NYCPlaywrights July 13, 2024
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*** FREE THEATER IN NYC ***
Picnic Performances: New York City Opera - Tosca
Friday, August 23, 2024
7:00 p.m.–9:30 p.m.
Continuing the summer of Puccini, New York City Opera will present a full production of the perennial favorite, Tosca. Tosca is a three act opera that takes the audience back in time to Rome during the 1800's, just after the French Revolution. Napoleon has successfully taken France and has invaded Rome and created a new republic. The beloved opera singer, Floria Tosca, is in love with painter Mario Cavaradossi and here begins the story of how Chief of Police Baron Scarpia intersects with these lovers in drama, betrayal, revenge and murder.
The fully staged production features the New York City Opera Orchestra and Chorus, and led by Maestro Joseph Rescigno.
Bryant Park Stage in Bryant Park
https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2024/08/23/picnic-performances-new-york-city-opera-tosca
*** OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLAYWRIGHTS ***
The 2nd Annual Crashbox! Festival An International Festival for Short Live Radio Plays seeks short genre scripts written to be heard but not seen, which our creative teams will then turn into a night of reader’s theatre, augmented with spectacular live sound effects and music, guaranteed to thrill your ears and ignite your imagination. This annual festival will spotlight a different genre of radio play every year. This Years Crashbox!'s genre is Fantasy.
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Back for the fifth year and taking place at Urbanite Theatre, The 2024 Modern Works Festival is a five-day playwriting contest, reading festival, and celebration of women in theatre.
Three finalists will be selected by a panel of play readers to present their work as a staged reading during the Festival. The Festival will culminate in an audience roundtable discussion, and Festival Passholders will have the opportunity to cast a vote for their favorite of the three works, awarding the winner a prize of $3,200.
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Submissions are now open for SPF Boo
Plays must have a running time of 15 minutes or less (which roughly translates to 15 pages) to qualify for the weekly contest. Each week a winner – selected by audience vote – receives the honor of “Best of the Week” and $100 prize. We are looking for spooky, spoofy, creepy, macabre, or thrilling.
*** FOR MORE INFORMATION about these and other opportunities see the web site at https://www.nycplaywrights.org ***
*** THEATER & ANIMATION ***
Snagglepuss is coming out of the closet.
Writer Mark Russell announced he will be updating the Snagglepuss cartoon character as part of DC Comics’ mashup with the Hanna-Barbera cartoons. In the Snagglepuss adaptation, the pink lion will be a gay playwright in the 1950s.
In an interview with HiLoBrow, Russell announced his plan to recreate Snagglepuss as a “gay, southern Gothic playwright.”
“Yeah, it was not much of a stretch at all. I envision him like a tragic Tennessee Williams figure; Huckleberry Hound is sort of a William Faulkner guy, they’re in New York in the 1950s,” Russell says. “Marlon Brando shows up, Dorothy Parker, these socialites of New York from that era come and go. I’m looking forward to it; that’s what I’ll do after The Flintstones. I’ll go right from that into Snagglepuss.”
A meme is circulating asking, “So, how did you get into classical music?” There’s an answer underneath, “Me, an intellectual-“…followed by an image from the 1957 cartoon short, What’s Opera, Doc?
For generations, this is how many learned about the world of classical music—recognizing strains of the world’s greatest songs years later in grammar school music class, as visions of Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd pranced through our minds.
What’s Opera, Doc? has been not just a gateway into the realm of beautiful music but the endless possibilities that animation can provide.
No wonder many animation historians awarded this cartoon short the top spot in Jerry Beck’s 1994 book, The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals.
More...
https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/a-true-high-note-the-65th-anniversary-of-whats-opera-doc/
***
Anne Washburn’s play Mr. Burns begins with a striking image. A group of four people sits around a campfire. They are tense, watchful, carrying guns. A woman apparently mute with trauma crouches on the outskirts of the firelight. The group is trying to remember the details of an episode of The Simpsons.
Mr. Burns takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, one now oddly more familiar than it was when the show was first staged in Washington, DC’s Woolly Mammoth Theatre in 2012. Humanity has been decimated by a pandemic. In the aftermath, the electrical grid has failed, which in turn has led to the meltdown of the world’s nuclear reactors. Now, just months after civilization has been utterly destroyed, a few scattered survivors are trying to pass the night by reconstructing the 1993 Simpsons episode “Cape Feare,” which sees ex-convict Sideshow Bob setting out on a murderous campaign to kill Bart Simpson.
More...
https://www.vox.com/culture/23301527/mr-burns-post-electric-play-anne-washburn-interview-hudson-valley-shakespeare-simpsons
***
Celestia has extreme difficulty in learning how to act, while Pinkie's attempts to replace the sun prop fail. Twilight's friends suggest that maybe they should cancel the play, since they hadn't announced it to anypony else yet, but then Rainbow Dash returns, informing that they'll have a big audience that night. As ponies start to arrive for the show, Twilight tells the others that she's rewritten the script to put Celestia in a non-vocal role, which the others still feel is a bad idea. Just then, Pinkie reveals her latest replacement for the sun prop, a stock of firestocks she purchased from Trixie in a back alley. The fireworks go off, ruining most of the other props, and setting Twilight in a rage over how bad Celestia's acting is. Just then, the backdrop falls to reveal Celestia, who had heard Twilight's tirade, and she flies off alone not because Twilight insulted her acting skills, but because Twilight was not honest with her.
More...
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E7HorsePlay
***
Next on the docket for the mystery loving mutt: a touring theatrical stage show called “Scooby-Doo! And The Lost City of Gold,” courtesy of Canada’s MONLOVE production house in partnership with Warner Bros. Consumer Products. The first leg kicks off March 19 date at Scotiabank Centre (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) and wraps on June 28 at Jacksonville, Florida’s Times Union Center for the Performing Arts.
The stage production features a mix of live singing, dancing, dialogue, 16 original songs, puppetry, interactive video, magic, aerial arts, acrobatics and video. MONLOVE, the Montreal-based production company, puppet shop, and recording studio behind live, family-branded events such as “Ice Age Live! A Mammoth Adventure,” along with work on several Cirque du Soleil showcases, has reimagined Scooby as a 6’4″ animatronic and puppeteer-operated slobbery dog.
More...
https://variety.com/2019/legit/news/scooby-doo-live-theater-tour-lost-city-gold-1203400089/
***
For what it’s worth — and we’re talking millions of dollars here — you are never going to see as convincing an impersonation of a two-dimensional cartoon by a three-dimensional human as that provided by Ethan Slater at the Palace Theater. Mr. Slater plays the title role in “SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical,” the ginormous giggle of a show that opened on Monday night.
This may sound like dubious praise. But think about it. How many of those legions of figures who gambol through stage adaptations of animated movies — teapots, lions, fake Russian princesses, ad infinitum — seem to have been transliterated from the screen without any dilution of their inked-in essence?
The 24-year-old Mr. Slater, making his Broadway debut in Tina Landau’s exhaustingly imaginative production, achieves this metamorphosis sans prosthetics, skin dye or a facsimile costume. (He wears suspendered plaid trousers, with a shirt and tie.) And he’s playing a sea creature from a television children’s show, for God’s sake, one that appears to be a bright yellow, rectangular kitchen sponge.
More...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/04/theater/spongebob-squarepants-broadway-musical.html
***
Aired between 1992 and 1994 on the BBC and HBO, The Animated Shakespeare brings to life 12 famous Shakespeare plays. Leon Garfield, a well-known British children’s author, wrote the scripts, mainly using Shakespearian language. And some talented Russian artists did the animation.
More...
https://www.openculture.com/2012/04/12_animated_plays_by_william_shakespeare_macbeth_julius_caesar_romeo_juliet_and_more.html
*** FREE THEATER IN NYC ***
Picnic Performances: New York City Opera - Tosca
Friday, August 23, 2024
7:00 p.m.–9:30 p.m.
Continuing the summer of Puccini, New York City Opera will present a full production of the perennial favorite, Tosca. Tosca is a three act opera that takes the audience back in time to Rome during the 1800's, just after the French Revolution. Napoleon has successfully taken France and has invaded Rome and created a new republic. The beloved opera singer, Floria Tosca, is in love with painter Mario Cavaradossi and here begins the story of how Chief of Police Baron Scarpia intersects with these lovers in drama, betrayal, revenge and murder.
The fully staged production features the New York City Opera Orchestra and Chorus, and led by Maestro Joseph Rescigno.
Bryant Park Stage in Bryant Park
https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2024/08/23/picnic-performances-new-york-city-opera-tosca
*** OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLAYWRIGHTS ***
The 2nd Annual Crashbox! Festival An International Festival for Short Live Radio Plays seeks short genre scripts written to be heard but not seen, which our creative teams will then turn into a night of reader’s theatre, augmented with spectacular live sound effects and music, guaranteed to thrill your ears and ignite your imagination. This annual festival will spotlight a different genre of radio play every year. This Years Crashbox!'s genre is Fantasy.
***
Back for the fifth year and taking place at Urbanite Theatre, The 2024 Modern Works Festival is a five-day playwriting contest, reading festival, and celebration of women in theatre.
Three finalists will be selected by a panel of play readers to present their work as a staged reading during the Festival. The Festival will culminate in an audience roundtable discussion, and Festival Passholders will have the opportunity to cast a vote for their favorite of the three works, awarding the winner a prize of $3,200.
***
Submissions are now open for SPF Boo
Plays must have a running time of 15 minutes or less (which roughly translates to 15 pages) to qualify for the weekly contest. Each week a winner – selected by audience vote – receives the honor of “Best of the Week” and $100 prize. We are looking for spooky, spoofy, creepy, macabre, or thrilling.
*** FOR MORE INFORMATION about these and other opportunities see the web site at https://www.nycplaywrights.org ***
*** THEATER & ANIMATION ***
Snagglepuss is coming out of the closet.
Writer Mark Russell announced he will be updating the Snagglepuss cartoon character as part of DC Comics’ mashup with the Hanna-Barbera cartoons. In the Snagglepuss adaptation, the pink lion will be a gay playwright in the 1950s.
In an interview with HiLoBrow, Russell announced his plan to recreate Snagglepuss as a “gay, southern Gothic playwright.”
“Yeah, it was not much of a stretch at all. I envision him like a tragic Tennessee Williams figure; Huckleberry Hound is sort of a William Faulkner guy, they’re in New York in the 1950s,” Russell says. “Marlon Brando shows up, Dorothy Parker, these socialites of New York from that era come and go. I’m looking forward to it; that’s what I’ll do after The Flintstones. I’ll go right from that into Snagglepuss.”
A meme is circulating asking, “So, how did you get into classical music?” There’s an answer underneath, “Me, an intellectual-“…followed by an image from the 1957 cartoon short, What’s Opera, Doc?
For generations, this is how many learned about the world of classical music—recognizing strains of the world’s greatest songs years later in grammar school music class, as visions of Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd pranced through our minds.
What’s Opera, Doc? has been not just a gateway into the realm of beautiful music but the endless possibilities that animation can provide.
No wonder many animation historians awarded this cartoon short the top spot in Jerry Beck’s 1994 book, The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals.
More...
https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/a-true-high-note-the-65th-anniversary-of-whats-opera-doc/
***
Anne Washburn’s play Mr. Burns begins with a striking image. A group of four people sits around a campfire. They are tense, watchful, carrying guns. A woman apparently mute with trauma crouches on the outskirts of the firelight. The group is trying to remember the details of an episode of The Simpsons.
Mr. Burns takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, one now oddly more familiar than it was when the show was first staged in Washington, DC’s Woolly Mammoth Theatre in 2012. Humanity has been decimated by a pandemic. In the aftermath, the electrical grid has failed, which in turn has led to the meltdown of the world’s nuclear reactors. Now, just months after civilization has been utterly destroyed, a few scattered survivors are trying to pass the night by reconstructing the 1993 Simpsons episode “Cape Feare,” which sees ex-convict Sideshow Bob setting out on a murderous campaign to kill Bart Simpson.
More...
https://www.vox.com/culture/23301527/mr-burns-post-electric-play-anne-washburn-interview-hudson-valley-shakespeare-simpsons
***
Celestia has extreme difficulty in learning how to act, while Pinkie's attempts to replace the sun prop fail. Twilight's friends suggest that maybe they should cancel the play, since they hadn't announced it to anypony else yet, but then Rainbow Dash returns, informing that they'll have a big audience that night. As ponies start to arrive for the show, Twilight tells the others that she's rewritten the script to put Celestia in a non-vocal role, which the others still feel is a bad idea. Just then, Pinkie reveals her latest replacement for the sun prop, a stock of firestocks she purchased from Trixie in a back alley. The fireworks go off, ruining most of the other props, and setting Twilight in a rage over how bad Celestia's acting is. Just then, the backdrop falls to reveal Celestia, who had heard Twilight's tirade, and she flies off alone not because Twilight insulted her acting skills, but because Twilight was not honest with her.
More...
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E7HorsePlay
***
Next on the docket for the mystery loving mutt: a touring theatrical stage show called “Scooby-Doo! And The Lost City of Gold,” courtesy of Canada’s MONLOVE production house in partnership with Warner Bros. Consumer Products. The first leg kicks off March 19 date at Scotiabank Centre (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) and wraps on June 28 at Jacksonville, Florida’s Times Union Center for the Performing Arts.
The stage production features a mix of live singing, dancing, dialogue, 16 original songs, puppetry, interactive video, magic, aerial arts, acrobatics and video. MONLOVE, the Montreal-based production company, puppet shop, and recording studio behind live, family-branded events such as “Ice Age Live! A Mammoth Adventure,” along with work on several Cirque du Soleil showcases, has reimagined Scooby as a 6’4″ animatronic and puppeteer-operated slobbery dog.
More...
https://variety.com/2019/legit/news/scooby-doo-live-theater-tour-lost-city-gold-1203400089/
***
For what it’s worth — and we’re talking millions of dollars here — you are never going to see as convincing an impersonation of a two-dimensional cartoon by a three-dimensional human as that provided by Ethan Slater at the Palace Theater. Mr. Slater plays the title role in “SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical,” the ginormous giggle of a show that opened on Monday night.
This may sound like dubious praise. But think about it. How many of those legions of figures who gambol through stage adaptations of animated movies — teapots, lions, fake Russian princesses, ad infinitum — seem to have been transliterated from the screen without any dilution of their inked-in essence?
The 24-year-old Mr. Slater, making his Broadway debut in Tina Landau’s exhaustingly imaginative production, achieves this metamorphosis sans prosthetics, skin dye or a facsimile costume. (He wears suspendered plaid trousers, with a shirt and tie.) And he’s playing a sea creature from a television children’s show, for God’s sake, one that appears to be a bright yellow, rectangular kitchen sponge.
More...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/04/theater/spongebob-squarepants-broadway-musical.html
***
Aired between 1992 and 1994 on the BBC and HBO, The Animated Shakespeare brings to life 12 famous Shakespeare plays. Leon Garfield, a well-known British children’s author, wrote the scripts, mainly using Shakespearian language. And some talented Russian artists did the animation.
More...
https://www.openculture.com/2012/04/12_animated_plays_by_william_shakespeare_macbeth_julius_caesar_romeo_juliet_and_more.html
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