Alfred Molina LIVE on @FOXLA with @Elex_Michaelson & @MarlaTellez talking all things WORDTheatre and our upcoming show "One Long River of Song: Stories by Brian Doyle" at @GRAMMYMuseum on 6/1.
Anyone out in the SoCal area later this month has the opportunity to see our very own Tim DeKay up close and personal. Sadly, we can't be there, but if anyone attends, please be a dear and tell us all about it. We'll all live vicariously through you!
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MARISA SILVER & KATE BURTON • PETER ORNER & TIM DEKAY AT WILLIAM TURNER GALLERY IN SANTA MONICA
IN-PERSON & FILMED FOR MEMBERS
28 January 2023
Kicking off the new year with a 6:00 pm pre-show wine & champagne reception & book signings for two great writers. 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm hear from authors Peter Orner & Marisa Silver. 7:00 pm performances by Tim DeKay & Kate Burton. 9:00 pm private dinner with the authors and actors for those who donate $100 above the ticket price! William Turner's Gallery at Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Avenue, Santa Monica( Ample Parking free!)
Hadestown today for Grace and Dónal's final performances was actually insane. The energy was electric, every single performer on stage gave it their fucking all as though it was also their last performance too, right off the bat everyone was already emotional, the crowd was wild and cheering insanely loud at the very beginning, all the emotional moments were 10x more tender. Dónal's last If It's True was actually fucking crazy it was a showstopper to the point that when it ended not only did everyone applaud like usual but everyone stood up for a grand standing ovation. (Also I was sat next to his parents!! When everyone came out on stage at the beginning his mum stood up and waved and clapped for him, I was so emotional!) During Promises when Eurydice says "You finished it" about Orpheus finally completing his song the whole theatre erupted into cheers and applause (that never happens in that moment). When Grace has her big note at the end of Wait for Me (Reprise) the cheering and applause was so loud. The audience was just electric like never before, the cheering and applause for every single song had such a different and more intense feel to it than any other day. When Orpheus turns around and loses Eurydice the whole theatre held its breath and you could hear a pin drop when Hermes starts singing the finale. Melanie started it so so quietly and solemnly and tragically and it was so beautiful. Everyone on stage was crying when they came to take their bows and Madeline got a moment of appreciation since she's taking over as Eurydice. Dónal and Grace had extended applause moments. Everyone was a sobbing mess during We Raise Our Cups, both audience and cast alike AND!! The rest of the cast (swings and understudies) came out during the song to raise their cups as well!! And then Melanie asked everyone to be seated again and called all the tech team out to stage too, taught us a call and response she'd like us to keep in mind from a storytelling tradition back in Trinidad and Tobago (sorry I can't remember it rn I was too much of an emotional wreck!!) And then she gave Grace and Dónal respectively a beautiful heart felt genuine lovely speech and goodbye, there was not a dry eye in the whole place. She asked everyone on stage to create a path and then sent Grace and Dónal off with a rhyme and the call and response she taught us, and they walked off the way Orpheus and Eurydice would have walked out of hell together if he hadn't turned around!!!!!, and they stopped at the top just before the exit to wave bye to everyone and honestly there's probably loads I'm missing out on but I cried too damn much to be able to have the mental capacity to even formulate thoughts so if anyone else was there today and has anything to add please do so!!!! 😭 it was an insane time and I'm so so glad I got to be there and experience it, it was pure magic. I got this vid of the bows and you can see how emotional everyone was but had to cut it off as We Raise Our Cups started because my hands were shaking so much (I have a full vid of the song from months ago tho if anyone wants to see it just search on my blog)
I have now turned the Majestic Rep Ride The Cyclone Cast into both Stardew Valley characters as well as Legos. This is how I have spent my weekend. No further questions.
I forgive Spencer for pronouncing ASMR As-mer in S14E12. I doubt he’d been to a lecture on ASMR, and we know he wouldn’t have read about it online where he could have heard the pronunciation. So he read it in a book without hearing it and kinda guessed. That’s reasonable. But Garcia?!?!? Chronically online queen?!?!? Girl get up
It’s finally Nye day! ❤️ At the interval now and I’ve already cried and laughed more than I imagined possible. Will write a full post with all of my thoughts at some point soon…