KEEP MOVING FORWARD...
Well, we begin rehearsals tomorrow morning for GLORY DAYS at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA. And we couldn't be more excited. We've got an awesome cast, made up of four terrific young actors: Steven Booth (AVENUE Q), Andrew C. Call (HIGH FIDELITY, ALTAR BOYZ), Adam Halpin (FOREVER PLAID – NSMT & PCLO), and Jesse JP Johnson (ALTAR BOYZ). We've got a great musical supervisor, Jesse Vargas, and musical director, Derek Bowley. A wonderful choreographer… Matthew Gardiner. One of the best directors around, Mr. Eric Schaeffer! And to top it all off, our show is being produced at one of the most exciting and innovative theater companies in the country. We're definitely two very lucky guys!
We have been working on GLORY DAYS for almost four and a half years now. We met Eric while we were both students in Overtures: Signature's Musical Theater Institute in 2004. For whatever reason, we worked up the nerve to ask Eric if he would read the script for a new musical that we were writing, which at the time was titled ASS BACKWARDS. A few weeks after the program ended, we received an e-mail from Eric telling us that he wanted to develop the show with us. Eric took a big risk with two young performers who had never written anything else. To say that we are grateful to Eric for this opportunity is an understatement.
Throughout the process, we plan on keeping this blog up to date with rehearsal reports, etc. We'll update it as often as possible with observations, pictures, and maybe even a video or two. So keep checking back.
- James and Nick
posted by Brian at
3:19 PM
3 Comments:
Congratulations James and Nick! I enjoyed both readings of this work that you presented at the Signature Theatre open houses. There is just one little thing about the story that bugged me.
And what would that be, GooglaMonster?
It bothered me that one of the other boys, notably the Will character, didn't express at least a little misgiving about the way the main character was using the coach's daughter. One would expect the Andy character to cheer on the unkindness. I guess I would at least like to see some acknowledgement that it wasn't a nice thing to do - maybe a frown or furrowed brow. Just in resolving the story, it was hard for me to feel sympathetic to any of the boys'problems after that.
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