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bullet Posted: 5/25/06 at 8:52am

Hi,

     I wish I could.  The scripts are usually destoyed after the party.  Let's just say the female roles were played by the male crew members who were in drag with balloons in their chests.

      I think they basically just re-wrote the lively scene between Kate and what's his name- you know- the scene that alludes to bee stings?

  

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bullet Posted: 5/25/06 at 10:38am
I get the idea.....
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bullet Posted: 5/25/06 at 11:04am
In the early 1980's PBS made an ambitious attempt at producing all of Shakespeare's 37 plays on video.  Although the production values were necessarily low-budget, "Taming of the Shrew" cast John Cleese (!) as Petrucchio and was one of their more entertaining efforts.  It's certainly worth tracking down to rent.
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bullet Posted: 5/25/06 at 12:08pm
Now there is a clue!
 Taming of the shrew. - The Pantomime!
Add a few popular songs [Not from Kiss Me Kate]
& of course the Dame ?Widow Twanky? & a few "he?s behind you"!
That would work along with a few other of ?ol bills shows!

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bullet Posted: 5/25/06 at 5:04pm
When we chose to do Tomatoes nobody had any qualms about he language.  I totally agree - Political correctness has gone WAY too far.  If nothing else doing that show was a learing experience! 
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bullet Posted: 5/29/06 at 10:18pm

We've read Faith County, but ended up doing Faith County II: An Evening of Culture. Hysterical show, I think better than the original, and one of my personal favorites, mostly because I'll never have another role that allows me a 10-minute death scene -- got to die all over the stage, take out set pieces while I did it, take an offstage phone call in the middle of it and then go back out to gasp, gurgle and flop my last. Loved it!  We did Cahoots this year; I didn't work it except for set design, so it was one of the few shows that I actually got to sit out in the house and watch as an audience member. The director did a great job and he had a wonderful cast -- I actually laughed so hard that I had tears running down my face and my stomach hurt! THAT doesn't happen often. It's a difficult show because there's not a likeable character in it -- the actors and director have to be able to make everything these characters do plausible, as well as keep the audience from turning ugly and hating them all. We've also done Absence of a Cello -- I think it's a terrific period piece, and unusual for its time, in that the wife is an early version of what would eventually come to be called a feminist. It also allowed us to use a bunch of those late 50's, early 60's outfits that people are always donating to theaters. I wouldn't recommend trying to do that one as anything other than a period piece -- it's a real early 60's time capsule. Terrific comedy-drama, though, with really interesting charcters, very witty dialogue and intricate relationships to explore.

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bullet Posted: 5/30/06 at 11:27am
Wow, Chris, that was so helpful. Thanks a bunch---no more than that. I will have to order Faith County II.

I thought the first version would be so easy to do and then maybe we could two plays in one year (easier set design), but I will look at #2.

Thanks, Barb
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bullet Posted: 5/30/06 at 2:10pm
Chris, I just looked at the set design for Cahoots in the back of that play book. I don't think our stage is deep enough for all of that ---balcony, kitchen and all. Did you follow that design?

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bullet Posted: 6/04/06 at 6:33pm
I haven't done any of the plays on your list but have read several.  Murder is a Game is my absolute favorite.  I am DYING to do that play.  (Should I say dying when the subject is murder?)  Can't decide if I want to direct it or take the lead.  
We do two shows a year (doing 3 this coming year but that's a long story) and I am committed to the December production.  Probably for life as our A Christmas Carol may become an institution.  But when I get a free part of a season and I am directing, I think Murder is a Game is for me. 
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bullet Posted: 6/05/06 at 2:53pm
My company did Murder is a Game a couple years ago, it was a lot of fun. Then the next year we did Murder on the Re-run. So we had a bit of a theme for a couple of years
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