Dear Followers-
First of all I would llike to thank you all for following this blog and also thank the followers of my facebok fan page for your followship. As of yesterday this blog has moved to Tumblr. I will no longer be updating the blog on this site anymore. Please continue to follow this blog as it moves to Tumblr. http://theatrereviewer826.tumblr.com
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About Me
- Janine
- Amherst, NH, United States
- I am 25 years old and I live in NH. I have mild cerebal palsy but I have never let that affect me. I am very passionate about theatre and writing. For my professional theatre blog go to http://theatretechdiva.weebly.com
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Basically
So as I mentioned back on January 8th the Cabinet/Telegraph have been going through layoffs lately and have cut their freelancer budget in half. Basically they only need me to write articles on an as needed basis. My next article is about Anne Of Green Gables which will be put on by Riverbend School of Theatre Arts at the beginning of May. I have no articles coming up in the immediate future so I am doing research for other theatre companies in the area to to PR for. I decided to give Manchester Community Theatre Players in Manchester a shot. I heard about them because lots of people who do the PTA shows with me do shows for them as well. I am talking more with the head of their PR department either tomorrow or Tuesday so I am excited about that possibility.
Friday, February 10, 2012
Things Musical Theatre Girls Say (Response)
This video and the vides that it is in response to are both hysterical. Thanks to Rae for showing me these!
Saturday, February 4, 2012
NHTA 10
Happy 10th Anniversary NH Theatre Awards
For the complete winner list go to the NH Theatre Awards Website or here: http://http//caughtintheactnh.blogspot.com/2012/02/2011-nh-theatre-awards-winners.html
I love the NH Theatre Awards because it really exposes me to shows I may have not seen throughout the year as well as new theatres to add to my ever growing list of places to go see shows at. Last night was fabulous. Prior toe show Matt and I went out to dinner at Ignite Bar and Grille which is a few doors up the street from The Palace Theatre. The food was delicous. As previously noted Music Man was nominated for 9 awards so it was a very exciting night for me and the rest of the cast. There was pretty tough compettion all around but I was so excited that Ashely Hughes got Best Actress in A Musical for playing Marian Paroo. It was certainly well deseved. Paula Troie also got in the top 3 for best costume design but was beat by Allison Szklarz for her costume design for The Dionsaur Musical at Peacock Players (one of the many shows I wished I had seen.) Milford Area Players also won several awards for their Production of August Osage County which I am quite excited about. I was impressed by the performances my favorites were definitley Guys and Dolls- Actorsinger (Love Sit Down You're Rockin The Boat) The Dinosaur Musical Peacock Players, Oliver Manchester Community Theatre Players amd The Drowsy Chaperone New London Barn Playhouse. I was so happy for my co-worker on Princess K.I.M The Musical Toby Tarnow for her award for Children And Yoiuth Theatre. I have worked with her twice before now (once as a theatre camp counselor and once backstage for Man Who Came To Dinner last year.) It was certainly a well deserved award as I am costantly impressed with everything the Rivebend School of Theatre Arts puts on.
Shows with Multiple Wins
The Dinosaur Musical Peacock Players Best Youth Production, Best Youth Actor (Taylor Morrow) ,Best Director (Keith Weirch) , Best Musical Directo (Judy Hayward, Best Costume Designer., Best Sound Design (Rich Loomer) Best Lighting Design ( Keith Weirch,Norm St Germain Jeremey Robarge)
The Drowsy Chaperone New London Barn Playhouse Best Production (Professional Musical) ,Best Actress (Anne Torsigerler Bri ( Best Actress) Best Musical Director (Joel Mercier) , Best Director (B.T. Mcnichol) Best Chroregraphy (Sarah Case&Keith Coughlin )
Tom Ford also took home an award for Best Actor in A Musical for A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
Measure For Measure Peterborough Player Best Production Drama Comedy (Professional) , Best Sound Designer (Kevin Frazier), Best Scenic Designer ( Charles Morgan) Best Costume Designer ( Lara de Bujin), Best Actress Karen Peakes)
The Drowsy Chaperone Community Players of Concord
Best Production Musical (Community) , Best Supporing Actress Candace Azerola
August Osage County Milford Area Players
\Best Director Vick Bennison Best Supporting Actress Deb Shaw Best Productin Drama Comedy (Community)
Suessical The Musical Peacock Players
Best Supporting Actress Youth Megan Dwinell Best Supporting Actor Youth Nathan Schwartzberg
Congrats to all winners and nominees for the 10th Annual NH Theatre Awards.
I hope Okalhoma will get nominated for a few things next year. I look incredibly foward to the prospect of that. :)
Shows with Multiple Wins
The Dinosaur Musical Peacock Players Best Youth Production, Best Youth Actor (Taylor Morrow) ,Best Director (Keith Weirch) , Best Musical Directo (Judy Hayward, Best Costume Designer., Best Sound Design (Rich Loomer) Best Lighting Design ( Keith Weirch,Norm St Germain Jeremey Robarge)
The Drowsy Chaperone New London Barn Playhouse Best Production (Professional Musical) ,Best Actress (Anne Torsigerler Bri ( Best Actress) Best Musical Director (Joel Mercier) , Best Director (B.T. Mcnichol) Best Chroregraphy (Sarah Case&Keith Coughlin )
Tom Ford also took home an award for Best Actor in A Musical for A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
Measure For Measure Peterborough Player Best Production Drama Comedy (Professional) , Best Sound Designer (Kevin Frazier), Best Scenic Designer ( Charles Morgan) Best Costume Designer ( Lara de Bujin), Best Actress Karen Peakes)
The Drowsy Chaperone Community Players of Concord
Best Production Musical (Community) , Best Supporing Actress Candace Azerola
August Osage County Milford Area Players
\Best Director Vick Bennison Best Supporting Actress Deb Shaw Best Productin Drama Comedy (Community)
Suessical The Musical Peacock Players
Best Supporting Actress Youth Megan Dwinell Best Supporting Actor Youth Nathan Schwartzberg
Congrats to all winners and nominees for the 10th Annual NH Theatre Awards.
I hope Okalhoma will get nominated for a few things next year. I look incredibly foward to the prospect of that. :)
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
2011-2012 Viewing Schedule
2012 Viewing Schedule
Listed by venue then by month, Shows that are bolded are definites all others are subject to change due to schedule or budget.
Actorsinge
May- Chicago
November- Annie
Lyric Stage Portland Maine
Blithe Spirit
Milford Area Players
March Night of One Acts
July Shakespeare In Hollywood
October The 39 Steps
Palace Theatre
Royalty of Rock and Pop
Peacock Players
Beauty and The Beast
Riverbend School Of Theatre
Anne Of Green Gables
Riverbend Youth Company
April Clue The Musical
August Damn Yankees
November Oliver
In keeping with my ongoing goal of seeing a show at new theatres here are the theatres I am hoping to add to my ever growing scedule
- CommunityPlayers of Concord
- Capitol Center For The Arts
- Manchester Community Theatre Players
- New Thalian Players
- Not Your Mom's Musical Theatre
- Peterborough Players
This list will be updated once I get the schedules for the theatres and determine what shows I want to see there.
National Tours
June 3rd Beauty and The Beast Very excited to see this!! Beauty and The Beast was my first Broadway show and I look forward to seeing the touring producion of it and seeing Caroline Kittrell again since I haven't seen her since we left NLBP. :)
Suessical The Musicrrial TBA Still waiting to find out info from Maggie Politi about when it is coming to Boston.
Billy Elliot is coming to the Boston Opera House in August. I am hoping to go to see this with my family for my birthday. I don't know what day we will go see it yet.
Suessical The Musicrrial TBA Still waiting to find out info from Maggie Politi about when it is coming to Boston.
Billy Elliot is coming to the Boston Opera House in August. I am hoping to go to see this with my family for my birthday. I don't know what day we will go see it yet.
High School Shows
Souhegan Anything Goes
Pentucket Regional High School Wizard of Oz
College Shows
4-21 A Midsummer Night's Dream UMASS Amherst
Summer
Listed by Venue
(Some shows subject to change based on schedule and budget)
If bold it means it's a definite
If bold it means it's a definite
Arundel Barn Playhouse Arundel Maine
Aug 26th Beyond The Rainbow
Hackamatack Playhouse Berwick Maine
Boeing Boeing
Interlakes Summer Theatre Meredith NH
All Shook Up &Singin In The Rain
All Shook Up &Singin In The Rain
Back up choice Annie
Maine State Music Theatre Brunswick Maine
42nd Street
Back Up Choice Sunset BLVD
New London Barn Playhouse New London NH)
Legally Blonde The Musical or HAIR
Back Up Choices Oklahoma or Our Town
Winnipasaukee Playhouse Laconia NH
The Last Night of Ballyho
Winnipasaukee Playhouse Laconia NH
The Last Night of Ballyho
The schedule for Andy's Summer Playhouse has not been announced yet.
Summer Viewing Schedule will hopefully be finalized by Memorial Day Weekend or the beginning of June!
Saturday, January 28, 2012
My main theatre related goal for 2012
Happy 2012 followers!
My main theatre goal for 2012 is to PROMOTE PROMOTE PORMOTE
Promote what you may ask?
Why Princess Ki.I.M. The Musical of course!!
I am so happy to be part of such a wonderful creative team. What we have come up with is an amazing play based on my mom's children's books Princess KIM and The Lie That Grew and Princes KIM and Too Much Truth and it's JR versiom counterpart. It's been quite a busy 18 months but I am so proud of what we have accomplished and so EXCITED for what's to come. Our first single will be relesed in March and I am stoked for that.
Now as I said my main goal of this year is to promote Princess KIM The Musical. We are hoping to build up a following of local theatres to come to ou premiere and also theatres from around this beautiful country. I have already put the twitter page up and the facebook fan page will be up in 3 weeks (Feb 8th is the day)
What I am hoping is that my theatre friends will help to spread the word about this amazing project I am working on and also that they will spread the word to theatre companies they have worked at that we already have on our ever growing mailing list :)
My main theatre goal for 2012 is to PROMOTE PROMOTE PORMOTE
Promote what you may ask?
Why Princess Ki.I.M. The Musical of course!!
I am so happy to be part of such a wonderful creative team. What we have come up with is an amazing play based on my mom's children's books Princess KIM and The Lie That Grew and Princes KIM and Too Much Truth and it's JR versiom counterpart. It's been quite a busy 18 months but I am so proud of what we have accomplished and so EXCITED for what's to come. Our first single will be relesed in March and I am stoked for that.
Now as I said my main goal of this year is to promote Princess KIM The Musical. We are hoping to build up a following of local theatres to come to ou premiere and also theatres from around this beautiful country. I have already put the twitter page up and the facebook fan page will be up in 3 weeks (Feb 8th is the day)
What I am hoping is that my theatre friends will help to spread the word about this amazing project I am working on and also that they will spread the word to theatre companies they have worked at that we already have on our ever growing mailing list :)
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Winds of Change
So the use of this blog may end up changing slightly. Here are the reasonss
The primary focus of this blog was to post my Milford Cabinet Articles. It has grown in leaps and bounds since it's inception in the fall of 2008. However. the primary use of this blog has never been lost. The reason why this might be changing is because the Telegraph and the Cabinet are going through a lot of personell changes in terms of their freelancers. Budget cuts have hit both papers hard and have caused freelancer budgets to be cur in half. Due to this the amount of stories I am able to write will be very minimal. It will largely depend on what is not already being covered by other people at the paper. I am trying to stay positive about this but we'll see how long that positivity stays afloat. I had started a seperate blog for my fanfiction but eventually realized it made more sesne to combine both blogs together. Lately my life has been cosumed with work, Princess KIm stuff and rehearsals for Oklahoma (and practicing at home) so I haven't had much time to myself to write. Once I compete all the fanfictions that are in progress I will go on a much needed hiatus from writing fan fiction to get my priorties straight. My main theatre related priority is Princess Kim folllowed close behing by Oklahoma. Rehearsing at home and rehearsals take a lot of time. On that note Oklahoma is very well. This week we are working on learning the dance to the Farmer and The Cowman which is fun. I haven't done square dancing since I used to g to my mom's illustrartor parties at Boyd's Mills Press in Honesdale PA.. it's taking a bit of time to get used to that dynamic of dance again. tis fun nonetheless :)
I will still be reviewing shows that I see on this blog but I am getting an indication that I may get more of a following on Tumblr so I may eventually end up moving this blog over in that direction by March. We'll see what happens. I am not sure how much of a follwing this blog is still getting here on Blogger to be honest. If have you are a follower in this blog and still read these entries please leave a comment letting me know you still read these entries Ifenough people respond back then I will keep this blog on blogger.. if not then as of March 1st this blog will be making the move to Tumblr and if you choose to make the move with me you can do so.
The primary focus of this blog was to post my Milford Cabinet Articles. It has grown in leaps and bounds since it's inception in the fall of 2008. However. the primary use of this blog has never been lost. The reason why this might be changing is because the Telegraph and the Cabinet are going through a lot of personell changes in terms of their freelancers. Budget cuts have hit both papers hard and have caused freelancer budgets to be cur in half. Due to this the amount of stories I am able to write will be very minimal. It will largely depend on what is not already being covered by other people at the paper. I am trying to stay positive about this but we'll see how long that positivity stays afloat. I had started a seperate blog for my fanfiction but eventually realized it made more sesne to combine both blogs together. Lately my life has been cosumed with work, Princess KIm stuff and rehearsals for Oklahoma (and practicing at home) so I haven't had much time to myself to write. Once I compete all the fanfictions that are in progress I will go on a much needed hiatus from writing fan fiction to get my priorties straight. My main theatre related priority is Princess Kim folllowed close behing by Oklahoma. Rehearsing at home and rehearsals take a lot of time. On that note Oklahoma is very well. This week we are working on learning the dance to the Farmer and The Cowman which is fun. I haven't done square dancing since I used to g to my mom's illustrartor parties at Boyd's Mills Press in Honesdale PA.. it's taking a bit of time to get used to that dynamic of dance again. tis fun nonetheless :)
I will still be reviewing shows that I see on this blog but I am getting an indication that I may get more of a following on Tumblr so I may eventually end up moving this blog over in that direction by March. We'll see what happens. I am not sure how much of a follwing this blog is still getting here on Blogger to be honest. If have you are a follower in this blog and still read these entries please leave a comment letting me know you still read these entries Ifenough people respond back then I will keep this blog on blogger.. if not then as of March 1st this blog will be making the move to Tumblr and if you choose to make the move with me you can do so.
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