We finally have a full cast, set in stone (fingers & toes all crossed):
The Landlady...........Lynna Snyder Metricin
Gertrude Stein.........Anne McEvoy
Alice B. Toklas..........Pam Matthews
George Sand.............Jen Justice
Alfred de Musset.....Val Kozlenko
Several weeks ago, we held a second reading at the Cleveland Heights Public Library. For that reading, Gilgamesh Taggett took the part of Alfred.
Although we had only a few guests in attendance, the reading was very energetic and muscular.
Tomorrow I have a meeting with Curtis Young at CPT to look through their stock of set pieces and props. Curtis has already informed me that they do not have a bed, which is perhaps the most important part of the set.
I went to see Mark Goodman, who owns an Antique Emporium in Larchmere. He has a good option for the writing desk there and also has a roll-away bed that we can use. It may not be so dramatic as Alice dragging a day bed onto the stage, but it may have its own theatrical effect.
I had called Mindy Herman to inquire about the brochures...and lo and behold, there was an e-mail waiting for me when I returned home. A generic e-mail from Mindy telling all Big Box participants that the brochures were ready. I must have been on some psychic wavelength with her today.
This is the photo that captures it all. Alfred's romantic yearning...and George just wanting to get on with the business of writing.
Lynna and Pam - not in character - at last evening's publicity photo shoot.
