SATURDAY: Old Globe is hosting a gala for its donors tonight, so we have only a rehearsal during the day, no performance. None of us are happy about this because we want to build upon the success of last night’s first preview, learning to read audience responses, and solidifying the choices. With a day off …
During the two weeks I am away from rehearsal, Mickey sends me daily script notes. They are mostly small and I agree to all but two of them. Henry makes a personal plea for me to revisit a section at the beginning to which I had previously declined making changes. He is persuasive and we …
AUDITIONS: Contractually, I have no say in the casting for this particular production. Everything is to be decided by the show’s director, Henry Wishcamper, and by Samantha Barrie, the casting director at Old Globe. Both of them are open to my suggestions, however, leading up to the auditions and I make a pitch for the …
It is well over a year since I updated this. Though I can excuse my silence by laying claim to a lack of time, I suspect the gap is occasioned in equal measure by the dreadful summer after Engaging Shaw closed in New York. After the almost universal rejection of A Thing For Redheads, along …
I’m still in the process of recovering from such a crazy week, traveling back and forth between Maryland and New York so many times. Much of the week is a blur. Here’s a rundown. MONDAY I’m home for only a day, before heading back to New York. There’s a huge list of things I need …
I just returned from New York, where I spent the most glorious week since Betsy and I went to Italy in 2002. I can’t resist passing along my impressions. EASTER SUNDAY I train into the city from my in-laws’ house in Cortlandt Manor, smiling at the suggestion of my mother-in-law that the upcoming production of …
Engaging Shaw, one of my personal favorites, has been selected for a preliminary reading at Abingdon Theatre Company in Manhattan, on Monday, 23 February, at 7:00 p.m. The theater is located at 312 West 36th Street (between 8th & 9th Avenues). The reading is free to the public and there will be a discussion with …
The DVD of The Matchmaker’s Guide to Controlling the Elements is now available through Amazon.com, which is very exciting, despite the insanely low royalty Amazon offers. Here’s what I recommend: buy the thing at the store on JohnMorogiello.com or JTBurianTheatricals.com (it’s the same price as Amazon, but my percentage is higher), then visit the Amazon …