IS THIS THE BUS AND TRUCK OF TITANIC. . .

Last night's show was a first and most likely a last for me. During 'Beautiful Morning' the first tune of the show I heard what sounded like a water bottel rolling somewhere in the pit. I just assumed it was our drummer Gregg's. He's always doing this sort of thing. (Well not really but I was just hoping he'd read this and get a little peeved.)

After a few seconds of the rolling sound I heard a massive crash behind me. We tried to see what had happened but couldn't really see anything in particular wrong. Our pit rat Steve went and fetched our TD. By a strange coincidence our light board happened to crash during the first scene. It got stuck in one cue. We decided we had to take a brief intermission and stop the show.

When the show stopped I turned around and looked into the house. The chunk of seats dead center and directly behind me had dropped about 10 inches. Even though we really stopped for lighting issues we had to hold while the 36 people in those seats were evacuated. I guess a riser had given out and collapsed.

Oh, the joys of live theatre. To show up for a nice musical comedy and have to take a trip in the 'Tower of Terror'. It's an evening I can easily say I will never forget. (Even with my bad short and long term memory. Maybe my Ginko Biloba is working after all. . . )

GET OUT YOUR TAP SHOES FRANCIS. . .

The cast of 'Oklahoma' is dropping like flies. Our Becky is out for at least 2 weeks with a chiped bone in her foot. Our Hank is out with a sprained ankle. Our female swing has rolled her ankle too. Our Slim has vocal problems and no voice right now. And our Ado Annie has been out sick all weekend.

I'm kind of scared to wake up tomorrow. . . What could possibly be next? The 4 horsemen? But the shows have been going surprisingly well. I guess the old addage is true. The show does indeed go on.

COMING TO A CITY NEAR YOU!

Here are the dates of shows in cities near where I think I might know someone:)

Brookville, NY - Sunday February 19th

Palm Desert, CA - March 21st - 26th

Eugene, OR - April 4th - 6th

Yakima, WA - April 7th-8th

Bellingham, WA - April 9th

Tacoma, WA - April 10th

Medford, OR - April 11th

Olympia, WA - April 12th

SPOKANE, WA - April 13th - 16th YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! YEAH!

Fresno, CA - April 18th-19th

San Luis O'Bispo - May 2nd

Stockton, CA - May 3rd

Bakersfield, CA - May 4th

Ceritos, CA - May 5th - 7th


If you're in the area shoot me a message or an email or a call. It would be great to see you!

KC
kaseyrt_graham@yahoo.com

PRUNING THE SHOW

In the past few weeks the Oklahoma company has become quite accostomed to pruning the show to play various venues. For those of you familiar with the show we have done the show without the show deck, corn drop, windmill, harrow, several electics, school house arches, all the miniature pieces, Claremore hanger etc.

The one nagging thing I've learned is that in the long run it doesn't make a whit of difference. The show succeeds on the cast, music, story and heart. Some of the most in-tune audiences have been in these tiny venues. Of course I prefer to have our full show in tact but it's refreshing to realize you can strip it of so much and still the show goes on.