An artistic challenge
It's going to be interesting to see what they do:
September 02, 2005
Dear Friends,
We are two weeks away from the opening of Spectacle ’05: Loves Me...Loves Me Not, at the Jackson Park Lagoon, behind the Museum of Science and Industry. The absolute tragedy and chaos in New Orleans has stopped us in our tracks this week. Images of post-flood destruction, pain, and loss eerily mirror the set and show we have built. This presents us with a set of serious challenges and real opportunities. Potentially, we are in a great position to help raise money for the rescue and relief efforts. We have been in contact with the American Red Cross to develop ways to use our event to raise support for their disaster relief fund. That, however, is but one piece of our difficulty. We cannot mount the show in its current narrative state for any number of reasons. The most obvious is that you, members of our audience, will now bring to the show an entirely different perspective than you would have prior to hurricane Katrina. What once read as mythical and possibly even whimsical now reads as indelibly tragic. The show needs to be entirely re-written and re-worked.
We are poised to respond in our own way to this tragedy, to pull a community together to grieve and help, and to create something beautiful, meaningful, and hopeful. I am confident in our well-practiced ability to adapt to opportunities as they arise. It will be an enormous amount of work, but I think we are ready. We hope that you, our audience, will join us.
Sincerely,
Jim Lasko - Artistic Director
Redmoon Theater
Join us at the Jackson Park Lagoon behind the Museum of Science and Industry as Redmoon takes spectacle to new depths! An ENTIRELY WATER-BASED event, LOVES ME...LOVES ME NOT will transform this idyllic lagoon into a flooded world with larger-than-life spectacle including wild WHIMSICAL watercraft, original live music, a 75-member choir and DAZZLING performances.
other stuff
Couldn't resist, and, as it happens, I have a couple of pairs of furry boots in my closet!
You Are Furry Boots
They're not just boots. They're your dancing shoes!What Kind of Boots Are You? Take This Quiz :-)
Of course, the real problem with this particular meme is that I wear boots of lots of styles, for lots of reasons, with lots of different clothes. So I'm really any kind of boot (except possibly work boots!!).
September 02, 2005
Dear Friends,
We are two weeks away from the opening of Spectacle ’05: Loves Me...Loves Me Not, at the Jackson Park Lagoon, behind the Museum of Science and Industry. The absolute tragedy and chaos in New Orleans has stopped us in our tracks this week. Images of post-flood destruction, pain, and loss eerily mirror the set and show we have built. This presents us with a set of serious challenges and real opportunities. Potentially, we are in a great position to help raise money for the rescue and relief efforts. We have been in contact with the American Red Cross to develop ways to use our event to raise support for their disaster relief fund. That, however, is but one piece of our difficulty. We cannot mount the show in its current narrative state for any number of reasons. The most obvious is that you, members of our audience, will now bring to the show an entirely different perspective than you would have prior to hurricane Katrina. What once read as mythical and possibly even whimsical now reads as indelibly tragic. The show needs to be entirely re-written and re-worked.
We are poised to respond in our own way to this tragedy, to pull a community together to grieve and help, and to create something beautiful, meaningful, and hopeful. I am confident in our well-practiced ability to adapt to opportunities as they arise. It will be an enormous amount of work, but I think we are ready. We hope that you, our audience, will join us.
Sincerely,
Jim Lasko - Artistic Director
Redmoon Theater
Join us at the Jackson Park Lagoon behind the Museum of Science and Industry as Redmoon takes spectacle to new depths! An ENTIRELY WATER-BASED event, LOVES ME...LOVES ME NOT will transform this idyllic lagoon into a flooded world with larger-than-life spectacle including wild WHIMSICAL watercraft, original live music, a 75-member choir and DAZZLING performances.
other stuff
Couldn't resist, and, as it happens, I have a couple of pairs of furry boots in my closet!
You Are Furry Boots
They're not just boots. They're your dancing shoes!What Kind of Boots Are You? Take This Quiz :-)
Of course, the real problem with this particular meme is that I wear boots of lots of styles, for lots of reasons, with lots of different clothes. So I'm really any kind of boot (except possibly work boots!!).