My name's Daryl. I played Jim Hawkins in Theater Down South's 2009 production of Prince Street Players's Treasure Island. This blog was originally meant to document the show's run, but is now moving on like I am, and will follow me as I continue to do this crazy job. Stick around, and I hope you find something of interest here. Get in touch!
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
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I can’t wait.
Redoing Shakespeare next month.
Our three-year-old show A Midsummer Night’s Dream is going to be restaged in April. I need to have my costumes adjusted.
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I’ve forgotten how to blog.
Working nonstop. We’re doing a show on Sunday, and I’m working with Adrian as Stage Manager.
Saw Defending the Caveman today. It was hilarious. Joel Trinidad rocked it.
[West Side Story] was a hit with theatre people but not with audiences. Four years later the movie came out and it became a smash. In those four years, take not that there were exactly two singles from the score because everyone said that it’s a shame you can’t hum the score. Well, of course, when the movie company put hundreds of thousands of dollars into pushing the film, and when disc jockeys began playing the songs - in other words, as soon as everyone got the chance to hear the songs a couple of times - they discovered that they were hummable and all of a sudden we had all those standards from the show. The very idea of it not being hummable is laughable. But critics and audiences have often said that about my scores, when in point of fact, anything is hummable. When people say it’s not melodic, not hummable, it makes my blood boil. It’s really a question of how many times you hear it. People have lazy ears. I would say that if people hear a score for the first time and they find it hummable, then it’s usually because they were humming it before they came into the theater…In Night Music, I finally was told that I wrote a hummable score. Everyone would go out during intermission humming ‘A Weekend in the Country’. Can you wonder why? The musical phrase is merely repeated over and over again with nine choruses in ten minutes. Anyone who uses the word hummable is suspect. Hummable really means familiar.
Sondheim in Zadan’s Sondheim and Co. (via marainthepark) (via fuckyeahsondheim)
True. So, none of us should panic when we hear a Sondheim score being played. It CAN be done.
There’s a good argument to be made for the fact that the excitement of theatre is ephemeral that one evening; that what you know instinctively when you’re in an audience, unconsciously at the theatre is this performance is unique, it’s got the same cast that was there last night and will be there tomorrow night, but tonight is unique, the laughs are going to be individual, something may go wrong on the stage, a prop may fall over, somebody may fall in the orchestra pit, something is live, and there is danger, and something also that makes it that it’s being performed just for you.
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream, September 6th, 2007. Back when we believed in Throat Coat.
See if you can spot the scared shitless look on my face.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, September 6th, 2007. Back when we had people to do our hair and make up for us. Smashbox was awesome.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 2007. We were poking fun at all the One Tree Hill posters.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 2007. This is John, who played Francis Flute.
