Call backs?!

This is a first! Let me go off on a little story (even though: A, no one is reading this blog, and B, I didn't get a callback for George). I was just talking to the fabulous Heather Jenkins the other night after my audition and was just, you know, shooting the POOP with her. I asked her, "H-Jenkins, do you think there'll EVER be callbacks?"

"Will doesn't really believe in them," she said.

So, dear reader, you can just imagine my face when I hear there are callbacks for George and Emily! This has never happened in my theatre career at SHS thus far (though it may have happened for some of you veterans out there). But I think this is a great sign. A new year has many new things about it. Otherwise, it wouldn't be new. So I'd say this is quite the interesting fortune for the year as a whole: full of new beginnings.

Best of luck to all y'all trying out for Georg and Em!

Wizard Of Oz benefitting the York Cancer Society

So this is an invitation to any of you who would like to see a GREAT show this weekend. The Acts of Kindness Theatre is presenting The Wizard of Oz and this is the last weekend. I have been the TD this season and some of our very own crew have helped and are also on running crew for the show. The proceeds go to the York Cancer Society and the Adams Area Arts Council....Great causes :) Tonight and Saturday night the show starts at 7 PM and Sunday at 2 PM. Tickets are $12 and $14 in advance or add $2.00 at the door. We had the biggest opening night they have ever had last weekend! I know Will has a show this weekend as well....but there is 3 chances to see this great production...especially one that Myself and our crew built...I said it before and I mean it this time....I will never build this show again....Great show....just bad luck for me :) Hope to see you all there!

Joe

From Beyond the Grave

Sooo here I am. Late at night. Trying to figure out the name of that high school whose youtube vidoes of Les Mis we made fun of. And ALSO wishing I could read all of the WONDERFUL FUN TIMES you all have at Fiddler rehearsals! But I wouldn't know, would I? The blog is a sad, dead place.

I'm all ears!

U said it!!!!!!!

Hey gang, yup, it's about time that we start this back up and try to get more of our cast and crew to at least visit the blog and read the updates.....but can we get a new picture instead of the BHB......please boss............LOL! Anywho, I am busy at York High building West Side Story, but am very excited to get things rolling in the next few weeks for fiddler....lots of cool ideas if the big man approves them!!! Just have to wait for a few auditorium functions then we can start!!! Crew is heading to State College this Friday for the USITT Conference.......all techies..........this aught to be a hoot :) Hope to see more blogs soon. LaHyam (as he says with a hhhhhhhh sound)!

One Acts

I'm sitting in my living room right now. With Drew Slattery. A few minutes ago, we were discussing our one acts (or lack thereof) and we decided that, rather than create two one-act plays, we would write...

A FULL PLAY.








GET READY WORLD.

And so it begins...

I was pretty flattered when I woke up this morning. Not because of my mom throwing decongestant pills in my face, but because I received an email from Will asking Matt and I to write (professionally!) in the esteemed SHS Theatre blog.

I was ecstatic! It was the oppurtunity of a lifetime. Not just to keep a daily journal of my theatre-related adventures, but to keep a journal that every single soul in the SHS Theatre legacy would read and appreciate! And so, on this, the first day of Fiddler on the Roof rehearsals, Matt and I will embark on a challenge for this currently dead blog. A blog a day. All theatre related blogs, mind you.

Watching the Fiddler on the Roof movie tonight made me realize that we were once again embarking on the humongous undertaking of a school musical. For the next four months, the cast will bond, argue, bicker, and sing together. Most imporantly, we will grow together as a family (and as villagers of Anatevka!).

So I wrote about four paragraphs here, but I didn't really say anything...Oh well.

Here's to another great musical!

A new year, and a new start for the blog!

Wow. I can't believe we totally just let the blog sit and do nothing in the first half of this 09-10 theatre season. I'm ashamed, really. The Beverly Hillbillies was such a fun show, and now we've got nothing to show for it other than our own memories. Sigh. I think the fact that all of last year's bloggers had graduated may have something to do with it. I must find new bloggers. Maybe a certain production assistant would like to share his 2 cents.

More to come.

l'chaim!