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By Dave, on February 29th, 2012  The Workshops will WOW You!
now posted online
Register Now! early bird rate expires this week!
Experience Great Theatre, Great Times, Great Friends, in a Great City!
July 12-15, 2012
Millennium Broadway Hotel in the heart of the Theatre DistrictLook at these other WOW features:
- Celebrity Reception with playwright Ken Ludwig
- NYC resources-based workshops and tours: actors panel, royalty house reps, hat-making studio, more!
- War Horse, the 2011 Tony Award winning play is now available for 100 convention registrants!
- Also get your ticket to the hottest show on Broadway, The Book of Mormon! (Only a few tickets left.)
- Theatrical vendor exhibits
Register this week for best rates: $997 double/$1342 single; non-members add $55
Registration includes three nights hotel, two Broadway or Off Broadway shows (other show choices will be announced in the spring), workshops and panels, the AACT Awards Party, and the Celebrity Reception with playwright Ken Ludwig.Thanks to our sponsors: Tams-Witmark • Samuel French • Music Theatre International
By Dave, on February 26th, 2012
Podcast: Download (Duration: 19:01 — 43.6MB)
 Julie Crawford, AACT Executive Director American Association of Community TheatreExecutive Director Julie Crawford joins the Geeks to talk about the upcoming AACT convention in NYC.
We also talk about the status of community theatre around the country. Randy Zonker sits in for the traveling John Shoup.
More information about AACT’s convention is here.
Music provided by Music Alley.
By Dave, on February 26th, 2012 Video of Theatre Geeks Live, is now online here and on YouTube. The audio versions are available via the normal routes but now you can see the video as well. Here’s the first episode: All three are viewable here.
By Dave, on February 22nd, 2012
By Dave, on February 19th, 2012
Podcast: Download (Duration: 20:31 — 14.4MB)
Theatre news items of interest are culled from Alltop’s theatre page at theatre.alltop.com, playbill.com and other stories gathered using Feedly and the American Association of Community Theatre. Here are the items for this week:
- Interesting article about the sometimes thankless job of the librettist, or book writer for musicals: http://www.playbill.com/news/article/159878-An-Open-Book-Explaining-What-Musical-Librettists-Do
- The Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s hit production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice‘s JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, directed by 2-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff, opens March 22, 2012 (previews begin March 1) at the Neil Simon Theatre. The cast gave a secret performancelast night, and met the press on Tuesday. Full story at http://broadwayworld.com/article/Saturday-Roundup-This-Week-on-BroadwayWorld-20120218#ixzz1mo50y7OZ
- Speaking of Stratford, their season starts in April with the usual mix of great plays by the Bard and many more. Full season listing is here: http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/
- The blog Shakespeare Geek has an article about a Shakespeare app for your Android phone or device at http://goo.gl/N8nTX
- Basketball and Broadway come together in a new play, Magic/Bird, opening on Broadway this spring. It’s a dual biographical drama about Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. Playbill has an interview with Johnson about the play and his involvement with the playwright, here: http://goo.gl/4eOBf.
- Last week, members of the cast of Newsies, the upcoming stage adaptation of the 1992 Disney musical, did a live streaming chat on Ustream with Q&A from the viewing audience. Newsies just finished some initial performances in New Jersey and opens on Broadway March 15. You can watch the video and read the Playbill.com article here.
- Southeastern Theatre Conference Convention 2012, March 7-11, Chattanooga TN
- TNT Annual Conference, March 16-17, Tyler TX
- PACTFest 2012, March 16-18, Wellsboro, PA
- Theatre New Mexico State Festival, March 23-25, Las Vegas, NM
- Indiana Community Theatre League State Festival 2012, March 23-25, Indianapolis, IN
John, Marcia and Dave will be back in the studio with more shows soon!
By Dave, on February 12th, 2012 No reason to miss a single Theatre Geeks podcast.
When it comes to getting your Geek on, you have a lot of listening optons. At the Theatre Geeks Website, you can listen directly from the page, or download the mp3 file if you wish, but here are some other choices.
We’ve also become aware of an alternative podcatcher app for iOS devices (iPhone/iPad, etc.) called Downcast which looks pretty good to us. It’s just $1.99 and you can check it out here.
By Dave, on February 11th, 2012
Podcast: Download (Duration: 35:40 — 24.5MB)
Plus more of the I know! I know! gameshow
 Deirdre Lovejoy (The Wire, Bones, Body of Proof), joins us once again for more fun and conversation about the theatre and its superstitions (some would say traditions). John and Randy Zonker (one of our audience members) recounts some true ghosts stories that happened in our home theatre, and we again play our gameshow by trying to stump Dede. We close out with another round of LIMERICKs.
Special thanks to the following folks for making this event possible:
Music provided by Music Alley
By Dave, on January 29th, 2012
Podcast: Download (Duration: 24:01 — 16.5MB)
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, Kevin 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:
Music provided by Music Alley
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