I know! I am a blog Slacker
But I
have been busy! I swear!
Well, this weekend is your last weekend to see Taming of the Shrew. Click the
Taming of the Shrew hyper link to the left here and read a bit about what the burbs and Chicago proper have thought about our show.
Brief catch-up
Had dinner with my dear friend Emily, who has recently moved to Chicago, and caught up with our lives and new beginnings. Consequently Todd Guill joined us. (haven't seen him in who knows when) and also Susan Malone Sotnick. Now Susan, Emily and Todd also went on a tour together with the National Players out of the
Olney Theater So we had a bit of tour catch-up as well. It was really great to see them again and must be better about keeping up. Especially now since EMILY IS HERE!!!!! Okay, now to make things even more freaky. The very next night at the show Keith Butler was in the audience. Keith worked with Susan on the Spirit of Norfolk before they both moved here and stayed with us while he found a place. (Suans and I were roomates in Chicago after tour) Keith just completed a movie and has worked with Chad Kodiak who is in Shrew with me. Whew! The world is way too small but the 6 degrees thing is very cool. I love it when relationships swirl around like that. It was a week of reunions reminiscing.
Saturday night my friends Jon, Melissa and Bill came to the show. Jon is taking the show Stupid Kids to the Columbus Fringe Festival and shared a mysterious article written in the
Windy City Times.
There will be an orgy in Columbus, Ohio Sept. 12-21: the first National Gay & Lesbian Theatre Festival, presenting over two dozen troupes and solo artists from major cities across the country. The folks in Columbus have announced that Chicago's Theatre Entropy will perform Stupid Kids by John C. Russell, Sept. 15-17. Only trouble is, no one in Chicago ever heard of Theatre Entropy. Not Jonny's fellow WCT writers Mary Shen Barnidge and Rick Reed, not gay producers Erik Rosen (About Face) or David Zak (Bailiwick). So Jonny called Frank Barnhart, the Big Kahuna in Columbus, who said Theatre Entropy was formed specifically for the Festival by actor Jon Arndt, a Columbusite who moved here in 1999. He has performed in the Pride Series, and at Stage Left, TriArts (sic) and Chicago Dramatists. Arndt told Jonny there are no plans to incorporate Theatre Entropy or to perform Stupid Kids in Chicago, although neither possibility has been ruled out. Arndt hopes to take the show to other fringe festivals such as those in Ann Arbor, Seattle and Winnipeg. Stupid Kids was a great success in 1998 when staged by Roadworks Productions. The script includes gay, lesbian and straight adolescent characters. The work is the slim legacy of John C. Russell, who wrote it as a student at Brown University, but died of AIDS before it was produced. It's been a success in Chicago, New York and other cities.
So go to the Festival. It is the only Chicago entry in the Festival. Go Now! Or at least go to their fundraiser Wednesday, September 4th from 5pm-9pm at 4Moon Tavern, 1847 W Roscoe. Stop by on your way home from a grueling day of work, listen to Music by oh my god, and much more.
This Just IN
Tripp Hudgins is managing a kitchen. Tripp Hudgins is in Charge. Everyone say
"GO Tripp"
Ok. I think that is all for now. now that I just threw up all over my blog. (It is hard to recap a few weeks and work at the same time!)
Peace
