Diary of a Madman http://bostonbabydolls.net/thewrathblog.cfm Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:05:00 GMT http://bandzoogle.com The Trip Thus Far... http://bostonbabydolls.net/thewrathblog.cfm?feature=1666865&postid=406668 It's mid-August ... all right, mid-late August ... and things are moving forward swimmingly so far. It makes me nervous. After three rounds of auditions, in which we made a lot of hard choices (too much talent, not enough roles), we've settled into a cast and crew I'm quite happy with.  Betty, Mina, Chad, and I are re-creating their roles as The Countess, The Diva, Hans, and Bücher, with two insanely talented newcomers – Heidi and Linnea – cast in the roles of The Broad and The Innocent Corrupted.  The new version of The Wrathskellar combines the characters of The Stranger and Miss Delicate into a single character called The Lost Girl, who is more unearthly and sadder than either one was.  Our hard-working intern Rebecca is doing a stellar job as The Lost Girl, and is choreographing a balletic striptease which I think is going to be chilling. Part of the crew are the four (!) talented costumers who are going to be working on this show. I know burlesque requires a lot of clothing, but having four costumers (especially for a small cast when compared to shows like French Kiss) feels like an embarrassment of riches. The first treat came from Kristen Augenfeld, who designed this amazing coat for Bücher.  We gave her a pattern for a traditional Eastern European coat, a big bag of assorted scraps of fabric, and said "Have fun".  She did.  The result is this lushly dark, madcap quilt of a coat. We still need to spend some time distressing it, which seems almost sacrilegious... (but I guess that's what this show is all about).   Tomorrow our studio is closed because the building is undergoing major electrical work this weekend.  Instead of rehearsing at B.A.B.E. we're rehearsing at the theater.  I think that it'll get everyone's juices flowing even more to see the space in which we're going to be performing.  I know it always gives me a thousand ideas.  I'll be sitting with Hunter and Nick to talk about the light and sound design.  I want to do something interesting and unusual things with the space.  Thinking about it this way really drives home that The Wrathskellar is part show and part haunted house in some ways.   It's mid-August ... all right, mid-late August ... and things are moving forward swimmingly so far. It makes me nervous. After three rounds of auditions, in which we made a lot of hard choices (too much talent, not enough roles), we've settled into a cast and crew I'm quite happy with.  Betty, Mina, Chad, and I are re-creating their roles as The Countess, The Diva, Hans, and Bücher, with two insanely talented newcomers – Heidi and Linnea – cast in the roles of The Broad and The Innocent Corrupted.  The new version of The Wrathskellar combines the characters of The Stranger and Miss Delicate into a single character called The Lost Girl, who is more unearthly and sadder than either one was.  Our hard-working intern Rebecca is doing a stellar job as The Lost Girl, and is choreographing a balletic striptease which I think is going to be chilling.

Part of the crew are the four (!) talented costumers who are going to be working on this show. I know burlesque requires a lot of clothing, but having four costumers (especially for a small cast when compared to shows like French Kiss) feels like an embarrassment of riches.

The first treat came from Kristen Augenfeld, who designed this amazing coat for Bücher.  We gave her a pattern for a traditional Eastern European coat, a big bag of assorted scraps of fabric, and said "Have fun".  She did.  The result is this lushly dark, madcap quilt of a coat.

We still need to spend some time distressing it, which seems almost sacrilegious... (but I guess that's what this show is all about).  

Tomorrow our studio is closed because the building is undergoing major electrical work this weekend.  Instead of rehearsing at B.A.B.E. we're rehearsing at the theater.  I think that it'll get everyone's juices flowing even more to see the space in which we're going to be performing.  I know it always gives me a thousand ideas.  I'll be sitting with Hunter and Nick to talk about the light and sound design.  I want to do something interesting and unusual things with the space.  Thinking about it this way really drives home that The Wrathskellar is part show and part haunted house in some ways.
 

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