A Few Good Men

Following up from last time, things are moving forward with the planning of the next Jocular Theatre production. I have reserved not one but two different theaters for the first two weeks of June. I’m spoiled for choice! I will, of course, need to contact one and cancel the reservation. Moving theaters from one week to the next isn’t what I had in mind. No, a nice four-day weekend run will suffice.

And now that I have a better idea of our performance space, I have finally settled on a play! Yes, we will be presenting the double bill: The Nature and Purpose of the Universe // The Actor’s Nightmare by Christopher Durang. I love both of these pieces and I’m actually planning on playing the part of George in Nightmare – a dream of mine.

My next big challenge is casting the shows. I sent out an email last week to all of the usual suspects – about 50 people in total – informing them of my intentions and asking them to consider auditioning and to please pass the invitation on to anyone else who may be interested. The next day I had five people call and request an audition slot! And then nothing for the next five days.

Between the two plays (and without doubling up), I’m looking for 13 actors: 8 males and 5 females. I should tell you that the first 5 people to request an audition were 4 girls and 1 guy. That means I still needed 7 guys and 1 girl – assuming that none of the people who called are cyclops! I’d probably have to choose a completely different play. Anyway, this past weekend I thankfully heard from 3 more guys who are interested in auditioning. That’s all well and good but, if I had my druthers, I’d much prefer to have at least twice the number of actors at the audition than the number of parts I’m casting.

Auditions are this coming Saturday. So if you or anyone you know are interested in auditioning for what will undoubtedly be the funniest English-language play to hit Barcelona all year, please give me a call. You won’t regret it.

11 thoughts on “A Few Good Men”

  5. And then my blog became a support forum.

    Thanks for that, Rebecca. Remember everyone: Google is your friend.

    And if you Marli (or anyone!) would like to make an Emily music video, you have my blessing and support. I’m already smiling just thinking about it.

    A music video was never in my evil scheme, but I am looking forward to scripting and shooting a short film similar to this classic jewel:
    http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/74

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  6. Thanks Rebecca. I’ll try these out tomorrow, at my internship where all the cool editing equipment is. Only question is, do they download as .mov files? If not, I need the original files from Josh. :-/

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  7. I would imagine they would download as FLV files (YouTube compresses everything into Flash video). I could send you my originals, but I can’t guarantee they’ll be MOV filed. I record video in AVI, as well. None of them would be easily sent digitally. A 10 minute video, though only a few megabytes as Flash, would weigh about 500 MB in original AVI. We may have a problem. May I recommend researching converting FLV into MOV? The quality won’t be very good after recompressing, but it’s something.

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  9. I am also directing “The Actor’s Nightmare”! My version opens on February 20th. What a great show.

    I *really* wanted to do “…Bette & Boo” but we just don’t have the actors.

    Good luck!

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  10. Oh my god! Bette & Boo was the first play I directed here in Barcelona. It was so much fun. Is your Nightmare being presented alongside any other short piece?

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  11. Thanks again Rebecca – that last site was perfect, converted them all. Now I think I’m finished cutting the pieces, so I just have to finish putting them together on Monday!!

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