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Subject: We want to explore Shakespeare's plays this winter and spring. How do we find the set of
all Shakespeare plays being performed in New England? Thanks
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 14:16:57 -0500
From: Bob Myers bobmyers@shore.net
LARRY STARK THINKS OF TWO PLACES TO CHECK:
Our COMING ATTRACTIONS Page:
[ http://www.theatermirror.com/coming.htm ]
and NEW ENGLAND ENTERTAINMENT DIGEST's listings.
What you will have to do is look through the listings and copy out all
the Shagsberd plays, but I don't know any other way to do it.
Or did you expect me to do it for you?
(Unfortunately, we don't yet have a search-engine.)
Love,
===Anon.
Subject: Re[2]: Stage 1
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:01:51 -0500
From: Robert_Deveau@harvardpilgrim.org
I had no idea that Kaleel was now a "radio personality". The last I'd heard of him, he'd directed a well-received production of an A.R. Gurney play (TABLE SETTINGS, I think) here in Boston - must have been a good ten years ago. Thanks for the tip; I'll check that out.
I saw Michael recently in a big budget Hollywood film that was shot locally; maybe the title will come back to me before I finish writing. Aside from Wendy becoming the "Voice-Over Queen of Boston", Michael is the only "original" Stage 1 actor who I know for certain continued acting. Peter Kovner came along a few years later, and has continued to work steadily in commercials and industrials up to the present, though infrequently on stage.
I was still in high school (late '68) when I met several of the
Stage 1 actresses through a mutual friend. I fell in love with one of
those actresses and with the Theatre simultaneously. I studied acting
with Michael for a season while stage managing and teching "...and he
looked." I stuck around Stage 1 long enough to realize that, while I
could appreciate and admire that kind of theatre, it wasn't the sort
of acting I was comfortable doing. After a couple of years of
occasional roles here and there, and studying film at the Orson Welles
Film School, I wound up as a company member of Van McLeod's Theatre
369 in Union Square, Somerville (late '73), and remained with them
until the theatre closed it's doors in 1977. (Van has been the
Commissioner of Cultural Affairs for the State of New Hampshire for
about 10 years now). After an eight month stay in France, I came back
to Boston and co-founded (with Paul Dervis) the Alley Theatre in
Cambridge, acting in or directing a play every six weeks for the next
five years. That wiped me out of theatre for a while, and its only
recently that I've stuck my foot back on stage, playing Orson Welles
with Beau Jest last Spring in THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, and most likely
working with them again on a new show in 1999.
That's the short version of my bio.
All of which reminds me; one of the favorite pastimes for actors
when they get together is to try to top each other with stories of
horrible things that have happened to them on stage. Might that
become a sub-section of the Greenroom? I've got a few stories to
start things off, if you think its worthwhile.
Happy New Year,
-- Bob
LARRY STARK HOPES:
Stories of disasters are indeed the major theatrical pastime. So send some along, and
we'll start a brand new category for them!
(And maybe I shouldn't say "Break a leg!" here, should I?)
Love,
===Anon.
Subject: Re[2]: Boston Rep
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 11:22:11 -0500
From: Robert_Deveau@harvardpilgrim.org
Larry,
I must say that I'm not too surprised at the non-reaction to
David's diary entries. There aren't too many geezers still active in
the Boston theatre who were around in those halcyon days of yore, and
I don't suppose that many of the younger folks active now are
particularly interested in ancient history. I am, though, and I'm
looking forward to future installments of the Boston Rep Story.
Just FYI: We met many years ago, Larry, at Stage 1 Theatre Lab,
when they were located on an upper floor of an old office building on
Washington Street in what was then the edge of the Combat Zone (the
building has long been demolished). I was studying with Michael
Fulginitti (who is now Michael Balconoff), and running their primitive
light board for their production of "...and he looked", circa 1969/70.
I still have my First Edition (& probably Only Edition) of Kaleel
Sakakeeny's book on acting, with your introduction. Peter Kovner and
I have had several fascinating party conversations about Stage 1.
Boy, those were different times!
Happy holidays,
-- Bob D.
Subject: Boston Rep
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 17:24:38 -0500
From: Robert_Deveau@harvardpilgrim.org
Larry,
Thank you so much for David Zucker's diaries! I started acting in
Boston in 1974, and though I never worked at Boston Rep, my girlfriend
at that time (Juliette Bouchery) played the Little Prince with David
in one of his tours of that show (would've been around 1976-77), and
several other friends worked with them in "the former Ace recording
Studio". That was a terrific and adventurous era to be acting in
Boston, and reading David's diary entries brought it all vividly back
to life for me.
Thanks again and the best to you in the new century.
-- Bob Deveau
DAVID ZUCKER WILL BE THRILLED TO HEAR!
Subject: Erroneous Link
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 16:28:44 -0500
From: Maria Sampogna sampogna@technobridge.com
Larry,
I wanted to let you know that one of the links on your review page is
missing a ".htm" extension. Pub crawl '98 A Minority Report by Larry
Stark refers to " http://www.theatermirror.com/pcls " and is missing the
.htm after pcls.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Maria Sampogna
NO, THANK you FOR RECTIFYING MY inATTENTION!
I am a terrible proff-reader of HaTeMaiL-codes!
(and of straight typing too, apparently!)
Love,
===Fumblethumbs
( a k a Anon. )
Subject: Re: Threepenny Opera Review
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 16:27:02 -0500
From: Lisa McColgan Shelfbeast@aol.com
Just speaking on behalf of the cast of Le Black Kat's "Threepenny Opera," I'd like to thank you for your review. Having suffered the acidic blows from Marx's review of us, it was nice to see a thoughtful one, and I know that many of the cast members feel the same way. Great site, and keep up the good work!
Lisa McColgan
Subject: RE: FW: JINKIES! -- Please forward!
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 15:30:45 -0500
From: "Pliner, Eric A" EPliner@doe.mass.edu
Larry --
We've just completed the run of our first show, "JINKIES! THE TOTALLY
UNAUTHORIZED, PARTIALLY IMPROVISED SCOOBY DOO MYSTERIES LIVE ON STAGE,"
with very successful results. It was a lot of fun, and (fortunately) it
was also pretty well-attended. I don't know how many of the folks that
came to the show learned about it from your website, but it doesn't
really matter. It means a lot to me (as a relatively new "theater
person") and to many of the folks in the Boston theater community to
have your website as a resource, both for posting and for reading.
With this in mind, I was particularly moved by the Nov. 6th article which you forwarded to me about the maintenance of the Theater Mirror website. I wanted to respond immediately . . . but two days before a show (as I'm sure you know) the ratio of sleep to productivity is pretty disproportionate, and it managed to slip my mind (and my "to do" list). Now that things have quieted down, though, I wanted to be sure to write to you. I am certainly interested in making a donation to the website, but I can't find an address (other than an e-mail address!) anywhere in the e-mail message or on the website to which I can send a check! Please write to me with a mailing address so that I might send a donation.
Thank you for posting our show, and for all of your work for the presenters and consumers of Boston theater. Best wishes for a happy winter season, and for a happy New Year.
Sincerely,
Eric Pliner
Fun & Games Stage Company
LARRY STARK'S ADDRESS IS:
125 Amory Street #501
Roxbury MA 02119-1075
I missed "Jinkies"; when coming out of another show Beverly Creasey and I
ran into a director from another company who urged us not to miss it, but by
the time I had any time free, "Jinkies" was gone.
I hate to miss good shows.
Love,
===Anon.
Subject: theatre space
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:52:18 EST
From: Apri955738@aol.com
Hi Larry;
My friends and I are looking for affordable space to produce a show. Do
you have any knowledge of theatre spaces that a new, poor theatre company
could use?
thanks
LARRY STARK ASKS: "AFFORDABLE?"
TODD'S HAMMER found the Boston Center for The Arts affordable; BAOBAB and
THE other THEATER used The Actors' Workshop; LE BLACK KAT used Theatre Works in
Davis Square; THEATRE 7(BABYLON PRODUCTIONS) used the Beau Jest Moving Theatre's space. I have no idea
what they cost, but these were small, beginning companies without a lot of money
behind them.
Those are spaces I know about; maybe others will know more.
If you do hear of more, let us know!
Love,
===Anon.
Subject: Bishop Feehan
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:09:49 EST
From: Jrjuice@aol.com
Larry, thanks for all your help in trying to assist my school in getting a
musical director. Since the notice has been put up, we have been able to find
one. Thank You for your assistance.
*Justin Jutras*
GREAT NEWS JUSTIN!
I'll take the notice out of The Mirror.
Break a leg with the new show!
Love,
===Anon.
Subject: Web Site
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 14:28:14 -0500
From: Juliann Rubijono juliann.rubijono@quadris.com
Dear Larry-
Many Thanks for your review of David Hanbury and Peter Rubijono's recent
production of "Talking to Maybe". Your thoughtful reflections were a
great moral boost, and a helpful contribution in assessing the next
steps of the piece's development. I believe David sent you a copy of the
program for your edification regarding credits.
I also thank you creating such a resource for the Boston theatre scene. ( I've worked with G.L. Horton in the past, who brought your site to my attention).
If I may be so bold, I would like to suggest that you take an in-depth look at your site's navigation. While the content is a gift to those wishing to learn more about theatre and its goings on in Boston, navigating the site it self is EXTREMELY frustrating. It would surely benefit from an overhaul in its filing system.. as at this time the experience of surfing your site is akin to standing in front of the famed news comic strip's character "SHOE"'s desk! YIKES!
I am a theatre director in background, and incorporating multi-media-
web design- into my repetoir of skills--- so my attention is drawn to
the flow of the web at this time. I have shown your site to a few people
at the computer consulting firm where I presently work, and we all agree
that it would be a grave injustice not to reorganize . Your efforts in
bolstering Boston's theatre are terribly valuable, and we would like to
be able to read what you have to say;-)
Blessings~
~ Juliann A Rubijono
"BUT I am PERFESSER FISHHAWK!" LARRY STARK INSISTS:
And I agree with the Perfesser's editor P. Martin Shoemaker(Shoe's initial standing for
"Purple" I'm told) that the haystack of a desk, and in this case of a website, is a disgrace.
Any suggestions as to how to streamline that "filing system"?
There are several layers of "navigation systems" here, I am INSIDE it, working with those most
convenient to a 66-year-old print-generation mind.
Seriously, if anyone has suggestions for making The Mirror easier to handle, you know our
e-mail address, and we're eager to please.
Love,
===Anon.
Subject: Emma's Christmas Pix
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 21:11:22 EST
From: MZtheDiva@aol.com
Hello Everyone!
Just thought I'd make you smile by giving you the latest pix of our adorable
daughter - her holiday photos.
Call them up at www.s2f.com/bergman/steve&maryann/emma2.html
Enjoy,
Maryann
WITH APOLOGIES:
Backstage baby!
Ticklin' the ivories
Knockin' down those Christmas trees
To be in a show!
Subject: Re: f y i
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 15:48:23 -0500
From: Katharine Emory kitdiva@MIT.EDU
Dear Larry,
I am ashamed to say that I'd not heard of the Mirror before you sent this
to me as well as your generous offer to post info on Flashback's upcoming
holiday shows. Thank you for enlightening me! I hope to remain on your
mailing list; is the Mirror a regular cyber newsletter or a website? If
the latter, please send me the URL or hyperlink and I will bookmark it for
regular reference.
You and Lee both sound like wonderful, dear old-school lovers of the theater. Hallelujah! And you've every right to ask for some compensation for promotional support offered to the theatrical community at large. Please send me your address and I would be most honored to send that check for $10 to support your work borne of love.
I am foremost a performer and I sing primarily. Mostly classical, but often musical theater and jazz, too. My boyfriend is a stagehand born and bred in the midwest (and therefore of "old-school values" in my book). He is currently the head electrician for his 2nd Broadway show, "On the Town".
Anyway, Larry, please be our guest if you wish to find your way to either
of our two shows. Regardless of reviewing, we'd love to know your were
there and enjoying something new and fun (as we consider our show to be).
Let me know and I'll reserve a seat for you!
Sincerely,
Kit Emory, mgr.
Flashback
Subject: A Brazilian musical lover...
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 12:13:58 -0200
From: "Adriano Serra" adriserra@sti.com.br
Hi Larry...
Let's see if you can help me...
I'm looking for a CD from the musical called "Weird Romance" (Alan Menken - 1993), but it's out of print... I really LOVE this musical and I'm
trying anything to find it...
I was told that this musical was played in Boston...
So... if you have ANY information about it... please!
Thank you very much for your attention
Adriano Serra - Brazil
LARRY STARK REMEMBERS IT!
Yes, there was a student production
in Kresge Little Theatre at MIT.
A fun little show.
I hope the people who did it are still around ands can help you.
Love,
===Anon.
Subject: Hi Larry
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 19:10:18 EST
From: HoveyP@aol.com
Hey there. Jerry told me about your financal bind at TM. At our next meeting we'll propose a small donation. I'm sure we are good for $20 or so. I'll put the word out as best as I can. I'm sorry we can't do much more than that but we did want you to know that Jerry, myself and the rest of the members here at Hovey, consider TM an important part of the local theater scene. Please please keep it going. You and the TM site have helped promote live performance art in this area. We need you. Keep up the good work.
John MacKenzie
President
Hovey Players, Inc.
LARRY STARK FEELS ODD ABOUT THIS:
On the one hand, I hate to whine and cry poor. On the other, come the end of the
money, I often still have month left. And it's also true that for the three years
of its existence, The Theater Mirror has cost Lee VanderLaan $30 per month to keep
the site in existence, and will every month in the future.
I don't like to ask, as WBUR asks every pledge-break, that you "put a dollar value
on what you get out of it" --- but this Is America, isn't it? And the fact is I do upon
occasion feel the urge to squander some cash on frivolous self-indulgences, like a bathrobe
or another shirt, or trolley-fare out to Waltham and back.
The problem is that I hate to beg from friends, and I know how tight money is for
theater people. So when Beverly Creasey began sending people post-cards, I just didn't
tell her to stop.
Thank you for the thought. To me, that's most important.
Love,
===Anon.
Subject: Boston area acting classes
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 17:36:53 -0600
From: kerry@starmail.com
Hello! I was wondering if you could help me. I am looking to take
acting classes in the Boston area. More specifically, I was looking
for someone to help me prepare auditions. Do you have any names or
places I could call for information?
Thanks!!
Kerry
LARRY STARK SUGGESTS:
Yeah, you should start with StageSource,
whose e-mail address is [ Email: StageSorce@aol.com ]. They may want a membership fee
of $35.00 to use their information banks, but this is exactly the sort of question
they were set up to answer.
Love,
===Anon.
Subject: Re: About the "You Know You Work in Communty Theater If..."
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 15:16:08 -0500
From: "Chris Polo" cpolo@ezol.com
Whoa, you don't kid around, do you? Got back after Thanksgiving, checked
out your site, and got really tickled at that big ol' copyright notice smack
dab in the middle of your page! (can you tell I spent Thanksgiving with
relatives in North Carolina?). Thanks a billion gazillion -- we're already
getting hits from your site to ours (and hopefully sending a few your way as
well!)
Chris Polo
Community Theater Green Room
http://www.ezol.com/~mikepolo/index.htm
Subject: Trying to Find Erica Batdorf.
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 13:47:28 EST
From: ShlokMstr@aol.com
I noticed in your review section, you mention Erica Batdorf's "Facing East". I
attended the Boston Conservatory '87-'89 and am now an actor in NYC. I have
recently been re-assesing what I learned there and am trying to contact Ms.
Batdorf who taught there all too briefly. If you have an e-mail address or
other way I might be able to get in touch with her, pleease e-mail me back. (
Shlokmstr@aol.com).
T
hank You,
Erick Buckley (aka. Bokuniewicz)
LARRY STARK IS EAGER TO OBLIGE!
I think she's here doing workshops and teaching. (And she's recently married,
too!)
Here's the announcement, with an e-mail address.
Subject: "Chipper Charlie at Boston Conservatory" by Beverly Creasey
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 20:44:41 EST
From: KaroleeOne@aol.com
Dear Larry,
Saw the Conservatory show and loved it. Read the review by Beverly and
would like to have a copy of it. It was supposed to be from the Theater
Mirror but I can't find it! Please help!!!!!! Thanks
PS Any other review sites would be welcome also!
LARRY STARK THINKS YOU'VE BEEN MISINFORMED:
Beverly works for a number of real newspapers who pay her money, but when she has
seen (or just wants to see) a show none of them wish to have her cover, she sends
that review to me.
I know we both "saw the same show" and talked about our enjoyment of it in the break
and after, but someone else has printed her "Chipper Charley" review, and, sadly, I have
never seen it.
Call the Conservatory and ask for their p/r person, who can tell you where it appeared
--- or might even send you a xerox or a fax of it from their files.
She doesn't have e-mail, or I'd forward this to her and eliminate several middle-men.
Love,
===Anon.
Subject: About the "You Know You Work in Communty Theater If..." post
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:39:58 -0500
From: "Chris Polo" cpolo@ezol.com
Just thought you might like to know that the "You Know You Work in Community Theater If..." post that you have up in The Green Room came from our site, The Community Theater Green Room, at http://www.ezol.com/~mikepolo/index.htm
It got picked up from our site shortly after I posted it a couple of months ago and has been making the rounds of the net as an anonymous e-mail -- I even had a copy forwarded to me recently with a new title, "You Might Work in Theater/Opera If..."!
We're happy to see that it's proving so popular, but it is copyrighted -- could we get your help in letting folks know that by asking you to credit us for the piece?
You have a terrific site, and even though we're nowhere near Boston, we still check in from time to time to see out what theater folks up in your neck of the woods are doing.
Thanks for your help, and keep up the great work!
Chris Polo
Community Theater Green Room -- an interactive community theater site
http://www.ezol.com/~mikepolo/index.htm
Home of the Community Theater Web Site of the Month Awards
SO you'RE THE ONE! LARRY STARK SHRIEKS: Subject: Theater/Theatres
Mr. Stark,
LARRY STARK ITERATES: Subject: Musicals
Hi! I am a student at the University of Pau , France, and I am currently doing
a master on musicals. It is very difficult to find information in France, I
was wondering if you could help me in any way...could the theatremirror
interest me for my subject ? Do you know of any other magazine that could help
me ?
LARRY STARK SUGGESTS: Subject: Re: Independent Reviewers of New England by the way - if people haven't gone to see Racing Demon at Merrimac - get them to do so
imeeidately it closes on Sunday the 15th - the best thing I've seen in 6 months.
LARRY STARK SALUTES: Subject: Fwd:More on Community Theater
Hello Larry,
Presumming that this is your work, and thankful - indeed, grateful - that
you're one of the few who spends the time to input the full creative and
casting info, may I offer a selfish correction? The roles of Proprietor/James
Garfield are indeed being played by Jon-Daniel Durbin. However, as printed in
the program insert, the roles of Bartender/Hangman/Gerald Ford are played by
David Mack Henderson, me!
Proscenium seems to be a publication gaining on the local scene for many good
reasons. They have a drawback though, especially for smaller companies that
haven't cast comletely so far in advance. They require a huge lead-time for
publication, no doubt in part because it's printed in Canada. And from the
empoyment advertisement they're currently running in Bay Windows, either
they're expanding or understaffed! Growing pains might make for a good
article...
LARRY STARK APOLOGISES:
The story behind the banner was flattering but unneccesary.
I do it because the website gives us both a manner of contributing to
theater as we are able. I am not fanatic about theater, but am glad you
are! It changed my life for the better when I became involved in theater in
high school, as the wounded (dead) soldier in Everyman Today. Later, I ran
sound and stage-crewed in many community productions, and developed a love
for the stage that is unsurpassed by any other venue in its honesty,
openness, and expression for the sublime. I am happy to be a part of the
Theater Mirror, and would do it for love, before money. It is fulfilling in
itself, to underwrite the Theater Mirror, and Larry Stark, without whom it
simply would not happen. I encourage all who find pleasure in reading Larry
Stark's writing to enhance his life style, before mine. Write him a check
for a few bucks today!
Subject: just a few questions
My name is Kristin Fleming and I attend Tulane University in New Orleans,
LA. I am thinking of taking my upcoming semester off, just for
some time to figure out a few things. I am a sophomore and I am supposed
to declare a major next semester. That is my main problem. I have no
idea what I want to major in and I am going to do this to figure that out.
I am very interested in theatre (mostly musical) and I would love to get
into it somehow. I don't know if you are the person to talk to about this
but I'm going to give it a shot. I really have no experience in theater.
I was in my high school musical senior year and I greatly regret not
having done it all throughout high school. I don't necessarily want to
actually perform during my time off. I didn't know if there were
internships or volunteer jobs available. They could really be in small
scale theaters and they could require anything. I know my lack of
experience could hinder me a bit, but i just wanted a general idea of what
there is out there and I wanted some information before I start making
phone calls. So if you could get back to me I would GREATLY appreciate it.
AND LARRY STARK SAYS: Subject: opportunities
Hey! I was wondering if you know of any upcoming Directing
opportunities?? I am a freelance director here in Boston.
LARY STARK ANSWERS, IN A WORD: Subject: 1 ACT PLAY
I thought you may be interested in this :
http://home.swbell.net/amgine/theparty.html Subject: Re: Announcement
Thanks for the posting, Larry!
LARRY STARK LEAPS AT THE CHANCE: Subject: Project: Y2k - Boston Production Crew Needed!!
Hello, Subject: Will & Lil Show
Hi, Larry:
LARRY STARK WELCOMES THE FIRST NEW READER OF OUR FOURTH YEAR: Subject: Happy Birthday to Theatre Mirror!
Hey,, did you forget that you had your third birthday this month?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Larry, and the gang for producing the BEST web site on
teh East Coast!!
LARRY STARK FORGOT IT THIS YEAR! Subject: Theater Mirror
Dear Larry,
LARRY STARK ADMITS: Subject: A SHAYNA MAIDEL
Dear Larry - love your site! I'm new to computerland and am starting to do
research for a play (above) set in Manhatten in 1947. I was trying to use the
internet and research that era ie. fashion. decor - just history in general.
I am having a poor result with searching. Would you know any websites re.
theatre that could help in research not only for this play but others in the
future. Any help or advice you could give would be greatly appreciated.
LARRY STARK TRIED: Subject: rent production
hi,
IN A WORD, LARRY STARK SAYS: Subject: Cabaret
I live in New York and it is impossible to get tickets for the show Cabaret.
I was reading your web site and was wondering if the Cabaret at the Hasty
Pudding Theater was the same as the one on Broadway? If so how can I go about
purchasing tickets? Your help would be greatly appreciated! Thank You.
LARRY STARK REGRETS:
Hi. I am larry stark from The Theater Mirror, and we need your help.
Specifically, we need names and addresses of REVIEWERS in your area, whether for newspapers, t-v, radio, magazines, or
even on the Internet like myself.
Last year a number of reviewers here surprised Boston by voting a series of awards (best production, director, actor, actress...
that kind of thing) and centering our attention on the under-publicized smaller theatres neglected by the major critical voices in
the city --- based loosely on the Obie Awards.
This year we'd like to expand this into what we'd like to call the:
Trouble is, we've had difficulty FINDING other reviewers in other cities in the six New England states. So, who reviews your
shows? Please send us names and addresses so we can contact them and send them explanations and solicit from them
nominations of the good work you and your colleages are doing. (We were egged on in this expansion by PROSCENiUM
Magazine/Programs, and we expect they'll give the "IRNE" Awards some added publicity.)
So please e-mail me names and addresses of any reviewers you know of, in your area or wherever in New England. The year's
end grows on apace, don'tchaknow....
Love,
LARRY STARK EXPLAINS: Subject: co operation
Dear Subject: HELP!
Larry,
LARRY STARK SUGGESTED Baker's Plays: Subject: Response to your question - What's the point?
In response to your question -- what's the point?
Many people visit our site to find out what's up at the Abbott. When they do
they will find a news page with links to Theater Mirror reviews of our shows.
Although the show may have closed, the review of the production provides our
customers (both yours and mine), information about our work. A review that is
thoughtfull and supportive of the hard work we do, raises the confidence level
of our participants, audience and members, and at the same time provides
information to potential customers.
For your part - providing reviews and information on as many plays and
theaters possible will insure the continued high volume of traffic your site
has enjoyed thus increasing public awareness of the services you provide.
If you check out our news page, you will see we still maintain old links to
reviews you have written, on closed productions. If you look at our main page
you will notice we have received nearly 1000 hits in less than a year. With
an active membership of only 20 or so, that's not so bad. These people are
all given a chance to see your work. I'm sure many family members from the
casts of these productions, have downloaded your reviews long after the
production closed. I'm sure some of these people have recorded your URL.
I will do my best to keep you posted on our production dates so you may attend
early in the run. In the future if you do attend later in the run, please
consider publishing a review anyway -- your words will be read.
Celebration runs November 6,7,8,12,13,14,15, 19, 20,21 Please consider
attending early. We would prefer you attend on Sunday the 8th or Thursday the
12th as those days have more openings. You can request comps via Email.
Wed Oct 7 13:45:47 1998
Hi Larry
I sw the review of the book on Theater Mirror--looks great!
As for further promotion, we will have to decline the paid
advertising offer. However, I'd be happy to work with you to feature
an excerpt of book on your site at no charge. Please let me know if
you would interested in discussing this.
Thank you,
LARRY STARK IS OUTRAGED:
What I offered to Harcourt Brace was paid advertising of a book I think the readers
of The Theater Mirror would like to know about. I have even offered to arrange a
Banner ad that would allow people to order the book directly from you, in exchange for
a per-book cut of the $35.00 per book that would enrich Harcourt Brace. (When I last
worked for a bookstore, they got to keep 40% of the sale price on every book. We're
nowhere that greedy, but you never even allowed us to get to the dickering stage, did you.) Subject: Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 15:50:18 -0400
Any chance that anybody could help me with finding records of productions
of Shaw plays (other than the Shaw Festival) in Canada? I'm doing a
research paper for a possible book and need reviews, recollections and
whatever people can remember of either "Heartbreak House" or "Doctors
Dilemma". I'm only interested in Canadian productions outside of the Shaw
Festival (they have their own records that are accessible). In short; I'd
like to get some idea how the rest of Canada responded to Shaw in the past
90 plus years or so. I'm sure there will be some Actors/Actresses that have
performed parts in either of these plays and Actors usually keep reviews
and remember performances. They will be quoted and listed in a bibliography
that will more then likely be included in a book for students of Shavian
Drama in the future. Actor recollections and reviews tend to add a human
character to what would otherwise be cold history.
LARRY STARK RALLIES THE TROOPS: Subject: Hello! Your doing a good job, but
Hi Larry-
LARRY STARK APOLOGISES: Subject: RE: Mousetrap
We will be doing Agatha Christies' "Mousetrap" in Gardner at Theater at the
Mount on October 2,3, 9,10,11. We would love it if someone could find the time
to come review us. Thanks. Love your web page.
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 10:28:35 EDT
Sub: The Birth of Jonas Allen Olson Hello friends,
LARRY SHARK WHEEKLES:
Larry:
LARRY STARK REPLIES:
Hi Louise. You need Richard Gist! If he doesn't know what's going on in
Baltimore, no one does. Subject: An appeal to all theater companies (and their Webmasters)
An appeal to all theater companies:
Subject: Comments
LARRY STARK HANGS HIS HEAD IN SHAME Subject: re: Theatre Mirror
I have to tell you that I absolutely LOVE Theatre Mirror! I have been on
several auditions just in the past few weeks thanks to you, and have met
people I might never have met if not for your listings. I am expanding my
horizons and having a wonderful time doing it. Subject: Playwright approacheth Subject: Emma's Web Page
To all our Friends and Family,
Subject: andrew foster, chemical reactions Subject: Foreign reviews
I am trying to find a review that I heard was in Variety for the London
production of THE BEST OF TIMES. The show is at the Bridewell Theater, and the
review was supposed to be in the August 29th issue of Variety. I would
appreciate any help you can give. Thank you. Subject: :+) Subject: your summer vacation
Larry --
Subject: Greenroom-Reviews/Ninfea
I read with interest the comments Ninfea made regarding reviews on your
site. "How can I trust reading a review if all the reviews are
good?"... LARRY STARK ADDS: Subject: just read your review on the Net on Merrily We Roll Along
Larry Stark,
With much appreciation if you can afford the time, I would like to
introduce you to:
and "Gary Bright" which is a new musical comedy that briskly tells the
classic struggle of worker and boss at High Core Tech. Briefly, the
workers in the front office at High Core Tech are well organized, and they
are earnest in their competition to see how quick they can get rid of the
next boss. Gary Bright is the lead secretary and manages to set a new
company record. The clerks are bound to try to beat Gary's record. The
clerks are led by Eddy and Betty. Betty use to be engaged to Gary Bright
but is now Eddy's girlfriend. To complicate their efforts to get rid of
the next boss in record time there is the new found realization by Gary
Bright that what he wants to be is a big fat boss.
LARRY STARK THINKS: Subject:
Hi Mr. Stark
LARRY STARK INVESTIGATES: Subject: Dear Larry...
Larry,
Subject: top 50 list (finally)
Thanks for your patience with me everyone. Here it is.
Subject: Re: Done!
Larry,
Subject: REVIEWS
Larry,
Subject: Re: REVIEWS
Larry,
Again, thanks for the response,
Ninfea.
Subject: Looking for actors with programming skills
Larry,
Subject: Reservations & Websites
Actually, Subject: ushering
Where is your theatre in Boston. I have ushered at the Huntington Theatre,
all the Newton Theatre, for Blue Man Group, and the Emerson.
Subject: Re: Mass Appeal
Once again, you came through for me with flying colors! Thanks!!
Subject: Re: For Your Information
>Hi. larry stark here, from The Theater Mirror
That's kind of ironic, since I'm originally from NYC, but got my M.F.A. in
Playwriting from Emerson College in Boston, and started my Ph.D in American
Lit and Review & Criticism at Boston University. I lived in downtown Boston
(2 blocks from Fenway Park) for three-and-a-half years, and while growing
up spent several summers in Chatham on Cape Cod. I call myself a New Yorker
by birth, a Bostonian by education, and a Phoenician by choice!
Just got this letter, and made this answer in our GREENROOM:
I thank you very much for using me as a resource. I can't tell you how
complimented I was. I noticed that your answer was cut off when I visited
the page, though.
I used to do book reviews (even while living out here in Arizona) for
Assunta Kent and the New England Theatre Journal. I'm also the Phoenix
regional critic for Aisle Say, and a big fan of G. L. Horton's.
Thank you again for the compliment, and I did read your interesting
critique of critics. It's actually a feature I've been thinking of doing
for my OTHER website, AARO-Arizona Art Review Online. I think critics
should stop every once in awhile and learn what their readership and the
companies they review think of them. I've always considered having a
talk-back section on my websites, since feedback about feedback can have a
positive effect.
I am the only critic in the Phoenix area who has not only formal training
in theatre, but who actively participates professionally within the
community (as a playwright, dramaturg, actor, production manager and
director). As a result, I have been called by the Artistic Director of the
regional Arizona Theatre Company the "Theater people's theatre critic." I
find that a vast amount of my readership is the theatre professional, and
tailor my reviews in that way. I've always felt that critics should split
evenly: half for the potential audience's benefit, half for the companies'.
I dislike the attitude of many of my fellow critics that the best critic is
one who has not necessarily been in anything, but has seen a lot of
theatre. I think a theatre insider's critique is much more interesting than
one from someone who has never experienced opening-night jitters,
thunderous applause, deafening silences after scenes and songs, and the
pleasure of a congratulatory review, as well as the pain of a stinging one.
(I've had the unfortunate pleasure of enjoying all of these things at once
in shows I've been in and had produced just this past season!)
I always endeavor to give an honest appraisal of all I review, and have
found my friendships with actors, directors and other co-workers in theatre
have sometimes been called into question. I established early, though, that
I will tell just how good or bad I thought a play was; no favorites and no
special considerations. If I didn't have that schizophrenic ability, I'd
never survive either within the theatre community, or reviewing it.
Thanks for discovering my website, and letting me discover yours. I had
thought that theatre in New England was dead, or dependent on Colleges. I'm
glad to see it's flourishing, and hope one day to return to the land of
four seasons and mosquitoes.
Cheers, Subject: Mass Appeal
Hello! Have you ever heard of the show Mass Appeal? It plays in Wareham, MA
and I was looking for information on it.
KNOWING NOTHING LARRY STARK TRIED AN AlatVista SEARCH: Subject: So much Theatre, so little time...
Hello Larry, Subject: Your site
Larry,
Cordially,
patrick Subject: Re: our listing
well, we GREATLY appreciate the time you took on our behalf, and FYI, your site is so complete that even when I'm weekending around New
England, I print out your entire listing and we review it in the car enroute deciding what we're going to see...
Subject: just checking in
Larry;
As our people move on to bigger and better things, I am in need of new
talent. Real up and comers who enjoy the challenge of interactive theater
and most of all a talented director that can make it all happen.
I tell you this to ask for an audition / headshot & resume notice in Theater
Mirror.
As for us; Fridays and Saturday, we present "Titanic - The Mystery Cruise" Subject: Props Alert!
Hi Larry . . .
Subject: RE: Audition News
That's terrific, Larry. Can we insert a blurb for "Crimes of the Heart"?
It's directed by Rick Stewart and runs September 18-20, 24-27, Oct 1-3,
Thu-Sat @ 8 p.m. and Sun @ 7 p.m. "A sometimes charming, highly eccentric
Southern family gather to support the youngest, charges with shooting her
husband. A funny, quirky play about family, love, and how to handle a "very
bad day".
We got a lot of responses from Theater Mirror for "Crimes" auditions and put
together an excellent cast. Thanks for your excellent support.
LARRY STARK BLUSHES, AND DELIVERS: Subject: Phantom of the Opera
Is there a web page that would show if and when there is a Boston schedule
for Phantom of the Opera? Subject: Forum Review
Thank you for your obvious appreciation of good theatre. Paul Farwell
put together a supreme cast and an outstanding set design. But of
course I am partial as this is my second production with him. Your
intuition is correct. We (the cast) work as an ensemble leaving our
egos at the door in order to present to the public a piece that doesn't
miss a beat. Much credit goes to our director, Paul. Thank you again.
Mr. Larry Stark
Dear Larry:
It was nice to see you at the BCA the other evening. I have been meaning to write and thank you so much for your incredibly kind words regarding Virginia Woolf in your Cricket's Notebook. I don't yet have the Internet, but the very talented Joe Zamparelli gave me a copy. Thank you also for your Critic;s Circle nomination for my performance in V W. I was floored to say the least. I feel as if I am the luckiest woman in Boston most of the time just having a chance to do theatre with my talented friends, but an award nomination that is really something special. I appreciate it very much. I was so blessed to be around Joe, Fred, Alisha, Roy and our stage manager Cathy.
I also wanted to thank you for attending our production of "On The Verge." I heard your laugh and it really gave the message that you are someone who wants small theatre to survive and thrive in Boston. Thank you. I was encouraged many years ago by my wise acting coach not to read reviews, and I don't read them most of the time. I do, however, value reviews as learning tools. I give them all to the aforementioned wise acting coach, and she uses the information to help me grow as an artist. I did read your reviews of Verge and Virginia Woolf, however. It is interesting that you put into words how we all felt about those two shows. Thank you for the praise and the constructive criticism.
I hope you will continue to chart our progress as a company. We will probably be undertaking the American premiere of "Anna Weiss" by Mike Cullen in the fall. It won several awards at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last summer. It is a very gritty drama about psychiatry and the use of recovered memory hypnosis. I saw the play performed at the fringe last summer, and it was amazing. We have been granted the rights, and it is just a matter of everyone agreeing that this risky play is right for now.
Thank you, Larry, for your kindness and support.
Sincerely, Subject: ART on the barracades
Went to see the Byrd "Minstrel Show" at ART -- as did a lot
of other people, too many to fit in the Loeb. Stood in line
while they decided wheter to let us in to stand: they
decided against it. People then asked --well, perhaps a bit
vociferously-- to be allowed to watch from outside, through
the crack in the door. Denied, relented, denied again. A
few people slipped in. Stge mgmt called the cops! two squad
cars and 2 motorcycles!
Was mgmt imagining riots? Watts, or Columbia????
G.L.Horton http://www.tiac.net/users/ghorton
Subject:
any info on Hal Holbrook's Mark Twain show?
LARRY STARK ASKS: Subject: your web site
One question -- can you tell me what the procedure is for getting back
into everyone's good graces after you have accidentally named the
Scots play while in a theater? I seem to recall it means you leave
the building, turn around three times, either swear or spit (possibly
both), and then ask permission to return. Is that it? I was trying
to explain this to a non-theater person the other day, and she was not
impressed either by the ritual, the need for the ritual, or my feeble
remembrance. Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated.
Again, great job. Thanks for taking the time. Margaret R. Spencer Subject: Re: FW: FW: QP Web Site
Please feel free to stop by the Abbott, anytime you see the light on. I'll
see you soon ... downstairs.
Subject: Subject: GREENROOM TRIVIA
Hi Larry . . .
Subject: Ultimate Broadway
Thanks for posting my message - I have been trying to convince my company
(BMG) to start advertising on sites such as yours on the web, but they are not
yet convinced that this medium works - I disagree!
We are holding a record release party for this Ultimate Broadway CD on Tues.
June 30 at Aria at the Wilbur Theater from 7-9 p.m. We will be serving light
food and drinks and will be playing the CD. We will also be giving away some
Broadway related merchandise. I would like to extend an invitation to you and
a guest if you would like to come check it out.
I do think The Theater Mirror has been a powerful advertising medium --- but
not PAID advertising. The Mirror continues to cost money and continues to make
back very little. Not even the modest costs of our Banner Program have excited
enough paying customers to balance our budget, although every month anyone does
buy a Banner is one The Mirror makes a profit. Subject: Drood Inquiry
Hello, I have a request that may sound strange but yours was the first email address that I could find to a verifiable theater
group and I'm getting desperate.
Subject: No Subject Subject: Hello.
I'm not sure if there is where I send a posting to the Green Room or not, if
it's wrong, I apologize. I am just looking for a place to shop. I am in the
production of A Chorus Line at T.A.M in Gardner, and it's the first community
show I've done in 8 years, and I realize I need to get makeup, quickly. If
someone could just give me suggestions of good places to shop for theater
makeup, I'd be much obliged. Thank you. Subject: "Orpheus Descending Review"
Dear Larry--
Subject: Orpheus Descending
Dear Larry,
Subject: Been awhile!
Hi Larry;
It's wonderful to hear that you are still around and on the cutting edge
of technology at that! I remember you fondly and still appreciate your
support and encouragement during the Boston Rep days. I live in Concord
(MA) now; married with two children (Sam, 11; and Michaela, 8).
Impressive web site! I've bookmarked it and anticipate many pleasureable
hours browsing through it in the future.
Want a history of the Rep? Actually a very daunting task to consider now
that I think of it; but would be a labor of love. It too was a unique
experiment, a "Camelot" for the group of us in a way. Best of luck with
your work. Come see my work sometime. Hard to find it because schools
don't advertise. Still, I could send you a schedule. I do about 300
performances a year. Subject: url info.
hello from hollywood!
Subject: Wellesley Players
Could you tell me how to get in contact with the Wellsley Players?
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 17:34:49 EDT
Thanks for the info, but I believe I am looking for another group . . . a
Wellesley theater group not affiliated with the college.
Subject: THEATER CURTAINS
Dear Sir: Subject: review
Hi Larry: Did you review Raquel Welch in The Millionairess playing at the
Orpheum in Foxboro? Thanks. Stan Wertheim Subject: show
Hi maby you are intrest of a swedich elvis show
or maby can tell if you now somone some can be
thanks for you help Subject: Re: Seascape with Sharks and Dancer
Larry,
Subject: West Side Story
'Thank You' for the great review of WSS. From DeniseCorm@aol.com
For those ho were wondering how to get tickets
for this event...I found out the following:
Call Laurie at 617-542-9155
Tickets are $30 through tomorrow, Friday May 29th LARRY STARK THANKS YOU: Subject: Reese's Web site
Larry,
LARRY STARK HOPES: Subject: L.A. Comedy Looking for East Coast Home
To whom it may concern:
Break a leg, and I'll put the Community Theater Green Room into The Mirror's links-list.
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 12:53:37 -0400
From: Marc Talusan "talusan"@psyche.mit.edu
I am curious to know the basis of your "obstinant pedeantry" regarding
the difference in meaning between "theater" and "theatre." According to
Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th ed., the two words are
interchangeable and mean both the art and the art's locus (among other
things). I unfortunately do not have access to a copy of the Oxford
English Dictionary, whose position I should consider definitive.
My understanding has been that "theater" originated in the United
States, during the early nineteenth-century push for an "American"
English distinct from that of the Crown. This movement resulted in new
spellings for a variety of words, such as "center" for "centre," "meter"
for "metre," "check" for "cheque," etc. Thus we have a host of words
with identical meanings and pronunciations which are nevertheless
spelled differently on either side of the Atlantic.
It is this socio-linguistic identity crisis, and not a difference in
sense, which distinguishes "theater" from "theatre." Indeed, I have
always interpreted (and applauded) your insistence on "theater" as a
much-needed dose of patriotic sentiment combatting the hordes of
pretentious American would-be Anglophiles who write "theatre" only for
the sense of Old-World cachet. This snobbery only reflects the
American's inferiority complex when faced with London or Moscow. Your
choice of "theater" had read to me like an American proud of his
country's theater, who had no use for the fakes sucking up to an
imaginary greatness found across the seas.
Yours,
Roger Hammerstein
The fact is, my first editor Joe Hanlon handed me this speculation on what
the two spellings meant, and since for a long time Joe was GOD, I thought he
knew what he was talking about.
He didn't.
But if you'd had the word of God about something, would you bother to check
a dictionary on the subject? After all, we know that dictionaries Lie,
because they disagree with us.
I have had difficulty doing listings because somecompanies spell it one way,
while some playhouses spell it another...and that problem is further
complicated by editors who opt for one spelling over another, and therefore
often MISspell the names of theatres or theater companies because their One
spelling is so automatic.
For many years I really did believe that ER was an art and RE was a
building, and thus that a theatER Company worked in a theatRE. But people
who Do read dictionaries are always pointing out that this is "...a dirty
black Protestant lie" (as an Irish heckler once shouted at Orson Welles at
Dublin's Abbey Theater).
When I wrote that quote originally, I believed it was true. I do, in fact,
still spell the art differently from the edifice in letters and reviews. The
"obstinant pedantry" (which I think contains a misspelling, by the way) got
added to the mix when I had to admit what I had taken as gospel for so long
simply was not true.
Even in England, the preferred spelling changed over the centuries, and it
did here in America as well. Your take on the difference is refreshing.
Vive la difference!
Love,
===Speling Impaired
( a k a Anon. )
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 01:56:38 EST
From: Miguelle@aol.com
Thank you very much,
yours,
Carole Poletti
Try these:
AltaVista on "musicals"
The Mirror isn't very useful for research, especially historical research, because it's
major interest is on Current Live Theater Productions.
But perhaps the readers of The Greenroom can help?
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 23:26:04 -0500
From: "Kenneth Happe" KHAPPE@holycross.edu
Yes sir!
Well, you heard him, didn't you?
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 09:38:10 -0800
From: ssmith3@bkb.com
enjoy! (hope you haven't seen this yet!)
NOTE
The material below has been
copyrighted
by
Community Theater Green Room
You Know You Work in Community Theater if...
...your living room sofa spends more time on stage than you do.
...you have your own secret family recipe for stage blood.
...you've ever appeared on stage wearing your own clothes.
...you can find a prop in the prop room that hasn't seen the light of day in
ten years, but you don't know where your own vacuum cleaner is.
...you've ever appeared in or worked on any show written by Van
Zandt and Milmore.
...you have a Frequent Shopper Card at The Salvation Army.
...you start buying your work clothes at Goodwill so you can buy your
costumes at the mall.
...you've ever cleaned a tuxedo with a magic marker.
...you've ever appeared on stage in an outfit held together with hot glue.
...you name your son Samuel and tell him that his middle name is in honor
of the French side of the family.
...you've ever appeared in a show where tech week is devoted to
getting the running time under four and a half hours.
...you've ever appeared on stage in an English drawing room murder
mystery where half the cast spoke with southern accents.
...your children have ever begged you not to buy them any more Happy
Meals.
...you think Neil Simon is a misunderstood genius.
...you've ever appeared in a show where the cast outnumbered the
audience.
...you've ever gotten a part because you were the only one who
showed up for auditions.
...the audience recognizes you the minute you walk on stage because
they saw you taking out the trash before the show.
...you've ever menaced anyone with a gun held together with electrical
tape.
...you've ever had to haul a sofa off stage between scenes wearing a
dinner gown and high heels, and you're a guy.
...you've ever played the father of someone your father's age.
...your kids know your lines better than you do.
...your kids DELIVER your lines better than you do.
...you get home from rehearsal and have to go back to the theater
because you forgot your kids.
...you've ever appeared in a show where an actor leaned out through a
window without opening it first.
...you've ever had to play a drunk scene opposite someone who was
REALLY drunk.
...you've ever heard a director say, "Try not to bump into the furniture,"
and mean it.
...you've ever appeared on stage with people you're related to.
...you've ever heard the head of the set construction crew say, "Just
paint it black - no one will ever see it."
...you've ever appeared in a show featuring a flushing toilet sound
effect.
...the set designer has ever told you not to walk on the left half of the
stage because the floor's still wet-five minutes before curtain.
...you've ever been told that the reason your director has no eyebrows
is because he was in charge of special effects for the last show.
...you've ever said, "Don't worry - we'll just hot glue it."
Subject: Larry:
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 12:23:00 EST
From: DMACKH@aol.com
I'm a cast member of the Lyric Stage's "ASSASSINS," and wondered if I could
run a question your way. I've just started reading reviews in The Theater
Mirror, but am a little confused about which reviews are actually from your
pen. When I click on the review under your name for our show I see toward the
top your copyright notice, but the bottom is signed "Love, Anon." I just
wasn't sure if this was your review or that of a fellow cyber-writer. (I saw
the same thing re: "Four Baboons...")
Thanks again for your thoughts on our production.
DMH
Although I am indeed "Anon." wherever that signature appears here in The Mirror,
it was never my intention to keep YOU anonymous!
I notice I got it right in the body of the review; and now that I've corrected
the cast-list no one will ever it was wrong up till now!
Please, everyone, if you find mistakes tell me about them and I'll make them
conform to reality.
Love,
===Anon.
( a k a larry stark )
Subject: Re: Cricket's Notebook
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 19:48:32 -0500
From: "Lee Vander Laan" eastcom@gis.net
To "Larry Stark's Theater Mirror" larry@theatermirror.com
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 22:20:06 -0600 (CST)
From: "Kristin R. Fleming" kflemin@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
Thank you very much for your time.
Sincerely,
Kristin Fleming
One thing about theater people is that they can ALWAYS use another volunteer. And
another thing about them is that they are very quick to be helpful, and form bonds of
friendship very quickly.
So don't be hesitant!
I'm not sure from your note whether you expect to stay around Tulane, or to come here
to Boston.
In either case, though, I'd advise that you do what I did thirty-some years ago when I
was first in Cambridge:
Check the college calendar, and then the local paper, (or here, The Mirror) for any
AUDITION Notices or CASTING CALLS.
Simply show up, tell people you don't know anything and don't intend to act but you'd
like to help, and they'll put you to work, if not that very night then as soon as regular
rehearsals start. They always need people to make phone calls, run errands, or "sit on
book" which is just following the lines you hear in the script and calling out whatever
people forget ... when they ask for a "Line!
Set builders can always use willing hands, and they'll show you what they want and
oversee the result. Lighting people ALWAYS need help because the person who knows
where each instrument has to go can sit on a ladder and hang them a lot faster if someone
like you is handing them up from the floor. I never learned to focus or plug or gel the lights,
but I got damn good at coiling those heavy cables! And directors need assistants to take
down notes, producers need people to put up posters or address and stamp envelopes,
costumers need people to cut and to sew or to run to a shop for cloth or buttons. (A
friend of mine doing costumes for the all-male Hasty Pudding Show at Harvard had to go
buy twelve 44-D bras and enough falsies to fill them --- for the kick-line --- her first
day!).
And most of the stuff that has to be done can be learned quickly; they won't expect you
to Design a Set right off the bat, but once you've nailed a flat together, or pasted canvas
on it, or sized it, or painted it, you'll be an Expert at it when the next one comes along.
What I got fairly good at was moving sets and scenery on stage-crew between scenes,
and pulling curtains. That's good, useful work, and you get to know the cast and the rest
of the crew during rehearsals and performances.
But most important, you get to see all the pieces being worked on, and then fitting
together, that audiences never know about .... the other nine-tenths of the iceberg.
You can find shows to work on at Tulane, or in or around New Orleans (or in or around
Boston) all the time. And every one of them will have Something someone like you can
do that contributes to the whole effort.
Keep a diary, like the ones David Zucker or Rosann Hickey did, or just send The Mirror
a postcard about what you do.
And, by all means:
Break a leg!
Love,
===Anon.
Oh, P.S.:
You won't be paid for any of this. Not a dime. Not MONEY. But I did it for five years,
never got paid, and never had a greater time in all my life.
Go for it!
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 10:19:32 -0500
From: Beth Manspeizer BethM@ACCINT.COM
Beth Manspeizer
No. But others may, so here you are in the greenroom!
Break a leg in any case...
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 19:12:22 -0500
From: amgine@swbell.net
RJ Camelot
amgine@swbell.net
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 23:44:39 EST
From: Glimmer207@aol.com
I see that you are searching for reviewers. I have extensive experience
writing both preview articles and reviews of Portsmouth area productions, for
the Portsmouth Herald and Portfolio Magazine. I can e-mail or fax copies of
my articles and reviews if you like.
Sincerely
John Geoffrion
Wonderful!
Love to have them! (Maybe after a while I'll get to understand just what The
Players' Ring is really all about!)
If these are essentially for some other publication, will you make certain they
know I'm REPRINTING, and let me know what paper to credit and to give
copyright-notice to. But review any show you have time to write up; I get what
Beverly hasn't placed in any of half a dozen small newspapers, and I "link-in"
Angel's SCENEplay reviews, so everyone's different.
((Ah, er,um, you DO know I can't pay anyone any money, I hope!))
E-mail would be simplest for me, unless it is NOT simplest for you. The fax is in
Essex; I'm in Roxbury; and I'm "digitally impaired" so don't "attach" anything
because my computer eats my homework every damn time. Or rather, it scampers off
and buries them somewhere like a puppy with a bone (more like a squirrel with an
acorn, really!) and smugly refuses to tell me where.
Want to send a sample? Not that it'd be an "audition"; I'll use what you send;
but I'd be interested in style. What's the last Great show you saw?
Thanks again for volunteering!
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 10:23:00 -0800
From: Cory production@ycgroup.com
We are organizing a national cable show to be aired on local public
access. The actors are amateurs and the production teams are public
access groups and/or college students.
The feedback thus far has been great and we start shooting one segment
here in California this week.
We have a collection of actors in the Boston area that are ready to
start shooting but we need to connect with a production crew in that
area.
If you know of a group that might be interested in participating in the
project, that will surely gain national exposure, please let them know
of Project: Y2k.
More info:
http://ocactors.com/Y2k/
The groups:
http://ocactors.com/Y2k/groups.htm
Thanks,
Stephen Yardley
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 09:08:29 +0000
From: Will McMillan will@ccae.org
I have recently made Beverly Creasey's acquaintance and logged on to
TheaterMirror so that I could find a review she recently wrote of my
cabaret show.
Thanks very much for creating an online publication that provides
further opportunities for information to ripple through our overlapping
communities (in my case cabaret and theater.)
Now I am going to explore your site.
Sincerely,
Will McMillan
will@ccae.org
617/547-6789 x333
Like anything you see, Will?
Keep in touch...
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 21:33:13 -0500
From: Don Gillis dgillis2@home.com
Don Gillis
Rhode Island
Thank you Don. I think, mostly, The Theater Mirror has become most of what Lee and
I intended three Halowe'ens ago.
Except for the money and the fame, of course.
Maybe next year...
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 08:56:38 -0800
From: "Sharyn" Sharyn@wolfenet.com
Well, the site is now astonishing. Congratulations. It's easy to use,
clear, attractive, my goodness how you've grown.
So, as I'm doing web work myself, did you ever start making enough money
to support your theater habit?
Sharyn Shipley
"Felicity" is being featured at http://www.theatermirror.com/reflect.htm
http://www.cwave.com/users/sdempsey/shipley.htm
Sharyn, Lee and I make about as much money from The Mirror every year as the average playwright does!
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 01:04:00 EST
From: Mgr120@aol.com
Thank you. Mary Glen
I tried an AltaVista search, but 1947 is an odd between-two-wars time.
I thought perhaps the WEEGEE photos would give some flavor of the decor and
the fashions, since he prided himself on naturalistic snap-shots.
But I had to lateral the question to Baker's Plays.
I know the play was done here at least once in the last year or two, and perhaps
designers who worked on a production can offer advice.
Anyone?
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 02:07:31 -0600
From: "G. Timothy Beck" gtbrmb@flash.net
my name is tim beck and i was wondering if you knew of a production in
the boston are called "RENT". i was wondering about more info and when
and where it will be at.
Wishing You Greatness,
tim
No.
The URL for the official RENT! website is:
[ http://www.siteforrent.com/ ]
And this is the touring information there:
Make sure you get your tickets for these upcoming cities!!!
September 11th tickets on sale in Memphis.
Call (901) 525-1515!
September 12th tickets on sale in Albuquerque.
Call (505) 851-5050!
September 13th tickets on sale in Tuscon.
Call (520) 621-3341!
September 14th tickets on sale in Reno.
Call (800) 714-5331!
September 18th tickets on sale in Palm Desert.
Call (760) 340-ARTS!
September 20th tickets on sale in Denver.
Call (303) 893-4100!
"RENT!" W A S in Boston, two and a half years ago.
And in Providence about a year ago.
I haven't heard about anyone trying to bring a tour to this area again; it
played to skimpy houses when the Boston run extended, and it wasn't a very
happy cast, so I can understand the hesitance.
And there will be no locally-generated productions anywhere until the New
York run ends and the tours stop making money, so places like North Shore
Music Theatre won't get rights to the show probably for years.
Sorry.
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 12:43:10 EST
From: Ordonez12@aol.com
First of all, no, this production was created originally out in the Berkshires and has nothing
whatever to do with the big-budget smash currently on Broadway.
Second, though it was a good production and did extend, you ignore what we said at the
top of the list of archived reviews:
Currently running plays will be noted with four ****.
"Cabaret" Reviewed by Beverly Creasey
"Cabaret", A Minority Report by Larry Stark
"Cabaret" A Minority Report by "Angel"
and two of them at least end with:
Sorry for the confusion.
Love,
===Anon.
LARRY STARK SEEKS NEW ENGLAND REVIEWERS
===Anon.
( a k a larry stark of THE THEATER MIRROR http://www.theatermirror.com )
Last night (okay, the morning of 21 October) the above letter was sent
to the e-mail addresses of the 90-odd theatres in The Mirror's links-list of
theater web-sites in New England. If you didn't get a copy, you can still
answer the question and help make an Independent Reviewers of New England
award for excellent theatrical work in your area a reality.
I will archive all responses in a Reviewers in N.E.
archive. Reviewers will be contacted by snail-mail or e-mail with ballots and
explanations just as soon as we know who the heck they are!
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 15:06:45 +0300
From: Raida raida@starnet.com.eg
I think that the world has done the Islamic and the Arab
world a great injury and therefore the Arabic Literature in general and
the Arab Literature specifically.
You seldom find any information about the Arabic theatre or
the Egyptian theatre on the pages of web sites. As if, after two hundred
years , we have done nothing or as if we were on a different planet
rather than Earth. I am looking for a place for us : the Islamic and
Arab writers in this world.
After being translated by the Oriental scholar Vladimere
Shagal in Russia and Dr. Muhammad Mofaco in previous Yugoslavia , I
really found out that good literature does not have a country because we
live in one village and one world. Man's worries are the same whether
his name is George or Ahmed.
So, and after presenting twenty researches about my plays in the
Arab world, I think it is high time that I present my work to theater
scholars and literature students and Arabic Theater in the West. To
those noble knights who wish to translate Arab theatre to the West I
present myself.
I am fifty two years old and I have sixty different plays among
which are experimental plays, children plays, historical and comic plays
all over the Gulf countries in addition to Egypt, Tunisia and
Morocco. It is possible for those who wish to translate the Arabic
theatre into English or into any other language to contact me via
e-mail or snail mail . That goes for those who wish to obtain my already
translated plays to study them. Yes we really need to create beautiful
theatre and literature for all of us.
Best Regards,
El Sayed Hafez.
Addresses
Snail Mail 12 Tarek Yehya Abdel El ghAny Street-El Taawon-
Haram-Giza –Egypt Tel/fax 02-3868657.
E-mail Raida@starnet.com.eg
http://signup.postmasterdirect.com/confirm?E=raida@starnet.com.eg&T=8351
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 00:20:42 -0400
From: Reed Farrar rdfarrar@mint.net
I direct for a small non profit community theatre in Centrral Maine.
We're in our 5th year of putting on pretty decent work. Now my board
has requested that we do a dinner theatre show this season. Do you have
any idea who publishes these "things". I know most groups just write
their own but we were hoping to embarass ouRselves as little as
possible. Any links / ideas?
Much thanks!
Reed Farrar, AD
Winterport Open Stage
207-223-2501
But what does he know? Can anyone else suggest a better source for
dinner theater productions?
Oh now, let's not always see the same hands.....!
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 23:34:06 EDT
From: HoveyP@aol.com
Thanks for all your hard work at Theater Mirror and your continued support of
the arts.
Peace,
John MacKenzie
President
Hovey Players
From: CCastagna@harcourtbrace.com (Carolyn Castagna)
Subject: Re: "further Web site promotions"?
Carolyn Castagna
Dear Ms. Castagna:
I happen to like Myra and Harry Frommer's book IT HAPPENED ON BROADWAY.
But whatever gives you the impression we would enjoy helping YOU make money
out of sales of this book when you have no intention of paying us for that help?
Understand what we're selling here:
At last count, an average of 197 people every single day have
looked into The Mirror --- 58 of them in the last eight hours alone. And every one
of those people came here Because They Love Theater.
Neither the Boston GLOBE, the Boston PHOENIX, nor the Boston HERALD can guarantee you that
ANY of their many readers have actually looked at ANY pages devoted to theater, let alone
can give you guaranteed statistics on exactly how many of their readers actually read one of
your ads in their pages.
But The Theater Mirror could.
Had you taken the chance and put an ad into The Mirror, you could divide the cost of the
ad by the guarateed number of people who read it, and thus would know Exactly how much
per pair of eyeballs your advertising here was costing you. And you could have counted
every single order of a book as well.
But instead of contemplating the possibilities of Internet advertising, you preferred to
believe we would
"feature an excerpt of book on your site at no charge. "
If you had actually read my review
you'd have realized that this is Exactly What I Had Done Already, for free.
So, no, I don't think I'm interested in letting You run excerpts of Your choosing on
The Theater Mirror for free. Lee and I have never insisted that our soul is not for sale,
but I'm damned if I'll give it away to someone as crassly insulting as Harcourt Brace for
nothing.
SINCERELY,
Larry Stark
From: amariner@accel.net (Robert Ironside)
Perhaps you could place this message on an electric bulletin board for us
and let people contribute if they wish. I am working on behalf of the Trent
University English Department and Leonard Conolly Ph.D.
Thank you in advance,
Robert B. J. Ironside
10A Victoria Ave.,
Peterborough Ont.,
K9H 4V7
amariner@accel.net
1-705-749-2326
also available at; rironside@trentu.ca
My ICQ number (if that is preferable) is: 20652231
Okay, gang. You know what to do!
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 17:32:22 -0500
From: sdetterman sdetterman@exeter.edu
I was looking at your site because someone told me that it is a good
place to look at the weekly schedule for the theaters in Boston.
Unfortunately it wasn't much helpful because they aren't all in one
place, and they aren't up to date. If you could do anything about it,
it would be very much appreciated. Thanks.
Grace.
My "motherboard" was sick for a week, and that accounted for delays.
But I don't know what you mean by "in one place" --- I try to update
PLAYS UP AND RUNNING every week,
as completely as possible.
What other arrangement would you find more useful? I'll change it if you just
tell me how.
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 10:20:46 EDT
From: Calmark1@aol.com
Mark Kahn
Just sent you an e-mail regarding "Mousetrap". I forgot to mention something
interesting about this production. It will be set in New England in the 1950s.
Thanks again,
ANYONE can review a play in The Mirror; it's just that so few people actually do!
If you run into anyone who wants to, make sure they know they CAN!
And, break a leg all!
Love,
===Anon.
From Merritt101aol.com
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 23:36:02 EDT
Jonas Allen Olson came into the worl Monday morning at 7:33am
after 14 hours of labor. He weighed 8lbs8oz and of course is
perfect. Baby and Mom finally were discharged today, Wednesday.
Tonight s his first night in his home.
Sometimes life really works and miracles do happen.
Tod
Happy BIRTH day, One and all!!!!!
Love,
===Anon.
Subject: improv groups in Baltimore?
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 16:02:46 -0400
From: Louise Penberthy louisep@mindspring.com
I just moved to Baltimore from Atlanta, where I did improv theater.
Mostly comedy, but some drama. I've been searching the Web, trying to
find out if there are improv groups in Baltimore. So far, I've had no
luck. Do you know of any groups?
Thanks.
-- Louise
--
Louise Penberthy
Baltimore, MD U.S.A.
louisep@mindspring.com
http://www.mindspring.com/~louisep/
He is the AISLE-SAY eye on Washington
DC, and his "Richard Gist's Balto-Wash
Theatre Reviews Page" covers that entire area like the traditional cheap suit.
Here, I'll forward your question to him directly and save us all some
time.
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 00:19:04 EDT
From: BradWalt@aol.com
Publishing a web page brings with it many responsibilities. The public
expects the information provided on the page to be accurate and up-to-date,
and that e-mail will eventually be picked up and read.
And yet, some very attractive, glitzy theater web pages introduced in the last
year have been left to wither on the vine for the 1998-99 season. They are on
my bookmark list and show up in search engines, but they still advertise last
year's season, or worse, still promise that the new season will be announced -
IN AUGUST.
As we start a new theatrical season, I urge each theater company to evaluate
its ability to support its presence on the web.
Brad Walters
LARRY STARK AGREES WHOLEHEARTEDLY!
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 11:24:02 EDT
From: EDNEFFII@aol.com
Larry, I wish your site was more up to date.
Many of the listings have come and gone.
It makes me wonder what I might be missing.
I like to browse through the auditions and the current shows but they both
are out of date.
Please keep up the site it is of great value to theater people.
Couldn't agree more, Ednefii.
I filled up the entire hard-drive of a Pentium. That meant I had to take something
Out in order to do any updates or answer any e-mail. And the big-ticket junk are what
I thought were "useless, irrelevant programs".
Well, on 2 September one of those useless, irrelevant programs I deleted was the one
that turned on the entire system and opened the Wondows 95.
I have not been able to change or update anything since then, and I couldn't even read any
e-mail. (150 or more messages were there when I went on tonight.)
Undying thanks to Lee VanderLaan who brought a newer, bigger hard-drive with him this
evening, after trying last Sunday and burning out a motor installing. He may be The
Mirror's "silent partner" but he is the rock that allows it to function and sees to it my
mistakes are rarely fatal for long.
So everything will be updated and spiffied up and all the mail answered by, oh, about
Groundhog Day.
And thank you all for taking The Theater Mirror as seriously as I do myself.
Now I've got to go to work.
Love,
===Digital Dunce
( a k a Anon. )
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 17:29:01 EDT
From: TheatreDol@aol.com
Thanks for taking the time to help out the struggling actors out there.
Sincerely,
Terra DeMartin-Anderson
aka Theatredol@aol.com
AFTER THE LAST TWO WEEKS, LARRY STARK needed THAT!
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 08:09:39 EDT
From: Whimtree@aol.com
Dear Larry:
This is a grand site. The mind boggles thinking of all the time and attention
it must take to keep it current. Much thanks.
I have a query. A one-woman play I wrote about Fanny Fern - the first woman
columnist - premiered last year as part of First Night Columbus and then went
on to run at the Cleveland Play House. It did well and I'm thinking I would
like to try to find a Boston home for the piece as Fern was a prominent Boston
black sheep as well as much of The Genuine Article is set in Boston.
I'm visiting the city in October and wondered if you had any leads as to which
theaters might be best to approach about the show. It's easy to mount, is
very popular with a variety of audiences (women, seniors, schools, etc.) and
is a bang-up
role for a feisty middle-aged actress.
I'll gladly send you a copy if you want to give it a peruse. It just seemed
naturally querying you as your web page seemed the most authoritative source
on the local scene. Hope the request is not out of line.
In admiration,
Aubrey Wertheim
Oberlin, OH
LARRY STARK HAS NO IDEA:
However, I'll bet The Greenroom will!
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 20:21:49 EDT
From: EAHInc@aol.com
Forget about the Starr Report! This is the REAL news of the week! Miss Emma
Danielle Bergman has her own web page!!! We warn you in advance that the
cuteness factor is extremely high!! So proceed with caution!
The address is:
http://www.s2f.com/bergman/steve&maryann/emma.html
Enjoy!!!
Love
,
Steve and Maryann
LARRY STARK REFLECTS:
At that age, most kids look like Winston Churchill. Emma, however, bears a faint
resemblance to Joe Papp!
This is what The GREENROOM is all about!
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 21:11:12 +0200
From: Felix Weichold: felix-christian.weichold@student.uni-tuebingen.de
dear larry,
i´m a german grammar school teacher for english (spanish and german). at
present i am trying to make a german publisher publish a collection of
new us short plays for educational usage. one of the texts i am
absolutely fond of is >chemical reactions
I would be very obliged to you if you kindly could give me a hint about
where to turn to.
I hope to hear from you.
what I want to do is make some of these absolutely fantastic modern
short plays of minor us stages known to german students. i am sure that
those texts provide a lot of motivations as well as useful knowledge of
us culture and people.
good bye!
Dietrich Weichold
Rosengartenstr. 8
72119 Ammerbuch
Germany
THIS IS A JOB FOR THE GREENROOM GANG!
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 14:23:34 EDT
From: JH12369@aol.com
Sheila Mack
LARRY STARK CAN'T HELP:
But perhaps some of the people who look into The Mirror can?
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 12:48:36 -0400
From: susan harrington: sharrington@bps.boston.k12.ma.us
Hello Larry,
Could you please let me know if you know of ANY "Black" theater
groups in the greater Boston area.
Thanks,
Susan Harrington
LARRY STARK REGRETS:
No. I can't think of a one.
There WERE. The New African Company, headed by James Sprouill, worked
with the Theatre Company of Boston, and The People's Theatre, whose
major force was Christine Connaire, was a color-blind-casting
interracial group that built its own little theatre in Cambridge ---
it's now the Alley Theatre, I think, where people do stand-up.
You might look up The Elma Lewis School for African-American Artists,
which was in Roxbury.
I think the only remnant of Black theatre in boston is Black Nativity,
playing every Xmas at a church on Tremont Street closer to City Hall
than to The Wang.
Love,
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 10:23:21 EDT
From: TheWidget@aol.com
Did you really go to Minneapolis and NOT visit the Guthrie Theater? Please
tell me that I somehow missed your description of the flagship American
regional theater. If you were at the Walker, how could you have missed it?
The Widget
LARRY STARK ADMITS:
My friend had seen a limp "A Month in The Country" and the only performance of
"The Importance of Being Earnest" would have been a matinee she couldn't attend.
So I had a "genuine vacation" instead of a "busman's holiday"!
I do, however, have fond memories of seeing an afternoopn-then-evening production of
"Peer Gynt" there in the late '80s when I lived for five years in Decorah, Iowa.
Love,
===Well Rested
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 11:14:32 -0400
From: Don Gillis dgillis2@home.com
You CAN'T..period. Just as you CAN'T if all the reviews you
read were bad.
I have a very difficult time reviewing a show that I did
not like( and yes, I do go see them,,how else would you know if you
liked or disliked the show?)
But I think the point I would like to
make is: I think you have to like the CONTENT of the play, or else you
are not going to be able to "review" the show with any credability. For
instance, my son Gregory (who is 30 years old) and I (over 55) went to
see the musical "RENT". I loved the action and lights and costumes...
BUT I hated the theme, found scenes against my morality....have grave
concerns about what the government should be doing about AIDS, poverty,
etc. On the other hand, my son Gregory who...is a performer and singer
here in Rhode Island Dinner Theatre and is 20 years younger...LOVED the
show.
Do you think I should have "Panned" the musical just becuase it
went against my grain? I don't think so. If Gregory had reviewed it,
you would have got a glowing report of its CONTENTS and THEME. I could
not do that, so what is the answer? There is none. Either you decide
to review and bad mouth a production you hated, or you shut up and let
someone else give an unbiased report. Does that make sense?
Don Gillis
Reviewer for Larry Stark's Theatre Mirror
http://members.home.net/dgillis2
Some reviewers take delight in pretending they are "critics" and nibbling a show to
pieces with quibbles, or thunderously announcing that a show, or even a company, should
not exist "because I don't like it! And readers must agree because I am the great god Thespis
returned to earth to rid the world of theater I Don't Like!"
My view is that Reviewers aren't Critics; they're reporters and not moral judges. I want a
reviewer to "tell me what you saw" and if you do that well I can make up my own mind, thank
you, about how it meshes or grates against my own personal tastes.
I like a Lot of shows "critics" can't abide, and unlike Don I probably would have liked the
message more than the execution had I ever seen "Rent" (which I haven't). But I'm not
interested in keeping those who Will enjoy what I might not away from the theatre, any more
than Don is. He chose not to review "Rent" because he knew he wasn't the right person to do
so. I really respect that kind of honesty and restraint.
But, does anyone else think that Polyanna Stark has his pointy head wedged up his own
enjoyment of theater?
Let's have an argument!
Love,
===Polyanna
( a k a Anon. )
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 19:47:59 -0500
From: "Fister" wfister@gac.edu
Hi. Look I can only assume you are famous. So I apologize for the
intrusion. I read your attack on Merrily We Roll Along and thought you
must see a lot, a whole lot. And I hoped I could interest you in taking a
look at my work. I'm new. I have recently finished my second musical. I
think both are decent. Of course, I'd love someone else's opinion. My
work is up on the web. I think that makes a novel offering, and I would
sure like to find out if anybody else is putting their musicals on the web
like I have. Please, I'm not asking you to look at both, but if either has
any pull on your curiosity I love to know what you think.
"JI", which is slightly over the edge musical comedy that promises and I
think delivers a story about the rise and fall of Joseph Immanuel. It
could easily be that he is from Howell. J.I. is the mayor and he is in a
pitch battle for re-election against Fair Jack, who runs a phone sex store
for a group of retired professionals, the Chorus. The head of the Chorus
is Fair Jack's mother. Fair Jack's father has escaped from jail and
returns to the neighborhood in the uniform of a priest. This priest,
unrecognized by mother and son due to the length of his absence from the
neighborhood, is the only one who knows the truth about JI, and reveals all
in order that his son may take the race and the hand of the girl he loves.
(http://www.gac.edu/~wfister/opera3/script.html)
thank you.
U.R.Finn
8/26/98
Frankly, what I think is not nearlky so important as what People think, and luckily The
Mirror hasa lot of People reading and reacting to The Greenroom. So I've highlighted
links to your two scripts, and no doubt many of the people who will read them will be
equipped with some Audio capability and can even listen to the songs. (When I filled my
hard-drive something had to go, and any Audio capabilities were the first I scrapped.)
So, I hope this means you get lots of useful feedback!
Love,
Anon.
Date:
Thu, 27 Aug 98 10:37:58 PDT
From: "Jack Dyville" jdyville@host1.dia.net
Love your web site. My first visit!
I received an email today from an old friend who said they saw me listed in THEATRE MIRROR and
knew I did have a theatre in Williston North Dakota so figured it had to be me!
I looked and cannot find anything? Do you know what they might have been referring to? If you
have a minute to respond. If not, I certainly understand.
YOUTH EDUCATION ON STAGE, Williston's only non-profit theatre for the youth of Williston
Basin-area
Producer-Director Jack Dyville
Thanks and I am so glad to have found this web site anyway. I will be a constant fan now. Thank
you for this!
Best always, Jack Dyville!!!
I just did an AltaVista check on your name, and came up with this as a reference:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/paul_thain/af.htm
That's the "Playwrights On The Web" website, one that is listed in
the Links-List for The Theater mirror.
So, technically, you're NOT reflected in The Mirror, but actually,
you are.
So that solves the mystery, doesn't it?
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 04:48:42 EDT
From: NellyG2000@aol.com
I must thank you for posting our audition! Two of our finest cast members are
a result of that one audition! It is a testament to the quality of the people
who log on to your site.
Would you like to come see "Love is Murder?" I guarantee that this will be the
funniest play you have seen in a long time. Please let me know if I can
reserve tickets for you!
Also, how do I post an announcement/listing about the play on your site. Is
that possible. I have written one up to make it easier, but I don't know the
format you prefer.
Thanks so much!
Nada (see the listing pasted below)
LARRY STARK HAS PUT IT UP ALREADY!
Take a look, and yes, I'll be there 3 September.
Break a leg all...
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 19:03:30 EDT
From: ZacSRO@aol.com
To:
BECKCA@bingham.com, bervin@mms.org, Chris.Lawrence@fmr.com, cwhiting@bidmc.harvard.edu,
Cynthia_Harmon@ParkSchool.org, DGRemby@aol.com, GMATTHEWS@PARTNERS.ORG,
JOHNKENNEDY@prodigy.net, Jowee23@aol.com, kenwesth@bu.edu, larry@theatermirror.com,
Lisa_Taylor@harvard.edu, MarianRS@aol.com, MarlaP1953@aol.com, mcostula@idc.com,
mdove@bidmc.harvard.edu, MSandal@aol.com, MULVEYE@aol.com, nilla@mdc.net,
plyall@bidmc.harvard.edu, Pwlashoto@aol.com, rjacobs@world.std.com, Rmtrrosie@aol.com,
scherban@bu.edu, Seguybtm@aol.com, sziccardi@fisher.edu, tmbresnahan2@worldnet.att.net,
Trina_Roberts@ssga.statestreet.com, wstone@lesley.edu
-Zac
P.S. i'm thinking about starting a SRO mailing list so we can all "talk" about
theatre stuff (actually, i suppose i've just done this) so, if you know anyone
who would want to be added to the list, have them e-mail me. also, let me
know if you think this is a good idea, or just another one of my silly
fancies. i'm interested in hearing what people thought about the final
countdown. this list would be a good place to reply so we can get a dialogue
going.
LARRY STARK EXPLAINS:
Zac Lasher is the voice and the play-lister for the WERSfm show STANDING ROOM ONLY
which airs every Saturday from 10 am till 4 pm. He asked listeners to send him lists
of their all-time favorite show songs, and then went through a heumongeous statistical
reduction into a master list of 100, which he played in one four-hour marathon. (Yes,
I will put the list into The Mirror elsewhere!)
And then, workaholic young snipper-whapper that he is, when he sent people copies of
the list he added this ps and started a whole new e-mail discussion group he's now
monitoring.
If you'd like to join in, send an e-mail to him at [ ZacSRO@aol.com ] to get in on
he fun.
And, if you don't know SRO, you're missing a lot!
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 98 16:00:53 -0400
From: Laney Roberts wharfrat@shore.net
Thanks as always for your kind attention and lovely words
about what we do at Wharf Rat Productions. You are a
wonderful addition to any audience. My actors were wondering
who the man with the wonderful laugh was last Sunday? I told them
that you were the best friend an actor could make!
Gratefully,
Laney
THE FAT OLD MAN WITH THE CANE BLUSHES!
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 12:44:41 EDT
From: Ninfea@aol.com
I have just discoverd your site and I'm very impressed with the collection you
have on-line. However, the one thing that bothered me was the reviews. I
read all the reviews for shows I had seen, and surprisingly, they were all
very good. The I read reviews for shows that I know were terrible and
eventually flopped, and the reivews were still good. I began to wonder 'how
can I trust reading a reveiw if all the reviews are good?' As a theatre
person I know how great it is to get a positive review, but as an audience
member, all good reviews makes this site less creidble.
Just a thought.
Thanks, Ninfea.
LARRY STARK WORRIES:
I won't hide behind the old "no accounting for differences in taste" dodge here.
If bad shows are getting glowing reviews, I ought to worry.
While it is true I don't review shows I don't like (unless the failures involved are
very surprising), if people get the idea that
I'm "puffing" bad work something is radically wrong and should be dealt with.
But what "terrible" shows that "eventually flopped" were you referring to?
Does anyone else feel I've been unfairly pollyanna-ish about terrible flops? Please,
let's be honest. Hold your mirrors up to Me, and I'll see what I can do about this.
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 21:33:47 EDT
From: Ninfea@aol.com
Thanks for your response to my email. I didn' realize you don't review shows
you don't like, so that clears things up. One show that I personally
disliked, and eventually failed miserably for various reasons was Beyond
Therapy at the North End Union last year. I thought if there was ever a bad
review, it would be here. But everyone certainly has a right to their own
opinion.
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 16:12:39 -0400
From: Oliver Strimpel ostrimpel@mindspring.com
Your Website is very impressive!
We're a start-up company in Newton, Mass called Zoesis and are
developing a new kind of interactive entertainment software that
involves drama skills.
We are looking to hire some people who have a combination of training
and skills in both acting and computer programming. Do you have any
ideas or pointers as to where we might find such people?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Oliver Strimpel
Zoesis
LARRY STARK CONSIDERS:
Well, I do know an excellent acter who does compuer support on the phone
as her eating-job. And a director who computes part-time, I think.But I'll
bet there are a lot of similarly skilled thespians in this neck of the woods.
And I'll bet they all read The Greenroom, too!
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 14:16:00 EDT
From: TWTDavis@aol.com
just so you know, we have had people still trying to make resevations for
Tuna. They've all been on my voice mail, so I don't know how they heard about
it or why they think it's still running, but I don't think there were any
other listings or press that said we were running til the end of the month.
Just thought I'd let you know.
Sincerely,
Laurie Palmer
The Works Theater
JUST AS LARRY STARK FEARED:
We may try to prove the power of the Internet,
but all we seem to be able to prove without contradiction
is the power of the Internet to Screwe Things Up!
"Greater Tuna" is CLOSED. Only our Current listing is accurate!
Love,
===Fumblethumbs
( a k a Anon.)
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 19:48:33 EDT
From: SGlass3057@aol.com
Can you tell me the opportunies in the next few months.
sglass3057@aol.com
LARRY STARK DOESN'T HAVE A THEATRE:
The Theater Mirror is a WEBSITE on the Internet.
Period.
But here are the names and addresses and phone numbers of 244 theatres in New
England that are doing plays this week:
[ http://www.theatermirror.com/plays.htm ]
Call Them and see what they offer....
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 17:55:15 EDT
From: Annkerry2@aol.com
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 09:34:48 -0700
From: "Mark S.P. Turvin, M.F.A." mspt@asu.edu
[ http://www.theatermirror.com/welcome.htm ] back East in the six New
England states.
>Subject: Mass Appeal
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:15:15 EDT
From: Annkerry2@aol.com
>Hello! Have you ever heard of the show Mass Appeal? It plays in Wareham,
MA and I was looking for information on it.
Thanks!!
Kerry
>KNOWING NOTHING LARRY STARK TRIED AN AlatVista SEARCH:
for +"mass appeal" And Lo and BEEhole, look what came up:
http://129.219.50.115/MassAppeal_TJSP.html
So I guess your questions are answered.
I wish they were all that easy!
Love,
===Omniscient
( a k a Anon. )
And when I read about your being barred from a theatre, I wondered if
you might like to read our (by now old) critique of critics:
http://www.theatermirror.com/critics.htm
>Of course, if you review shows, you probably don't have a lot of free
time for reading!
>Break a leg. You run a useful website!
>Love,
> ===Anon.
>( a k a larry stark )
Mark S.P. Turvin, Theatre Critic for:
1) Aisle Say--The Internet Magazine of Stage Reviews and Opinions
http://www.escape.com/~theanet/AisleSay.html
2) AARO--Arizona Art Review Online
http://www.primenet.com/~mychele/aaro/table.html
Member of the American Theatre Critics Association
Goldfish Publishers: http://129.219.50.11
mailto:mspt@asu.edu
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:15:15 EDT
From: Annkerry2@aol.com
Thanks!!
Kerry
for +"mass appeal" And Lo and BEEhole, look what came up:
http://129.219.50.115/MassAppeal_TJSP.html
So I guess your questions are answered.
I wish they were all that easy!
Love,
===Omniscient
( a k a Anon. )
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1998 00:06:34 -0400
From: aseltine aseltine@sover.net
It's the night after the 1st of 2 performances of the most
intriguing version of The Owl & the Pussycat I've ever imagined..
Judy Jacksina, the New Yawk Directah, really is brilliant at cutting/
adapting pieces for staged reading. This one was done with an
accompaning trio of Rock & Roll singers, and interpolations by a male
and female sex lecturer who, by the end of the show, mirror the
complications of the O & P.
There is something so satisfying--short, sharp and intense about
coming together and working like demons for 2 days and getting what
always turns out to be a real show on. There is literally only time to
do the piece, no time for politics, backbiting, idle chat, or any other
imaginable irrelevancy.
By the time the audience starts arriving we are all operating on
pure adrenaline. The down side of this is that it takes a while to
descend..
Nice to see all the raves you and The Mirror are getting. Now,
I'll just go & click on something, anything, so that you'll get credit
for it. I do what I can.
Love, Rosann
LARRY STARK SMILES:
So nice to hear old friends are still capable of Surprises!
And, if you don't know who Rosann (That's ROZann) Hickey is, you should
click here to re-live her tour with the Xmas Plays!
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 11:08:53 -0400
From: Student Bar Association Webmaster SBA@law.miami.edu
Organization: University of Miami School of Law
I'm on vacation in Maine from Miami. I decided to visit Boston and
take in a show. Since I had my laptop, I thought I'd use yahoo to see
what I could find. Your site is, by far, the best resource I could
find. Thanks for the help. Keep up the good work.
LARRY STARK Loves UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS!
And, as everyone knows, lawyers never lie about important things!
(Insert wry emoticon of your choice here...)
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 13:03:33 -0400
From: "Brad's mail" bkenney@chamber.worcester.ma.us
Thanks again...
LARRY STARK GLOWS!
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:35:53 -0400
From: David Goldstein mystd@tiac.net
It's nice to see all my Mystery Cafe' alumni doing well in local theater.
John Kuntz and Steve Capriullo and Lynn Moulton and my former production
manager/director Paul Farwell. Those are the ones I just noticed in recent
reviews and letters.
264 Washington Street
Westwood, Ma 02090
and coming in October for our 5th season in Salem is our Haunted Dinner
Theater and "Be Witched". You are always welcome.
David Goldstein
LARRY STARK OBLIGES:
I've put up an audition notice.
Break a leg all!
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 23:24:28 -0400
From: Nancy Curran Willis imadirektor@mediaone.net
Wanted to take advantage of your vast audience to see if anyone out
there in theater(re) land can help us find a couple of items we need for
the fall show at the Quannapowitt Players in Reading, MA. We are doing
"The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild" by Paul Zindel and need a 1970's
style 16mm movie camera and a gorilla (King Kong) costume. Can anyone
out there help us? We are a non-profit community theater so budgets are
thin but rental is a possibility, however, an ad in the program would be
preferred. If you can help, you may contact me at:
imadirektor@mediaone.net
Thanks,
Nancy Curran Willis
Director
P.S. It was good to see you Saturday night at AFD.
LARRY STARK SAYS THE SAME:
And I can't wait to see "Mildred Wild" again!
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 14:53:56 -0400
From: "Howard, Jennifer" HowardJ@hanscom.af.mil
Jen Howard
"WE'RE GOING TO TURN THIS TEAM AROUND 360 DEGREES."
-Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks
Look in SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS,
and break a leg.
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 16:44:32 -0400
From: "Joline Lachance" jolac@clinic.net
I've tried a number of places and this looks like a great page.
Thanks for being there.
Joline & Bob
LARRY STARK RECOMMENDS:
Jill Hobgood's Theatricopia, which has a lot more about
musicals than I have ever needed to know.
Click on "Shows" and look into her links-list.
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 11:24:37 -0400
From: laura hill laurabeth@mediaone.net
Respectfully yours,
Laura Hill
(Panacea - Courtesan)
NOTE: The letter below was mailed on 20 May to my old address, and just arrived.
105 Pleasant Street
Arlington MA 02174
Theater Mirror
125 Amory Street #501
Roxbury, MA 02119
Lynne Moulton
Artistic Director
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 17:51:06 -0400
From: Geralyn Horton ghorton@tiac.net
--
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 23:21:34 -0500 (CDT)
From: AMERDREAMSEEKER@webtv.net (RICHARD THOMAS)
What sort of information do you need?
Last time Hal Holbrook brought the show to town, I was not invited to review,
and didn't have the price of a ticket, so The Mirror has no review.
The first time I saw it was, well, centuries ago and all I really remember is
knowing I had seen something exceptional, so a mere "Oh Wow!" about it
probably will be of little use to you.
Contrariwise, a lot of people who know much more than I do about theater
look in here regularly, and might tell you more.
However, they are a respectful lot, and usually answer more specific questions.
CAN you be more specific?
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 11:17:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Margaret Spencer
I just found it today, and it's WONDERFUL! I used to live in Boston,
am hoping to return for good one of these years, have always loved
going to plays and am now an actress. (Well, maybe I always WAS an
actress, but now I actually have experience at it.) It's great to see
so much going on there... If only Pittsburgh, where I live now, had
someone with the interest and know-how to create a similar site for
all the theater we have here. (There IS a fair amount, by the way.)
LARRY STARK CAN'T SAY:
That does sound like the formula I've heard, but I've never seen anyone
do it.
Anyone better informed?
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 13:26:36 EDT
From: HoveyP@aol.com
Larry - I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for what you are doing to
support theater arts (or is it theatre this week... hmmmm). Theater Mirror is
watched by every theater rat who owns a pc. It is one of my regular stops.
Your reviews have been supportive of most all of the theater in the area. I
really helps the moral of all us crazy people who risk our egos every day.
JohnM
LARRY STARK BLUSHES...
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 08:43:02 -0400
From: "Don Baillereon" dbailler@aftra.com
Nancy and Larry,
It was written for the Cole Porter musical "Jubilee." Monty Woolley, the character actor who played Sheridan Whiteside in "The Man Who
Came to Dinner," was involved in the original production.
Donnie Baillargeon
Date: Sun, 05 Jul 1998 17:56:51 -0400
From: Nancy Curran Willis imadirektor@mediaone.net
Looking to find the name of the song, the composer and the musical the
following lyrics are from . . .
"It was just one of those things . . . just one of those crazy things."
It is probably an easy question for some musical theater fan out there.
Can anyone help?
Nancy Curran Willis
LARRY STARK ONLY KNOWS:
That the song was written by Cole Porter.
Anyone else know what show it was originally written for?
Oh, now, let's not always see the same hands...
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 00:16:11 EDT
From: ARIBBA@aol.com
If you are interested, you can call my office on Monday or Tuesday at (781)
794-0210 and speak with Steve. I will be out of the office on Monday, but he
will have additional information and will put your name on the guest list if
you would like to attend.
Thanks again for posting my message - maybe I'll be able to convince my
superiors that the internet really is a worthwhile way to advertise in the
future!
Katie Coogan - BMG Field Marketing
LARRY STARK WILL BE REVIEWING:
I'd be at your release-party Tuesday, but I'll be seeing a musical instead.
"Annie" opens out in Beverly at the North Shore Music Theatre, where my
partner Lee VanderLaan lives, and we've made shows out there into a ritual.
Ye Wilbur Theatre sounds like the ideal place for your release party. I hope
it's well attended, and I hope someone in the throng will see fit to send The
Theater Mirror a review of the CD!
Break a leg in any case...
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 22:08:49 -0500
From: "LaDonna Carpenter" julio@btigate.com
I have been recently asked to direct a community theater production of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood". I am very new to
directing but eager to take on the challenge. When I was asked to do this, I immediately began to look for information on the
internet about the show. I have discovered that Tams-Whitmark holds the licenses for this production but have been unable to
locate a web site or phone number to contact them about royalties and script rental.
I saw your site on "Drood" and hoped that you could help. Any information you could give me would be greatly appreciated.
Your fellow Thespian,
L. Carpenter
LARRY STARK RECOMMENDS Baker's Plays
I did find a Tams-Whitmark website once, but it had no e-mail address and didn't really
say anything useful. If anyone else can help, Hurry!!!!!!!!
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 23:28:57 EDT
From: ARIBBA@aol.com
Hi Larry -
On June 30th, Arista Records is releasing a double cd called Ultimate
Broadway. It features 40 songs (all performed by the original cast members)
from many great musical theater productions including Oklahoma, Cabaret,
Rent, Sunset Blvd., The King and I, The Music Man, Les Mis, and many more.
It is perfect for anyone who loves classic and current Broadway productions.
I thought that some of your regular visitors would be interested in checking
this out - it will be available in all record stores next Tuesday.
I'm not sure if you will post this because it is somewhat commercial, but I
thought I would give it a shot. I am a regular visitor to your site and have
found out about many auditions and shows to check out through it. You are
doing a great service to the theater community in Boston - Thanks!
LARRY STARK DISAGREES:
I don't much mind hyping commercial things. I'd prefer to have money-making people
PAY for an actual banner-ad, but whenever I mention money people look blank and
blurt "But, isn't the Internet a FREE medium???"
Putting this letter into the Greenroom will publicize the record without calling
special attention to the fact that this is, really, a free ad.
But thanks for all the kind words! And, break a leg...
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 20:28:31 EDT
From: Crcormier@aol.com
Craig Cormier
LARRY STARK PLEADS IGNORANCE:
Yeah, dis is de place alright, but I have never bought any makeup.
A lot of people reading this have, though....
Suggestions?
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 16:05:01 EDT
From: Ragbert@aol.com
I just wanted to thank you for your kind and intelligent review of "Orpheus
Descending". It's nice to see someone mention the importance of the
supporting cast, as well as appreciate the little details that we have worked
so hard on.
Also, this is the first time I was aware of the Theater Mirror website -- well
done! I've forwarded your URL along to friends who will enjoy it too.
Thanks again for coming and being so supportive.
Sincerely,
Roberta Gilbert ("Dolly Hamma")
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 23:27:39 EDT
From: DoeBro@aol.com
Just wanted to thank you for your kind and thoughtful review, which is much
appreciated (especially in light of Bill Marx' slash and burn treatment.)
Thank you for taking interest in us, for coming to see the show, for
considering your comments so carefully, and for the compliments.
XoX,
Dorothy Brodesser (aka "Beulah")
LARRY STARK MUSES:
A review is something like a still snapshot of a moving thing.
I see only one performance, and usually I know very little of what went on in
rehearsals, and nothing about the script. Someone once asked me how I prepared
to review a play, did I read the script before hand? And I said I prepare by
cleaning my glasses just before the curtain goes up.
That means I understand the plot only from the actors' presentation of it --- but
that's true of every other audience-member as well.
And I'm writing for Them, trying to introduce them to the total experience of the
show. But I try to avoid telling them what They should think about the show. Their
opinions will be theirs, and I expect people --- especially people who work in theater
--- to disagree with me. I learn a lot from talking to people who do the work, and
from people who have lived with a show through the rehearsal process.
The one advantage I do have over a casual theater-goer is that since the end of January
I've seen 61 plays, and tried to write something sensible about most of them --- and this
isn't the first year I've done this.
But that doesn't make me "right"; I always ask people who go to plays with me
"Did I review the play YOU saw?" And I'm not surprised when the answer is No.
So thank You, Dorothy, for the comments about the play you shared with me privately.
I'm always eager to learn more about theater.
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 22:44:20 -0400
From: David & Robin Zucker rzucker@div.harvard.edu
I was preparing for a performance of my mime show at the Firehouse
Theatre in Newburyport when J Tormey walks in. I hadn't seen him in over
20 years. We had a long lunch afterwards and he told me of your web site
and of his article. I just read it.
Makes me think longingly of the old
Boston rep and of how special it was in its day. Gawd, what a long time
ago all of that was. I am still very much involved with theatre. I
perform mostly as a solo act in schools and festivals all over the USA
as well as in the UK and even Greece! I work with the Young Audiences
organization and was given their National Artist of the year award in
1996. I tour a show called, "Poetry in Motion." It combines all my
loves: acting, mime, puppetry, writing and directing.
Very warm regards, David Zucker
LARRY STARK PLEADS:
Heavens, I would L O V E a history of The rep!
By all means take your time, but Please Start NOW!!!
Thinking, at least.
J's story is still a cornerstone of The Mirror; it has so much of the flavor
of small company life and small company highlights and heartaches. And
you're going to do a sort of "companion piece", right?
Yes, send me a schedule, and I'll bend my schedule whenever you're close
enough to catch.
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 21:27:42 -0800
From: Jack Stone pleh@pacbell.net
add my url to your links page. http://home.pacbell.net/pleh
i'll do the same for you.
just send me an e-mail to confirm the listing. also send me your sights
url and sight title.
thanks.
jack stone
LARRY STARK DECLINES:
Sorry Stack (or is it Jack?) but The Theater Mirror is about THEATER --- live
performances on stages (not sound-stages) before live audiences. Your site is
interesting; I especially like the way you've made the titles of all your
poems invisible until I've clicked on one. And your head-shots say a lot
about what kind of movies you'd like to star in. But I didn't call this
"The SCREEN Mirror" and we only link to sites that focus attention on the
live theater in New England and elsewhere.
Good luck getting work.
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 19:26:09 EDT
From: Annkerry2@aol.com
From: Annkerry2@aol.com
Thanks anyway though . . . I really enjoy your website!
Kerry
LARRY STARK TRIED:
Well, if JulieAnn Charest of NEW ENGLAND ENTERTAINMENT DIGEST can't
help you, perhaps someone here in the Greenroom will.
Oh, now let's not always see the same hands...
Love,
===Anon.
Could you tell me how to get in contact with the Wellsley Players?
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 07:38:11 -0700
From: Joe Moran morans@ix.netcom.com
This may sound like a strange request, but I wondered if you could lead
me to a source for the following: What do theater owners do with their
old curtains? We are hoping to find someone willing to donate their old
curtains to our small church in southern California... the area we need
to cover is BIG! (our church is in an old warehouse) and we thought
theater curtains would probably do the trick...
Thank you for your time and any direction you might provide!
God bless you and thank you for your informative website...
Ginnie Moran
Grace Awakening Ministries
E-mail: virginia.moran@cgu.edu or morans@ix.netcom.com
LARRY STARK MUSES:
I think it fascinating that cloth that had a life in service to
Thespis might serve another god equally well!
And I can't help noting that for some time now I've found myself
whenever in churches thinking of the events there in terms of
theater more than anything else.
But I am a strange old man.
All I can do is toss this into the Greenroom ans see what develops.
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 23:17:58 -0400
From: "Stanley Wertheim" swertheim1@worldnet.att.net
LARRY STARK REGRETS:
Foxborough is quite a hike for someone without a car, and I've been pretty
busy as it is! But I always regret missing a show, whether it has name-stars
or not.
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 23:35:08 +0200
From: "A.K" elvis@4u2.se
http://hem2.passagen.se/ak11/
Thanks
Anders Karlstedt
elvis@4u2.se
LARRY STARK DECLINES:
Thanks for the offer, but I pegged Elvis as an irrelevant passing fad
when I first heard about him in high school, and my opinion has never
wavered. But I'll put this into The GREENROOM so those of a different
opinion can contact you directly.
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 17:35:56 -0400
From: kwchurch@bu.edu (Karin L. Weimers)
Thank you so much for your kind words, both in your review and your e-mail
message. We greatly appreciate your generous observations and insights.
They have certainly encouraged all of us to do more in the future!
Our whole company was sad to see the show close last night. We will
certainly keep you informed of any future productions. I am off to the ART
Institute this summer to get a two-year MFA, but the other three members
are making plans for the immediate future.
Thank you again.
Bill Church
The Baobab Theatre Company
LARRY STARK BELIEVES:
In my opinion, a reviewer's job is finding good theater and encouraging
the people who make it to make more!
So break a leg all..
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 08:32:43 -0400
From: CCG ccg45@banet.net
To see your kind remarks in print after a grueling 3 1/2 month rehearsal
schedule is what it's all about to this humble cast member. I believe
you hit the nail on the head with your review, despite your disclaimer.
From the entire cast and crew, THANK YOU !
Norm Hassinger (Lt. Shrank)
LARRY STARK RESPONDS:
I see by the program that this is your first show in Rhode Island, after
doing a lot of work around Hartford. You certainly picked a winner for
your Pawtucket debut!
One thing you must remember is that, as a reviewer, I always hope to be
surprised. EVERYONE surprised me in this production of "West Side Story"
so it was easy to "say the sooth"!
Break a leg all...
Love,
===Anon.
Thu May 28 22:08:23 1998
Subject: Elliot Norton Awards Ticket Info
after tomorrow they go up to $40! CALL NOW!
Mail check to: Elliot Norton Awards,c/o Chamber Theatre,
2 Park Plaza Suite 305,
Boston, MA 02116
Include your name, adress, and phone number.
You can reserve a table with a party of 10!
That's all the info I got!
Denise
I'd love to see Mr. Norton again, but can't afford it.
Nonetheless, there must be lots of people reading The Mirror
regularly who will want to attend.
Thanks for telling them how!
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 10:27:26 -0400
From: sziccardi@fisher.edu (Sheri Ziccardi)
I just read your review about Reese Snow's Web site...and I agree. I
was in A Chorus Line with him in 1996 and stumbled upon his site a few
weeks ago. Needless to say, I was impressed. Good stuff. Thanks for
all your work helping us promote our shows. Keep up the good work.
Sheri
Well, I'm glad to know people actually read my column in
NEW ENGLAND ENTERTAINMENT DIGEST!
Love,
===Anon.
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 15:42:32 -0700
From: Tom Donahoe tom@neptune.net
My name is Tom Donahoe. I'm a playwright. My play OPEN HOUSE opened on
March 29th at the American Renegade Theatre Company (ARTC) in Los
Angeles. It has been extended to run through July 3rd.
OPEN HOUSE has rece