As part of my volunteer work for a local nonprofit arts group, I make promotional videos for online marketing. Thursday I was sitting in the waiting room during my daughter’s ballet class, when the artistic director asked me to interview the new ballet mistress. I went and got some video of my daughter learning that glissade…
A humanities faculty member and a math faculty member collaborate on a course about the meaning of math. “Don’t worry;” I told them. “You can’t find this more frightening than I do.” And it was true. Ever since the word problems my father forced on us at dinner, I’ve always been terrified of math. I…
Throw toast at the actors and get spaced out on sensation at the Stage Right Theatre Company’s Halloween show, The Rocky Horror Show — Live. I put this promo together from video I took at the yesterday’s first rehearsal. Clips include Science Fiction Double Feature, The Time Warp, Dammit Janet, and more. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdWGMLL-asg Similar:My Father's…
Here’s what it sounded like at our first rehearsal, after learning the parts for about 40 minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV3xLg9KuiI Here’s how it looked opening night, two weeks later (I’m the surly guy in the white hat): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1bXEF8B4wY Similar:What Is The Value Of An Education In The Humanities?For those who go to college, the four ye…AcademiaMy Minecraft-obsessed…
The dwarf scenes were a real hoot. Below is a shot of me as Brandybuck, the crabby 2nd-eldest dwarf. It was a genius move to put some of the funniest lines into this iconic death scene. Similar:Visiting the KLBE Air MuseumPersonalCompleted uniforms for the officers and crew from the #neovictorian #steampunk bedtime sto… Right…
There’s a buzz of excitement this week in the Greensburg rehearsal studio at Stage Right, where a local cast is preparing for the premiere of a full-length musical a year in the making. Anthony Marino, Stage Right’s artistic director, has big plans for “Snow White the Musical” that don’t end at the Palace Theatre. He’s…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiIRCoHoNv0 Choreographer and actor Renata Marino talks about creating a dance number for her character, the evil queen. The video also includes a clip of Elly Noble (Snow White) and Vinny Tresco (Prince Edward) singing a duet. Show runs at the Palace Theatre in Greensburg, Pa. Sept 21-23. www.stagerightgreensburg.com Similar:RUN. HIDE. FIGHT. Surviving an…
I’m the one holding the camera and coming in obviously late on the base line, but we’ve all just learned this song within the past 40 minutes or so, and we’re pretty happy with how it’s coming together. Snow White: The Musical “Chores” Rehearsal – YouTube. Similar:The difficulty is the point (teaching critical thinking skills…
What’s it like on your first day rehearsing for the starring role, joining a cast that’s already been working hard for a week? Yesterday, Elly Noble started rehearsing for “Snow White: The Musical,” part of Stage Right! Greensburg‘s professional theatre season, Sept 21-23 at the Palace Theatre. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wOAF-1c8Yo I managed to pull Elly aside for…
I’ve been ramping up my video-editing skills, as I launch a year-long project to train students to add video and multimedia packages to the school paper. Along the way, I’ve found several opportunities to make videos just for fun. This is a video I made to help a local nonprofit theater group publicize the brand-new…
Not too shabby, if I do say so myself. Stage Right has a 15-year history of quality education and professional local theater. But you wouldn’t know it from their old website… the talented and busy people who maintained the old site would regularly take down old content (such as the announcement of cast lists, or…
A couple weeks before my high school production of Arsenic and Old Lace, I got into a batch of poison ivy at a mandatory class retreat. I was playing the lead, and there were a couple of stage kisses, so rehearsals were quite awkward with my bandaged hands. A couple days ago I (finally) mowed…
Friday night, my daughter will be playing the lead in the Stage Right! musical version of “The Princess and the Pea” — her first starring role. After rehearsal today, she jumped at the chance to get messy by painting with Mark, our set designer. Similar:Now Is the Perfect Time to Memorize a PoemPowerful writing, by…
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For me, the July 4 weekend marks the halfway point for the summer — if it’s not the chronological center of the summer, it is the time when I look at the number of weeks before fall classes start, and look at the list of things I had hoped to accomplish for the summer, and…
The cast for “Catalina Magdalena Hoopensteiner Wallendeiner Hogan Bogan Logan Was Her Name” poses with Mr. McFeely (David Newell) at the Fayette County Fair, Jun 16. My daughter plays the young Catalina, who also narrates. In the photo, she’s the one holding the book (with some her lines taped inside. Shh, don’t tell!) Working…
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My daughter shared the role of Alice this weekend (she played “Small Alice”). On one night, she also doubled as the mouse, for a different Alice. Similar:Thespian robot doesn't let stiff acting stop it from applying for Screen Actors Guild cardA clever little stunt, getting a little …AmusingThe Nagus (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode…
My daughter was recently in the Stage Right! Greensburg homeschool preteen production of Once Upon a Mixed-up Fairy Tale, playing Little Red Riding Hood. Here the girls are singing “Astonishing.” My son played Marshal Cord Elam in the teen production, Oklahoma. He’s wearing the vest and white hat. Similar:Skeleton Crew at BarebonesSupport the arts in…
Seton Hill new media journalism graduate Chris Ulicne, who now works for the Latrobe Bulletin, wrote a really nice feature on Stage Right (local theatre company and school for the performing arts). The full text of the article is not online, but this image is from the PDF of the front page (available through the…