Welcome Back!
And all that wonderful stuff that comes along with the Spring Semester. Here's to hoping you got all the classes you needed, were able to crash all the classes you wanted, and still have a schedule that lets you make it to Skull and Dagger meetings.
Speaking of Which...
The first Skull and Dagger meeting will be held on Wednesday, February 14th at Scripps Cottage. We'll be discussing things like what's coming up this semester, what the scuttlebutt is about the Full Length, and if there's time, a postmortem discussion about Medea's Children. And, since it's Valentine's Day, we'll probably be having some sort of party as well. Come on by!
Medea's Children Grow Up
The Theatre for Young Audiences tour of Medea's Children wrapped up at San Diego State this weekend with three performances of the controversial play. It seems that although the kids in the audiences we played for enjoyed the play immensely, the parents were not quite as happy to have had their children see it. At two of the schools toured, we were to do two performances of the play but were asked to leave after the first showing. And at SDSU, fliers were handed out stating, "Medea's Children is not for children," and claiming that children were "traumatized," "frightened," and "angry" by the portrayal of "ghastly figures." All in all, it was great fun.
Auditions
There are plenty of auditions coming up in case you're not part of the myriad people involved in the productions this semester:
An American Tragedy is having auditions for the Living Mechanicals today at 5 pm in 5B. These are nonspeaking parts and their function is primarily to help move the set and assist actors with props much like the people in black in Kabuki theatre (nobody on stage sees them). But, they will also be doing other things such as helping to indicate passage of time and possibly becoming the machinery in the factory scenes.
Our Full Length play, Marisol, directed by Jason Eberwein, is having auditions on the 16th. Nobody told our illustrious Newsletter Editor what time or where they will be, but I'm sure information will be posted about. So, get your monologues warmed up.
The Fantasticks, directed by Paula Pierson, will be having auditions for the Mesa College production on February 28th and 19th. You'll have a couple minutes to do a song and a monologue. There will be an accompanist, but bring your music in the right key. You can contact Mesa College at 627-2650 or Paula Pierson for more information.
Crew and More
Since we're doing a play this semester, we'll be needing a crew and others, of course. If you're interested in working crew or helping with publicity or just want to get involved in the production, talk to Rachael Wisch or leave a note in the Skull and Dagger boxes upstairs in the Drama Department.
Tim Heitman
Tim was a busy little traveller last year going up to Los Angeles every month to work at the Lehman Engel Workshop learning how to write for the Musical Theatre. Well, he also got a lot of work done and now he's having a recital of the material he's written. The performance is next Monday, February 12th at noon in the Experimental Theatre and try to find out just what Gina is searching for.
Miscellany
There's a possibility of us having a bonfire down at the beach on Saturday the 17th, but we'll have to talk to President Dan about that. More information as I learn of it or it gets posted.
We still have t-shirts for those who want them or didn't get them. And we'll also still accept memberships in case you didn't sign up last semester or only did the one semester thing and want to do this one, too.
There are also part-season tickets for sale. Yes, we all know that a lot of us are in the productions, but you only get one comp ticket and a lot of us have more than one person we'd like to invite. If you buy a season-ticket, you'll have two. And if you aren't in the show, you'll be able to see the shows for your classes without having to worry about them being sold out at the last minute when you realize you forgot to see them. Go to the box office and get your tickets now!
Triviality
No question this week. Instead, some information about how it's going to be this time. I'm expanding the trivia to more than just quotes from plays and musicals. There will be questions about who was in the show, who wrote it, significant events surrounding the show, etc. Some questions will be worth more than one point (one for each part of the question answered correctly if there's more than one part).
I hope it'll be fun this time around.