Greetings,

With holidays around the corner I wanted to give you all someting that will bring you some merriness for the season. Please accept with my gratitude and warm wishes these tickets to the Bruce Moen Theatre, Hampton Roads, Nearyou. You will also find in the red satin envelope an invitation  to produce one or more of your own threads, hopefully giving yourself a starring role as well as directorship. If Mell Gibson can do it, so can we. Bruce and Pharron will be seated in the box of honor, with several of their guests; they all look so handsome up there, shimmering in lovliness but sometimes dissappearing briefly. We salute you Bruce and dedicate this theatre to you!

Through imagining, the initial structure has been built, but may be adapted for our threads’ performances as we see fit. What we have to start with is a rather tall building with a performance area high enough to suit the Cirque deSoleil as well as your threads dealing with as many as 35 focus levels in one plot. The entire interior is an anti-gravity chamber, allowing the performances to take place on many levels at once without the awkwardness of catwalks or harnesses. Special lighting effects are provided by Spiritual Guidance. Handmade sets have been painted by madsketcher, spooky, and guest artist craig from liverpool. Photographic and halographic techniques will also be used; please sign up if you’re available to work in these technical areas. Sound stage and soundboard are in the professional hands of Caryn.

Props and special effects have been stored below and are ready for many styles of productions, from Shakespearean to surreal. The orchestra pit is equipped with intruments that range from ethereal to blues, folk to stomp.   
We hope that your generous donations and recommendations will help these collections grow.  Thanks to the bi-location abilities of some of the mainstays of our staff, finding musicians from among the regular acting ensemble should not be too difficult.

To kick off the holiday season the first production will include as masters of ceremony Dave-a-mbs and Doc M.  Newwayknight, cricket, and cathy b will play the mounted forces of righteousness, chosen in part because they already have the armour or horses needed. Psuedo-villains will be led by Chumley B Man, but his won’t be a speaking part as his armour is made with duct tape which totally covers his mouth. His role is one of the most interesting, however, as his character shows the most change amid much courage.

Mairlyn , juditha, and deanna will be seen mainly in the higher realms, where their costumes have the most ethereal affects when streaming through the breezes. A ‘Peter-pan’ style harness may be necessary for laughing-rain after all, not to help her fly but to slow her down. Her personal net-catcher is Cosmic Ambitions.

Backstage right in the shadows is the laboratory of the spooky wizard who has many roles. When he is not preparing a new treatise to explain the narrators orations,  he may come forward to provide a musical interlude. Dressed in a violet irridescent robe with silver trim he is ready for any eventuality.  He is also busy brewing refreshments in his lab, a green viscous liquid drink with fumes that look like chloride but are really arising from a beaker of lime juice and honey. Amazingly the one beaker is able to fill all the audience’s glasses and everyone fully enjoys these ‘limettes.’

If your name has not yet been mentionned, please add to this thread by volunteering or providing recommendations on what previous thread you wish to appear in.  Rehearsals will have to start soon so that the season will be one full of laughter, love, and accomplishment!

Betsi, what a creative endeavor. I love it. Also love:

Quote:


Thank God for duct tape. Just kidding Chumley, you do have a lot of courage to keep on sticking around. There must be something here for you that draws you back. And I'm very happy about that.

I feel you placed me a little too high but will try to live up to this.

Quote:


Perfect casting. LOL

Love You, Mairlyn

Oh Betson, you are making me laugh already!
I am so excited, it's been years since I did amatuer theatre, so I am really looking forward to a revival of my favourite pastime!
my love to all
Cathy B ps I am not bad as a director if you need a hand in that department and my set buliding skills aint too bad either xxx

I like being a mounted force of righteousness, but I must point out that I ride a black horse...hopefully this will not put me "out of character"...

We also have a pale horse, but I'm thinking we don't want to go there...

This is coming along so very well, troupe! Your enthusiasm for your parts makes them yours immediately! 
Just saw the puppet/people version of LionKing last night and they did a neat thing we could use with your 2 black horses, cricket and Cathy, with your permissions: keep the 14 h smaller horse in the back and the larger one in front to create a sense of distance.  They didi it with 4 sizes of thundering wildebeesties or waterbuffalo and it worked great! Cricket, can we spray your pale horse a new 'theatrical' color?--Or find a virgin to ride it , all sprayed in eiderdown from a hotglue gun--great effect!
I'm not the director, Cathy--looks like you are! Please keep us as harmonious as spooky's dreamteam!

That's great---more room on stage for more! 

or maybe we could gloss over the truth, after all it is a theatrical production. hence we are playing a part! so we don't need a virgin, just someone who can act the part lol!
(I'd put my hand up, but I'd probably squash the poor little thing!)
Cathy

Happy Halloween everybody and now may I present my large kid...