The Junior Shakespeareans

2008-12-25T09:39:00.001-08:00

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

I know this is a little late...

2008-12-06T12:27:00.000-08:00

But...

CONGRATS!!! To the Triple C Players on two fantabulous performances!!!!! You were all amazing and I am so proud of you. *HUGS*

Now for pictures.

Now I know these are kind of blurry. And I believe they're mostly from tech week. Of course, if I was the one with the camera they'd be better but you see, I wasn't exactly in the right spot for photography. :-P

Rosalind, Touchstone and Celia!!!

Audrey, Touchstone, Jacques (behind his tree) and Sir Oliver Martext "Vicar of the next village"

Phebe and Silvius!!

Touchstone, a random lord (quite an interesting expression upon his face...) and Phebe hanging out between scenes.

William getting beaten up by Touchstone. (No, there's no particular reason why I enjoy seeing poor poor William in pain... :-P)

Silvius, Phebe, Rosalind and Orlando... I had a bunch of people commenting on how awesome this scene was btw.

So that's it for now... When we come across more quality pictures I'm sure you-know-who and you-know-who will have me posting again. :-P

So until next time...

As You Like It & The "Scottish Play"

2008-10-31T10:49:00.000-07:00

Hi guys!
Sorry for the delay in approving your comments; I forgot the password to the blog. Sometimes I think I'd forget to get dressed in the morning if it wasn't so cold.

The Triple C Shakespearean Players will be presenting their first production in a few weeks:

AS YOU LIKE IT
November 21 at 7 PM
November 22 at 1 PM
Edmond Town Hall, Newtown CT
Alexandria Room
Tickets:
203-873-0418
Andrea@Footelights.com

SUPPORT YOUR SISTER COMPANY! We all know how great it is to have people who understand Shakespeare in the audience, so let's fill up their seats with "Ringers"!

TJS has officially begun their next show: MACBETH!
More details soon.

Love,
The All-Mighty One =)

Yay for the new season

2008-09-17T19:42:00.000-07:00

*Claps*

OK, truth is... SOMEONE had to make a new post! On my list of blogs, it says no-one has written since June. :( That makes me sad. :( :( :( Can you tell. :D

WHAT PLAY ARE WE DOING???

me

authoress of Shakespeare & Showtunes

Just because..

2008-06-26T08:13:00.000-07:00

you guys blew me away and there can never be too many pictures... I figured I'd post a few more from an audience member's viewpoint. :-P
They are kind of blurry... and I will partially blame that on my sister (just because she was there) and I will partially blame it on the fact that you guys kept moving around... haha. Whatever. We'll just say it contributes to the... feel of authenticness?
Anyway, you guys should be uberly proud of yourselves!!! This was an amazing amazing show.
Now Emily shall rave a little more...

Lady Capulet, Juliet and the Nurse. This was a good scene. The characters came out right away.

"But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? it is the east and Juliet is the sun..."

The balcony scene was BEAUTIFUL. CAPTIVATING. AWESOME.

More from the balcony scene.... Just because I loved it so much...

Romeo and the lovely friar! Friar was pretty much amazing. She had a ton of lines but they didn't get boring and her character was really good too.

Romeo and Mercutio fooling around a little. I liked this scene... you can definitely tell Romeo's in a better mood. Mercutio did a really good job. And I think alot of us can say that he's kind of Mercutio-y in real life, right? ;-) Haha...

Romeo and Tybalt. I love how Tybalt used his height to make himself scarier. All the pics from the rest of this scene are very blurry, but I want to say that the fights were all very exciting and Mercutio and Tybalt's deaths were EXTREMELY sad to watch... I'll be honest and say I came pretty close to crying...

This scene did make me tear up. Romeo and Juliet were so believable and.. oh man, what an ending.

Juliet and Peter (after the play haha). Aren't they both so adorable??

Some cast members playing around after the play and being their awesome selves... And oh my!! It looks like Tybalt and Mercutio have somehow become addicted to killing each other. ;-D

So that's it...

Love

Emily K

Pictures...

2008-06-21T09:53:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone,

We. Did. AWESOME!!! I've gotten so many compliments on the crew, the cast, the costumes and sets and such.

Here are some pictures I've taken during rehearsals and performances.

~Katie

Friar Lawrence getting his/her makeup done.

Lady Montague and Capulet

Lady Capulet and Montague

Perfecting the balcony scene

Romeo's looking at the camera....

The balcony scene...

Puck, Oberon and Titania

Theseus, Hippolyta and Egeus

Helena, Demetrius, Theseus, Hippolyta, Egeus, Lysander and Hermia

Helena, Demetrius, Philostrate, Theseus, Hippolyta, Egeus, Lysander and Hermia

Crazy crazy tag sale

2008-05-15T16:32:00.000-07:00

Tis I, Katie, AKA, Mr. Caprius. Lord Capulet in R&J and Demetrius in Dream.

Anywhoo just wanted to remind everyone to come to the crazy crazy cool tag sale this Friday and Saturday from 9am to 4pm. There's gonna be something for everyone!! We have lots of clothes, books, VHS movies, DVDs, PC games, HH Items, Toys, and craft stuff. Oh, and accessories such as belts, scarves and purses too. It's nuts. So, be sure to stop buy and pick some stuff up!! I'm going to have a little thing out for those really nice people who wanna donate extra $$$.

OK, Luv ya'll!!

Katie <3

What's In a Name, The Many Deaths of Tyler and Summer Lovin'

2008-04-29T21:27:00.000-07:00

Wow! I'm getting comments on my posts! That's so exciting!! Except now I have to try to be interesting so you guys will keep reading it... Hmm..
So the Danbury group has gotten it's official start, we've been meeting at the Brookfield Library on Thursdays. We're going to have to pick a name for our Danbury group so I can stop calling them "The Northerners" or "The Danbury Group".
Shelton is getting down to the wire- we have a month and a half left until "Dream" and "Romeo and Juliet" go up. Today, myself, Kathy and some actor buddies of mine performed the lovers scene in "Dream" for everyone and had a LOT of fun. We did character homework as well- everyone wrote the story of their characters. Let me tell you- there are some ACTIVE imaginations in this group! I was completely blown away by the enthusiasm and creativity that came through!! Oh and Miss Hermia made me cupcakes for my birthday and I was given some really nice birthday cards. Thanks, guys!
Oxford's project is coming along nicely- it's very funny. Tyler is trying to figure out why I keep killing him in all the shows we do together.. I don't THINK I do it on purpose... =)
Next on the horizon is the project Kathy and I have been dying to put into the works, a Complete works of Shakespeare, abridged. 37 plays in under an hour. Our goal is to make it educational but fun and provide the audience a "Crash course" in Shakespeare.
And we've got to start planning for the Summer program, the library wants us to put on a production in September. We haven't done a summer show before!
Sooo many opportunities to try new things this year! I hope we're up for it!!
TTFN-
K

The Birthday Boy, Miss Nelsen, Ronnie & Julie & those crazy Northerners

2008-03-27T08:12:00.000-07:00

So I just watched part of Terri Garr and the kid from Dawson's Creek's "Ronnie and Julie", a 1997 adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. The story is about these two kids who are from rivaling political families, the "Cappells" and the "Monroes".
I was excited because it was pretty true to the story.... Until it was supposed to be Tybalt and Mercutio's death scene.. "Tim" beat up "Max" at a hockey game and "Ronnie" came over and beat up "Tim". I stopped watching it at that point for fear R & J would end up living happily ever after. It was a little like watching the disney version of Shakespeare. But hey, it was PG so I guess they couldn't put too much killing in. I did like how Paris was named "Paul Reese" and Rosalind was "Linda Rose", That was kinda cute.

Lets see, so today we're starting our "Danbury edition" of TJS. We've had an awesome response to the idea, so Kathy and I are super excited. We are going to meet at the Brookfield Library with some of our veterans and a whole lotta new kids. I hope they get as into Shakespeare as our other group. Then we'll have 2 fantastic groups!
We started our Oxford High Project. It's going to take place on June 7th at Oxford Days. We're performing original work, outside during the festivities. The teachers make the kids call us Miss Nelsen and Miss B.. That's kind of a trip, huh?
We've also been invited to celebrate Shakespeare's birthday with the Oxford Land Trust organization. They want to have an outdoor event with us providing the "Shakespeare experience". It'll give us a good chance to bring back some old classics- Dogberry and the watch interrogating the bad guys, Rosalind and Orlando's love letters hanging in trees from AYLI, etc.
We'll also get to do some new stuff from our current show to help us plug our upcoming performances. I'd like to get Mercutio and Tybalt to kill each other and maybe some romantic prose from Romeo and Juliet. I definitely think some fairy magic from "Dream" will have to be incorporated and maybe, just maybe, we can get our Bottom to wear his "Asses head".

Oh yeah, and the CT post called yesterday, they're trying to get our story in this weekend.

Thats all for now,
Love,
K

Shows, Scared Rabbits & My life as a musical

2008-03-12T10:27:00.000-07:00

So this has been a busy week for me. We were asked to do 2 extra "things" this week; one is Oxford Day. We want to do a fundraiser and promo for our productions of "Romeo and Juliet" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream". They want us to look at producing a new play by Oxford students on the history of Oxford. I read the script this AM, its pretty cool to learn about all these people who were from Oxford who changed history! I wonder if I'll be the subject of a play someday?? It can be "The All Mighty Director- The Musical". (I always envisioned my life as a musical. =) )
Use your imagination:
"Learn your lines, learn your lines, learn your liiiineeess..."
"places, it's time for places, gotta be in places, we're going to our places.."

OK, maybe I'll stick to "straight theater".

The other new development is that our rehearsal space, The Plumb Memorial Library in Shelton wants us to put on a separate production for the youngins who frequent the kids department of their library.. Apparently they are very impressed by us and would like to share us with their patrons.

In the mean time, we're still searching for a home in the Northern territory. Someone adopt us!! We have kids that need a' learnin!

We had a really great practice yesterday; the CT post sent out a photographer to take pictures for our article. Tybalt is doing some really great work; he is so intimidating with his double blades (even though they're foam right now) and the way he towers over the other actors! Poor Benvolio looks like a scared rabbit when Tybalt comes up behind him (her) with the dagger to his throat! Then the Mercutio death scene...... Oh I can't tell you about that yet.. It's too good.

We did a lot of work on "Dream" too.. We found some funny stuff! Bottom is getting more pompous, Demetrius is getting more arrogant, Lysander more wussy, Helena more awkward and Hermia is getting extremely girlie. This show is going to be very funny!
OK, back to work.
K

Welcome!

2008-03-05T10:57:00.001-08:00

Look, Mom! I'm a Blogger!

So here it is, the official (SAFE) TJS blog for students, crew, directors, fans, Shakespeare buffs, etc. Just no stalkers, please.. You'll have to blog on the official "stalkers" blog, although I'm afraid I don't have an address for it.
Anyway- check out the new link I put on our website: http://www.thejuniorshakespeareans.com/. Read the part that says "meet our crew". It was done in a moment of "Kelly's-brain-is-turning-into-cream-of-wheat." Funny stuff. Hopefully, I'll have a running head start when my crew finally reads it.
Today I was interviewed by the CT Post- They wanna do a story on us. Now I've gotta throw together a photo shoot because this guy has a deadline of tomorrow. Man I'm glad I set my own deadlines.
Also, we're starting our fundraiser! go to www.currentfun.com, click on "start shopping" and buy stuff to support our company.. The organization is: The Junior Shakespeareans. When it asks you for the participant #, we're using names instead of numbers so you can go ahead and put "website." I'll know what that means.
Til' next time..
K