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Life on the Fringe Blog – July 22 Use The Whole Stage When
directing a show, you want to vary how different scenes are presented and use
the whole stage. One show that beautifully does this is Remember The Night.
Some scenes are staged at the front of the venue, others at the back of the
audience and others are staged in an interrogation room above the stage. I
was amazed when I found out that the group only had 2 days of rehearsals in
the venue to figure out how to stage this show. Congrats to director Arne MacPherson for strategically using this venue. Rolling
the Dice HEY ABBOTT!
– A Classic Comedy Tribute Show not only features classic Abbott
and Costello sketches but also links a story around the sketches. John Chase
(who plays Bud Abbott) told me that they decided to frame a story around the
sketches because they wanted the show to be similar in style to The Abbott
and Costello TV show that ran in the early 1950s. In terms of storyline, they
were thinking of Costello looking for a job, but when they heard the
Fringe’s marketing campaign was Over Time Warning. Morro and Jasp do Puberty is
66 minutes, not the 60 minutes listed in the program. Quote of
the Day “We’re German. Everything we eat looks suspiciously like hot dogs.” From Balls. |
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