I love the publicity photo for Frankie and Johnnie! Winding Road's. Maybe Terry and Amy look a little too subtly comfortable as the characters in it...but still, I love it. It's like the play, simple, straightforward, focus on the humanity, the relationship. No mugging. All good.
Rogue Theatre always has unusually amazing production photos too. If any theatre can stage what we commonly call "a spectacle" in a relatively small theatre space, its Rogue. Their plays just look and seem big and glamorous, and that comes through in the photos. Part of that comes from that fact that they put people on stage. By that I mean they have good old-fashioned (in the best sense of that term) plays with lots of cast members! OK...there is the one show with one, two, maybe three people in it, per their season. But usually, things are spectaclish there.
In fact, as far as I know, every Rogue production has 4o musicians, 30-40 actors, 97 characters, 2-3 stage managers, 17 ushers, and 4 kinds of directors. And you see them all!
And here is a plea for Bill Killian to dust off his Chekhov one-act, On The Dangers of Tobacco, and get to performing. I saw a very short section of this in Patrick's seminar earlier this week and cracked up! It is very, very funny...and Bill was lively and improvisational with it within the circumstances of setting - and darned if he wasn't dapper as could be in that get-up he was wearing. Do it Bill!
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