Two Weeks' Notice
There are two weeks until the show premieres in KC. Less, now.
The idea for Higher Power started germinating around this time last year, thanks to a young barfly with a limp and a general feeling of Midwestern listlessness. From there, it's gone through countless revisions, countless new ideas, and has gone into the hands of many of my favorite people in the world, including the four who are currently turning the script into a real live show.
As you can tell from the vlogs, it's a pretty insanely fun process. It's a huge rush to see these three incredibly talented actors really inhabiting the characters I created, and to see what Chris can do to turn my mostly static script into a kinetic and thrilling show.
Higher Power is an intense show, and there's no way around it. A lot of awful things happen and a lot of brutal things are said. But nothing could prepare me for what this show is becoming. The show is sexy, the show is violent, the show is gutwrenching. In Chris's staging, the show is a living, breathing thing that doesn't hold back from being as real as it needs to be.
One of the best things about it is that no matter where you see it, you're going to get the same level of experience. The spaces that we are performing in are vastly different - from one of the best theatres in Kansas City, to a much-loved cabaret theatre in a bowing alley in Minneapolis, to a tiny off-off Broadway theatre in New York - but the way the show looks won't change much. It's clever direction, taking Brechtian elements and realistic blocking to bring the setting to life in each theatre.
I'm proud of this show, and I look forward to seeing it come together forward.
What I ask of you if you're reading this is that you help us out. We need all the support we can get - we're playing a huge house in Kansas City, we're playing six shows in New York, and we're playing in Minneapolis, where we know next to no one. So please - tell everyone you know about the show. Talk about it on your blogs, bring friends to come see it, tell those cousins in Minneapolis to come check it out. They won't be disappointed.
Thanks for reading. More cool stuff is coming on the blog very soon, and you can look forward to hearing more about the show and our performances as we move towards the big show.
Thanks,
Sam
The idea for Higher Power started germinating around this time last year, thanks to a young barfly with a limp and a general feeling of Midwestern listlessness. From there, it's gone through countless revisions, countless new ideas, and has gone into the hands of many of my favorite people in the world, including the four who are currently turning the script into a real live show.
As you can tell from the vlogs, it's a pretty insanely fun process. It's a huge rush to see these three incredibly talented actors really inhabiting the characters I created, and to see what Chris can do to turn my mostly static script into a kinetic and thrilling show.
Higher Power is an intense show, and there's no way around it. A lot of awful things happen and a lot of brutal things are said. But nothing could prepare me for what this show is becoming. The show is sexy, the show is violent, the show is gutwrenching. In Chris's staging, the show is a living, breathing thing that doesn't hold back from being as real as it needs to be.
One of the best things about it is that no matter where you see it, you're going to get the same level of experience. The spaces that we are performing in are vastly different - from one of the best theatres in Kansas City, to a much-loved cabaret theatre in a bowing alley in Minneapolis, to a tiny off-off Broadway theatre in New York - but the way the show looks won't change much. It's clever direction, taking Brechtian elements and realistic blocking to bring the setting to life in each theatre.
I'm proud of this show, and I look forward to seeing it come together forward.
What I ask of you if you're reading this is that you help us out. We need all the support we can get - we're playing a huge house in Kansas City, we're playing six shows in New York, and we're playing in Minneapolis, where we know next to no one. So please - tell everyone you know about the show. Talk about it on your blogs, bring friends to come see it, tell those cousins in Minneapolis to come check it out. They won't be disappointed.
Thanks for reading. More cool stuff is coming on the blog very soon, and you can look forward to hearing more about the show and our performances as we move towards the big show.
Thanks,
Sam
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