This show has edgy content, and is not for the prudish or for children. See more info below.
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Content Warning!
This show has edgy content.
Not for the prudish.
Not for children.
See more info below.
Lysistrata: Directed by Maggie Larrick
Burien Little Theatre Performances are in the Burien Community Center auditorium at Southwest 146th Street and 4th Avenue Southwest
April 4 - April 27, 2008
I'll be the title character in this show. It opens April 4th and runs Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through April 28th. A great cast, amazing crew. BLT has risen like a phoenix from its previous troubles.
Below is a schedule of performances, I'm trying out this thing I found through FaceBook called ReverbNation - It's really for musicians, but I thought I'd try it out for theatre, so I loaded all of our performances in it - click on a performance date to get details in the panel below the list. let me know if this is useful, eh?
Is this show kid-friendly? How about prude-friendly? No, it isn't, dear ones. It's actually pushing my prudish sensibilities to the limit, and we're using the tamest script there is in existence! ::chuckle:: This show is for folks who like the edgier fare - probably the first of my shows that my friend Jim will really like!
It's about women who boycott their husbands (and lovers and casual acquaintances) from all intimacy until they agree to end the war that their countries have been involved in for far too long and at far too high a cost. It was written by Aristophanes in 411 b.c. Greece for a fertility festival during the Peloponnesian war.
As far as I know so far, there isn't any nudity or violence. There are some fight scenes between the choruses of old men and old women. And sexy clothing is in the plans, one lady takes off a lot of her clothing when taunting her husband to make him sign the peace treaty, but no actual nudity - so far, anyway.
There are, however some frighteningly large fake phalluses on the men near the end of the show (to overemphasize the plight of their condition, having been denied intimacy from their wives, presumably). This is apparently a common practice in staging this story. The phalluses resemble nothing more than comically-colored baseball bats, in my opinion. I found them very alarming at first, but now after a few more rehearsals with them in use, I can view them as just silly. There is a big first-time shock value for those not in this show's target audience, however.
Don't say I didn't warn you!
There is a lot of sexual innuendo in the show, and a lot of outright talking about physical effects of sexual abstinence. It was also apparently a common belief in 411 BC Greece that women had uncontrollable sexual appetites when young. Luckily, my character is a little older and more level-headed. Plus there is a chorus of old ladies that is very funny, and near the end there is a woman playing the role of Peace. To quote from an article on ancient Greek Women: "Athenians generally married off their daughters shortly after they reached puberty, moving them from the protection of their fathers to that of their husbands. The men they married were often older, and it was their responsibility to help curb their wives’ sexual appetites, for women’s psychology was viewed — by medical theorists and the general culture — as wanton and uncontrollable."
::chuckle:: Those folks never knew some of my prudish friends and relatives, obviously...
I've been asked the question: Why am I doing this project when it pushes my sensibilities to their limits?
I'm in this for the peace message, the anti-war message, which I believe in very strongly, as did my mother, and as do many of my friends and family members.
Photo Gallery from the Lysistrata Project Modern images of the ravages of war that beg the question: "Why are you fighting? Stop this wickedness. Come to terms with each other"(quoted from the play - Lysistrata's peace negotiation scene)
Body of War
"Enter the story of Iraq war veteran Tomas Young who was shot and
paralyzed less than a week into his tour of duty. Three years in the
making, BODY OF WAR tells the poignant tale of the young man's journey
from joining the service after 9/11 to fight in Afghanistan, to living
with devastating wounds after being deployed to Iraq instead."
I'm bringing to this project my history of growing up in the military under the influence of the Five-Sided Funny Farm (my Dad's term for the Pentagon), and seeing the stupidity that war brings to our society, and most recently I am utterly aghast at the deterioration of the concept of honor in our military ranks (I never expect honor of our political leaders, but I do of the rank and file military), all in the name of fighting terrorism. You know what? If we've stooped that far, the terrorists have won, dear ones. Let's stop this insanity, right now. And that, my friends, is exactly what Lysistrata is about. Stop it now, before we lose any more children and spouses and parents to it.
::sigh:: And you thought my smarminess came from ether. Not so, dear ones. Not so. :-} It comes from losing too many people too young to pointless causes. It comes from growing up watching friends cope when their fathers didn't come home. It comes from watching my dad spend two years dying of something he acquired from side-effects from his military recon missions. It comes from my young childhood years, listening to military servicemen tell war stories, and the looks on their faces when they couldn't go on. It comes from knowing honorable men and women who go to war and come back broken, disenfranchised or not at all. It comes from having idiots in charge of this country, idiots in whose hands lie the welfare of my homeland and my family members' lives.
And it doesn't matter which war, dear ones. This translation we're doing was done in the 1960s. The original Greek version was written 2019 years ago. 'Nuff said.
::a smile and a sigh:: How can smarminess come from all that? When we are at our most desperate for peace, we sometimes seek solace in the trifles of nicety, images of sunshine, love and comfort of friends and family. Cute puppies and kittens. Sunshiny images of faith and hope. Crazy, silly, everyday things that don't need us to worry or grieve about them. We have worry and grief enough.
Enough with the soapbox. This show is a comedy, with all that underneath it.
We have relatives coming from California to see it, they did their research on Wikipedia and decided to take their chances! Woo-hoo! ::chuckle:: I do love my family. :-}
Content Warning!
This show has edgy content.
Not for the prudish.
Not for children.
See more info above.
I google, I share (Dana's amateur dramaturgy of Lysistrata)
As usual, I searched the web for some of my character research, and because I dearly love all of my inquisitive friends and family, who love to research before seeing the show, I share. All of you who like to have things to hum and stuff to look forward to and enough info to know if you can bring the kids and the grandparents. Thank you for all that you are, dear ones. And thank you to my long-distance relatives and friends who just like to use my googling for light, entertaining reading.
Online copies of Lysistrata scripts (none of these are the script we're using, only the first one is the translation from which our script was culled)
Four Comedies by Aristophanes on Google Books It's not plain text you can download, it's in a viewer on Google books, but it is the translation we're using for this production. Ours is briefer, edited by the BLT production staff for brevity and staging purposes.
The Lysistrata Project A peace movement using the play as a statement for today's anti-war efforts.
Historical Context - the sets, costumes and props of our production will have an American 1950s feel to them, but the place and time and event references are original 411 BC Greece, when the play was written. And the lexicon has a little bit of hippie slang from the 1960s, when this version was translated. Some reference info:
Peloponnesian War on Military History Podcast - contains a nice comparison of the real events of the Peloponnesian War to the Cold War, succinct description of the Sicilian Expedition (analagous to the Vietnam Conflict for the US), in which the title character of the play (which is fiction set among real events of 411 BC Greece) lost her sons.
February 2008 - I have redesigned my web site (this one, Dana Rice's WWW Home), and gave it a new green design with a regular toolbar at top and bottom instead of the previous array of oddball buttons. And I finally realized a dream of adding a new page called "Which Dana Rice are you looking for?" because I get so many calls for other people with my name, I'd like it to be easier to find them. I also have a new Photos page, so I'll be moving photos from their current shared location with resumes and contact info onto their own screen. Once I pick a final headshot for print purposes! So much to do!
As you know, I've been a technical webmaster and other computer-geekly things for a day job since 1994. Since late 1998, I've been the webmaster for Seattle City Light, which is a Public Power Utility, a department of the Seattle municipal government. The Mayor's office has begun a re-design project of the entire www.seattle.gov site, including ours - www.seattle.gov/light/. Feel free to peruse it and send me comments at dana.rice@seattle.gov or you can call or fax or whatever works for you. Tell me what you like as well as what you don't, so we'll know what to keep and what to add and what to highlight if it's there but you can't find it. Please include the URL (web address) of any pages that you have specific comments on.
I've also been working on a freelance web site http://www.LaurieMarum.com/ with my friend NancyEllen Regier (N'Ellen), who is an ace Graphics Designer. Please feel free to peruse the site and send us feedback! N'Ellen's graphics, as always, are stunning and beautiful. :-} She was working with Laurie on brochures, and designed her logo and branding and color scheme. And when they had a good start going on brochures, N'Ellen said, what else do you need? And Laurie said, how about a web site? N'Ellen designed it and handed it off to me to make the code, find the hosting service and get the site published and promoted. My first experience doing all that at once! Quite exciting! I need to meet more graphics designers who don't like to do code. :-} Well, maybe!
Mystery Madness : A Trilogy of Terror
Directed by Julie Beckman
Stone Soup Theatre 4035 Stone Way N, Seattle, WA 98103 October 18-November 10, 2007
$5 Preview night Wednesday, October 17th
All four shows are $10 on opening weekend - October 18th, 19th and 20th
Thurs nights & Sat Matinees $11, Fri & Sat Nights $22
Showtimes: Thurs, Fri, Sat at 8:00pm and Sat matinees at 3:30pm
Running time: about 1 and a half hours, each show in the trilogy is about 20-25 minutes
Call (206) 633-1883 for more information and tickets
Stone Soup is a 48-seat theatre on the border between Wallingford and Fremont. Practically across the street from the emergency veterinary clinic we've grown to know and appreciate.
Mystery Madness: A Trilogy of Terror, directed by Julie Beckman; 3 twists of mystery and terror to keep you on the edge... of your seat; The Tell-Tale Heart (adapted) / Sorry, Wrong Number / Trifles. Stone Soup Theatre, October 17 - November 10; 4035 Stone Way N, Seattle
This coming October to November, I'll be solving a murder mystery with a quilt and a songbird, and talking an hysterical woman through a terrifying night in two of the three one-act plays coming up at Stone Soup Theatre.
Quoting from the venue's promo: "Stone Soup Theatre presents three suspense classics for the Halloween Season with Poe's "Tell-Tale Heart." Actor Eric Reidman portrays a man who commits murder and is driven to madness by his relentless heartbeat. In "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell we watch a classic murder mystery based on the investigation of a man found hanged in his bedroom and then reveal how suspect and victim become one. With "Sorry, Wrong Number," Maureen Miko, Stone Soup Theatre's Artistic Director portrays the bedridden Mrs. Stevenson who overhears a telephone conversation between two men plotting an innocent woman's murder. We watch Fletcher's tense and claustrophobic tale unfold from her trapped perspective on the bed alone as she makes her journey into terror. Join us for a chilling evening of terror and madness!!"
Is this show kid-friendly? How about prude-friendly? I would rate this show pretty safe for prudes, and older kid-okay, but not for the faint of heart. There might be a bit of violence suggested on stage. There is a fair amount of suspense, spookiness and describing very violent acts. There isn't any swearing, nudity or bathroom humour (except if you're watching the show with my friend Jim, gifted with finding the double-entendre in everything :-} ). If you're still not sure if it's for you, check out my research links below. Our versions are staged differently than the audio-only versions and use slightly different scripts, but you can get an idea. It's definitely spooky and close-up in the small venue - great for Hallowe'en season, eh?
I google, I share
As usual, I googled for some of my character research, and because I dearly love all of my inquisitive friends and family, who love to research before seeing the show, I share. All of you who like to have things to hum and stuff to look forward to and enough info to know if you can bring the kids and the grandparents. Thank you for all that you are, dear ones. And thank you to my long-distance relatives and friends who just like to use my googling for light, entertaining reading.
Annotated Study Guide version of the script Not the official published version, this script does have a few typos, but it's got a cute little class project version of the annotation.
Trifles - script only with lots of typos and a few omissions Also not the official published version, this one takes some correction to be usable, it's missing words and lines here and there. But it gives you an idea what the action is about, for sure!
News from Danaland and Dr. Ice's Village As of February, 2008
Well, it's been a long three months since the Trilogy closed, but I met some great folks in that show, and they have inspired me to get auditioning for real - not just for friends or by referral, but auditioning for real for strangers and new companies and all that.
Oh! Speaking of "A Trilogy of Terror", here's a nice review from that show:
"...Shanna Allman and Dana Rice effectively convey their growing
understanding of the costs of that reality and its social
implications. Much is learned here, much growth takes place, but
without actor tricks, or sentimentality. It's all the more
powerful because of the subtlety with which it is presented." -
Nancy Worssam, Queen Anne News
Shanna was so amazing to work with, you guys. I was so lucky to have that entire cast and crew come into my life. They kicked my acting chops into shape and are now inspiring me to great endeavours of learning and new horizons. Seriously.
If you saw the show and would like to catch Shanna's next gig, she's in The Miser at the Seattle Shakespeare Company. Everybody in the Trilogy cast is busy on their next projects - not surprising, eh!?! Corey McDaniel just closed Sense and Sensibility at the Meydenbauer. He was on stage in that with Jane Martin, you remember her as Mrs. Ravenscroft a few years ago on Mercer Island.
So, to prepare for my beginning to audition sometime in the next 6 months, I have spent the last 2 months reading a large list of plays, listening to a ton of show tunes, finding old lists of monologues and songs recommended by coaches (and/or friends and/or internet bulletin boards for theatre people that recommend songs for my age/vocal range/ typishness, etc.), made lists of the potential material, got copies of sheet music and plays, edited a dozen monologues down to a minute or so, found recorded backtracks for as many of the show tunes as I had music for (and some that I don't), spent every night for weeks playing and singing and speaking through material to learn it, spent long hours at Kinko's compiling the book I now have of tunes with music in the right key, with edges taped together for the accompanists' convenience and arranged in the same order as the backtrack CD that now I sing along to to practice them.
I did most of that on my own.
Mostly in my basement.
I _really_ needed some external reference information. Someone to verify things I had no way to know.
So, for one thing, I signed up for a kick-bouton amazing class at Freehold - Singing and the Alexander Technique. I totally recommend this class, you guys. Even if you don't think you're a singer. Seriously!
Oh, and meanwhile my friends from BLT called me to their auditions for Lysistrata, and cast me in the title role! I know! How nice are they, anyway! ::chuckle:: We've just had one rehearsal so far, but it looks like a lotta fun, and a big challenge! I think it will definitely push the limits of my prudish sensibilities, but so many of my friends are saying that's just what I need! ::exasperated sigh:: I get no sympathy for being a prude. And the cast ofthe show is already telling jokes I don't even _want_ to understand. ::sigh:: Mercy. Well, I figure if Cherry Jones can play this role in a bawdier translation, I can certainly handle this milder one in a community theatre in Burien. :-} ::knock on wood::
Oh, and I got myself a little macbook because my PC had fallen apart to the point that I could no longer make line-learning recordings, or burn CDs of the backtracks of the songs and monologues I'm trying to learn. So, I spent the first weekend with it learning Garage Band and made a couple of test recordings with backtracks for audition tunes I'm learning. These are just tests using the built-in mic and basic settings on the machine. I loaded them up onto ReverbNation, which I found through FaceBook, and here's widget of them so you can see how crazy people can get when holed up in their basement a bit too long:
Meanwhile, we've had yet more friends diagnosed with Alzheimer's, breast cancer and brain tumors. We've taken to working mainly for those charities, now that opportunities for Katrina relief are fewer and farther between. We still carry on my mother's wish for us to support animal rescue groups like Pasado's Safe Haven. We can't believe that they've had to investigate such things as someone placing rat poison in parks in Seattle. What is this world coming to!?!
I also redesigned my web site and gave it a new green design with a regular toolbar at top and bottom instead of the previous array of oddball buttons. And I finally realized a dream of adding a new page called "Which Dana Rice are you looking for?" because I get so many calls for other people with my name, I'd like it to be easier to find them. I also have a new Photos page, so I'll be moving photos from their current shared location with resumes and contact info onto their own screen. Once I pick a final headshot for print purposes! So much to do!
After this show is done, I'll be re-designing the Dr. Ice site, as well, in a similar but ice blue color scheme. :-}
Well, that's about all to say for now. I hope all is well with you, dear ones.
Peace, light, art, music, magic, health and happiness be with you.
As of August, 2007
Acting projects are in the works, dear ones. Very cool project happening Oct-Nov 2007, A Trilogy of Terror at Stone Soup Theatre!
I'm always looking for good monologues, too (see below).
Dr. Ice is very worried about global warming. We're riding bikes to work and such things. That is, when we aren't dealing with all the branches coming off our trees due to the weight of their fruit this year... Wow! And it's not even ripe yet!
As of January 7, 2007
The band is still on break this year, while my buddy Bruce builds out his basement (alliteration not intentional). I did some shows just before that - "Sylvia" in January 2006, "Ravenscroft" before that,"Sure Thing" in fall 2005. Just when things were settling down with family and day job, and we settled into our West Seattle neighborhood, having moved last year and then had a bunch of repairs done on the house, and having reached a maintainable rhythm with visiting our nine (!) nieces and nephews (most of whom are under 5 years old), all heck broke loose with my mom's and pop's health issues, and with my impossibly-stinky day job.
Our other family members' health problems were in lower maintenance mode, so it looked like things were evening out. My braces were off, I was pretty well recovered from the car accident, and then we find out that my mom is a CO2 retainer and begin the long journey of hospitals and rehab and all sorts of things I wouldn't wish on anyone in a million years.
End-stage emphysema. COPD. Nobody knows how to deal with a "CO2 retainer". We discover she's been braving it through two strokes, two anurisms, and a host of other problems due to long-term oxygen deprivation and CO2 retention. Seven or eight people go through a hospital room every day and crank up the patient's oxygen when they've been breathing the equivalent oxygen of the top of Mount Everest for over a decade. Levels above 1 liter are lethal. That means the amount you and I breathe in the air every day is lethal to these people. Even a big sign by the doctor doesn't prevent the stupidity. And then there's the bi-pap machine, that everyone assumes she's well-familiar with so she was never properly fitted with a mask and the last rehab place didn't check her CO2 levels until they were beyond lethal, even for someone with her amazing survival record. Meanwhile, the doctors were saying that she didn't need the bi-pap every night, that they were doing a test every night that showed that she didn't need it. The only test that could've been would've been a blood gas test for CO2 levels, and it turned out they weren't taking them. And didn't. Until they were lethal and it was too late.
If anybody you know ever gets to be a CO2 retainer, I'd say get them used to the bi-pap machine, and get them out of the hospital as soon as you can. Most doctors and nurses, at least the ones in Florida anyway, seem to have no clue around this stuff, man. And the few that do can't prevent the many that don't from killing your family member with normal oxygen levels and no CO2 removal from their lungs.
::climbing down off soapbox:: Sorry to go on about something so devastating, I just can't believe how stupid the whole thing ended up being.
One more thing. I don't like to lecture, but my entire extended family asks that everyone please be humane to your family. Get a will done. Register it and tell everyone where it is. Seriously. Save them the anguish and the rifts and the craziness that the estate process affords without the torture of not having a will. And if _anyone_ starts acting crazy about it, get them checked for brain tumors and diabetes! Seriously! Mercy on us, what a year this was.
If you knew my amazing mom and her multitude of causes, or would just like to contribute to some of them, she asked for memorial contributions to be given to non-kill animal rescue groups or to Habitat for Humanity. Her name was Barbara Rice, she was an accomplished artist and musician, and she participated in various causes throughout her lifetime. She helped battered spouses, rescued stray and feral animals, contributed art and music supplies (and instruction) to schools and individuals, and help arrange drug rehab for soldiers returning from the Viet Nam war.
She was a great lady and is missed by legions of friends and family members all over the world.
Ready for more of my 2006 adventures? Just when we were really starting to think things were on the upswing later in the year, we got more bad news. My step-dad Pete was diagnosed with a brain tumor a few months ago, and my step-dad-in-law Terry was diagnosed with Alzheimer's! (Both of them also battle diabetes and other issues.) Mercy on us, I almost had a heart attack myself! Luckily, my stepdad Pete came through the surgery with flying colours, he's able to travel again and finally be without constant supervision. He just needs to pass a psych eval and get his driving permission back, and things will hopefully reach a new equilibrium. We discovered through our discussions with family that we know an incredibly high number of folks who are brain tumor survivors. Note that I said survivors. Seriously, things are improving so much in that field these days. Does make you wonder what the cause of the seemingly increased numbers might be - cell phones? Bluetooth? More people living near high-voltage power lines? What is the deal?
And my stepdad-in-law, Terry, is doing very well on his new meds for the Alzheimer's symptoms. A great relief! We are so heightened in our awareness of how precious our time is with all of our parents. Terry is the sweetest person on earth, and an accomplished biochemist. We are so happy he's doing well!
And finally, we endured the Big Northwest Blackout in December 2006. Eight days of no heat in our house! We heated bricks on the propane grill (Yes, outdoors! Everybody asks that now after all the tragic occurrences of carbon monoxide poisoning that happened that week... Mercy, mercy, mercy...), just like I'd read about while doing character research for plays like Little Women and The Cripple of Inishmaan. A few days after our power came on, friends said we looked like we'd just been camping for a week in the cold weather when it was over. ::chuckle:: Well, in essence, we did! It was an adventure that was only remediated by our annual Christmas trip to visit family in Albuquerque, where we were treated to record snowfall - 15 inches in one day! Lots of sledding with small boys, great fun to round out the year!
We are so blessed that we survived 2006, dear ones. So blessed. And so happy that 2007 is going better!
::clearing throat:: Well, so sorry again for all the downer news. ::chuckle:: Typical actor, eh? Hi, I've got these terrible life events going on, do you have these? How do you use them in your work? What are your triggers and coping mechanisms? How do they feed your characters? ::chuckle:: ::sigh::
In much happier news, we got a new dog in 2005 and a new cat a year after that. Katie's a six-year-old gun-shy German Shorthaired Pointer mix, and we got very lucky with her. We found her through PetFinder.com and she is just the cutest thing. And we certainly don't mind that she came already housetrained, great with cats and kids and elderly folks. There were three hunting families who owned her previously, and none of them wanted to give her up even when they found that she was gun-shy, because she's such a sweetheart! We're making a very happy city dog out of her, we take her to parks and out on mountain biking trails, and she loves it! She's even learned to drink from her own bike-style water bottle. :-} Oh, and you can't really see in the photo, but she has a piano key collar, black and white like her coat. Her theme song is "Ebony and Ivory". (Maya's theme song was "Brown Thing, You Make My Heart Sing" ::chuckle:: Yes, we are very silly people!)
We still have Edgar, our 13-year-old "house lion", and Katie got herself a new kitten, Simon. So, we're back up to our legal limit of pets again after all of our geriatric girls died in the same year. We didn't plan for Maya, Alice and Rita to live 16-18 years, but we are so grateful they did. I had a little melancholy moment a few weeks ago when I discovered Simon sleeping on "Rita's chair". (Hey, you knew I was sappy. Let it go, eh? :-} ::chuckle:: )
One upside to the acting sabbatical - we got to do all sorts of local things that I rarely have time for - taking nephews to the Pacific Science Center, seeing friends' theatre shows, weekend trips to the beach, and Folklife was grand year! We got to go all four days for the first time in years! Singing, drumming, all sorts of wonderful things did I get to do! Got to see and catch up with all sorts of long-lost friends, as well!
Trouble e-mailing me?
Hey, a few friends have been telling me that they've had trouble reaching me via email lately - I should be reachable at [prettymuchanything]@danarice.net, I usually advertise dana@danarice.net, which is actually an alias to drice@eskimo.com. It seems that some people's email addresses are getting caught in my ISP's spam filters, or something! What a pain! (Death to Spam and the havoc it wreaks!) If neither of those addresses work for you, I have a free yahoo account drice62web@yahoo.com that I usually just use for web surfing to keep spam away from my real account. Feel free to use it, I do check it almost every day. Especially if you have trouble with my other account and/or its aliases, please forward bounce messages to my yahoo account. I need to forward them to the good folks at Eskimo so they can help with whatever's happening! Cool? Thanks!
Suggestions for Small Projects? - Anyway, while I was unable to do theatre productions, I was playing drums in a blues band and bass in a basement rock band, and doing low-commitment-type acting or singing adventures in-between trips to care for family members, so open mikes or new script readings were the order of the day... Any other suggestions for exercising the acting/singing/music chops? Email me! I'm always up for a grab-the-guitar and sing-with-friends event, feel free to call or email. I just found out about the Seattle Folklore Society Song Circle, which sounds like a great way to practice singing and playing impromptu-style. And you know me, I can sing for hours!
Dana Needs New Monologues - I'm also looking to add to my monologue repertoire, so if you have any suggestions for a 40-something female character actor, please send ideas to me at either drice@danarice.net or drice62web@yahoo.com. The audition folks around here suggest all sorts of criteria, and those criteria, if you listen to every one, eventually conflict with each other. Very exhausting. Basically, I'm looking for pieces that are from real plays or movies, are real action (as in not just telling a story about the past), and preferably are in a moment of decision, crisis or confusion. The best ones are often written as lop-sided dialogues, the kind where the other person in the dialogue is imaginary or unresponsive - in a coma, passed out drunk, asleep, etc... or they're just saying things like "uh-huh" or "Well..." and getting interrupted by the main speaker. It doesn't have to be age-or-gender appropriate, although I'm not likely to do something that's, say, about a teenager finding out she's pregnant unless it resonates for a 40-year-old finding out she's pregnant... See what I mean?
Talaria VoiceOver/ Modeling Shoot - Henry Hart recently told me to talk to the nice people at Talaria, and I did a photo shoot and voiceover session with them. They are great, the folks at Talaria, I highly recommend working with them if you have the chance. :-} Since writing this, I've worked on another project with them - a true video project, and they are just wonderful!
The Blood Family Basement Band - After I played drums with the blues band Late Summer Purple for a year, I started playing bass and singing with my friend Bruce Blood's garage band - or, more precisely, his _basement_ band. ::chuckle:: ( I know, just when you thought I was a drummer! Sorry! I moved around a lot as a kid, and picked up a bunch of different instruments along the way.) If you came out to see me when I sang my tunes at the Featured Guest slot at the Victory Music open mic a few years ago, this is the same Bruce that played with me on that gig. He's an awesome guitar player and songwriter, and I'm happy to be helping out recording his awesome tunes (and maybe some of my own, we'll see :-} ) The main endeavour of this band is recording, but if we ever play out, I'll let you know! We joke about names for the album - Blood Family Rough Cuts is my personal fave - even though it totally belies the lack of any violence in Bruce's tunes or lyrics. ::sigh:: Oh, well, contrast and surprise can be good!
If you need some theatre entertainment, there's always SeattlePerforms.com to see what's playing.
If you're an actor, I'd really be interested in your feedback on recent experiments with my callboards portal. I added "preview boxes" for several of the callboards, so I don't have to leave the one screen for my fave callboards. The first try at it was a failure, it loaded to slow because some of the callboards had popup ads and whatnot.
As always, may you have as much peace, light, art, music, magic, health
and happiness as you can comfortably tolerate in your life!
If you aren't already on my email show notice list, and you'd like me to contact you when I'm in plays or musical projects, I can _so_ do that! I have email lists, I have a phone, it's all good. Just let me know how you'd like to be notified. Call me at 206-361-5905 or email me at drice@danarice.net and say, "Please put me on your mailing list!", or some such thing. You can also just mention it the next time I see you, eh? Don't forget! And don't forget to tell me about your artistic endeavours, too!
Thanks to everyone who's been sending me their news about artistic endeavours, and thanks also to all who use my show notices as an excuse to catch up! I love that!
Song Lyrics & Other Writing
A special thanks to those of you who've asked for the lyrics to my original tunes.
They are now on my Writing Collection web site, along with some other of my writing stuff:
Dana's Writing Collection And
thank you very much for asking! I hope to get some more songs written one of these days!
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