Urinetown
Just say it.
I went with some people from the THEATRIX Club today to the Onstage Atlanta production of Urinetown. It was awesome! The theatre is small (maybe 100 seats) and the stage was very off-Broadway. The band was on the stage and the scenes (which mainly took place in two locations) all happened on the same set. The big transition from the town outside UGC PA#9 to the UGC (Urine Good Company) offices was mainly turning on lighted letters UGC on the front of a desk that sat on a high platform with a white curtain behind it.
This show showed me what theatre really is. There shoudn't be any divas, prima donnas, or snobby leading men. It should be many people working as one in an ensemble. Nobody was trying to be seen. If you saw them, you saw them; if you couldn't see them, big deal. I wish the PRHS Playhouse was an ensemble. Sadly, we are only just barely an ensemble. While the drama kids used to be their own clique, the drama kids have even split into sud-cliques. It's sad. Everyone says that Pippin (the first show they ever did) had such a unified cast. They all hung out after rehersals, they got together on weekends, they acknowledged eachother in the halls. Now it's all changed. Example: When I was in Funny Girl, we had a "cast party" after closing night by going to McDonalds and getting some food at midnight. However, the news was spread slowly and it took forever to get everyone to know where we were going. With every show I've done since, there have been no cast parties. The last cast party I went to was for Grease (which I wasn't even in; I was dating a cast member).
Anyway: OSA showed me what theatre is supposed to be: intimate, loud, in-your-face, and involving the actors and audience as one (I'm not saying the audience should sing along with the show, but you get what I mean by this). I hope that I have the honor to one day work with a true ensemble, and not just a bunch of actors. Hopefully I'll get such an opportunity before I graduate, but at this point, I'm not so sure.
BTW: We learned some songs this week for LSOH. Nothing really interesting to add to that saga...yet! Stick around. We're only two weeks into rehersals!
I went with some people from the THEATRIX Club today to the Onstage Atlanta production of Urinetown. It was awesome! The theatre is small (maybe 100 seats) and the stage was very off-Broadway. The band was on the stage and the scenes (which mainly took place in two locations) all happened on the same set. The big transition from the town outside UGC PA#9 to the UGC (Urine Good Company) offices was mainly turning on lighted letters UGC on the front of a desk that sat on a high platform with a white curtain behind it.
This show showed me what theatre really is. There shoudn't be any divas, prima donnas, or snobby leading men. It should be many people working as one in an ensemble. Nobody was trying to be seen. If you saw them, you saw them; if you couldn't see them, big deal. I wish the PRHS Playhouse was an ensemble. Sadly, we are only just barely an ensemble. While the drama kids used to be their own clique, the drama kids have even split into sud-cliques. It's sad. Everyone says that Pippin (the first show they ever did) had such a unified cast. They all hung out after rehersals, they got together on weekends, they acknowledged eachother in the halls. Now it's all changed. Example: When I was in Funny Girl, we had a "cast party" after closing night by going to McDonalds and getting some food at midnight. However, the news was spread slowly and it took forever to get everyone to know where we were going. With every show I've done since, there have been no cast parties. The last cast party I went to was for Grease (which I wasn't even in; I was dating a cast member).
Anyway: OSA showed me what theatre is supposed to be: intimate, loud, in-your-face, and involving the actors and audience as one (I'm not saying the audience should sing along with the show, but you get what I mean by this). I hope that I have the honor to one day work with a true ensemble, and not just a bunch of actors. Hopefully I'll get such an opportunity before I graduate, but at this point, I'm not so sure.
BTW: We learned some songs this week for LSOH. Nothing really interesting to add to that saga...yet! Stick around. We're only two weeks into rehersals!
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