So, what’s this supposed to be, besides a place for the presskit and audition announcements.
I have always been very interested in putting out there glimpses of the creative process. Just how does a show come together? What are the elements?
It’s not just a bunch of people getting together and memorizing lines. It’s a project, multi-threaded and with lots of people contributing their efforts and skills to the common effort. It’s really quite amazing when you get down to it – and when it works well a whole team of strangers come together to form a community that just really clicks – and there aren’t too many things in the world that are better than that.
It was always my intent to let people in on the experience. There’s a certain thrill at the first read through when you get the script cuts, or when the designers come back with their first sketches, or when you see the poster art for the first time, or when the set starts to get built.
Previously, it was a damned bear to try to craft pages for that stuff, though. Go home, fire up FrontPage, load some pictures, type some words, connect to the server and upload the new or edited page…. But WordPress’ blogging software makes this easy.
I can still come home and hop on the ‘Net and type out a quick blog post. But I can also – right from rehearsal with my cell phone – snap a picture of the set and upload it to the blog. I can use my iPhone to type a quick post at a break after the first run through. I can email links to the costume designs. I can post a series of links to source material. Lots of possibilities. I really hope the directors and their teams take advantage of it
