I've been in NYC for one month now. And I still feel like I just arrived. But I also feel so...at home. I don't know what it is, or why it is, but I am so comfortable in the big city...while also being completely out of my element at all times. 20-something is the perfect age to become a New Yorker. But of course, I've only been in the city for a month which still qualifies me as a tourist.
Focusing on what I've been working on:
Currently I am a Production Management Intern with NYTW. The current production running is the American Premiere of Caryl Churchill's newest work, Love and Information . It's a brilliant show consisting of 57 (or so) scenes, some of which are only 20 seconds long, with none of the same characters, in all different locations. The technical for this show was insanity. You try creating 57 different locations and then quick transitioning between all of them. The designs for it, beautiful. I cannot get enough of the original music made for the show, and the set design is so simple yet so perfectly fitting. It's brilliant, but also a tough show to love. If you want to see a romantic narrative that whisks you away into the dream world of theatre, go see Bridges of Madison County. But if you want to spend a night thinking in the theatre about whether love and science are different entities, if they compliment each other or drive each other apart, and see 57 unique answers, then Love and Information might interest you. The show will jolt you, LITERALLY, with bright lights and loud music, to make sure you don't fall asleep or stop thinking. It's a thinker, not an entertainer (but don't think it's not entertaining). And it's been receiving great reviews, like the one when you click on the button....
Focusing on what I've been working on:
Currently I am a Production Management Intern with NYTW. The current production running is the American Premiere of Caryl Churchill's newest work, Love and Information . It's a brilliant show consisting of 57 (or so) scenes, some of which are only 20 seconds long, with none of the same characters, in all different locations. The technical for this show was insanity. You try creating 57 different locations and then quick transitioning between all of them. The designs for it, beautiful. I cannot get enough of the original music made for the show, and the set design is so simple yet so perfectly fitting. It's brilliant, but also a tough show to love. If you want to see a romantic narrative that whisks you away into the dream world of theatre, go see Bridges of Madison County. But if you want to spend a night thinking in the theatre about whether love and science are different entities, if they compliment each other or drive each other apart, and see 57 unique answers, then Love and Information might interest you. The show will jolt you, LITERALLY, with bright lights and loud music, to make sure you don't fall asleep or stop thinking. It's a thinker, not an entertainer (but don't think it's not entertaining). And it's been receiving great reviews, like the one when you click on the button....
What did I do for the show? Well...there's a piano that can roll on stage because I helped put casters on it. And there are Red Solo cups I bought that are used in the production. In what way they are used, I'm unsure, but I was told they were important and I had to sprint in order to get them back to the theater in time. And I brought a new monitor into the theater so that the Stage Manager could see what was going on backstage. I also tested out and bought the harnesses that are seen in the picture below to keep the kids on the grass bed.
But when I'm not busy being a superhero for the production, I'm in the office scanning receipts for everything that has ever been bought for the production, describing these receipts, and organizing them for budgeting, and same goes for the payroll. Just knowing that I'm helping in whatever way to create what I described above, makes it totally worth it. The sense of pride I get from running around New York looking for a place that sells red Solo cups, is stupidly overwhelming, but I am so in love with this internship it doesn't matter. I am a sponge for everything that is being said and decided around me. I'm learning a lot more than just how to put new casters on a piano. And even though I'm not in a place where I'm the one making decisions, I know one day I will be, and hopefully working with people like the ones I'm surrounded by right now.
Next project just announced at NYTW- Red-Eye to Havre de Grace
It's a musical about Edgar Allen Poe's final moments before his death. Check it out. Below is a little more info. Tickets on Sale March 11
Next project just announced at NYTW- Red-Eye to Havre de Grace
It's a musical about Edgar Allen Poe's final moments before his death. Check it out. Below is a little more info. Tickets on Sale March 11
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