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Zero_Hour:
bfauska - Were you involved in any of August Wilson's productions when he was still alive? I ask only because a good friend and former roomie, was an assistant to Wilson, even directed him in his One Man show up there.
My theater experience was pretty much exclusively college/community, with one dreadful professional audition, but friends and acquaintances from those days have wound up in: NY(lighting), LA(acting & casting), as well as carrying on back home in Pittsburgh (Lighting/IATSE Union Rep), which is a lot of success in professional theater for a school that didn't even have theater program at the time.
So while I'm not directly involved in it, I sure do talk to people about it a fair amount. ;)
bfauska:
Nope I never had the pleasure of meeting Wilson (well that's assuming it was a pleasure, I've never heard anything about his personality, so maybe honor is a better word.) I started at the Rep last fall. I did get to work a little with Phylicia Rashad this season during her directorial debut on our production of Gem of the Ocean by none other than August Wilson, it was the last play of his that we hadn't produced yet, now we've done them all. Wilson's wife made several appearances and she seemed lovely. Phylicia is a very nice woman, and did an excellent job for her first time directing, if not from an artistic standpoint (mixed reviews) then at least from a professional standpoint.
Zero_Hour:
Very cool stuff. I haven't had the chance to see Gem, or Radio Golf yet, but Wilson's stuff is sort of mandatory viewing for Pittsburgh theater folk. I never had more than a handshake with Wilson myself, so I'm certainly in no position to shed light on him as a personality, but I am certainly a fan of his work.
clanggedin:
I used to build sets for a semi-professional theater here in Utah. I was hired to renovate/restore the building and then moved over to set comstruction. I have also done some acting for the Utah Shakespearian Festival and Provo Theatre Company. We have been family friends with the Osmonds for years and so once in a while I'll help Donny, Marie, Merrill or Alan with local stuff like the Stadium of Fire and other little gigs they do here in Utah. Since most of the Osmonds have headed to Branson I don't do much with them anymore.
polaris:
i cant let that namedrop just pass.
you know the osmonds!
theyre welsh apparently.
cant get better than that
:cheers:
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