levi the jedi
As mentioned previously, I will be playing a brother (Levi) and the butler in Elyria Summer Theatre's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, which opens this week. We only do four shows, Thursday through Sunday, at Elyria High School. Tickets are $10 for adults or $9 for 18 & under, and are general admission, only sold at the door. Thursday through Saturday are at 8:00, Sunday is at 2:00. The show is only an hour and a half, so it's a brief but fun evening. Afterward, you can swing by Jim's Coffeehouse in downtown Elyria, which is staying open with special hours after each performance.
Doing this show has been fun, and it's nice to be on stage singing again, not having to worry about making practice CDs for the cast or recruiting an orchestra. I do have a brief solo as the butler, and I get some deliciously high tenor notes in the chorus. I love it. It has also been nice getting to work with Mo Olejko for the first time, who has incredible patience with non-dancer types such as myself, yet somehow still manages to get us moving on stage.
Now then, to explain the subject line of this post: my costume makes me look like a Jedi. Even better, in the opening production number, the brothers get to play with some children's toys, among which is a plastic lightsabre. And with my short hair I kinda look like Ewan McGregor in Star Wars: Episode I. It's great.
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Is it weird to be back at the high school? This may be one of the last performances in the auditorium, eh? Have they started tearing down any of the old houses in the neighborhood yet?
Oh, and, break a leg!
Nothing torn down yet that I know of, although they have already acquired some properties. It was kinda depressing to be in, for example, the choir room and see how much repair and patching has been done since 10 years ago... bricks, ceiling tiles, water damage, etc.
*ahem*, not depressing that repairs were done, but that they had to be done and were glaringly obvious. :)
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