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On the Tuesday of tech week, Jess talks me through the opening moments of the show.  I stand wrapped in Rachel's pitch-perfect costume,  In the blackout, I walk to Michelle's dazzling white casket, surrounded by glorious and vibrant flowers.  Nick's music evokes open plains and empty rooms in my head.  And then Jared's lights stream through the windows and it hits me hard -- like a ton of bricks, like a punch in the gut: THIS is the moment before.  Yes, Jeanie had a busy day, full of all those tasks, but underneath it all this is the current that's been running since she got the news.  This loud silence, this overflowing emptiness. When we say New Leaf is a Producing Ensemble, this is what we mean.  We're telling the story to and with each other in rehearsal so we can tell it to and with you in performance. And I'll tell you one more thing: I will hold on to this particular moment before long after we close.]]> http://www.newleaftheatre.org/blog/2011/the-moment-before/feed/ 0 Order Lamictal Over The Counter http://www.newleaftheatre.org/blog/2011/this-or-that/ http://www.newleaftheatre.org/blog/2011/this-or-that/#comments Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:47:58 +0000 Brian Golden http://www.newleaftheatre.org/blog/?p=695 I found myself in the old neighborhood last night. I was walking home from some meeting or rehearsal, fighting the desire to give up and catch the bus, when I realized I was no more than a couple blocks from my first Chicago apartment. About the time I had this thought, my day’s consumption of coffee caught up with me, and using the bathroom as soon as possible became urgently necessary. Without thinking, I wandered in to the familiar coffee shop where, for a dark year or two, I probably spent more time than in any other place in the city – answering emails, playing online poker, starting a theatre company, writing (not really, although I pretended) and uncorking the incredible time-wasting powers of the internet. I used the bathroom (new automatic soap dispenser – good for them) and after that, after ordering a coffee and pleasing myself by correctly answering the “ten cent discount” trivia question written daily on the blackboard menu, I stood in the middle of the place, looking at the new, artful wall design and gazing at the armada of two-top and four-top tile tables. As I began to remember that I’d sat there to conduct interviews for a certain position on my staff, and over there when I had lunch many years ago with so and so, a question began to nag me – was the feeling I was experiencing good or bad? We live in an evaluative culture. Our most loved forms of entertainment no longer involve tragedy or comedy, but judgment. On television, a panel of experts/“the rest of the house”/a super-sexy bachelor hands out scores so that one singer/housemate/super-sexy bachelorette goes home, and another returns next week. In sports, our love for the mythology of achievement (he hit the ball a mile!) has, in the last decade, been, if not replaced, consumed by an obsession for the cold statistics and managerial power of controlling our own fantasy teams (he’s averaging 18.4 touches per game!). On the internet, countless websites have risen to fame by offering no more than the opportunity to judge – this girl or that girl, thumbs up or thumbs down, “rate your experience”, this or that. Some feelings, though, aren’t good or bad. They just are. My play, Burying Miss America, which the astounding New Leaf Theatre opens tonight, is, in a way, about the ambiguity of those kind of emotions. 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But all of them would be from people she knew, people reaching for the right words to convey their own feelings of sadness, people trying to connect in the face of unexpected loss. I know most audience members won't notice or think about the cards. But now you will. Won't you?]]> http://www.newleaftheatre.org/blog/2011/in-the-details/feed/ 1 Order Lamictal Over The Counter http://www.newleaftheatre.org/blog/2011/the-search-for-shape/ http://www.newleaftheatre.org/blog/2011/the-search-for-shape/#comments Sat, 04 Jun 2011 17:19:26 +0000 Michelle http://www.newleaftheatre.org/blog/?p=639 Michelle Lilly is part of the production ensemble of New Leaf Theatre and is the Scenic Designer for Lighthousekeeping. One of my favorite parts of any design process is the shape search. This typically takes place once the basic storytelling concepts are down, but we’re still looking for the specifics of what the world of the play looks, sounds, and feels like. The first thing I’m usually thinking about is the basic presence of the set in relation to the story we’re telling and how we’re telling it. Is it looming? Is it sensual? Is it quiet and unassuming? Audacious? Commanding? What role does the environment play in getting this story across to the audience? How do the characters interact with it? How do they feel about it? When asking these questions, I find myself searching for its shape in everything; obviously in my research, but also while I’m commuting, while I’m at work, while I’m watching a movie, or walking around Home Depot. When I’m in this stage, I look at everything to see its shape and line first. I stare at the way the sun hits the bricks on a building on Grand Avenue. I look at bikes, trains, a pile of trash, trees, mailboxes, searching for the shadowy shape I’m looking for. Sometimes I don’t know what it is, but I know I’ll know it when I see it. Every design is like a puzzle. It’s often like a Nick Bantock puzzle, which takes days and maybe weeks to crack, but the answer is there if you stay with it long enough. I have to push and work at it, and eventually I get so frustrated that I almost give up, and then my mind relaxes, and a large part of the solution suddenly surfaces. A lot of times I’ve found the answer, or the key to the series of rooms that leads to the answer, in completely unexpected places. I recently visited the architecture exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and as architecture is tough to present in a gallery, what they presented instead was process pieces. This was completely awesome. Crayon sketches by Mies van der Rohe, huge scale models of commercial buildings, sketches of suggestions for the new World Trade Center Memorial building, scribbles and hand-scrawled notes. 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Which of these shapes do I show, and which do I let the audience find on their own? ]]> http://www.newleaftheatre.org/blog/2011/the-search-for-shape/feed/ 0 Order Lamictal Over The Counter http://www.newleaftheatre.org/blog/2011/the-secrets-of-a-literary-text-2/ http://www.newleaftheatre.org/blog/2011/the-secrets-of-a-literary-text-2/#comments Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:55:34 +0000 Georgette Kelly http://www.newleaftheatre.org/blog/?p=650 Lighthousekeeping, I knew I would read it again. And again. And again. I read the book in waves and cycles. I reached for it with each major change in my life. I returned to the lighthouse when I needed to cope with isolation, loss, grief, and distance.]]> Georgette Kelly is the playwright of Lighthousekeeping, a work she adapted from the novel by Jeanette Winterson. When I first read Jeanette Winterson’s Lighthousekeeping, I knew I would read it again. And again. And again. I read the book in waves and cycles. 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Redeemers is hosted at Rocco Ranalli's Cafe & Pizzeria for off-night performances, this New Leaf production offers a complete evening - pizza, beer, and a play about hating your boss.

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Most of the New Leaf and Curse of the Starving Class team met up recently at one of our favorite haunts for a fantastic first read through  together.  We gathered ourselves around some good food and a few drinks and listened to these incredible actors breathe life into the dangerously beautiful words of Sam Shepard.  Rehearsals start on March 2nd and we can't wait to roll up our sleeves and dig.





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GGB - 828After closing the books on The Man Who Was Thursday, we find ourselves with more pleasant surprises - our ticket sales and two comparatively modest but vital grants have paid the entire production budget for our spring production of Curse of the Starving Class, and go a long way towards funding the first production of the 2010-2011 season. If you have followed the national conversation on theater funding in the last few years, you'll know that funding a theater primarily with ticket sales is highly unusual, ordering Celexa online. What is going on?

The fact is, as we look ahead to our tenth year in production, New Leaf has become uniquely efficient in developing low-cost production infrastructure (we own most of our equipment, keeping our rental budgets low), Purchase Celexa online no prescription, exploring non-traditional venue relationships (the unique Lincoln Park Cultural Center – our home – continues to shape our company and cut us a sweet deal that allows a higher level of risk-taking), and leveraging little-used resources with partner theaters and organizations (collectively, we also work at the Goodman, Chicago Shakespeare, Marriott Lincolnshire, and many others, where to buy Celexa, and we do our darndest to maintain relationships built on trust with all of 'em). We're good at finding reused resources rather than buying them new and tossing them in the garbage. We have friends who help us, and we help them in return.

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In addition, we like solving problems with conceptually simple but powerful resource-friendly solutions, order Celexa over the counter. Those of you who saw The Man Who Was Thursday will remember the lamppost that helped Austin Oie and Joel Ewing guide the audience delightfully through our space, Canada, mexico, india, or the small collection of rocks from January’s Touch that set designer Michelle Lilly O’Brien actually pulled from and then returned to a stream bed. Those stones were transformed seamlessly with light, staging, and storytelling from simple objects into a powerful floating platform in an infinite void, or the heart-stopping ghost of an unseen character. These kinds of solutions are challenging and energizing to find, buy Celexa without prescription, because they work elegantly, are artistically exciting, and as a result are financially achievable. Yes, Celexa samples, that’s right, we said it: elegant solutions are always cheaper to produce than multiple, often literal, solutions. That kind of craftsmanship is worth discovering.

Order Celexa over the counter, There is of course one key flaw in New Leaf's current operational model, and that's the fact that we're living on borrowed time. We give nearly every spare chunk of income to our guest artists, the folks who devote weeks to our productions, and yet we still offer some of the lowest fees in the industry. Indeed, New Leaf's company members go entirely unpaid for as much as 20 - 40 hours of work per week, buy Celexa online cod. If you've worked in or near a Chicago creative industry, you can also see the effect that this vacuum of financial support for the individual artist in Chicago has on the entire culture. As artistic fees are sacrificed to production budgets, venue rental fees, Purchase Celexa online, and licensing costs, a kind of 10-year brain drain pattern sets in. As an artist develops in their career, many "outgrow" Chicago - they move on to a career in New York or LA or less saturated regional markets to obtain more sustainable or more lucrative work. In Chicago, we experience the loss of our core talent, the loss of institutional knowledge, and over decades, we erode our cultural memory, order Celexa over the counter. And it doesn’t have to be that way: most expat artists we know have had to make all-too-familiar choices between their love of Chicago's creative melting pot and their need for financial security. Even William Peterson, online buy Celexa without a prescription, whose career developed in Chicago’s Victory Gardens theatre, recently left an incredibly lucrative turn on CSI for an opportunity to rejoin VG and Steppenwolf theatre as a featured artist. There is love for this community and what we do here, but somehow we're not connecting creative professionals with the financial systems and infrastructure that could easily support them and keep them here in Chicago. Buy Celexa online no prescription, But for the city at large, weathering the economic upheaval despite a daily onslaught of volatile market and governmental changes, the central question that must be asked now is: Why is supporting a community of artists a priority? To be honest, we've asked ourselves the same thing. Order Celexa over the counter, Why do theaters clamor for funding while local institutions that alleviate hunger or poverty or the effects of war or abuse go underfunded. We've asked what theaters have done to provide more than just indirect benefit to the community or entertainment to the very wealthy.

Our critical thinking goes deeper that that, order Celexa online overnight delivery no prescription. We've asked how effective a theatrical call to social action could ever be - isn't that just telling the audience what to do in a way that undercuts their enthusiasm and passion and ultimately erodes the success of the call to action. The fact is, we as a theater company don't have complete answers to these systemic problems. But we also know that as a collective - our network of artists, audience, and supporters - we actually do have the potential to find answers for these and related issues, explore them in depth, and align energy behind them, order Celexa over the counter. If nothing else, Order Celexa online c.o.d, theatre is a powerful and comparatively low-cost reminder that we must constantly reevaluate our perspectives, priorities and assumptions or face disaster. But it is also fun. It is radical. It is liberating. Order Celexa over the counter, It is cathartic. It is surprising, buy Celexa without a prescription. It shakes our minds and souls loose.

GGB - 827A way forward became clear as we looked beyond our work to our lives: our theater must move away from a patronage model of funding and towards a partnership model. I don’t think any of our patrons would argue that art and the artists that make it couldn’t use more support in our society, both financial and social - we have all seen the ancillary benefits that are generated when you connect an artist with their passion - beauty, clarity, Buy Celexa no prescription, revelation, emotional release, simplicity, dialogue. But we also believe that society, corporate culture, order Celexa from mexican pharmacy, and community organizations could directly and immediately benefit from a creative integration of the artistic process and the byproducts of artistic thinking into their work and daily experience. Most of America’s exposure to art is the finished “product” - a couple hours of watching a play, taking in a recital, or browsing paintings at a museum, order Celexa over the counter. If what we offer is an experience, our product is not the result, it is the entire experience from concept to creation to completion. Celexa trusted pharmacy reviews, And audiences routinely miss or are restricted from the meat of what that experience has to offer.

At New Leaf, we know how to integrate people into a rewarding artistic process that engages them on their own terms. We regularly offer that experience to our artists - while we haven't always been able to compensate them, we have always invested in them. Order Celexa over the counter, We have always taken pride in supporting the continued success and creative development of our artists on their terms, and we're ready to extend that philosophy to our donors. We know how to provide creative encouragement, buy Celexa online no prescription, share professional relationships and connections, create opportunities beyond the walls of our theater, and even provide training opportunities to convert our theatrical and technical storytelling skills into skills applicable in any sector. The amazing thing that we're finding is that by making that human investment and providing the right opportunities for artists to connect with the right story or audience, Order Celexa online overnight delivery no prescription, it sets off an actual, observable chain reaction of community alignment, inspiration, and development. The next logical step is finding a seat for the audience and funders of the theater to go along for that part of the ride.

So while this might be an odd pill to swallow, where to buy Celexa, we believe it to be true: the artistic process - whether it is storytelling, design, writing, composing or collaboration - can be applied to any human connection or craft beyond the theater. I've seen this first hand in folks as seemingly removed from the world of theatrical storytelling as mortgage brokers, Order Celexa from United States pharmacy, real estate agents, food banks and social advocacy organizations through my work with Marshall Creative. This isn't about running folks through a team-building improv treadmill; it's about thinking through problems and human nature creatively, drawing new connections between our passions, and creating a new story - a new framework for understanding - through bold action, communication, and design, order Celexa over the counter. Other organizations can benefit from the rich generation of experience and the investment in detail that theater offers, and our communities will be stronger for it. And, in the process, buy generic Celexa, we may also hit upon a way of holding off that creative riptide and reconnecting artist with community and its need for creative thinkers. New Leaf can't solve systemic issues like that alone, but through successful connection of existing assets like space, artisans, Where can i buy Celexa online, and community organizations, New Leaf is already reimagining what is possible on that critical hyper-local scale within close-knit neighborhoods and tribes. We're redefining the reach that a neighborhood organization that exists to tell stories can have. And we invite you to add your voice to our process, and benefit from our thoughts, action, and creative force in your vision, Celexa for sale.

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There is opportunity to build stronger connections among any group of people that learns from our shared past. We can tell stories that bring us together, even as the pace of our active lives tries to pull us further apart and isolate us, order Celexa over the counter.

This is where a partnership with an artistic organization that looks at the world through a different set of lenses can help, order Celexa online c.o.d. This is where the value of a local artist really lives - in the way that they carefully and creatively whittle away the piece of wood you don't need, leaving only the part you do. They see the things that distract us from getting the broader message, and they reshape images and colors and sounds into greater clarity. Comprar en línea Celexa, comprar Celexa baratos, In a world and society that prioritizes and measures financial profit, the artist prioritizes and measures the full experience of life, beauty, and understanding. Order Celexa over the counter, They package intellectual messages into emotional experiences that allow us to internalize, to feel, to dream through our daily challenges in new ways. Artists team up with us to help process and shape our experience of the world.

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For nearly ten years, New Leaf has focused on honing our abilities to do the job of an artist really, purchase Celexa, really well. That process doesn't ever end, but we've seen our successes become more consistent and the careers of our artists blossom in incredible ways in the last three years. The amazing thing is, Ordering Celexa online, in all that time of prioritizing the development of our body of work and the honing of our process, how close New Leaf really is to financial sustainability. In a recent company meeting, we put our heads together and drafted a financial picture of what an ideal New Leaf season budget would look like. We estimated the total, pie-in-the-sky amount of funding we would need as a company to provide solid, sustainable compensation for our artists and management in order to retain rich relationships with audience, partners, and artists, order Celexa over the counter. The total is a goal that surprised us in how reachable it is: $56,000, Celexa samples. That's it. That number still puts New Leaf as one of the smallest budgets in town, but it vastly increases New Leaf's capacity for communication, transparency, Buy cheap Celexa no rx, and most importantly supporting the long-term development of a vital and permanent artistic community that is vitally connected with the entire community. We've already proven that New Leaf knows how to make a little go a very long way. Order Celexa over the counter, With New Leaf's commitment to conceptual efficiency that revitalizes found spaces, that small amount of money allows us to provide artists with compensation that matches that of theaters many times our size, and helps New Leaf become a part of an artist's reason for staying in Chicago.

We discovered another thing about ourselves in that meeting: We don't want to grow in size, we want to grow in scope. We love and indeed depend on the intimate diamond-in-the-rough nature of our stagings, and the unique environments we craft out of spaces like the Lincoln Park Cultural Center. That relationship with space, where can i find Celexa online, more than anything else, is our identity, and we don't want to change it. Growth at too fast a rate would change our potential for sustainability. Where we would like to grow: we want to keep our artists around and help develop their careers and their work for another ten years, Buy cheap Celexa, and we want to use those valuable artistic sensibilities and active audience participation in the artistic process to effect some real, tangible improvement and renewed connection in our community.

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Here's where it gets good, folks. Clap your hands and rub them together, order Celexa over the counter. Since New Leaf is committed to working on that small, handcrafted scale, real brand Celexa online, we're therefore looking for a limited number of partners - 20, to be exact - who are passionate about our work and whose work we are also passionate about. At two levels of partnership, New Leaf will collaborate with our donors on projects initiatied by both New Leaf and donors. Buy Celexa without prescription, We want to get to know you, get to know what you trying to accomplish in your lives and in your communities, and to explore new and potentially unconventional ways of collaborating to craft tailored benefit experiences for each donor that use those shared goals as a starting point.

For $50 each month we will offer standard membership or subscriber fare, such as gifts and tickets to all our performances (which, after all, where can i buy cheapest Celexa online, remain the core of what we do and what we create) but we will also offer unprecedented access to our artists and artistic processes, which have a range of capabilities that go far beyond the production of shows. Order Celexa over the counter, We will shape opportunities for our members to learn or utilize the skills of our artists in their own work, and create lasting and valuable relationships from those opportunities.

At a higher level of a one-time gift of $5000, we will also offer the opportunity for a New Leaf-curated event for your organization (we plan a mean brunch), discounts for your friends to allow you to share (and, sure, show off) the theater that you helped create, and a gift tailored to your interests and passions.

You may read this and say: "Wow. If I had some money, I would do that. But I don't." See, that's cool. The fact is, theater is still for everyone, and we'd be silly to think that these donors would come from our current blog readership, order Celexa over the counter. On the other hand, If we've learned nothing else in the past ten years, it's that all the money in the world is not nearly as valuable as the connections and friendships and partnerships you forge.

So we need just a little bit of your help, to get in touch with the folks you know who you would like to share a New Leaf experience with. If you refer someone to New Leaf who becomes a member, we'll be thankful that it was you who brought them in. And we'll give you season tickets to our performances as long as your friend stays a member to show that appreciation. Just send us an email at newleaf@newleaftheatre.org Order Celexa over the counter, with their contact info, and introduce us. We've got an invitation and some goodies to mail to them to get the process started.

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I heart New Leaf Theatre.  They simply rock socks and I'm thrilled to be a part of their process.  To avoid this post becoming an all-out unadulterated love-fest to the Leaf, I will make an effort to provide a tempered behind the scenes look at the experience of bringing Bilal Dardai's adaptation of G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday to life.  That way things won't get too graphic and the kids at home can continue to read along, ordering Lamictal online. Purchase Lamictal online no prescription, In Thursday I play Comrade Buttons, the original Professor DeWorms, rx free Lamictal, Lamictal price, coupon, the French Colonel, and one of Sunday's "goons".  As we have developed this process, buy generic Lamictal, Buy no prescription Lamictal online, the "goon" characters have taken on a life of their own and dramatically increased my work load through the show.  The "goons" serve a dual purpose as a kind of shepherd for the audience and for all intents and purposes as the running crew for the show.  The "goons" help move the audience from one room to another, stand and sit, real brand Lamictal online, Buy cheap Lamictal no rx, and move from bench to bench.  Intrigued?  Come see for yourself.

But the creation of these "goon" characters is a great example of what I have been most pleasantly surprised by working with New Leaf:  their absolute insistence on collaboration.  Jess has always been open to hearing ideas and will always give them due consideration, where to buy Lamictal, Fast shipping Lamictal, if not direct incorporation into the show.  I believe this approach has really fostered a tight ensemble and given everyone a little more personal investment in the show. Thursday has many daunting aspects to it, Lamictal over the counter, Where can i buy Lamictal online, and in order to pull it off, everyone from the director, comprar en línea Lamictal, comprar Lamictal baratos, Buy Lamictal without a prescription, actors, designers, canada, mexico, india, Order Lamictal from United States pharmacy, stage and production managers, have to have a little more skin in the game.  What are some of those daunting aspects you ask?  First, order Lamictal from mexican pharmacy, Order Lamictal no prescription, come see for yourself.  We open this Thursday night and all opening weekend is pay what you will.

Let's start with the words themselves.  There are lots and lots of them.  Bilal has done an excellent job of taking Chesterton's novel and compressing it into a roughly 90 page play.  But there are lots and lots of words on those pages.  Then we have the accents.  There are English (and the many variations that accompany the Kings), order Lamictal online overnight delivery no prescription, Where can i buy cheapest Lamictal online, German, Polish, where can i find Lamictal online, Lamictal samples, and French.  Next we have the locations.  We start in a park, move to bar, buy Lamictal from mexico, Lamictal from canadian pharmacy, then to an underground lair, a darkened room, order Lamictal online c.o.d, Where to buy Lamictal, the balcony of a rooftop cafe, back to another bar, Lamictal gel, ointment, cream, pill, spray, continuous-release, extended-release, Online buying Lamictal hcl, a bridge, a cafe in France, Lamictal trusted pharmacy reviews, Buy cheap Lamictal, a meadow, a train depot, buy Lamictal online cod, Comprar en línea Lamictal, comprar Lamictal baratos, back to the rooftop cafe, a country road, australia, uk, us, usa, Kjøpe Lamictal på nett, köpa Lamictal online, and then back to a park.  Finally, we have some of the action.  You will see navigation of darkened secret tunnels, where can i buy cheapest Lamictal online, a cat and mouse game, a swashbuckling duel, an all out farcical chase sequence, and a hot-air balloon.  All of this will happen not in a traditional theatre space, but rather the unique Lincoln Park Cultural Center that New Leaf calls home.  Needless to say, in order to make all this happen, everyone involved had to put on their creative pants.  And the result has been one of the finest pair of pants I have donned.  Think we will be able to pull all this off?  Tickets are available from $10 to $18 at www.newleaftheatre.org.

Bilal has been a consistent presence throughout our process.  He has made many of the inevitable cuts and additions that come with a new adaptation.  The fact that he has been with us from the get go has been an enormous help as he has provided insight to the actors and been open to suggestions when needed on what works best for the story.  Lindsey Bartlett, our fantastic dialect coach, has helped ensure that we Yanks don't sound like complete jackasses when speaking in our various accents.  She has been patient, supportive, and kind, but as we near the home stretch we will begin to see her tyrannical side.  She has threatened to start throwing pencils at us upon hearing mistakes.  I can speak for the cast that we are all very partial to our eyeballs and fear is a great motivating factor.  Any trepidations I had about how in the hell we would pull this show off were quickly quieted as we began to add the design elements to the show and New Leaf started flexing their design muscles.  Nick Keenan's sound design is nuanced and lovely and his score furthers the action of the play.  He somehow moves seamlessly from Wagner to Blur's Think Tank.  I'm not sure how, but he does, and I find it best not to ask too many questions.  Jared Moore's lights are, well, let's just say totally kick-ass for lack of a more suitable description.  Both these fellas and their respective designs have made the nigh impossible locations and actions great additions to Thursday rather than high-potential detractions.  Then we have our fearless director Jess.  Sweet, sweet Jessie H.  Not only has she helmed this entire beast of a show, but she has done so with ten dudes.  And we are dudes.  And do dude things.  You know, dudes bein' dudes, as dudes are wont to do.  She had guided us through the maze of this story and pretended to be impressed with our exhaustive knowledge of obscure Star Wars battles.  She has given us the opportunity to fully explore our characters while tolerating our penchant to pounce on any and all double entendres and our endless material on the subject of poop. No small feat.  But she has assembled some of the most talented mo-fo's I have had the pleasure to work with and we hope that you the audience will enjoy Thursday as much as we have enjoyed bringing it to life.  If you think you might, you can call (773) 516-3546 to reserve tickets with the box office.

We are now neck-deep in tech week and are juggling scenes, costumes, props, and where the hell the lampost goes.  I feel really good about the shape of the show and we are ready to give it to the masses to continue this conversation.  We run October 15th-November 21st and have shows Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8pm.  We'd love to have you.

Damn.  I said I wasn't going to write a love letter and I fear that is exactly what I've done.  I don't care.  I'll fist-fight you if you have beef.

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