Blog hiatus OVER...lots to catch up on!

- Becky here

Hi blog world.  Oh boy is there a lot to catch up on.   I am going to do the short form bullet pointy kind of post now and then come back to it more in depth soon....and maybe we'll also see some guest bloggers appear over the next few weeks.

So, we left off as we closed the last tour...what has happened since then, um, a year ago. 

• We had a fantastic debriefing session with the cast of Winter's Tale about a month after it closed and we tried as best we could to soak up the everything they shared with us - all their likes, dislikes, hopes, wishes, etc.  Then JJ and I digested it all, assembled what we deemed our 2010 "advisory" circle and decided how this season would go and how we wanted to incorporate all the suggestions
• Then we took a little break to re-coop and to actually move JJ out to CA for a bit to help out with his family.  He actually moved in January and now it looks like he might be coming back in October -- so he's been working remotely. (and being awesome about it)



Andy Wassenich

• We selected Twelfth Night as our next show; and decided that it needed to be an hour instead of 90 min because we wanted more time after the show at each venue to enagage and talk with the audience.
• We interviewed quite a few fabulous directors (belaboured over having to chose just one) and then hired the one who we felt truly would be best for this project -- the awesome Andy Wassenich
• Then..well, a bunch of things happened but to jump to the next fun part - we held auditions...had even more hard hard decisons to make and then hired a DREAM CAST for Twelfth Night.  Truly, althought we had a lot of wonderful actors to choose from I really believe that the cast that was supposed to come together did...and we are only just beginning but I already see their brillance!  (We'll do specials on them later..but here they are:  Megan Reichelt, Lex Davis, Teresa Spencer, Melissa Hmelnicky, Jacob Yeh, Luke Cieslewicz, Julie Roundtree and Grant Cloyd!!!) 
• In July we had some awesome workshops led by Deborah Kirby and Oran Sandal...more on those later too
• AND we successfully funded our tour through our very first online Kickstarter fundraiser!  Thank you to our donors soon to be noted on our website. 

There is so much more in between but at least we're a little closer to bring caught up.  And there will be more to share. And expand upon.

Like that rehearsals have officially started...and I am thrilled.
And that we have booked 20 shows!!!

But more on that soon.....

xo
Becky