We got a great review of Little Women in the Issaquah Press this week. Hopefully this scan is legible enough for you to read all the nice things they said about the production!
Archive for March, 2008
“Big Entertainment,” Indeed!
Posted in Little Women on March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Special Preview Event
Posted in Little Women on March 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This Saturday at 12:30 PM, we are hosting a special preview of Little Women at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park. Victoria Huston-Elem and Dane Stokinger (who play Jo March and Laurie) will be at the bookstore to perform a few musical numbers from the show for your entertainment. We have not done [...]
Setting the Stage for AIDA
Posted in AIDA on March 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The creation of AIDA has been an exciting and new process for Village Theatre. One of the challenges the artistic team has faced is finding a visual connection between the two worlds the show represents: modern day and ancient Egypt.
The design aspect of developing AIDA is a process with many steps, all of which began [...]
Opening Night
Posted in Little Women on March 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On Tuesday night, two nights before opening, the show got a lot of laughs, but I didn’t feel the audience was particularly caught up with the story. Wednesday night, the opposite: not a lot of laughter (at first) but I felt the audience paying attention and really getting involved with the story of the March [...]
The Effort of Effortlessness
Posted in Little Women on March 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After a week of technical rehearsals, we are back to doing run throughs — and how the show has changed. Last week, it was a bunch of actors and a pianist in a rehearsal room. Now, there’s an orchestra and costumes and sets and lights and sound engineers and stage hands. When you’re writing a [...]
Dane Weighs In
Posted in Little Women on March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, Hello. This little blog action is coming to you from the computer of Dane Stokinger. Yeah, I was supposed to have this in a few days ago and I have missed the only deadline of my entire life…. I feel like a reporter, a very bad reporter.
So I had planned on writing this at [...]
Costume Coverage
Posted in Little Women on March 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Issaquah Reporter ran a great story about the Little Women costumes that are being created by the artists in our costume shop, led by designer Cathy Hunt. We can’t link to an online version of the story, so we scanned the article — if you’re interested, here it is:
(The image is about 1MB.)
Drum Roll Please….
Posted in Mainstage on March 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today we announced our 2008-2009 Mainstage Season in the Seattle Times: check it out!
There are many factors involved when selecting the shows that will make up any given season at Village Theatre. For starters, Robb Hunt, executive producer, and Steve Tomkins, artistic director, consider what productions truly excite and challenge them artistically. They consider what [...]
Jo March
Posted in Little Women on March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Introducing Victoria Huston-Elem! She will be playing the role Jo March in Little Women. Victoria hails from New York and is thrilled to be making her Village Theatre debut. She was kind enough to share with us some of her experiences with this show and its journey to the Mainstage. Check it out!
Contrary to popular [...]
