The Boys Are Back in Town

Sound the alarm!

*rings bell*
*bangs gong*
*blows trumpet*
*lights signal fire*
*squeezes cat*

There!

Have I succeeded in getting your attention?
Good.

Aside from this typically loony preamble, there will be no superfluous information in this post. It will be purely notices for upcoming shows.

And I'm in a rush, so follow me like a leopard

(See that? I'm in such a rush that I didn't have time to add a punctuation mark to the end of that last sentence.)

'Cause, man o' man, it seems I am flagrantly behind in my posting. Children, there is little to do and much time to do it in.
Scratch that, as Tony would say, and reverse it.



Jason Frank is in a new show, and I'm sorry to say we'll have to join him in medias reis.
That is, it's run has already begun.

The show is called Coraline and it is the stage adaptation of a novel (and soon to be animated film) by legendary comic book author Neil Gaiman. (Someone with whom you desreputable phillistines are infuriatingly unfamiliar.)
Normally, an upcoming film version of a book would mean that the book could not be adapted for the stage, but Holy Cross was extremely fortunate, and benefitted from Mr. Gaiman's extreme generosity-- and so got the rights to adapt Coraline to the stage.

Gaiman createdity this series called Sandman, about a group of characters he calls The Endless. The title character is the avatar of the realm of your sleeping mind and is known as Dream.
He also wrote the screenplay for the film MirrorMask. (Something you tasteless hacks probably noted on the movie store racks and passed by as you made your way towards the latest Aston Kutcher vomit-fest.)

Anyway, all scorn aside, this promises to be an amazing show.

The show is adapted and directed by Professor Lynn Kremer, with choreographyby I Wayan Dibia, music by Michael Gardiner. The puppets (there are fucking puppets! Go to see it now. Right now! Puppets!) and projections by Andrea Caspari.

The show opened Thursday, the 22nd. (Profusest and sincerest apologies again for not alerting you sooner). It ran from the 22nd through the 24th.
But do not despair, poppets!
The show will run again, starting up this Thursday, the 29th, and running through Saturday the 31st.
All shows start at 8:00 in the Fenwick Theatre, which is conveniently located on the second floor of O'Kane Hall.

To reserve tickets (which must be paid for and picked up by 7:45 pm for each show), simply call the Fenwick Box Office at (508)-739-3490.

What's this show all about, you're probably wondering.
Well, I'll tells ya.

In the tradition of Alice in Wonderland, Coraline follows the adventures of a young girl named Coraline Jones, who is drawn into a dark world inhabited by talking animals and beings with strange powers and dubious motives. We follow Coraline into this fantasy world behind her living room door and experience her trials and challenges as she struggles to set her world aright.
Fears are conquered, obstacles surmounted, and demons vanquished, all through her courage and humanity.
As Coraline's epigraph (by G.K.Chesterton) tells us:

"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."

So let's go beat some goddamn dragons! Who's with me?


Also, let us not forget Miss Lucy McRae, who's in several upcoming shows (see the past posts for details), all taking place at Manhatanville College.

Also, Pat Dandrea is in Urinetown this weekend.
And Andrew Menard is Lighting Director for West Side Story.

Finally, EJ Massa will be doing a comedy show on the 6th at WPI.

More details to follow.

Ta for now.