Theatre Geeks is live again at the Bristol Opera House in Bristol, Indiana with Deirdre Lovejoy, Keven Egelsky and Rick Ellis playing our theatre trivia game, “I know! I Know!”  Listen as the Geeks and audience members compete . . . → Read More: Theatre trivia and bad theatre etiquette – LIVE!]]> Cell phones, noisy candy and latecomers top our bad theatre etiquette list

Emcee Kevin Egelsky

Theatre Geeks is live again at the Bristol Opera House in Bristol, Indiana with Deirdre Lovejoy, Keven Egelsky and Rick Ellis playing our theatre trivia game, “I know! I Know!”  Listen as the Geeks and audience members compete for goofy prizes with a round of “Get the Geeks” plus ever-popular limerick game.

Special thanks to the following folks for making this event possible:

• Kristin-Schwerha Scott
• Kori Fortunato
• Rick Ellis
• Kevin Egelsky
• Amy Pawlosky
• Mark Potuck
• … and Mel Moore for taking some great pix of the event.

Music provided by Music Alley

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Following are . . . → Read More: 50 Theatre Geeks Extra for January 25, 2012]]> Theatre Geeks’ first news podcast

The first biweekly news report on theatre happenings around country and the world, hosted by Dave Dufour.  This is an experiment, and does NOT replace our regular Dave-John-Marcia roundtable discussion.  This news rundown and commentary will appear between the bi-weekly shows that feature all three of us.

Following are all the links referred to in the show.

• Death of a Salesman Revival on Broadway
• Favorite Ethel Merman Moments
• Original London Cast of Les Miserables told that royalties on original cast album will cease
• Mythbusters on stage (review)
• The Mythbusters guys talk about their stage show
• Should theatre leave more to the imagination? — Write to Dave with your thoughts on this one.
• Naked Boys Singing closes the curtain (finally).
• Tony Award Winning Memphis will be broadast on PBS
• William Shatner to tour his one-man show
• Pecha-Kucha night in Chicago is March 6

AACT Events

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This is going to be a great event so be there or be square!  Be sure to call for reservations!

We’ll be recording three special episodes of Theatre Geeks LIVE at the Bristol Opera House, for the benefit of Elkhart Civic Theatre. In addition to our usual brand of convsersation, we’ll be playing “I Know! I Know!”, our own theatre . . . → Read More: Theatre Geeks Live Podcast coming January 14!]]>

Join us to celebrate the start of our third year on the internet!

We’ll be recording three special episodes of Theatre Geeks LIVE at the Bristol Opera House, for the benefit of Elkhart Civic Theatre. In addition to our usual brand of convsersation, we’ll be playing “I Know! I Know!”, our own theatre quiz gameshow, with quizmaster Rick Ellis and emcee Mark Potuck keeping us honest and moving things along.  And YOU can play too — it’ll be a whole lotta fun, with PRIZES for lucky audience members as well!

Join us at the Bristol Opera House, January 14, 2012 for Brunch at 10:00 am, with the show starting at 10:30.  Admission will be $10, all to benefit Elkhart Civic Theatre.  ANYone is welcome, so if you’re a regular listener to Theatre Geeks, we’d love to meet you at our home theatre.

To reserve a seat for “I know! I know!,” call the Bristol Opera House weekday afternoons at 574-848-4118. Reservations can be made starting Monday, December 26.

More details will be released as we get closer to the date.  Just reserve your seat now!

Using the correct music and sound effects can make a big difference in theatrical productions, but there are some problems and pitfalls, both esthetic and legal. The Geeks discuss some of the issues and decisions that have to be made about the use of sound and music in . . . → Read More: 48: Music and sound on stage]]>

Making your shows sound better

Using the correct music and sound effects can make a big difference in theatrical productions, but there are some problems and pitfalls, both esthetic and legal. The Geeks discuss some of the issues and decisions that have to be made about the use of sound and music in community theatre productions.

Music for this episode provided by Music Alley at http://www.musicalley.com.

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James Franco is holding a seance to call up the spirit of Tennessee Williams, as part of a larger artistic theatre work.  Is it art or just an actor being particularly goofy?  This is too spooky for me, anyway (Dave).  Read more here:  James Franco tries to contact Tennessee Williams for theatre . . . → Read More: James Franco: Ghost Hunter?]]>

James Franco is holding a seance to call up the spirit of
Tennessee Williams, as part of a larger artistic theatre work.  Is it art or just an actor being particularly goofy?  This is too spooky for me, anyway (Dave).  Read more here:  James Franco tries to contact Tennessee Williams for theatre piece | Stage | guardian.co.uk.

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Stories Come To Life With A Fistful of Scripts.

Theatre Geeks is in . . . → Read More: Theatre Geeks now on Stitcher Smart Radio]]> Theatre Geeks is now available via the Stitcher Smart Radio app for iPhone/iPad, Android and Blackberry.  Stitcher is a streaming audio app that lets you “tune in” to the latest episodes of over 5,000 podcasts and radio programs.  You can set up your own favorites, creating a personal “radio station.”

Theatre Geeks is in Stitcher’s theatre category, which currently has 19 other theatre-oriented podcasts as well.

Stitcher is free and it’s a great way to keep up with Theatre Geeks when you’re on the go!   You can also use the Stitcher program from your browser.  Learn more about Stitcher at http://www.stitcher.com.

The video below will give you an idea of how it works — the interface has been updated since this video was made, but you’ll get the idea.

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Seeing more theatre is important to becoming a better actor, director or techie.

Sometimes in community theatre we become very wrapped up in our own projects and don’t seem to find the time to see other theatrical productions, be they professional or amateur.  Dave, John and Marcia discuss how . . . → Read More: 46: What theatre have you seen lately?]]>

Photo by Kimberlee Kessler

Seeing more theatre is important to becoming a better actor, director or techie.

Sometimes in community theatre we become very wrapped up in our own projects and don’t seem to find the time to see other theatrical productions, be they professional or amateur.  Dave, John and Marcia discuss how seeing all kinds of theatre, good or bad, helps us become better performers and technicians.

Music for this episode provided by Music Alley.

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Theatre Geeks is in the . . . → Read More: Vote for us in the Peoples’ Choice Podcast Awards]]> Thanks to you, Theatre Geeks is on the ballot!

Over 1.4 million podcast listeners voted to put their favorite podcasts on the Peoples’ Choice Podcast Awards ballot, and Theatre Geeks made it!  That means a whole lotta listeners like you helped nominate us, and we thank you very much.

Theatre Geeks is in the Cultural/Arts category against some stiff competition, so we need your help for the final voting.

Final ballot open for voting October 12 – 27.

Help us win our category by voting here.

You can vote once per day during the open period. That’s right; just like in Chicago, you can vote often, so please do!  And vote for your favorite podcasts in the other categories, too.  There are some other great shows out there that deserve your support.

Thanks again for getting us on the ballot, and thanks in advance for helping us win!

Music provided by Music . . . → Read More: 44: Stanislavski’s got nothing on us!]]> Tips for Actors

Doug Lunn and Annette Kaczanowski join us for a third (out of four) sessions to talk about acting, creating a character, and making the play better as an actor no matter how big your part is.

Music provided by Music Alley.

Music provided by Music Alley

It’s time again for the Podcast Awards, and we’d love it if you’d nominate Theatre Geeks in the Cultural/Arts category. If we get enough nominations to end up on the final ballot, it means we can get . . . → Read More: Nominate Theatre Geeks for the Podcast Awards (please)]]>

Nominate us in only ONE category. Nominating in several categories gets your nomination form tossed out.

It’s time again for the Podcast Awards, and we’d love it if you’d nominate Theatre Geeks in the Cultural/Arts category. If we get enough nominations to end up on the final ballot, it means we can get exposed to literally hundreds of thousands of people voting. This is a case where being nominated is almost more valuable than winning.

The nominating form is here at http://www.podcastawards.com.  

If  you listen to other podcasts in other categories and wish to nominate them as well, have the information for them ready, because you can only submit the nominating form ONCE.  The video by Todd Cochrane at the top of the nominations page will give you more information on the awards and the nominating procedure.

The picture at right shows the Cultural/Arts category filled out for Theatre Geeks.  DON’T nominate us in more than one category UNLESS it’s “Peoples’ Choice” in addition to Cultural/Arts. That’s the limit.  If you nominate us in more than one program category, your form will be disqualified, so don’t waste your nominations. 

Nominations close on September 30.  After that, we’ll have information on voting.

Thanks for your help, and please keep listening to Theatre Geeks.

Theatre Geeks is now featured on the theatre page of Alltop, a highly rated aggregator of quality web content.  Apparently, our podcast was interesting enough for the Alltop folks to put us on their arts/theatre page.  Check it out here.

Here’s some additional info about Alltop from their . . . → Read More: We made Alltop!]]>

Now, here’s what that means.

Theatre Geeks is now featured on the theatre page of Alltop, a highly rated aggregator of quality web content.  Apparently, our podcast was interesting enough for the Alltop folks to put us on their arts/theatre page.  Check it out here.

Here’s some additional info about Alltop from their statement of purpose:

The purpose of Alltop is to help you answer the question, “What’s happening?” in “all the topics” that interest you. You may wonder how Alltop is different from a search engine. A search engine is good to answer a question like, “How many people live in China?” However, it has a much harder time answering the question, “What’s happening in China?” That’s the kind of question that we answer.

We do this by collecting the headlines of the latest stories from the best sites and blogs that cover a topic. We group these collections — “aggregations” — into individual web pages. Then we display the five most recent headlines of the information sources as well as their first paragraph. Our topics run from adoption to zoologywith photography, food, science, religion, celebrities, fashion, gaming, sports, politics, automobiles, Macintosh, and hundreds of other subjects along the way.

You can think of Alltop as the “online magazine rack” of the web. We’ve subscribed to thousands of sources to provide “aggregation without aggravation.” To be clear, Alltop pages are starting points—they are not destinations per se. Ultimately, our goal is to enhance your online reading by displaying stories from sources that you’re already visiting plus helping you discover sources that you didn’t know existed.

Being on Alltop is not recognition or a “prize,” although we’re glad to get it.  But what it really means is that our show will be introduced to a much larger potential audience.

Ten years ago, “Saturday Night Live” gave a grieving America permission to laugh again. Certainly, no sane person could find humor in the horror that was Sept. 11, 2001. As a native New Yorker, . . . → Read More: Permission to Laugh Again]]> Stephen Medwid, a New York actor, gives his impressions of how comedy came back in the grim days after 9/11.

Ten years ago, “Saturday Night Live” gave a grieving America permission to laugh again. Certainly, no sane person could find humor in the horror that was Sept. 11, 2001. As a native New Yorker, the loss of life and destruction literally hit too close to home for me.

via Permission to Laugh Again

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In the first of four episodes with guests Doug Lunn and Annette Kaczanowski, the Geeks discuss the process and challenges facing vocal directors of musical comedies.

Music provided by Music . . . → Read More: 42: Vocal Director Challenges]]>

Doug Lunn & Annette Kaczanowski

In the first of four episodes with guests Doug Lunn and Annette Kaczanowski, the Geeks discuss the process and challenges facing vocal directors of musical comedies.

Music provided by Music Alley

 Harvey Fierstein Adds Love to ‘Newsies’. Interesting how Fierstein approaches making a movie-to-stage transformation work.  We’ll see how it does box-office wise, but I (Dave) have always liked Fierstein’s work.

NOTE: There is some static in this episode . . . → Read More: 41 Miss America pageant system and performing arts (Miss Indiana, part 2)]]> Miss Indiana Jackie Jerlecki joins us for a second episode to talk about how her experience in the Miss America Pageant system dovetails with her performing arts and theatre aspirations.  Do young women learn about performance as participants in pageants?  Get an inside look from Jackie.

NOTE: There is some static in this episode that was not evident when we were recording.  Most of the session is clean and clear so we’ve left it intact.

Music provided by Music Alley.

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Back in April at the Indiana Community Theatre League festival in Kokomo, we interviewed Larry Creviston, Chairman of the AACT National Festival, which will be in Carmel, Indiana (just North of Indianapolis) in June of 2013. Finally, here is that conversation between Larry and the Geeks.  Larry tells us about some of the . . . → Read More: 41B Bonus episode — planning AACT Fest 2013 in Carmel, Indiana]]>

Back in April at the Indiana Community Theatre League festival in Kokomo, we interviewed Larry Creviston, Chairman of the AACT National Festival, which will be in Carmel, Indiana (just North of Indianapolis) in June of 2013. Finally, here is that conversation between Larry and the Geeks.  Larry tells us about some of the new developments in Carmel’s community theatre scene, and some of his initial plans for the festival. Find out if you have to be crazy to take on a project like this!

Information on AACT Fest 2013 can be found at  www.carmelrepertorytheatre.com.

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The best way to get ready mentally for an audition is to go in as prepared as possible. “Make a professional-level commitment to your craft,” says Karen Kohlhaas, New York–based director, author, teacher, and co-founder of the Atlantic Theater Company. “Practice treating every audition, rehearsal, or . . . → Read More: The Psychology of Auditioning]]> From Back Stage

The best way to get ready mentally for an audition is to go in as prepared as possible. “Make a professional-level commitment to your craft,” says Karen Kohlhaas, New York–based director, author, teacher, and co-founder of the Atlantic Theater Company. “Practice treating every audition, rehearsal, or scene you do for a class like it is a professional job. The more work you put in, the more you will feel you deserve to be there, and to be seen and heard by your auditors and audiences.”

Read more on The Psychology of Auditioning.

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Read more at Struts and Frets: Kris Joseph.