim Allen suggested turning Suckers into a musical- he said it totally sang to him- Jeff's "Come lie down with me" song, the La Cage Aux Folles-style opening number at Le Bras et La Jambe, and of course the Elvis-Romaine tango. Hmmm. Most members of the cast I have do sing... An entertaining idea, but then vampire musicals don't work.
Yesterday went to see Alberto's Maria, an adaptation of Medea, setting it in the modern New York theatre scene, with the lead being an actress playing Medea on Broadway, whose director/boyfriend recasts a TV star in the lead on press night. Some really great stuff. An interesting working environment, sponsored by Resonance Ensemble- Alberto had written 4 scenes 2 weeks ago, and finished the play with the help of the cast over the past week.
Knew a bunch of people in the audience, Elana, Felipe, Jason Wynn. Elana and I discovered that Alberto's wife is the lovely and awesome blonde who we saw in The Cherry Orchard with Resonance. Also said hi to Ryan, who was in the reading, and in 23 Knives, and who I met the other night with the playwright of that.
Got an e-mail from the PR guy for Benny, the latest version of We Call Her Benny. Of course they want me to review it again, since I thought both versions of it I reviewed were awesome. Had to let them down easy, since I'm doing shows in the MITF myself, and directed them in dry_2olives' direction.
And speaking of the MITF, yeah, I was going to see Bartholomew Fair, NJ anyway, but thanks to Facebook, now I'm definitely going:
The hottie takes his shirt off in the show. Good lord, are they trying to kill me?
Speaking of Facebook- Jeremy just added me on there. Blast from the past.
And it's my 2nd girlfriend Katie's birthday today.
Alan, who played Rich in Suckers, has been working on a piece called Silent Night, about the Christmas Truce. The playwright's been working with actors improvising to develop the script. He's been excited about it for months. Now, under the new title In Fields Where They Lay (better, I think), it's having some readings later this month. I'll be going on July 15th.
July 16th I'm part of Drunken! Careening! Writers! Still don't know what I'll be reading for that. I have 10-12 minutes.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Having discovered I can read the minds of animals, I've started a new sideline as a ghostwriter. Here's an excerpt from an interview I did with Prestige, a potbellied pig born under the sign of Gemini.
Brezsny: What do you like best about being a potbellied pig?
Prestige: I'm greedy but cute. I get to eat like a pig, yet not be victimized by the negative judgments people usually project onto pigs.
Brezsny: Is there anything you're worried about?
Prestige: I need to make my caretaker understand that for the next few weeks we Geminis will need more than the usual amounts of food, love, presents, praise, attention, everything.
Brezsny: Anything you'd like to say to my Gemini readers?
Prestige: Don't let anybody make you feel guilty for wanting what you want.