checking out all the props before we started. There are a lot of props, provided by our fantastic props department (I need some pictures of them, I know.) It has been such a luxury being able to say in rehearsal "What if he had a big cigar, or a samurai sword, or a left handed flugelhorn?" and the next day have a choice of several cigars, swords, or flugelhorns. They don't just find and buy, though--they build as well, for instance a few dozen beautiful origami temples for use during the overture.
Our other pictures are our male coro singing "Right as right can be" and one of the buildings for the first act (the simian visitor is not strictly a part of the show, but he seems to be enjoying himself up there.) Below that is Katie Jolly, our Yum-Yum, singing her Act 2 aria.
So I promise that I will address the whole "updating shows" issue soon. It keeps coming up in one way or another. The problem is that a decent examination of this issue is something that will take pages and pages. But soon, I promise, soon. One thing I will ask of those who hate updating: What PRECISELY do you hate about it? If I did the show with no set at all, would you hate that? If I set a show written to be set in 1724 in 1824, would that bother you? How about 1725? How about 1721? The Eskimos have 27 words for snow (or whatever) but we, sadly, have only the one word for "traditional", and I am guessing that there are at least 27 shades of different definition for what people mean when they ask me if this production if "traditional". (Because the answer is yes, a most definite yes! It is a part of numerous comic traditions! It is utterly jam-packed with classic comic moments inspired by Danny Kaye, Groucho Marks, Bob Newhart, Woody Allen, Monty Python, Benny Hill, Burns and Allen, Jack Benny, and many, many more!) But more on all of this soon...
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