Sub: The Yale School of Drama
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 96 14:41:59 -0700 Larry,
I will be graduating from undergrad training next year and
am considering various graduate training programs.
What do you know about the Yale School of Drama? Is it
still considered the finest training program in the country
or are they riding on a reputation which was established in
the past? What's the latest rumor about the school?
Sincerely,
Justin
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 11:03:44 +0000 Hello! I am moving to Boston this summer and I'm interested in finding a
summer theater to possibly play the piano for! I'm interested in
accompanying and especially in playing for a show. If you know how I can
get in touch with someone or if you know someone TO get in touch with,
please let me know. Thanks. Sincerely, Date: Wed, 24 Apr 96 17:00:01 0400 Hi Larry,
I am writing this for Rosann Weeks (btw, she believes she knows
you from the Boston Theatre scene in the 60's & 70's). Rosann is
in the process of forming a nonprofit Theatre School and
Performance Center in the South Shore area of Mass, which will
service students and audiences of all ages, ethnic backgrounds,
and beliefs. Please let me know if I can provide you with more information.
Thanks for listening, and keep up the great work with the web
page! :-> Sincerely, Elizabeth Haight
Rosann M. Weeks....... Date: Sat, 20 Apr 96 14:53:04 0500 My name is Blair Teeple and I was in the play with Donny Osmond here in
Detroit, Michigan. I had a wonderful time. The cast and Donny were great
to us, and very special. For those who are in it now, you will never
have an experience like this. For those people who have not seen the
play by all means see it every penny is well spent. My parents saw it 5
times. My parents said they came out feeling so wonderful and so high.
Would you pass a note on to Donny and the cast, thank you so very much
and hope to see you again. We will be in New Jersey in August and would
like to come to Boston to see the play, but I don=B9t know how far Boston
is from New Jersey or if the play will still be in Boston. If any of the
cast members would like to e-mail a note please feel free to do so. My
Dads e-mail is (rteeple@mich.com) again thanks. Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 21:28:59 -0400 Hi,
I would like tickets to "Phantom of the Opera" and have a low budget and
would like decent seats. Ticket Tron is rather expensive. If I could
pick them up at the theater would they be a reasonable price? Thank you, Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 13:23:37 -0400 Larry:
Another question. A friend of mine and fellow writer has been
approached about literary representation by a guy name George Tobia at
the firm Burns and Levinson. Have you ever heard of him? If so, drop me a line here or to my other
e-mail address: cooke@ultranet.com Thanks again for your help
James Cooke Date: Tue, 23 Apr 96 14:46:02 -0700 What can you tell me about the Yale School of Drama?
Is it still considered the finest training program in the
country--or are they "riding" on a reputation which was
established in the past?
How selective are they?
How can being an alumni of the school aide one in the
future?
I would appreciate any and all information you can give me.
Thank you,
Justin From: Mort Kaplan Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 11:56:19 -0700 Larry - What I learned from the reading:
ACTORS ARE WONDERFUL!
especially: and I am lucky to have had them on board for the maiden voyage.
I'm now listening to the tapes. I see possibilities for improvement on
three levels. The words themselves where I can twitch the dialogue to clarify
meaning, intent, interactions and/or foreshadowing. And also to make
them read more clearly and quickly ( i.e.using contractions). The
dialogue interactions between characters - where giving a line would
indicate agreement or conflict. The Torchlight Theatre in Indiana is setting up a chat room to discuss
the possibilities of "The Ultimate Hamlet". Be still my beating heart. Best to all From: AstorSho@aol.com Hi! Please post this casting notice on your casting link. Thanks! Carrie
Warsaw
Blue Man Group is a comedic performance-art percussion ensemble that has been
performing in NYC for over four sell-out years. They will be in San
Francisco and Seattle to look for additional performers for their Boston
production of "Tubes". ALL NECESSARY AUDITION EQUIPMENT WILL BE PROVIDED.
For more information, call Carrie Warsaw @ 212-387-9415 ext. 27 or email
astorsho@aol.com
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 20:01:27 EDT Larry, I am a tv anchor-type in Tampa which is of no consequence by
the by...but what may get your attention is I am Patrick Wilson's
father. 'Billy Bigelow' was one of my favrotie characters of all time
and I couldn't understand why Nick Hynter cast Patrick in that role
until I saw him. Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 20:04:36 EDT Thanks for making LS's reviews available. And congrats on your web
site. It shows a lot of work and a commitment
to this hyper-text stuff we are all trying to figure out how to make
attractive. My company has one at wtvt.com.
Regards John Wilson From: mady@tulblr.unisys.com Hi, Date: Mon, 08 Apr 96 20:51:38 0500 Ed Bullins' new play BLACKLIST will be done as a reading on the evening
of April 25th in the Itty Bitty Theatre, 3rd floor of the Ryder Building
at Northeastern University. It is the first in a series of new scripts
to be presented. The Ryder Building is next to the Ruggles
Station on the NU side or at the end of Forsyth Street. Bullins won the
NY Drama Critics Award for the Best American Play of 1977: THE TAKING OF
MISS JANIE. He has also won three Obie awards and has received a number
of Gugenheim's. He is teaching playwriting in the Theatre Department at
NU. He is heading a new project for the development of new plays. The
workshop he heads is doing new plays by Brenda Abbandolo, Todd Nichols,
Mwenya Kabwe, Thomas Grimes, Darryl Alardice, Chris Hoffman, Heather
Platt, Michael Kalmar, Lois Roach. Various plays run on various nights,
April 25,26,27;May2,3,4 at 8 PM. Itty Bitty is in 334 Ryder Hall. Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 11:37:55 -0400 Larry:
You were kind enough to answer a couple questions I had regarding 1) Do you have a phone/contact for the Lansdowne Street Theatre (the 2) Do you know how I can get in touch with a director named Peter
Kelley?
Thanks Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 22:40:50 +0000 Larry, babe, your "note of obstinant pedantry" about theater vs. theatre And as the word is "obstinate", your credibility is a little suspect... Interesting page, though. Couldn't help but jab you a little.:) But at least I got email about it! Mon, 1 Apr 1996 17:37:21 GMT It sounds fabulous!
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Sub: Me! me!!!! Pleasepleaseplease
Subject: Me! me!!!! Pleasepleasepleaseplease!!!!!
E Grace Noonan
e.noonan@hlo.mts.dec.com
Well, we DID warn you that "Hamlet -- The Women" was a HOT
TOPIC, didn't we! There's a lot more about it over in ON REFLECTION.
From: Em Dekonor
To: greenrm@shore.net
Subject: The Yale School of Drama
From: kb004e@uhura.rochester.edu
To: themirror@shore.net
Subject: playing the piano for a summer theater
Suzanne Lehrer
szlr_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
From: Elizabeth Haight
Sub: Dreamchasers, Inc.
Why?
Albert Einstein said, "Imagination is more important than
knowledge." We agree.
And we believe that the state of today's world supports his
statement. In our Theatre School and Perf Ctr. we want to
explore, nurture, and enable the growth and use of Imagination
through the Art of Theatre. Why the art of theatre? It is the
most dynamic and effective teaching tool. It offers to each
individual the opportunity to use him or herself fully and then to
work creatively in a collaborative manner.
So, why am I telling you all of this? On May 19th at 1:00pm we
will be holding a performance and fund raiser at The Lansdowne
Theatre in Boston, and we were wondering if we could send you some
more information to post in the appropriate place on your web
page. Additionally, for more information be sure to read this
Sunday's Globe in which an article about Rosann's current
production, Up the Down Staircase, will be featured.
LARRY STARK REPLIES:
I first saw that name as director of a summer production of
"Night of The Iguana" in the screening-room theatre of the B.U.
Student Union. She did it on a stage 40 feet by ten, with no
flies, no backstage, and a grand piano that no one would allow her
to remove from the stage --- and with "the Richard Burton part"
played by a guy who was twenty-one and funny. It was not the play
Tennessee Williams had in mind, but She used the materials she'd
been handed, and made a production to be proud of.
Then one night I crawled through snow-drifts to review "A
Phoenix Too Frequent" in the basement of Boston's Old West Church,
where Roseann had built a 60-or-so-seat theatre where she did a
new play every five weeks for several years, with a dedicated
repertory cast that stuck together.
In 1972 I taught a course in reviewing at Tufs, and used one
of Rosann's shows as a "homework assignment". I asked one of her
actresses in to talk about theater, and eventually asked her how
much she got paid. "C'mon, Larry!" she giggled, "You know none of
us get paid. We work in department stores, rehearse before and
after performances, and do dress-rehearsals on week-ends. But, no,
none of us do it for money." She had worked with Rosann for over a
year under those conditions. She didn't have to say why.
I was once too sick to review one of her plays, and my
"Critic's Notebook" lament that if I didn't no one else would
actually shamed Samuel Hirsch --- third-banana reviewer after
Eliot Norton and Kevin Kelly at the Boston Herald-Traveller, which
merged with the Record American and sent him to Miami --- into
reviewing a theater company so small he thought it beneath his
dignity. (The show was "Murder in The Cathedral", an unplayable
script done upstairs in the church. Roseann made it bearable, but
it was work.)
Yeah, I remember Rosann Weeks. Does she still look like a
grinning round bowling-ball with bangs and black eyes that never
missed a detail? I always thought she should have been a tenured
fixture of the B.U. theater department, where generations of young
theater people could feel the dedication to excellence that
informed everything she ever did.
What can The Theater Mirror do to help?
From: Richard Teeple
From: "Gottlieb R. Stoll"
Subject: Phantom of the Opera
Guppy
From: James Cooke
Subject: Another question
LARRY STARK REGRETS:
I can't answer your question, but luckily I'm not alone here.
Anyone? .... Now, let's not always see the same hands...
Subject: The Yale School of Drama
Larry,
I will be graduating from undergrad training next year. I
am considering grad school as an option.
Hartj@smu.post.edu
LARRY STARK REPLIES:
Again, I'm not alone in The Theater Mirror, so I'm interested
in the answers other people have!
Subject: Please Post on Coming Events
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 17:13:10 -0400 (EDT)
SubUrbia by Eric Bogosian will be playing at the NU Studio Theatre May
16-18;22-24 at 8PM. 360 Huntington Avenue. Directed by Janet Bobcean
for the NU Theatre Department. Tickets: $6 and $8 For reservations: NU
Ticket Center at 373-2247.
Thank you. For some reason could not get
into your www greenroom board posting. My Best.
From: sharyns@ix.netcom.com (Sharyn Shipley )
Subject: reading of Hamlet: the Women
To: greenrm@shore.net
You got the script. And I sent out a hard copy.
and NOT A WORD!
arrggghhhhhh
Best
Sharyn
Jason Collins ........... Horatio
Anna Orme ............... Felicity
Carrie Nath ............. Ophelia
Mark Shelby ............. Claudius/Ghost/Bernardo
Bonnie Wallace-Hoffman .. Cook
Roy Ketterer ............ Osric/Reynaldo/Clown
The characters: Most are well developed, but Osric is still too
simple. I'll enjoy working with him.
and a certain structural change in the last scene. Felicity needs
more active participation. But I think I have that worked out. In my
mind at least.
Sharyn Shipley
LARRY STARK EXPLAINS:
Check out ON REFLECTIONS for fuller explanations...
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 17:43:37 -0400
Subject: Audition Notice
Seeking: Performers with solid acting and drumming skills. Must be between
5'10" and 6'0". Mask and movement skills helpful. Must be willing to
relocate to Boston. Open to Equity and Non-Equity performers.
SAN FRANCISCO OPEN CALL: Saturday, May 18th; 10am - 6pm; The 450 Geary, 450
Geary Street between Mason and Taylor Streets, 2nd Floor, San Francisco.
SEATTLE OPEN CALL: Tuesday, May 21st; 10am - 6pm; Freehold, Oddfellows Hall,
1525 Tenth Avenue, 1st Floor, Seattle.
LARRY STARK WONDERS:
Why these auditions aren't being held here in Boston?
From: DWKD93A@prodigy.com (MR JOHN F WILSON)
Subject: carousel
I am glad to get your review...the Wilsons' live in Tampa and we have
seen the show a few dozen times...I know Patrick appreciates your
comments and so does his Mother.
She is a singer here with our local symphony. If you do music reviews
and Boston symphony concerts, she sings with Jahja Ling, our Maestro
who also has conducted the Boston SO and your Esplanade concert
master from tiem to time, Jo Shier has been our concert master.
Anyway, you also have a great web site and I wish I had more time to
read your reviews...you live in an exiciting market and if you're
ever in Tampa I am at WTVT ch 13.
Again thanks for putting your review on the web page...and I know
Patrick is looking forward to Boston...Regards, John.
From: DWKD93A@prodigy.com (MR JOHN F WILSON)
Subject: Larry Stark's column
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 96 11:43:00 IST
Subject: Need suggestions for play scripts
I am looking for some scripts to stage a play in our office.
They need to be either Comedy or Suspense to hold the
audience attention. Any suggestions from you could be
helpful. We are not theatre professionals but interested
in staging a play for our colleagues! And sites where i can
get the scripts would be appreciated.
Thanx in advance.
Madhusekhar
From: mort kaplan
To: greenrm@shore.net
Subject: NU PLAY/PROJECT READINGS
Perfs. start at 8 PM. The place seats about 40-45 and admission is free.
For further information call Department of Theatre @ 373-2244.
From: James Cooke
New ENgland theatre a while back so I thought I try again.
one that's part of Mama Kins)?
James Cooke
E-Mail Address: JACOOKE@Cahners.com
LARRY STARK REPLIES:
We have three phone-numbers for Landsdowne/MamaKin:
1(617)931-2000; 1(617)262-0660; 1(617)536-2100
But I have no idea how accurate or up to date they are.
The ACME THEATR worked here and we list their web-page.
But about Peter Kelly, all I can do is put this up
and see if anyone else can tell you.
From: Stuart Larson
is interesting, but...sez who? Look it up in the dictionary--the words
are interchangeable. No offense, but I probably should trust Mr. Webster
more than I trust thee.
Of what exactly are you a "critick", anyway?
LARRY STARK REPLIES:
Stuart, bubbie, your Webster talks about current usage, and
language is in constantly self-recreating flux. The word gets
spelt quite arbitrarily these days, even in the names of companies
and playhouses, and your Mr. Webster is correct in that. But I
think the matter gets quite a different historical treatment in
the Oxford English Dictionary, which will tell you about
historical usages and spellings of words. And "sez who?" Well,
sez ME! I'm obstinately insisting on a dfistinction that might
even be incorrect.
Thanks for the attention.
Subject: Sharyn's HAMLET
LARRY STARK REPLIES:
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