05.03.14

"Meine Damen und Herren, Mesdames et Messieurs, Ladies and Gentlemen! Guden Abend, bon soir, We geht's? Comment ca va? Do you feel good?"* 

Forgive me for opening my new blog by quoting Kander and Ebbs’ Cabaret at you, I know myself it’s a tad predictable but it does fit rather nicely here as a welcome! (I’ll let you know that I go by the 1998 Broadway revival with Alan Cummings. I adore my bootleg DVD I have of that production. It’s so gritty and raw.)

This is a project that I’ve wanted to start for a while. Talk to any of my friends (or anyone that knows me for that matter) and they will tell you that theatre is what I’m about. I just live it. It’s my passion.

I wanted to share this love and to create my own, original, content based from my experiences around it.

I’ve got my own small (teeny tiny) company called Sound Ideas and I’m planning a few things for us over this year, but my attention has been pulled by two productions I’m currently involved with:

Mixed Voice – a company that I’ve done a couple of shows with now. The main show being from last September where I played Girl #1 in their production of Rent – This was the company’s first ‘real’ musical. 

The Cast of Mixed Voice's Production of Rent September 4th 2013. Image is property of Miss A. Nash

What exciting for me is that I’m assistant directing their next concert ‘A night at the musicals’  and I’m doing quite a few large cast numbers. I’ve not done anything this big before, but I am loving it. I was thinking that I’d keep you in the loop for process, progess and how it all works out? Might make for interesting posts.

The original Playbill for the 1989
producion of City of Angels
Image from www.playbillvault.com

And my second focus is CITY OF ANGELS.

I’m lucky enough to be playing the part(s) of Oolie/Donna in a production of this musical in the summer with a group called Threshold Theatre Company. The musical has two plots, first, a "real" world of a writer trying to turn his book into a screenplay, and then a "reel" world of the fictional film running beside it. It’s stylistically based on the 1940’s film noir genre. Luckily it’s a bit fluffier than the 1989 Singing Detective TV series, but that’ll hopefully give you an idea of how to  explain it. 

I’m not going to say much more about it now as I’ve got some more post’s planned in the coming weeks but what I will tell you is that I’m very excited about it and that it’s really satisfyingly and deceptively hard for the cast. I’ve never been in a show like it!

This blog will be an outlet for my passions. I’ll be filling it with acting approaches, role preparation, theatre history, tutorials on things like hair and make up, reviews of productions  (I’ve got four big musicals coming up that I can’t wait to talk about), new theatre, old theatre,  movie musicals, soundtracks, song choices, audition recommendations, interviews and hopefully much more! This blog is a tribute to all things #Stagey.

If there's anything you'd really like to see or any advice you would like to give, please don't hesitate to get in touch! 

You can direct your emails to: afineshowmance@gmail.com

*disclaimer – I will burst out randomly into song quotes. I do this in real life so there’s no stopping me now.