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The LatestBristol Valley TheaterWednesday, May 26, 2004We got back from Naples, New York on Sunday afternoon, so of course we've had three days to obsessively try to figure out if anything went wrong and what we could have done better, so let me start from the mindset of having just got back. The weekend was amazing. If I tell you that four years ago, when Jordana was running the cash box and Dirty Juanita was limping through its pathetic four week run, I knew we would have a success like the one we had last weekend, please punch me in the nose. We could not have asked for the show to run any better than it did. As avid readers of this blog know, we started out with an idea that we thought was awesome and we just didn't know if it would translate. In rehearsals, our friends and colleagues told us that it was a great show, but we worried about it translating outside the inner circle. Once we ran it at The Gershwin Hotel, we had about 160 people see it who loved it, but that's sort of our outer circle and we wondered if people who didn't know us at all would like it. Once the December shows proved that people we'd never met before liked the show, there was still the lingering wonder if it would play outside New York City. The other producers may have a different opinion about this, but I think it played *better* outside New York than it did in. There is a sweetness and a solidity to the show that people in Manhattan might roll their eyes at a tiny bit. In Naples, New York, people were genuinely moved. Our digs were pretty nice as well  I don't know how to change the picture size on this Mac, so the pix will be a little big. The first night we got there we had dinner with the artistic director Karin Bowersock and several members of the board. Karin decided we should eat at our house because there really isn't anywhere in town to eat, which, coming from New York, gave me a moment of panic. We were also told that we had a radio interview the next morning at 8, and all I could think of was "someone in this damn town better have coffee." What I said was, "Does someone in this damn town have coffee for us?" Sure enough, the place next door made to our apartment (and let's be honest, almost the entire town was next door) made a wicked vanilla latte. You can take the girl out of Hicksville... So, we made our way to the radio station and were interviewed. It was amazing to have our show publicity taken seriously, we just don't do any publicity at all any more in the city. There is no point. If we'd done a five minute interview in the middle of the Howard Stern show, still no-one would have come to our show. Our good friend Lindsay Bowen's company is producting "Trust" (www.playco.org) and it is one of the best shows I've ever seen, and he isn't getting the audience he deserves. So, to do a radio broadcast and have it mean something was amazing.  That's the radio station, and here is us, in the radio station, listening to us on the radio station, which didn't happen because it was live...  More tomorrow on our first show, The Marce and The Director and where we go from here... Posted at 9:21 AM by sean williams Archives08/24/2003 - 08/30/200308/31/2003 - 09/06/2003 09/07/2003 - 09/13/2003 09/14/2003 - 09/20/2003 09/21/2003 - 09/27/2003 09/28/2003 - 10/04/2003 10/05/2003 - 10/11/2003 10/26/2003 - 11/01/2003 12/14/2003 - 12/20/2003 05/09/2004 - 05/15/2004 05/16/2004 - 05/22/2004 05/23/2004 - 05/29/2004 |
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