Posts from ‘September, 2010’

It’s long past time that I updated on my first Drama League assignment… A bit unconventionally for Drama League, I started the Fall Fellowship early: my first assistantship was with Diane Paulus on THE CAPEMAN at The Delacorte in Central Park this summer. Originally on Broadway in 1998, Paul Simon and Derek Walcott’s musical THE [...]

As we have begun performing Candide for an audience, our company continues to rehearse full days in honing the material. Because Mary is adapting the book from Voltaire, the preview process is particularly exciting. The audience is encountering familiar music presented in a new context, and there are many surprising reactions that are taken into [...]

Tomorrow we open The Little Foxes at New York Theatre Workshop! Hopefully we will not be lambs out to slaughter and the good people of the press will bestow upon us golden reviews. I thought I’d share some observations I’ve made eavesdropping in the lobby after the show. Of course a lot of the patrons [...]

The perfect pairing: Ivo van Hove and Elizabeth Marvel. In a talkback last night following a preview of Little Foxes at NYTW, Ivo talked about innovation and continuity. He believes that through repeated collaborations, true innovation can transpire onstage. Trust turns into magic. Having previously collaborated on infamous productions of Streetcar and Hedda Gabler, it’s [...]

He hears EVERYTHING. Ivo van Hove is one of those rare directors that hears everything in a production, what is right, what needs some massaging, what needs some serious work. It’s no surprise that the sound design plays a huge role in the way we view our production of The Little Foxes. In rehearsal I [...]

Here at Candide, we just began work on the finale “Make Your Garden Grow.” Some previous productions of this piece don’t take the story seriously, but this production focuses fully on the characters. Candide finally reunites with his love and then the company sings “Garden Grow.” There was not a dry eye in the rehearsal [...]

Hello out there, Lila here. Big thanks to Jeremy, Tyrone, and Rafael for getting the ball rolling on the blog. I love hearing what you guys are up to now that we’re apart. To start, I wanted to chime in about our trip to Stump Sprouts: The retreat is kind of like utopian theater director [...]

Here is a short video of the rehearsal process for WELCOME TO ARROYO’S - DJ SCHOOL. Two of the actors are in dj school with Shammy Dee (Music Director), learning how to work the turntables, mix, make original beats and work the mic. I am learning quite a bit about the the fundamentals of dj’ing and [...]