tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93598672024-03-12T20:14:05.294-07:00Timothy Mooney Repertory TheatreTim Mooney, writes about life on the road, performing one-man plays, and sharing thoughts on acting and classical theatre. Tim is author of "Breakneck Hamlet," "Breakneck Julius Caesar," "Shakespeare's Histories," "Moliere than Thou," "Lot o' Shakespeare," "The Greatest Speech of All Time," "Criteria," and his newest, "Man Cave, a One-man Sci-fi Climate Change Tragicomedy!" Tim is also author of 17 new Moliere adaptations, and the acting text, "Acting at the Speed of Life!"tim_mooney@earthlink.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10251175800373730254noreply@blogger.comBlogger103125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359867.post-12513987974145539722018-11-29T12:10:00.005-08:002018-11-29T14:48:30.102-08:00The View From Here #175 (THE FINAL ISSUE!): Summer/Fall, 2018<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I know: I've tried retirement before... This is not retirement so much as... morphing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>The View From Here</b>, <i><b>175 issues and over 17 years old</b></i> started out as an email chain sent back to a dozen or so friends as I started my very first tour! Driving from Chicago to Seattle back in Fall, 2002, I was updating folks on a fairly regular basis, sometimes checking in multiple times a week, with updates on <b><i>every performance</i></b>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b>As I approach 1000 performances(!)</b></i>, the tour has grown, the blog has grown, and my ongoing narrative has added photos, videos, links, political commentary, with updates on <b>ten different one-man shows</b> over the years! As such, piecing together these updates has grown more elaborate, often forcing me to wait until I've got <i>a week</i> <i>of down-time</i> to assemble the narrative.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Of course, most of that stuff has been going up on social media, which means that much of this has been rehashing what a lot of you guys know already. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And the most oft-heard complaint is that this is just too damn long, and I'm sure many of you just hit "delete," because you don't have an EXTRA HOUR to trace through my life. (Hey, no judgement.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, I'm going to tighten things up: post more often, but with less "stuff." I may send a few of <b>the upcoming NEW thing</b> to this list, but largely the plan is to migrate over to <a href="https://www.patreon.com/timmooneyrep" target="_blank"><b>Patreon</b></a>, a subscription/membership service, where I'll be able to offer updates (and some cool free stuff) to subscribers: such as <b>Free Performances in your Living Room! </b>(or some similar intimate venue).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Subscriptions" or "memberships" will be as low as $1/month, and I'll be limiting my updates to monthly releases of the most fun stuff. Mostly, I want to dive more fully into what I do best: "Inspire, Inform, Enlighten, Educate and Entertain." Some issues are looming more and more, and while I continue to perform Shakespeare and Moliere, I expect performances of the new show are going to become ever more crucial.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Anyway here's: <b><a href="https://www.patreon.com/timmooneyrep" target="_blank">THE LINK</a></b> to continue to keep up with adventures on the road! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And here's a brief 2-minute <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_cI15IK4bM" target="_blank">VIDEO</a></b> to explain the how and the why of this new adventure. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the meantime, we rejoin <b>THE FINAL ISSUE OF THE VIEW FROM HERE</b>, already in progress!</span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">It’s been on a long
trek these last five-plus months! I wouldn’t blame you if you thought I’d given
up on blogging! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Keeping my head
above water can be a challenge on the road. Between fundraising, email campaigns,
writing, memorizing, publishing books... oh, and PERFORMING, it
can feel like I’m trying to run as fast as I can, in every direction,
simultaneously. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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thick of the thing, I feel like I’m going nowhere with nothing to show for it.
When I finally catch my breath enough to look back and trace through all the stuff
that’s gone on, suddenly I’m actually a little impressed with whomever it was
occupying my body through that period.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Back in June I alerted
you to the “Man Cave” fundraiser! We fell short of our $5,000 goal for promo
and travel for the big Los Angeles premiere of “Man Cave.” We didn’t quite go “over
the top,” but we did get some really cool photos from Tisse Mallon, which were
compiled into a terrific composite from Marcus Fernando, some
awesome art from the brilliant David Jensen (above), and a couple of fun
video trailers from Jennifer Irle (below).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Since we didn’t
reach our goal, our Indiegogo campaign “closed” on-line. Which means we can’t
keep going back to that link to continue fundraising. As an alternative, I’m starting up a “Patreon” page, for those who want to join in to help. <i>[Obviously, I wrote this before writing the intro above...]</i> There will
be books, mugs, t-shirts, balloons, advance releases, novelties and photos from
the road. I don't know quite what I’m going to create in the coming years but,
by now, we can be pretty sure there’s gonna be something, and if you’re still
reading this, then probably it will be something you’ll like. Every month, every
subscriber (from $1 per month on up) will be eligible to <b>win a performance in
their very own living room,</b> (or some venue of their choice) with the first drawing on January 1, 2019! <b><a href="https://www.patreon.com/timmooneyrep" target="_blank">Come join us! </a></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I headed for the
Portland Fringe Fest (“PortFringe”)… about as far from my anticipated trip to
L.A. as I might get (while still in the continental United States). <a href="http://mainetoday.com/do-this-2/one-man-julius-caeser-jesus-christ-superstar-action-figures-portfringe/?fbclid=IwAR1bERy4ln3Hir2QpEpwKxezzpQJ56Xl3l6GJdKulGFy45ZjPbyMldHfWyg" target="_blank">A nice article (and a terrific photo) popped up in “Maine Today”</a>. (Yes, “Julius
Caesar” is a particularly difficult name to spell.) </span><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Last spring, I had
no way of knowing that “Man Cave” would be performance-ready by summer, so I
scheduled “Breakneck Julius Caesar” for two fringes. Audiences for “BJC” were
tiny in Portland, but the people were very encouraging. We did run into one
organizational kerfuffle: The slide projector in the space didn’t work for my show, and adding my own
slide projector to the load-in added an extra 10 minutes or so... with other not-so-hilarious complications ensuing. Eventually, I had a pow-wow with the
fringe staff and they were very generous in renewing their support, and my last few
performances went extremely well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">While there wasn’t
much of the “legit press” reviewing these performances, the fringe did get website
reviewers out to the show:</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "verdana";">"Breakneck – the name is earned... <span style="color: #1d2129;">The raw text is handled by an articulate performer who
supplements the packed performance with data, his insights, and his comedic
takes on Shakespeare’s plot-holes in a way you wouldn’t see at The Globe. This
story is both timely and timeless – an undertaking of Shakespearean
sophistication. If you don’t know Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, take a wild stab
at the one." (<i>Kahlil LeSaldo</i>)</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "verdana";">"In this one-man production of five acts and twenty
characters—executed within a single hour without sacrificing any of the poetry,
the intrigue, or the complex richness of the original—a unique mastery is most
certainly on display. In a Fringe season defined by one-man shows, this is
undoubtedly the classical centerpiece."</span><span style="font-family: "verdana";"> (<span style="background: white;"><i>Douglas W. Milliken</i>)</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">My old friends from
Southern Illinois University, the director of the first college show I ever
performed in, Eric Peterson, and my “girlfriend” in that show, Kirsten Langellier,
came to see my final performance, after which we caught up over lunch. Eric and
Kirsten had some great ideas for promoting “Man Cave,” and I’m still looking up
loads of school contacts for that one.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">As a Latin Nerd and Ancient Roman History buff, it was super exciting to see the maps of the travels of the characters throughout the play... I was as exhausted as Tim probably is after this whirlwind hour, but in all the right ways, and I can't believe he does this with multiple Shakespeare plays. If you get a chance to see his performative acrobatics, I highly recommend it... You're not sure he can do it all in an hour and yet does so with gusto. <i>(Chris DeFilipp)</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">“Filled with humor, background,
effects and history… his acting is spot on, especially his juxtaposition of
Brutus’ speech to the Roman citizens at Caesar’s funeral against Marc Antony’s …<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>an arrogant flawed nobility of Brutus against
the cunning and ambition of an intelligent Marc Antony… Whether you understand
Shakespeare or not – he will make it worth the ride.” <i>(</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16px;"><i>James Carey)</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">About halfway
through the week, the performers started meeting up at a dive bar which had
PBR’s for about $2.50. The crowd of us grew every night until we were a large
gang of friends, enjoying the camaraderie.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Despite audience size, I won a “Critic’s Choice” award. (They give them corny names,
such as: “The Mentos Award... For Making a 400-Year-Old Play Feel Fresh,” so I
just cite it as “a Critic’s Choice award” and move on.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I took a short cut
on my way home, driving on the north side of the Great Lakes, stopping in
Toronto to catch up with my new friend from the Orlando Fringe, Polly Esther, and
stopping in Detroit to catch up with Isaac, who is now two years into his PhD
program!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Dropping in on the cast of <br />"Dammit Jim...!"</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">In Chicago, I redoubled
my efforts towards the coming trip to Los Angeles. I was
brought up short to hear of the mass killings at the Capital Gazette in
Annapolis. I hadn’t listened attentively to the details at first, but the
following day, I noticed the name “Wendi Winters,” and realized that she and
her daughter had been at the performance of my “The Servant of Two Masters” in
Annapolis back in 2015. (While Wendi had worked for the Capital Gazette, it was
her daughter who had written a really great review, <a href="http://timmooneyrep.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-view-from-here-167-summerfall-2015.html" target="_blank">quoted way back in TVFH 167</a></span><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">. We’ve been
Facebook friends ever since.) It’s a gut-punch to see the national tragedy
of gun violence starting to hit people we know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I did one last
“living room performance” of “Man Cave” for a dozen or so friends showing up in
April’s living room. Since I had to put the play together in a rush for the
Orlando Fringe, I hadn’t had the chance to share it with any hometown friends
before taking it on the road. A couple of friends’ reviews:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">“Tim’s play makes Al
Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” viscerally real, helping us envision our inevitable
future with facts, logic, and a good yank on our emotions. We are left to
ponder what we should be doing right now to feel more hopeful and less guilty
ten years from now.” (Kate Hutchinson)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";"></span><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">“It’s funny,
sobering and action-packed!” (Carol Alleman, who has re-christened me as “The
Always Amazing Tim Mooney”)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";"></span><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">“A poignant
cautionary tale in the tradition of a well thought-out episode of Rod Serling’s
Twilight Zone.” (Ed Pekin)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Along the four-day
drive to L.A., I passed the usual glorious scenery through Colorado and Utah. I
was a little freaked out seeing that the drive from Las Vegas to L.A. pushed
the dashboard thermometer as high as 116 degrees, and I spotted at least two
forest fires in the hills! (A timely context for “Man Cave.”) <i>[We'll take a pause here, so you can enjoy the drive...]</i></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><b>Optical illusion: that's the top of my car, looking like a lake</b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Same view; some guy in the way...</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">I had a week-long
stay in L.A. (mostly visiting with my good friend, Kirsten), with the luxury of
THREE tech rehearsals before actually opening the show. I happened to arrive at
the same time that my old Nebraska friend, Todd Nelson was hosting one of his
Nebraska “Coast Connection” events at an L.A. hotel, and he invited me in to
talk about my work. Partially because of this appearance, and despite the fact
that I was the only actor from “out of town” to perform at this particular
festival, I ended up with as many or more folks in the audience as either of
the other two acts participating had. There were several from Nebraska, a
friend from Orlando, a fellow Playwright, an old friend from Southern Illinois
University, as well as Kirsten, who filled out the house. There was no actual
media coverage for this festival, but it was great exposure and practice.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Todd, Tim & Todd at the Nebraska Coast Connection</b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Todd, Tim & Michael in the blue neon light of the Theatre</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">We had small
receptions outside the theatre after each of these performances, and one woman
I’d not met before recognized the original source of my material: the work of
climate scientist, Guy McPherson! I delighted to know that I was true enough to
the original source that someone had recognized it, especially as I had never
met, nor studied McPherson’s work. My initial inspiration had been second-hand,
by way of Dan Kinch’s Tampa Fringe show, “Planet Hospice.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Chicago, capturing even more irritatingly beautiful photos along the way. I
stopped in Kansas City, again, just in time to give Beth Byrd-Lonski's "Commedia Kansas City" group an impromptu workshop.</span></div>
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family reunion as an early salute to my dad’s 90<sup>th</sup> birthday (it’s
actually December 7, but it’s much easier to get people out during
the Summer). Dad hosted a performance of my <i>The Greatest Speech of All Time</i><b> </b>at his Senior Center, and I got to perform for a bunch of Mooneys, McGees and
Schmids who had never seen this show before. I was reminded of just how
controversial some of these speeches still are, as report reached me of one
woman actually walking out in a proverbial huff, irritated that I was giving a
platform for that radical, Frederick Douglass.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">The next night was a
get together at my brother Mike’s house, complete with cake, even more of the
gang, and Isaac coming out from Detroit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cousin Jan took a close-up of one of the old family movies...</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I manned a booth at the American Alliance for Theatre &
Education (AATE) conference in Minneapolis, and a fellow from Utah (who I’d never met before)
recognized me from YouTube and said “I LOVE your work! I show your stuff to my
students ALL THE TIME to demonstrate the handling of language, the physical
commitment, the energy and enthusiasm that you put into your performances.” (Awwww…)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">This led me to muse
over what remains an ongoing theme over the years: we will never know quite the
extent of the impact that we have on the world “out there.” Whether we have a
“presence” on the internet, or have simply touched one life at a time… those
“ripples” travel farther than we ever quite realize… so, all we can do is just
keep on making those ripples…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNdMBm56051EIGdqd25sjyLgHJHybYmRcmHUmDFazz2fLytjFtHVrrZHE6B7lrZtsdIkCyJo-JI0CQl0rS6Qx4Xvn6aQH9QLGYwHVqRZa6ti4hhihXg6RunSmqSPxPrlU4nbiJ/s1600/Tim-Abbe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: 24px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNdMBm56051EIGdqd25sjyLgHJHybYmRcmHUmDFazz2fLytjFtHVrrZHE6B7lrZtsdIkCyJo-JI0CQl0rS6Qx4Xvn6aQH9QLGYwHVqRZa6ti4hhihXg6RunSmqSPxPrlU4nbiJ/s200/Tim-Abbe.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I wanted to stay on
in Minneapolis to catch shows at the Fringe festival, but (not-unexpected) word
came to me that my old college sweetheart, Abbe Kane had passed away,
succumbing to a long bout with Multiple Myeloma. I hurried back to Chicago and
pulled out some of the old photos that I had in some of my collections,
emailing copies ahead to her son, Tim, and daughter, Charlotte. The wake and
the next morning’s ceremony in Springfield were very moving, and I was
extremely touched that they sat me very close to the family. I find
myself missing her very much.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Back to the road.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">“Breakneck Julius
Caesar” was slated for the Indianapolis Fringe Fest, and I was glad to see my
show getting top billing in the preview article from the local alternative
paper (Nuvo):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcZUCOlQ2dZCaX3-yc8gD1AR_nBqYE65H_cOVAKDcFOT90q8pIFkD3LX-kJjkwu30-dMnLbO_whdrDDpdTmmBFxhTVkWxB0VVEIdB-L8pUSXou8UJNuF43jyXyqcRvrR6O2nY-/s1600/IndyFringe+BJC+Postcard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: 24px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcZUCOlQ2dZCaX3-yc8gD1AR_nBqYE65H_cOVAKDcFOT90q8pIFkD3LX-kJjkwu30-dMnLbO_whdrDDpdTmmBFxhTVkWxB0VVEIdB-L8pUSXou8UJNuF43jyXyqcRvrR6O2nY-/s200/IndyFringe+BJC+Postcard.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">"You might have seen
Tim Mooney perform his “Breakneck Hamlet” in the 2015 IndyFringe. But in case
you haven’t, it’s a one-man solo performance where at the speed of sound, he
seamlessly summarizes important plot points. He also performs selected
scenes—including the infamous “To be or not to be” soliloquy – with gusto. And
then there’s his incisive and ironic commentary..."</span></blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Iago at the Beer Tent</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">A scheduling
conflict at the venue forced my opening night performance to cancel, and I
spent that time at the beer tent, singing karaoke and performing Shakespeare
monologues by request. When I finally squeezed in my first performance, there
was a terrific ovation paying off for the long wait. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Me with former NIU student, Caroline Good</b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOlfdCgUcSfcCPIIX9uH4dYEKlB7t4q0zIEM-RinrYnQ3Ygxu96TvBtoFlkUmcCFUBvUVmHRgTAAKgBh9K0HdRJBGBDPiArK_vGRkxbOsgfTiC4s1X__oUNH6DM20fUQoXBJvT/s1600/Tim+%2526+Mark.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 24px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOlfdCgUcSfcCPIIX9uH4dYEKlB7t4q0zIEM-RinrYnQ3Ygxu96TvBtoFlkUmcCFUBvUVmHRgTAAKgBh9K0HdRJBGBDPiArK_vGRkxbOsgfTiC4s1X__oUNH6DM20fUQoXBJvT/s200/Tim+%2526+Mark.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>...with playwright, Mark Harvey Levine</b></span></td></tr>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwnRvCgCt2GxdZfRBTOo1aG5ZTkAtO4s7fU8E5Bj1IJVyHF1ChPu2nG7x4O9klGG-IPXTzDsB_StP9mzber8ZF6rY70HaC7qxecSpdknfdGuNVGt4KL1TglxmAmVyrYDhIBdWd/s1600/Amy%2527s+Daughter+%25231.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: 24px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="900" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwnRvCgCt2GxdZfRBTOo1aG5ZTkAtO4s7fU8E5Bj1IJVyHF1ChPu2nG7x4O9klGG-IPXTzDsB_StP9mzber8ZF6rY70HaC7qxecSpdknfdGuNVGt4KL1TglxmAmVyrYDhIBdWd/s200/Amy%2527s+Daughter+%25231.jpg" width="112" /></a><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">This was my fourth
performance at the IndyFringe. I usually take 2-3 years off between Indy Fests, and that’s
led to a fun series of photos over the years with a little girl (who I only actually know as "Amy's Daughter") who came to see
“Greatest Speech” when she was 2, “Hamlet’ when she was 5, and now “Julius
Caesar” at the age of 7.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I may have lost any
of the mainstream media coverage I might have gotten with the cancellation of
my first performance, but several friends made up for it on their blogs, tweets
and Facebook posts:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLB-mZ314GfpsKA1gtPtE9FfHUtiE4aC2bqunnpPrj8GDq1MWBMOtL5X01iSUEQ_6s9abmvi_L_6_hDKtvjshUX0naLdbbxoKDFLlIPKF8jntWge0xcoSzHTSa02dpPhW7Pas6/s1600/IndyFringe+Performance+by+Kevin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: 24px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLB-mZ314GfpsKA1gtPtE9FfHUtiE4aC2bqunnpPrj8GDq1MWBMOtL5X01iSUEQ_6s9abmvi_L_6_hDKtvjshUX0naLdbbxoKDFLlIPKF8jntWge0xcoSzHTSa02dpPhW7Pas6/s200/IndyFringe+Performance+by+Kevin.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">…This show is
notable not only for how much the script is cut down (and not noticeably,
unless you are a Shakespeare scholar) but also for what is added. We get maps,
historical asides (Brutus stabbed him where?!) and context for not only Rome
but also the Elizabethan audience who first saw the play. Mooney delivers it
all, complete with costume changes, with precision and an easy style that never
feels rushed. His mastery of the material is evident throughout, making the
show both entertaining and enlightening. (John Lyle Belden, “Reviews with John
& Wendy”)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";"></span><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">A fantastic show…
brilliantly done… all in one very fast-paced hour… go see it! (Mark Harvey
Levine, Playwright)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";"></span><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Tim Mooney delivers
another powerhouse performance in his Breakneck Shakespeare series with
BREAKNECK JULIUS CAESAR. Playing multiple characters… and even seamlessly
manning his own technology with an informative, audience participation Power Point
from the stage. This show is exciting, funny, informative, full of talent and…
is it disrespectful to Shakespeare to say… fun. Tim Mooney is a master at his
craft, and this show is solid as a rock. RECOMMENDED!! (Kevin Halladay, “Schedule
C Shows”)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Usually, I’m a
bit low-key when I distribute flyers for my show, letting my
costume catch the public eye, and quietly approaching folks
waiting in line. I found myself coming
up on a large crowd waiting to get into two different shows and decided I needed
to reach them all rather quickly before they disappeared inside their respective theatres: I
boomed out: “Friends, Hoosiers, Countrymen, Please take my flyer! I come to
perform Caesar, not to praise him…” (I KNOW! Cheesy, Right?! But suddenly LOTS of people were willing to
take my flyer, and I nearly sold out both of my remaining performances.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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closing night party, I ended up winning one of the “Top Selling Show” awards,
having sold the most tickets for my particular venue. And as I ran up to the
stage to accept my award, the crowd broke into a spontaneous, “Tim! Tim! Tim!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The view from my Mississippi <br />host's "back yard"</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Still only the last
week of August, it was already time to start the “Fall Tour.” For the first
time ever, I had booked shows in Mississippi, as Tonya Hayes, a good friend
from the SETC conference, finally managed to book me in cooperation with three
different groups. (Mississippi is state #48: Alaska and Wyoming still on the
“to do” list)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mississippi show, “Breakneck Hamlet” to a group of about 75 at Mississippi
Gulfport Community College, finished with a standing ovation.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">The following
morning, I performed “The Greatest Speech of All Time” to a small-but-full
auditorium of about 150 Gulfport High School students. We spent a lot of time
on on making sure the slide show worked, but really hadn’t tested the light
settings before show time. I walked out into bright lights that blinded my view
of the audience. It wasn’t until after taking my bow that the audience lights
came up, and I found that the audience was all standing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">“Lot o’ Shakespeare”
at the Lynn Meadows Discovery Center was the third and final Mississippi show for a crowd of about 60 (mostly high school kids). I did some
25 different monologues to an extremely receptive audience in about 80 minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">A week later, Tonya,
who’d booked me to raise interest and to model Shakespearean style in advance
of upcoming auditions for “The Tempest” cc’d me on a note to her colleagues:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">We didn’t have our cast meeting on Thursday to get
the tour arranged for the Tempest. It’s all Tim Mooney’s fault! I wanted to
bring in Tim to get the students excited about Shakespeare and he did that!
They are so excited. The auditions were CRAZY… My little Jr. High kids and the
Teachers LOVED it!</span></blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>The latest book!</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I headed back for
Chicago, this time working lines for “Man Cave,” “Shakespeare’s Histories” and
“Moliere than Thou,” each of which had performances approaching within the
month.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">I was working and reworking the
text for my newest book: “Man Cave, a One-man Sci-fi Climate Change
Tragicomedy, Annotated” and had done a couple of rounds of proofing already. As
I was gearing to order yet another proof from the on-line printer, I
accidentally hit “Approve Proof” instead, which meant that as of September 8,
my new book was published! I ordered copies to meet me on the road, where I
planned to continue editing the text.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Michael Verderber of<br />Kingsville, Texas, holding<br />the first official "published<br />copy!"</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "verdana";">Phase two of the fall tour took me
to Denver, with the Educational Theatre Association conference, a performance
of “Man Cave” at the Dangerous Theatre and a performance of “Moliere than Thou”
at the Broomfield Auditorium. Broomfield’s show was the very first performance for
a guest artist series that they were just beginning to establish, and they had
no idea how it was going to go over. It turned out that about 60 people (more
than anticipated) showed up, with a really nice ovation at the end. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz6EOFnUp_ZPMZe-nnHRzpLr1oxFV5Gb7TTfMT9t_HWQOpTciYWMuvgytaBGFT9Cf4Ip0gTwTCv7ty9oB8MJ-Gi-oPabIoJwOr4Qu7ValoQM8cNUU4N10GUTxG-ugBqc2ALy3V/s1600/Tim+Amber+%2526+Charlotte.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: 24px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="912" data-original-width="1080" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz6EOFnUp_ZPMZe-nnHRzpLr1oxFV5Gb7TTfMT9t_HWQOpTciYWMuvgytaBGFT9Cf4Ip0gTwTCv7ty9oB8MJ-Gi-oPabIoJwOr4Qu7ValoQM8cNUU4N10GUTxG-ugBqc2ALy3V/s320/Tim+Amber+%2526+Charlotte.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "verdana";">Somewhere in there, I managed to
catch a brief visit with Amber and her baby, Charlotte, before pushing south to
Texas, stopping one of my favorite layovers: Roswell, New Mexico along the way,
before continuing far south to Alpine, Texas, where Sul Ross State University
wanted a workshop to help ready their students for “Macbeth.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "verdana";">Back north in Dallas, I attended
the Texas Educational Theatre Festival (using a bit of recent Roswell swag for
a display) before a long trip to Muskingum University in Ohio for
“Shakespeare’s Histories,” and “Breakneck Hamlet” in Indianapolis (a 9 am show,
challenging enough for me, not to mention the still-sleeping students), and a
long drive east for a stay at my sister's newly fixed-up “guest house” in
Claiborne, Maryland. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana";">She and her husband, Tim, took me out on a very fun sunset boat ride upon my arrival.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "verdana";">I had a couple of events while I
was in the neighborhood, including “Moliere than Thou” (and a couple of
classroom appearances) at the University of Delaware, and another run south for
the Virginia Theatre Association conference in Norfolk. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "verdana";">I got a little too
“moved in” at the guest house in Claiborne. I got some laundry done,
including both “Hamlet” and “Moliere” costume pieces. Unfortunately, the
black Moliere knickers and tights disappeared against the black Hamlet tunic, which I left folded on the counter, and I didn’t realize that these pieces were left behind until about 90 minutes
before the U-Delaware show time. I made a quick run to the local Target, where
I found a pair of black sweatpants and tights. I returned to safety pin the
sweats in such a way that they would just come down to the knee. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "verdana";">They actually looked pretty good,
and would have worked well had I not gotten too impressed with my own
cleverness; I stopped to take a photo of myself in the “knickers,” and
contorted my position in such a way that one of the safety pins pulled loose just before
going on stage. As a result, one leg stayed perfectly in place, while the other drooped from the knee to the ankle through the course of the performance. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "verdana";">Maureen introduced me to the St. Michaels librarian, and we pulled together a performance of
“Lot o’ Shakespeare” at the library. In spite of short
notice, some 48 people came out to catch me perform 23 speeches in the
middle of the afternoon! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "verdana";">A couple of days later, I met up with Kevin Brooks of the Eastport Oyster Boys who, unable to catch my
show in St Michaels, was in town to do a show on one of the cruise ships that
pulls into port. He invited me to do some spontaneous Shakespeare-by-Request at
his musical gig on the cruise, and the crowd responded rather well to the
“Macbeth,” “Merchant” and “Midsummer” monologues they requested.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "verdana";">The down time in St. Michaels
allowed me to do one of my famous-but-back-breaking email campaigns, and I continue to work to
add science teachers to the huge list of faculty, nationwide. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I did a long November 3 drive down to Bristol, Virginia/Tennessee, so
that I’d only have a short hop the following day (which happened to be yet
another birthday), before continuing along to Nashville the next day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">At my hotel that
night, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Molierelover/videos/10160930705480231/" target="_blank">I went on line to do a Facebook live performance of my favorite Dr.Seuss book, “The Lorax,” as the clock turned midnight</a>. Given that I would be
traveling from Eastern time to Central time the next day, AND that my birthday
fell on a day that the clocks were about to “Fall Back,” I promoted this
reading as… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioDTWuroXeEjlRsAoX67BbHHoM2SN9-7idroYYD4Joglgslc7yhPYxpjYhWYybyOfkryJOw63NWzP1vYOFX01nRIOb-M_ja_CSHraCTvMX4AFpfPy_lrW-76n83LTX50-YieFv/s1600/Lorax+photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: 24px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="802" data-original-width="564" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioDTWuroXeEjlRsAoX67BbHHoM2SN9-7idroYYD4Joglgslc7yhPYxpjYhWYybyOfkryJOw63NWzP1vYOFX01nRIOb-M_ja_CSHraCTvMX4AFpfPy_lrW-76n83LTX50-YieFv/s320/Lorax+photo.jpg" width="224" /></a><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">“...The one in which
Tim reads Dr. Seuss’ “The Lorax” in his pajamas, in advance of the longest
birthday ever, to encourage everybody to go out and VOTE, while struggling to
remain non-partisan, but well, you know… you’ve SEEN his Facebook feed… while
occasionally nudging you to donate to his birthday fundraiser so that he can
afford to COME TO YOUR TOWN this summer to perform at YOUR LOCAL FRINGE
FESTIVAL with his NEW PLAY: MAN CAVE, A ONE-MAN SCI-FI CLIMATE CHANGE
TRAGICOMEDY so that he can, you know, SAVE THE WORLD! …and did I mention that
you should, um, VOTE?! Because 'UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better. It’s not.'”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I managed to meet up
with grade-school-friend, John Brauweiler who lives in Bristol, and captured a
lying-down-in-the-road photo on Bristol’s Main Street, half of which is on the
Virginia side, and half of which is on the Tennessee side of the state
line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Following a birthday
spent mostly answering Facebook birthday greetings, I continued on to
Clarksville, TN, <a href="https://clarksvillenow.com/local/one-man-show-moliere-than-thou-coming-to-apsu/partial/?fbclid=IwAR2ntNdOv-OszWng7WMn2CwJeddng4qIB7O9fC445Lna2W0cBx9e3iEB2JM" target="_blank">for two workshops and a performance of “Moliere than Thou” for an enthusiastic group of about 50</a>.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzpPeEgGIJcxZvGwaSKCyZDztAj90A7qbq_A7AgpMSEwzBXc9aPa4v68AzVgskDHVM04NnMAjciZojGySpuLuxfd-4EQ67fhriBNosI47_oCiuB07xeB5u2facxoK-W8dzd7jp/s1600/What+time+is+it%253F.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzpPeEgGIJcxZvGwaSKCyZDztAj90A7qbq_A7AgpMSEwzBXc9aPa4v68AzVgskDHVM04NnMAjciZojGySpuLuxfd-4EQ67fhriBNosI47_oCiuB07xeB5u2facxoK-W8dzd7jp/s200/What+time+is+it%253F.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Of course, the
election happened, which was mostly good. And the Resident immediately rammed
an unqualified candidate into the Attorney General position, which was bad, and
I actually went out and attended my first ever protest rally (how have I made
it this long without attending a protest rally?), where they apparently liked
the chants I was coming up with, and stuck a megaphone into my hand. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>“What time is it?!” “Mueller time!”</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Over the past month
or so, I’ve come up with some really fun ideas for draft #s 6 and 7 of the
“Mary Sidney Project,” and I’m happy enough with the script now to begin sharing
it around. If anybody out there wants to have a look at it, please drop me a note! [I'm sure I'll be talking about it at length on the new "Patreon list."]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">And, as if all this
were not enough, I am in the proofing stages of a NEW, “Young Adult”
version of “Man Cave,” (featuring a new prologue and glossary) for performance
at high schools. As such, I will be ready to perform this show for the people
most threatened by climate change (i.e., the new generation) no later than
this January!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Finally, all of
these projects have slowed my focus on lining up bookings for the coming
Winter/Spring! I’d love to bring one of these shows to your school, library,
cruise, or living room! Through the month of December, <b>I'll be offering a discount "Year-End Close-Out!" </b>Drop me a note if you’d like to set something up!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Thanks again, to all who have read through to the end of Issue #175! I hope you'll stick with me in time to come. <a href="https://www.patreon.com/timmooneyrep" target="_blank"><b>Please click here to join me!</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Love,</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Tim</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";"><b>Discoveries</b> "I feel like I'm trying to run as fast as I can in every direction, simultaneously." * While in the thick of it, I may feel like I'm going nowhere, when I finally catch my breath, I'm actually a little impressed. * There's an inertia that sets in after each individual fundraiser, and starting up a new one is like going back to a dead lift. * Taking the extra time to voice my issues with the Fringe staff can have unexpected payoffs. * National tragedies, such as gun violence, remain at least slightly abstract until they start impacting people you know. * Frederick Douglass is still controversial. * There are people out there that I've influenced, even though we've never met... "all we can do is just keep making those ripples." * Sometimes the risk with the biggest benefit is the willingness to be publicly silly. * Never start the show without seeing what the light settings are going to look like during the show, itself. * Double check to make sure all black costume pieces have been packed. </span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK4"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK2"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK1"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK4;"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Timothy Mooney
Repertory Theatre Tour Schedule<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></a></h1>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">(Already-booked dates in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">GREEN; </span>Tentative bookings in<span style="color: green;"> </span><span style="color: red;">RED (possibly) and </span><span style="color: blue;">BLUE (probably</span></b>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 9.0pt;">MTT</span></b><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"> = “Moliere than Thou”; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">LoS</span></b> = “Lot o’ Shakespeare;” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">GSAT</span></b> =
“Greatest Speech of All Time;” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">SH</span></b> – “Shakespeare’s Histories;” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">BH</span></b> –
“Breakneck Hamlet;” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">BJC</span></b> – “Breakneck Julius Caesar” MC – “Man Cave”</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 18.0pt;">FALL,
2018<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Dec 2<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>IOWA State
University, Ames, IA (MC)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Dec 3-4<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Northwest
Missouri State University, Maryville, MO (Workshops)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Dec 5-7<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSOURI, IOWA, MINNESOTA, WISCONSIN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 18.0pt;">WINTER/SPRING,
2019<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 3-6<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MLA Chicago<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 7-9<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 10-12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Illinois High
School Theatre Festival (Exhibit)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 13-14<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS, IOWA, MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 15-16<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KANSAS, OKLAHOMA, ARKANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 17-20<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS, LOUISIANA, MISSISSIPPI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 21-22<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA, GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 23-30<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 1-5<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA, FLORIDA <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 6<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Orlando,
Florida<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 7-8<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA,
GEORGIA, SOUTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 9-10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SOUTH CAROLINA, NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 11-12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>VIRGINIA, D.C., MARYLAND, DELAWARE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 13-14<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 15-16<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OHIO, MICHIGAN, INDIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 17-18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 19<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MICHIGAN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 20<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>North Central
College, Naperville, IL (MTT)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 21<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>INDIANA, OHIO, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 22<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>INDIANA, WEST VIRGINIA, OHIO,
KENTUCKY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 23-24<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WEST VIRGINIA KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE,
MISSISSIPPI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA, TENNESSEE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 26<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ALABAMA, GEORGIA, TENNESSEE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 27-Mar 2 SETC Conference, Knoxville, TN <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 3-4<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA, FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 5-6<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">March 6<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Orlando, FL<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 7<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>GEORGIA, SOUTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 8<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA,
SOUTH CAROLINA, NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 9<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>NORTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>VIRGINIA, WEST VIRGINIA, MARYLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 11<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>VIRGINIA, WV, D.C., MARYLAND,
DELAWARE, NEW JERSEY, NY, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DELAWARE, NEW JERSEY, PENNSYLVANIA,
NEW ENGLAND <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 13-14<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 15-16<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Boston, MA (BJC)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 17-19<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 20<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OHIO, MICHIGAN, INDIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 21-24<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Three Brothers
Theatre, Waukegan, IL (MC?)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS, IOWA, MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 26<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSOURI, NEBRASKA, KANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 27<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KANSAS, OKLAHOMA, ARKANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OKLAHOMA, LOUISIANA, TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 29<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 30-Apr 1 NEW
MEXICO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 2<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 3<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>ARIZONA, UTAH, NEVADA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 4-5<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, OREGON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 6-9<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OREGON, WASHINGTON, ALASKA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 10-11<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OREGON, WASHINGTON, IDAHO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MONTANA, WYOMING, UTAH, COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 13<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DAKOTAS, NEBRASKA, MINNESOTA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 13-19<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MINNESOTA, WISCONSIN, IOWA, ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 22-23<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MICHIGAN, INDIANA, OHIO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 24<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OHIO, KENTUCKY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 26<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ARKANSAS, LOUISIANA, VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 27-29<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>LOUSIANA, MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA, NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 30<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 1<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 18.0pt;">SUMMER,
2019 </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 18.0pt;">(possible events)</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May
2-11 <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Tampa Fringe Festival<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May
14-27<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Orlando Fringe Festival, Orlando,
FL<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">June
15-22<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Portland, ME or Ottawa, ON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jul
11-15:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Regina Fringe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">July
14-17<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>AATF, Philadelphia, PA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">July
17-28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Winnipeg Fringe </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">or<span style="color: blue;"> KC Fringe<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">August
1-11<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Minnesota Fringe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">August
2-10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Calgary Fringe or Saskatoon Fringe <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">August 15-25<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Edmonton
Fringe <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">August
21-Sept 1<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Victoria Fringe </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 18.0pt;">FALL,
2019<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 3-10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 11-14<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Educational Theatre Association Conference<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 16<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS, INDIANA, MICHIGAN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 17<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>INDIANA, MICHIGAN, OHIO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OHIO, KENTUCKY, WEST VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 19<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA, NEW YORK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 20<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA, NEW YORK, NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 21-23<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 24<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW ENGLAND, NEW YORK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 26<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY, D.C., MARYLAND, DELAWARE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 27<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>D.C. MARYLAND, DELAWARE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 28-29<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MARYLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 30<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MARYLAND, D.C., VIRGINIA<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 1<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>VIRGINIA,
NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 2<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>NORTH/SOUTH
CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 3<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>SOUTH
CAROLINA, GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 4<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>GEORGIA,
FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 5-6<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 7<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>FLORIDA,
GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 8<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>GEORGIA,
TENNESSEE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 9<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>TENNESSEE,
ALABAMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 11<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSISSIPPI, ARKANSAS, LOUISIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 12-13<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>LOUISIANA, TEXAS, ARKANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 14<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OKLAHOMA, ARKANSAS, LOUISIANA, TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 15<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS, OKLAHOMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 16<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS, NEW MEXICO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 17<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ARIZONA, NEVADA, CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 19-21<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 22<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, NEVADA, OREGON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 23<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OREGON, WASHINGTON, UTAH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 24<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OREGON, WASHINGTON, IDAHO, UTAH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IDAHO, MONTANA, WYOMING, COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 26-27<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MONTANA, COLORADO, WYOMING<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SOUTH/NORTH DAKOTA, WYOMING, COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 29<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEBRASKA, KANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 30<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEBRASKA, KANSAS, MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 31<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSOURI, IOWA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 1<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>IOWA,
MINNESOTA, WISCONSIN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 2-3<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MINNESOTA, WISCONSIN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 4-5<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WISCONSIN, ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 6<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>ILLINOIS,
IOWA, MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 7<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>MISSOURI,
ARKANSAS, OKLAHOMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 8<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>OKLAHOMA,
TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 9<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>TEXAS,
LOUISIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>LOUISIANA, MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 11<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA, TENNESSEE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TENNESSEE, GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 13<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA, FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 14<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 15-17<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA, SOUTH CAROLINA <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SOUTH CAROLINA, NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 19<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NORTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 20<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>VIRGINIA, WEST VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, D.C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 21<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MARYLAND, DELAWARE, NEW JERSEY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 22<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW JERSEY, NEW YORK, NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 23-24<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW ENGLAND, NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO, KENTUCKY<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 26<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OHIO, MICHIGAN, INDIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 6<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>UTAH,
WYOMING<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 7<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>MONTANA,
IDAHO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 8<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>IDAHO,
WASHINGTON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 9-12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MLA Conference, Seattle, WA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 13-14<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WASHINGTON, OREGON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 15<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 16-17<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, NEVADA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 18-19<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 20-21<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ARIZONA, NEW MEXICO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 22-25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS, OKLAHOMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 26-27<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ARKANSAS, LOUISIANA, MISSISSIPPI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 28<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 29<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>ALABAMA, GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 30<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 31-Feb 2<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 3<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>GEORGIA,
SOUTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 4<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>SOUTH
CAROLINA, NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 5<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>NORTH
CAROLINA, VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 6<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>NORTH
CAROLINA, VIRGINIA, DC, MARYLAND, DELAWARE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 7<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>DC,
MARYLAND, DELAWARE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 8-9<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MARYLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Hello, Friends,</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">This may be the most
challenging part of what I do. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">And, from the looks
of it, I do a bunch of challenging things. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I’m used to selling
tickets, and selling bookings. I’m not as good at it as I would like to be, but
that’s kind of the territory of my “job,” and I do need to eat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">As someone who makes
a living as a one-man show, there’s probably/certainly something in my psyche
that avoids “dependency.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Yet, much as I
might try, there’s no escaping dependency: I depend on a board of directors, a
manager, a venue, a school, a technician, an audience, and the willing
suspension of disbelief. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Every time I launch
a new show, I depend on the words, the story, the message to carry me through,
to make a statement and for that statement to be both meaningful and important.
And that audience, those reviewers, those hosts and these ticket-buyers... mostly back
me up in the bargain. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">But there’s that
gap: that period between thinking up the new show, and fully producing the new
show (writing, memorizing, costuming, propping, photographing, video-ing,
graphic-ing, press-releasing, promoting…) in which the work is all happening,
and the money has not yet begun to pay the bills for all of those “-ings”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Broadway producers
know how this works, and raise millions upon millions in a scheme which will
theoretically be of profit to their backers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">As a not-for-profit
organization, I don’t have Backers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I have Angels. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">There are people out
there who take the leap of faith alongside me, that believe what comes out on
the other side will repay the common good of this viewer, that audience, this
classroom, that school, this community, that…? They believe in our mission: "to inspire, inform, enlighten, educate and entertain..."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">And they invest in
that vision: that THIS understanding of THIS writer or THAT thing will make THAT community
more sensitive, intelligent, conscious, aware, capable… Sometimes, sight
unseen, they invest in what they believe might be returned to the community, a possibility waiting at
the other end. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">And I struggle with
seeking that support. Because, I haven’t provided the payoff quite yet, it’s
only barely begun to appear in front of people, and the reviews have only begun
to trickle in. And it’s much easier for me to laugh along with the cynicism, than to be so unfashionable as to bang the drum for a “cause.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Or, maybe it's because I'm so completely connected to "the thing" that I put my own self-worth at stake every time I suggest that you might want to support "it."</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">So, my resistance
and procrastination kick in, and I spend a long week, composing and justifying
a fundraiser that makes the case for the value of “this thing,” before
approaching you with the important question. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Which is this:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">There’s this thing I
created. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">It’s called “Man
Cave, a One-man Sci-fi Climate Change Tragicomedy.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I think it’s
important. </span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">It came out really good... better than I expected.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I think it can make
a difference for people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I pretend that
I’m joking when I say, half-sincerely, that it might make a difference for the planet. ("Saving the planet through acts of theatre since 2002.")<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I’m embarking on a
long trip and a large campaign to get it in front of bunches of people. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I’m trying to raise
some of the money up front, so that campaign can make a big splash early, and send the
ripples from that splash out as far and wide as they might. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I’d love to have
your support, and to have you along for the ride. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Would you check out
the project, and send a little something our way?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">And, maybe, share it
with your friends?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="background: white; font-family: "verdana";"><b><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-bring-man-cave-to-the-final-frontier-adventure/x/187391#/" target="_blank">There’s videos, and a campaign, and “swag.” You can get a sticker, a book, a t-shirt, or maybe a tree, or trees, planted in your name.</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">It's here: <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-bring-man-cave-to-the-final-frontier-adventure/x/187391#/" target="_blank">https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-bring-man-cave-to-the-final-frontier-adventure/x/187391#/ </a></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Thanks for helping
me make a difference.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Tim<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 9.0pt;">(Already-booked dates in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">GREEN; </span>Tentative
bookings in<span style="color: green;"> </span><span style="color: red;">RED</span></b>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 9.0pt;">MTT</span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 9.0pt;"> = “Moliere than Thou”; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">LoS</span></b> =
“Lot o’ Shakespeare;” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">GSAT</span></b> = “Greatest Speech of All Time;” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">SH</span></b> –
“Shakespeare’s Histories” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">BH</span></b> – “Breakneck Hamlet;” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">BJC</span></b> – “Breakneck Julius Caesar” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">MC</span></b> – “Man Cave”<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">SUMMER, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jun
16-23<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Port Fringe (BJC)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">July
9-15<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Son of Semele Solo Creation
Festival <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(MC)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">July
27<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Moorings, Arlington
Heights (GSAT)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Aug
2-5: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>AATE MINNEAPOLIS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Aug
2-12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Minnesota Fringe Festival
(waiting list)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Aug
16-26<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indy Fringe Festival (BJC)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Aug
30-Sep 3<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chicago Fringe Festival
(waiting list)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">FALL, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Aug
29-31<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Gulfport High School, Gulfport,
MS (LoS)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 4-7<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS, INDIANA, MICHIGAN, WISCONSIN, MINNESOTA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep
5-8<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Arts Midwest Conference,
Indianapolis, IN<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep
10-11<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dakota Prairie Regional Center
for the Arts <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEBRASKA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep
13-15<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EdTA National Conference,
Denver, CO (Booth, Workshop)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 16<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dangerous
Theatre (Man Cave)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 17<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEBRASKA, SOUTH/NORTH DAKOTA, WYOMING <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MONTANA, IDAHO<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>,<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 19-20<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IDAHO, UTAH, COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep
21<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Broomfield Auditorium,
Denver, CO<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 22-23<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 24-25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>COLORADO, UTAH, NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, WASHINGTON, OREGON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 26<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ARIZONA, NEW MEXICO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 26-29<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TETA
THEATREFEST Dallas, TX<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 27-28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS, OKLAHOMA, KANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 29-30<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KANSAS, NEBRASKA MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 1<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>MISSOURI,
IOWA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 2<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>IOWA,
ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 3<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>ILLINOIS,
INDIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 4<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>INDIANA,
MICHIGAN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 5-7<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS, INDIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 8<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>INDIANA,
MICHIGAN, OHIO<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 9 <span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>OHIO, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA, NEW YORK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 11<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW YORK, NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 12-14<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 15<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW ENGLAND, NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 16<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 17<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW JERSEY, DELAWARE, MARYLAND, D.C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct
17-18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>U-Delaware, Newark, DE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DELAWARE, MARYLAND, D.C., VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 19<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>D.C., VIRGINIA, MARYLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 20-21<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MARYLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 22<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 23<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NORTH/SOUTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct
24-28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Virginia Theatre Association,
Norfolk, VA?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 24<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA, FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 26-28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 29<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA, GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 30<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA, TENNESSEE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 31<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TENNESSEE, KENTUCKY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 1<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>KENTUCKY,
VIRGINIA, WEST VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 2<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Campbellsville University,
Campbellsville, KY (GSAT)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 2<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>VIRGINIA,
WEST VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 3-4<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WEST VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 5<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>OHIO,
KENTUCKY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 6<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>OHIO,
KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 7<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>TENNESSEE,
KENTUCKY, ALABAMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 8<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>ALABAMA,
MISSISSIPPI, ARKANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 9<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>MISSISSIPPI,
ARKANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov
7-11<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>InFringe Festival<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 10-11<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>LOUISIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>LOUISIANA, TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 13<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS, OKLAHOMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 14-15<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS, OKLAHOMA, KANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov
15-18 <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Texas Thespians, Gaylord, Texas<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 16<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS, NEW MEXICO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 17<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW MEXICO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 19<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 20<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 21-27<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, HAWAII, OREGON, WASHINGTON, NEVADA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 27<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Mount Hood Community College, Gresham,
WA<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 27<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Troutdale, OR/Vancouver, WA (MTT)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEVADA, UTAH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 29<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>UTAH, COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 30<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>COLORADO, NEBRASKA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Dec 1<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>NEBRASKA,
IOWA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Dec 2-4<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IOWA, ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">WINTER/SPRING,
2019<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 3-6<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span> MLA Chicago<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 7-18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Illinois Events<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 10-12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Illinois High
School Theatre Festival<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 13-Feb
16<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Available for Residency<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 17-18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 19<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MICHIGAN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb
20<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>North Park College,
Naperville, IL (MTT)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 21<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>INDIANA, OHIO, WEST VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 22<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WEST VIRGINIA, OHIO, KENTUCKY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 23-24<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE, MISSISSIPPI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 26<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ALABAMA, GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb
27-Mar 2 SETC Conference, Knoxville, TN <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 3-4<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA, FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 5-6<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 7<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>GEORGIA,
SOUTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 8<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>SOUTH
CAROLINA, NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 9<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>NORTH
CAROLINA, VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>VIRGINIA, WEST VIRGINIA, MARYLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 11<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>VIRGINIA, DC, MARYLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>D.C., MARYLAND, DELAWARE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 13<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DELAWARE, NEW JERSEY, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 14<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY, NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar
15-16<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Boston, MA (BJC)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 15<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 16-18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW YORK, NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 19<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 20<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 21<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OHIO, MICHIGAN, INDIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar
22-25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Three Brothers Theatre, Waukegan,
IL <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS, IOWA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 26<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IOWA, MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 27<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSOURI, KANSAS, ARKANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KANSAS, ARKANSAS, OKLAHOMA, LOUISIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 29<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>LOUISIANA, OKLAHOMA, TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 30-Apr 1 TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 2<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>TEXAS,
NEW MEXICO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 3<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>NEW
MEXICO, ARIZONA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 4-5<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, NEVADA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 6-8<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, NEVADA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 9-10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>UTAH, COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 11<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>COLORADO, NEBRASKA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEBRASKA, MISSOURI, IOWA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 13-19<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS, WISCONSIN, INDIANA, MINNESOTA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 22-23<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WISCONSIN, MINNESOTA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 24<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NORTH DAKOTA, SOUTH DAKOTA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">April 25-28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Oregon Fringe Festival (estimated dates)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NORTH DAKOTA, SOUTH DAKOTA, WYOMING, MONTANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 26<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WYOMING, MONTANA, IDAHO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 27-29<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IDAHO, WASHINGTON, OREGON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 30<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WASHINGTON, OREGON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 1<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>OREGON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 6<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>OREGON,
CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 7<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 8<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>CALIFORNIA,
NEVADA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 9<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>UTAH,
COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 11<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 13<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TENNESSEE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 14<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA, FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">SUMMER, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">April 25-28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Oregon Fringe Festival (estimated dates)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 15-26<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Orlando Fringe Festival, Orlando, FL<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 29-Jun 9London Fringe (est. dates)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jun 6-10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dallas Solo Fest (2018 dates)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jul 11-15:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Regina Fringe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jul 24-29 (2017): Providence Fringe
Festival<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">FALL, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 11-14<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Educational Theatre Association Conference<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 16<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS, INDIANA, MICHIGAN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 17<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>INDIANA, MICHIGAN, OHIO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OHIO, KENTUCKY, WEST VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 19<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA, NEW YORK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 26<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY, D.C., MARYLAND, DELAWARE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 27<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>D.C. MARYLAND, DELAWARE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 30<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MARYLAND, D.C., VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 1<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>VIRGINIA,
NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 2<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>NORTH/SOUTH
CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 3<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>SOUTH
CAROLINA, GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 4<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>GEORGIA,
FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 5-6<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 7<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>FLORIDA,
GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 8<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>GEORGIA,
TENNESSEE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 9<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>TENNESSEE,
ALABAMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 11<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSISSIPPI, ARKANSAS, LOUISIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 12-13<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>LOUISIANA, TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 14<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OKLAHOMA, ARKANSAS, LOUISIANA, TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 15<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS, OKLAHOMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 16<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS, NEW MEXICO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 17<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ARIZONA, NEVADA, CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 19-21<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 22<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, NEVADA, OREGON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 23<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OREGON, WASHINGTON, UTAH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 24<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OREGON, WASHINGTON, IDAHO, UTAH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IDAHO, MONTANA, WYOMING, COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 26-27<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MONTANA, COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SOUTH/NORTH DAKOTA, WYOMING, COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 29<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEBRASKA, KANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 30<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEBRASKA, KANSAS, MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 31<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSOURI, IOWA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 1<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>IOWA,
MINNESOTA, WISCONSIN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 2-3<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MINNESOTA, WISCONSIN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 4-5<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WISCONSIN, ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 6<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>ILLINOIS,
IOWA, MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 7<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>MISSOURI,
ARKANSAS, OKLAHOMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 8<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>OKLAHOMA,
TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 9<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>TEXAS,
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>LOUISIANA, MISSISSIPPI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 11<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA, TENNESSEE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TENNESSEE, GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 13<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA, FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 14<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 15-17<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA, SOUTH CAROLINA <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SOUTH CAROLINA, NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 19<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NORTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 20<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>VIRGINIA, WEST VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, D.C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 21<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DELAWARE, NEW JERSEY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 22<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW JERSEY, NEW YORK, NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 23-24<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW ENGLAND, NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO, KENTUCKY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 26<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OHIO, MICHIGAN, INDIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<!--EndFragment--><br />tim_mooney@earthlink.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10251175800373730254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359867.post-40864985583334587392018-05-23T12:59:00.001-07:002018-05-23T14:36:51.958-07:00The View From Here #173: Winter-Spring 2018<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">I peek up from a
really full Winter/Spring tour to notice that it’s now been almost five months
since our last “View From Here” blog entry (Dec 28). I wanted to squeeze
something in before the end of the year, just as a reminder for any end-of-year
donations, but this May-August period is generally the most trying phase of the
tour, as Fringe festivals don’t tend to bring in a living wage.</span></div>
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have been caught up with writing two new shows and memorizing one of them. I’m amid
the final pages of draft four of the “Shakespeare Authorship Play,” which has
been paused the last month or two due to the sudden need to have the “Climate
Change Play” (now titled “Man Cave”) ready to perform NOW! (More on that
below!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Early January found
me traveling in a direction I rarely go in the colder months. I had a booking
of “Moliere than Thou” in Pelham, NY that I only vaguely remember so many
months later, although my notes remind me that the French teacher wrote back,
“Your show was amazing and definitely an unforgettable experience for the
students.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Pushing even further
into snowy weather, I was a featured presenter at the Northeast Educational
Theatre Association, meeting in Portland, Maine. Of course, I avoid Maine in
mid-January, but the opportunity to share this work with a large bunch of
theatre kids was too tempting. I arrived a few days early and visited with
Gale, my Orlando friend (who has a winter home in Maine), and it snowed heavily
every day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Over the two-day EdTA
event, I was part of an opening panel, gave three workshops, and performed “Lot
o’ Shakespeare” twice. It was great getting to know my fellow panelists, Karen
and Shirlee (Actress & Costume Designer, respectively), and perhaps most
fun presenting “Lot o’ Shakespeare” to audiences who were big fans of
Shakespeare and responded warmly to each monologue. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">After the show, one
student stopped me in the cafeteria to let me know, “I never imagined that I
would actually enjoy Shakespeare…!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">The real challenge
arrived in hitting the road again: I had only three days to get from Maine to
Georgia, and a snowfall on my get-out-of-Maine day would have made the trip
impossible. Almost on cue, after a week of snow and freezing temperatures, the
sun came out, and the temperature topped 40 degrees. I raced out, reaching Pennsylvania
on the first day, North Carolina the second and Columbus, Georgia, the third.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">In Columbus,
“Breakneck Hamlet” was part of a department-wide event. Columbus State has a
healthy enrollment of 120 theatre students, and I could hear and feel their
excitement from the other side of the curtain well before I began (they were
cheering the pre-show announcements). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">The show felt great,
and wrapped up with what I posted was a “massive standing ovation.” This was
one of those days that reminded me that, in spite of the driving and the
struggles, I really do love my job. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">While I can
generally pick up a couple of shows within some two-or-three days’ drive, I lay
out my schedule about 18 months in advance of actual performances, and every
now and again there is a gap where events don’t fill in on my mapped-out agenda.
This was one such gap…! With a long drive from Georgia to Oregon, I decided to
make the most of it and drop in on as many friends as I might at each step
along the way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I pushed west, with
quick visits in Forth Worth, TX, Las Cruces, NM, and Tucson, NM. In San Diego,
I managed to catch up with April’s foster-daughter, Victoria (now
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, Marty McGee.
From there I pushed north, dropping in on Lucy Wang in L.A., Kirsten Moomey in
Santa Clarita, Jayne Day in Fresno, Marina and Steve in Chico, Cil Stengel in
Ashland, OR (where I dropped off more of my books at the Oregon Shakespeare
Festival gift shop), and Pat and Kathy in Salem, OR, before finally landing in
Portland, OR for my next show (and visits to Powell’s Books and Jeff Desautels,
of “Box of Clowns” while I was there).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Along the way, the Tim
Mooney Rep picked up another major donation from a semi-anonymous donor, contributing
$5,000 through the Sunflower Road Foundation!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“Moliere than Thou,” coordinated by French teachers from three different Portland-area
schools, was extremely well received (and they started talking about a return
event for the coming Fall). Also in attendance was my semi-distant cousin,
Karen Martin (only discovered and met a year prior) and her husband and
daughter, who now saw me in performance for the first time ever. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Once again, I headed
east, with stops in Coeur d’Alene, OR, Missoula, MT (visiting Joe Proctor, one
year post-heart-transplant), before continuing on across the northern tier to Chicago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Following a quick
Chicago stop, I was back on the road again, with an Indianapolis performance
for 160 high school English students at Riverside High School! I had performed
both “Breakneck Hamlet” and “Breakneck Julius Caesar” to their “sibling
school,” Herron High School, in previous semesters, but “Lot o’ Shakespeare”
seemed to go over even better than either of those. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Following a quick
Q&A, I was back on the road to Delaware, Ohio, where the local Shakespeare
Club booked “Breakneck Julius Caesar” for a large auditorium to bursting with
650 students from several local schools. The show felt better than ever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I received word that
my number had been picked off of the waiting list for the Tampa Fringe
Festival, where I would return with “Breakneck Julius Caesar” as a follow-up to
last year’s “Hamlet” performance. About a month later, I got word that they had
decided to use my visuals for a Fringe billboard campaign (pictured at top)! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I proceeded north to
Detroit for a slightly belated birthday dinner with Isaac, who seems to have turned
the impossible age of 24, followed by a week or two “down time” in Chicago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">At home, I made some
headway on the spring “email campaign,” as well as some serious writing on both
the Shakespeare Authorship play and “Man Cave.” I began the long process of
memorizing this play, re-writing a lot as I memorize. As I worked, each
individual page was now processing through their fourth, fifth, sixth drafts. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Back to Texas! This
time I headed for Texas A&M-Kingsville, which had brought me in on perhaps
three previous occasions. While the French department hosted me for another
“Moliere than Thou” performance, my good friend, Michael Verderber (along with
his wife, Katy), teach English in Kingsville, and I offered to share my one-man
comic sci-fi thriller, “Criteria,” as a warm-up to a performance I was
anticipating at the Southeast Theatre Conference (SETC) the following week.
They were delighted to set me up with a room and a handful of friends for the
event. (I only get to perform “Criteria” about once every couple of years, so
the chance to remind myself of how it plays is a real benefit.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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featured an afternoon workshop as well as an evening performance of “Moliere
than Thou” for a small audience. Katy Verderber (below) volunteered for the
Elmire scene, which was loads of fun. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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received this audience inquiry, forwarded from one of the event’s hosts:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">“I wanted to thank
you again for telling me about “Moliere than Thou”! Tim Mooney was terrific!
One thing puzzles me, however. After watching Mooney, you might think that
Moliere wrote in English, which is obviously not the case. I should think that whoever
did the translations should receive nearly equal billing. All those rhymes!
What is the story on that?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the one who had written “all those rhymes,” but given that the school had put
together their own program for the event, I hadn’t noticed that the
“translator” was not given any billing…!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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race through Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, I was back at SETC, this time
in Mobile, Alabama, where I immediately caught dinner with my old “Alabama
Shakespeare Festival Friend,” Jay Cotton. (I hadn’t seen Jay since maybe 1981,
so we had a LOT of catching up to do!) ((I’m embarrassed to say that we got so
caught up in conversation, that I don’t seem to have caught a photo!)) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">It was another
flurry of a conference, with April helping to run the booth, while sharing
marketing support with Bremner Duthie and David Gaines, two favorite performers
who were also presenting as part of the “Fringe Festival.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">This time around, I
was also a featured workshop-presenter, which meant my photo was in the
program, and I got a special introduction. The workshop went very well, and
contacts in the exhibit hall were encouraging, though “Criteria” was only
lightly attended.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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re-crossing my tracks (passing through Texas) to bring “Lot o’ Shakespeare” to the
University of Science and Art of Oklahoma. This was their third time hosting
me, and they also wanted to put together a special event, bringing some 400
fourth graders to the school for something appropriate to their level. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I took a good look
at all of my pieces and strung together a list of my dozen most accessible
monologues from “Lot o’ Shakespeare” which I re-named, “A Little Bit o’
Shakespeare.” It turned out to be a very fun session, ending with: “What do you
think? Can fourth graders understand Shakespeare???” “YEAAAAHHHH!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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also went very well that night, and it was nice to be reminded of how fun “LoS”
is after so many performances of my “long form” breakneck shows. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Crisscrossing once
more, I was racing back down to Laredo, Texas, which is only about 90 minutes
from Kingsville, although quirks in the Spring break calendar prevented me from
scheduling the two schools back to back. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with another acting workshop for local high school actors, as well as an
evening performance of “Breakneck Julius Caesar.” I’m not sure what scheduling
quirk drove attendance down to an extremely small number (in an otherwise huge
hall), but I consoled myself with the assurance that my fee was netting me over
$150 per ticket. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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Portales, New Mexico, for another workshop and a presentation of “Moliere than
Thou,” before heading back through Oklahoma, dropping in on my old high school
buddy, Dave Hirsch (and his charming wife, Helga), and swinging through
Branson, MO, on my way north once again. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ever, another actor was taking on the huge challenge of one of my shows, and I raced up to Maryville,
Missouri to meet up with Shawn Murphy of Northwest Missouri State University.
Shawn was a senior theatre major, working on his final performance project, and
had fallen in love with “Criteria.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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perform a couple of my one-man shows, but had never actually seen me do
“Criteria.” And so, he had a lot of questions!</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Having just
performed the show some two weeks prior, the lines were fairly fresh in my
head, so I was able to demonstrate some of the multiple characterizations I’d
developed, as well as the convention of running-in-place to simulate the
character’s travel that I’d developed in coordination with the lead character’s
narration. Sean was still a couple of weeks from performance, but rave reviews
eventually got passed my way as his professors cheered him (and me) on:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">“So Shawn knocked it
out of the park tonight… now I see why you said this show was so exhausting!
What an excellent and thought-provoking piece.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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‘man this is really well written!’”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Back in Chicago, we managed
a small family reunion in a local restaurant (which actually swelled into a
significant gathering before all was said and done). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Following a brief
2-week Chicago stay (more memorization / more marketing), I headed east, with a
workshop in Indianapolis, a performance of “Moliere” in Lexington, KY, and two
performances at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, PA. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Geneva College was
hosting me for two entirely different shows, as I did a full performance of
“Breakneck Hamlet” one evening, followed by “The Greatest Speech of All Time”
the following morning. “Hamlet,” itself, went very smoothly, but “Greatest
Speech,” performed in a study area of the student center, with students coming
and going throughout, led me to glitch a bit on Roosevelt’s “Fear Itself.” The
hosts, however, seemed very happy, and both, in their thank-you notes,
referenced interest in a return event. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Sadly, I learned of
the passing of my cousin (and godfather) Johnny Blakely while on this leg of
the trip. He’d been struggling for a couple of weeks following a collapse while
exercising, and died shortly after my event in Lexington. In spite of being the little pipsqueak of the family, Johnny was always gracious and kind, with a warm smile for me. Unfortunately, I was
performing in Geneva, PA on both the night of the wake and the morning of the funeral,
and found myself sending thoughts and prayers his way as the performances proceeded. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Another bit of news
had caught up with me in Pennsylvania:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Given that I was now
added to the Tampa Fringe line-up, I’d written the head of the Orlando Fringe
to let him know I’d be in the area, should another last-minute drop out from
the festival arise. One, of course, did, and I took advantage of the work I’d
been putting into “Man Cave” (largely, with an eye to this possibility) to
submit it for its world premiere, now just one month away! (Orlando has already
seen all my other shows.) Suddenly, my efforts on this project had a new surge
of focus and urgency! (I always say that an artist’s best friend is a
deadline.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I took a swing
through St. Michael’s, Maryland, dropping in on my sister, Maureen, and her
husband, Tim, and did a test reading/performance of the new show for them,
encouraged by their enthusiastic laughs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Angeles: The Son of Semele “Solo Creation Festival,” where I would also be
presenting “Man Cave”! (more focus! more urgency!)</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I had a booking of
“Breakneck Hamlet” at Stetson College in DeLand, Florida, arranged by one of
the most go-getting students I’ve encountered over the years. Katie Pulling had
seen me perform at SETC on a couple of past occasions, and, determined to get
me down to her school, had pushed her way through the student activities
funding bureaucracy to make it happen! She’d also arranged for a conversation
with a class studying entrepreneurship, along with an acting workshop, making
the trip more than worthwhile. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I had about 2 days back
in Chicago before running off to Northwestern College (in Iowa) to do
“Breakneck Julius Caesar.” Again, I dropped in on a class to discuss
entrepreneurship as well as presenting another session on acting, before doing
the show for a relatively small audience. (Apparently the students had long
before planned an excursion to catch the latest “Avengers” movie to celebrate
their last week of classes.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">It had been about
fifteen years since my old friends, the Barkers (at Northwestern) had hosted me
to perform “Moliere than Thou,” and had also given me the opportunity to do a
test performance of (what was then) my brand new show, “Criteria” for a small
group of students. In that spirit, I offered them a free reading/performance of
“Man Cave,” and about 10 people stuck around to catch the new show. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">My biggest concern
with any new show is that some reaction or non-reaction will throw me off of my
game, leading me to lose my place entirely, so I didn’t want my first time in
public, with a critical review in the offing, to be the first time that I got a
sense of how it “played.” I was also trying to get the performance down to
under 45 minutes, which would be the maximum allowed in the upcoming Los
Angeles event. (The Iowa performance clocked in somewhere around 50 minutes.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tim & cast of "Are You Loving It?" from Japan</td></tr>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">And once again, in
the ongoing farce of retracing steps, from Iowa, I headed back to Tampa
Florida, where I had just been about one week prior! (In my previous pass, I
made a point of swinging through Tampa, just to get a live photo of the
billboard!) I was now running my “Man Cave” lines about four times a day, and
working with a timer to get each page down to a consistent speed. When the
timing of each page’s performance starts to hit a consistent rate of, say, 4
minutes, 45 seconds, I know that the work is essentially memorized. At last, the
play on-the-whole was finally under the 45 minute limit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"This goodly frame, the earth, <br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">The Tampa Fringe had
been a small festival in its inaugural 2017 year, and was still small now,
though they had extended its run to two weekends. The audience size was stretching thinly over more performances, so I didn't expect much money to come of this one, although there is always the fun of hanging out with other artists, and getting to do the show for whomever shows up. More often than not, I was performing to audiences in the single digits; most were fellow artists... but the billboard and the response from my colleagues was very encouraging. </span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I was staying with a
family in Clearwater, relentlessly running lines for both “Hamlet” and “Man
Cave.” Every morning, I’d walk a mile to the Starbucks for coffee, and walk
back, running my Hamlet lines. One day, I had taken over the “Jobsite Theatre”
Instagram feed, and took several photos as I walked. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Man Cave" in the park</td></tr>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I gathered a few
friends for yet another casual performance of “Man Cave” in a Tampa park, while
sharing it on Facebook Live. With the several distractions in the park I did
need to stop two or three times to check lines but I was particularly glad to
share the show with Dan Kinsch, whose own show “Planet Hospice” performed at
last year’s Tampa Fringe had been my inspiration to create this piece. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">My stage manager for
“Breakneck Hamlet” was Lauren Arneson, whom I‘d originally met way back in 2003
when she came to see my “Moliere Than Thou” performance at the New York Fringe (she
had been the “volunteer” in the Tartuffe/Elmire scene). We’ve continued to bump
into each other over the years, but this was our first chance to actually work
together!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with “Beach Day,” as many of us stuck around for one final day in Tampa, to
enjoy the quickly disappearing sun!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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off to Orlando, where I finally caught up with my postcards and posters for
“Man Cave.” With no actual “art” quite ready for the show, I’d slapped together
postcards and posters with the sepia version of my headshot.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I don’t know why I
keep thinking that “sepia” is going to be artsy and intriguing. It generally
looks good on a computer screen, but plastered on walls and boards next to the
hundred other shows using splashy primary colors, it disappears. I couldn’t quite
invest in a whole new set of postcards, but did put together a last-minute
poster borrowing a painting of “dogs playing poker” which would at least draw
some attention.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I did two minutes of
the show for the out-of-town artists “teaser” night and my tech-rehearsal/press
preview was the following day. The tech on this particular show is really
simple, and we had time to squeeze in
a quick race-through of the show before
the press and Fringe volunteers showed up. (I'm recognizing more and more of the audience her in Orlando, given that this is my 11th performance at the festival!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";"><a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/orlando-fringe/os-et-man-cave-a-oneman-scifi-climatechange-tragicomedy-fringe-festival-2018-story.html" target="_blank"><b>The Orlando Sentinel</b></a>
covered that performance, with a review that showed up that night. </span><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">While the response
was clearly positive, I’m pretty sure that the reviewer hadn’t put in a lot of
review-time over the years, given that the third sentence of his review
revealed a critical spoiler, and he spent a full paragraph on how much he liked
the William-H-Macy-ness of it all. But here’s a couple of good quotes: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">"Imagine the
documentary film ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ with Al Gore replaced by William H.
Macy. The resulting product is “Man Cave, a One-Man Sci-fi Climate-Change
Tragicomedy,” a one-man show with a lot more swagger and humor than the former
vice president could ever manage… It’s this desperation, delivered with a
charismatic rage by Mooney, that makes this show work… Mooney’s performance is
unapologetically political and… goes even further than any Green Party agenda
you’ll find.”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I’ve had three more
performances since the press preview (and four final shows this weekend), but
no sign of any further press since then. The show continues to take a more
definite, secure shape, but depending on what mood the audience is in, it can
feel very comic or very tragic. And quite often, within a single crowd there
are very mixed feelings. I’ll close with just a few of the audience responses:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">“Risk taking,
challenging and honestly terrifying. This is the spirit of the fringe!” (Thom
Mesrobian)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">“Everyone should see
it… not just at Fringe but everyone in the world. Great message. A. Gore on
steroids, but without the viewgraphs.” (Jack Dixon)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">“I cried for about
two hours after your show…!” (“Dan”)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hanging with new & old friends at the Orlando beer tent</td></tr>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">"I'm an Environmental Sciences teacher, and would love to bring my students to see your show on a field trip!"</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";"><b>FINALLY</b>: We are going to be diving into some more fundraising very soon. We'll be raising money to kick off the "Man Cave" tour, reaching out to "Environmental Science" teachers, conferences, driving the show out to Los Angeles, researching opportunities, developing the full promotional package of art, photos, videos, t-shirts, mugs, pushing the publicity in L.A. and beyond. </span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">If you're on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/timmooneyrep/" target="_blank"><b>Facebook</b></a> you can make a quick and easy donation if you click on <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/timmooneyrep/" target="_blank">this link</a></b> . Or, over the next few days I'll be developing a new funding campaign on Indiegogo, and will post more on that when it's ready to go... So, you'll probably be hearing from me again, very soon...!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Discoveries</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">: “I really do love
my job.” * “Gaps” in the schedule will ultimately arise. I get to choose
between whether these are failings or opportunities. * The artist’s best friend
is a deadline. * When the timing of a given play or page starts to clock in at
a consistent rate, the material is largely memorized. * However good it might
look on a computer screen, SEPIA promotional materials largely disappear in the
sea of bright primary colors that scream for attention.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Miles
on the CX-5</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">: 108,000<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Next
Events</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">: PortFringe, Portland, Maine (BJC), Son of Semele Solo Creation
Festival, Los Angeles, CA (MC), The Moorings, Arlington Heights, IL (GSAT),
Indy Fringe Festival (BJC).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK1"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK4;"><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: small;">Timothy
Mooney Repertory Theatre Tour Schedule</span></span></span></a></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 9.0pt;">(Already-booked dates in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">GREEN; </span>Tentative
bookings in<span style="color: green;"> </span><span style="color: red;">RED</span></b>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 9.0pt;">MTT</span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 9.0pt;"> = “Moliere than Thou”; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">LoS</span></b> =
“Lot o’ Shakespeare;” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">GSAT</span></b> = “Greatest Speech of All Time;” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">SH</span></b> = “Shakespeare’s Histories” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">BH</span></b> = “Breakneck Hamlet;” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">BJC</span></b> = “Breakneck Julius Caesar” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">MC</span></b> = “Man Cave”<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jun
16-23<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Port Fringe (BJC)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">July
9-15<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Son of Semele Solo Creation
Festival <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(MC)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">July
27<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Moorings, Arlington
Heights (GSAT)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Aug
2-5: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>AATE MINNEAPOLIS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Aug
2-12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Minnesota Fringe Festival
(waiting list)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Aug
16-26<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indy Fringe Festival (BJC)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Aug 30-Sep 3<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chicago Fringe Festival (waiting list)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Aug
29-31<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Gulfport High School, Gulfport,
MS (LoS)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 4-7<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS, INDIANA, MICHIGAN, WISCONSIN, MINNESOTA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep
5-8<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Arts Midwest Conference,
Indianapolis, IN<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep
10-11<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dakota Prairie Regional Center
for the Arts <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEBRASKA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep
13-16<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EdTA National Conference,
Denver, CO (Booth, Workshop)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 17<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEBRASKA, SOUTH/NORTH DAKOTA, WYOMING <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MONTANA, IDAHO<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>,<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 19-20<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IDAHO, UTAH, COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep
21<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Broomfield Auditorium,
Denver, CO<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 22-23<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 24-25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>COLORADO, UTAH, NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, WASHINGTON, OREGON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 26<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ARIZONA, NEW MEXICO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 26-29<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TETA THEATREFEST Dallas, TX<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 27-28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS, OKLAHOMA, KANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Heading into Missouri</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 29-30<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KANSAS, NEBRASKA MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 1<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>MISSOURI,
IOWA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 2<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>IOWA,
ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 3<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>ILLINOIS,
INDIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 4<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>INDIANA,
MICHIGAN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 5-7<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS, INDIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 8<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>INDIANA,
MICHIGAN, OHIO<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 9 <span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>OHIO, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA, NEW YORK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 11<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW YORK, NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 12-14<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 15<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW ENGLAND, NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 16<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 17<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW JERSEY, DELAWARE, MARYLAND, D.C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct
17-18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>U-Delaware, Newark, DE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DELAWARE, MARYLAND, D.C., VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 19<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>D.C., VIRGINIA, MARYLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 20-21<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MARYLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 22<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 23<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NORTH/SOUTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 24-28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Virginia Theatre Association, Norfolk, VA?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 24<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA, FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 26-28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 29<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA, GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 30<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA, TENNESSEE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 31<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TENNESSEE, KENTUCKY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 1<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>KENTUCKY,
VIRGINIA, WEST VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 2<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Campbellsville University,
Campbellsville, KY (GSAT)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 2<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>VIRGINIA,
WEST VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 3-4<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WEST VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 5<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>OHIO,
KENTUCKY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 6<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>OHIO,
KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Driving through history in Alabama</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 7<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>TENNESSEE,
KENTUCKY, ALABAMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 8<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>ALABAMA,
MISSISSIPPI, ARKANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 9<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>MISSISSIPPI,
ARKANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov
7-11<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>InFringe Festival<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 10-11<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>LOUISIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>LOUISIANA, TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 13<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS, OKLAHOMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 14-15<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS, OKLAHOMA, KANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov
15-16<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Shakespeare on the Rocks, El
Paso, TX<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov
15-18 <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Texas Thespians, Gaylord, Texas<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 16<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS, NEW MEXICO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 17<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW MEXICO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 19<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 20<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 21-27<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, HAWAII, OREGON, WASHINGTON, NEVADA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Obligatory Powell's Books pilgrimage, Portland, Oregon</td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 27<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Mount Hood Community College, Gresham,
WA<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 27<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Troutdale, OR/Vancouver, WA (MTT)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEVADA, UTAH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 29<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>UTAH, COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 30<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>COLORADO, NEBRASKA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Dec 1<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>NEBRASKA,
IOWA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Dec 2-4<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IOWA, ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">WINTER/SPRING,
2019<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 3-6<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span> MLA Chicago<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan
7-Feb 16<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span> Available for
Residency<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 17-18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 19<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MICHIGAN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb
20<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>North Park College,
Naperville, IL (MTT)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 21<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>INDIANA, OHIO, WEST VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 22<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WEST VIRGINIA, OHIO, KENTUCKY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 23-24<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE, MISSISSIPPI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 26<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ALABAMA, GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb
27-Mar 2 SETC Conference, Knoxville, TN <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 3-4<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA, FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 5-6<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 7<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>GEORGIA,
SOUTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 8<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>SOUTH
CAROLINA, NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 9<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>NORTH
CAROLINA, VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>VIRGINIA, WEST VIRGINIA, MARYLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 11<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>VIRGINIA, DC, MARYLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>D.C., MARYLAND, DELAWARE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 13<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DELAWARE, NEW JERSEY, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 14<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY, NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar
15-16<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Boston, MA (BJC)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 15<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 16-18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW YORK, NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 19<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 20<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 21<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OHIO, MICHIGAN, INDIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar
22-25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Three Brothers Theatre, Waukegan,
IL <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS, IOWA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 26<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IOWA, MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 27<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSOURI, KANSAS, ARKANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KANSAS, ARKANSAS, OKLAHOMA, LOUISIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 29<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>LOUISIANA, OKLAHOMA, TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 30-Apr 1 TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 2<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>TEXAS,
NEW MEXICO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 3<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>NEW
MEXICO, ARIZONA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 4-5<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, NEVADA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 6-8<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, NEVADA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 9-10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>UTAH, COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 11<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>COLORADO, NEBRASKA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEBRASKA, MISSOURI, IOWA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 13-19<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS, WISCONSIN, INDIANA, MINNESOTA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 22-23<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WISCONSIN, MINNESOTA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 24<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NORTH DAKOTA, SOUTH DAKOTA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">April 25-28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Oregon Fringe Festival (estimated dates)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NORTH DAKOTA, SOUTH DAKOTA, WYOMING, MONTANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 26<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WYOMING, MONTANA, IDAHO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 27-29<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IDAHO, WASHINGTON, OREGON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 30<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WASHINGTON, OREGON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 1<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>OREGON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 6<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>OREGON,
CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 7<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 8<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>CALIFORNIA,
NEVADA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 9<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>UTAH,
COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 11<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 13<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TENNESSEE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 14<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA, FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">April 25-28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Oregon Fringe Festival (estimated dates)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 15-26<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Orlando Fringe Festival, Orlando, FL<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 29-Jun 9<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>London Fringe (est. dates)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jun 6-10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dallas Solo Fest (2018 dates)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jul 11-15:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Regina Fringe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jul 24-29 (2017): Providence Fringe
Festival<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">FALL, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 11-14<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Educational Theatre Association Conference<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 16<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS, INDIANA, MICHIGAN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 17<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>INDIANA, MICHIGAN, OHIO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OHIO, KENTUCKY, WEST VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 19<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA, NEW YORK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 20<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA, NEW YORK, NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 21-23<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 24<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW ENGLAND, NEW YORK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 26<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY, D.C., MARYLAND, DELAWARE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 27<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>D.C. MARYLAND, DELAWARE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 28-29<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MARYLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 30<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MARYLAND, D.C., VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 1<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>VIRGINIA,
NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 2<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>NORTH/SOUTH
CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They have everything in Texas...!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 3<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>SOUTH
CAROLINA, GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 4<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>GEORGIA,
FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 5-6<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 7<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>FLORIDA,
GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 8<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>GEORGIA,
TENNESSEE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 9<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>TENNESSEE,
ALABAMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ARIZONA, NEVADA, CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 24<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OREGON, WASHINGTON, IDAHO, UTAH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 31<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSOURI, IOWA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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MINNESOTA, WISCONSIN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SOUTH CAROLINA, NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 19<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NORTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 20<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>VIRGINIA, WEST VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, D.C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tim_mooney@earthlink.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10251175800373730254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359867.post-5290066366372863292017-12-23T18:11:00.000-08:002017-12-24T07:17:00.206-08:00The View From Here #172: Fall, 2017<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Hey Everybody! Happy
holidays!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I am busier than I
have ever been before! I have pretty much wiped “hanging out at karaoke bars”
off of my list! I am doing my massive email campaigns four times a year now (I
used to do them twice, and each time they’d take a month!). I’ve now got SEVEN
one-man shows in repertory. (I performed six entirely different shows just this
past fall, with six of them again on the list for this spring!) This fall I did
18 performances!! So far, there’s 15 now booked (plus appearances at two
conferences) on the spring schedule!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">It also happens that
I am currently writing TWO new plays (A “Shakespeare Authorship” play and a
Global Warming play!), and hoping to get them into some semblance of a
shareable shape by the end of this holiday break! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">In spite of being
busier than ever, we’ve also taken a significant "HIT" as we shift to
Not-For-Profit: our prices are lower, and, now, as an “employee" of the
Timothy Mooney Repertory Theatre, about 25% of my “salary” gets held back in
taxes. So, yikes!: <b><a href="https://www.generosity.com/education-fundraising/timothy-mooney-repertory-theatre" target="_blank">We can use any help!</a> </b>If you’d like to snag that new
tax deduction while supporting a great cause (As I hope you will notice, we’re having an
impact out there!), these last couple weeks of the year is a great time to ride
to the rescue! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">We’re relaunching <b><a href="https://www.generosity.com/education-fundraising/timothy-mooney-repertory-theatre" target="_blank">our fundraiser</a></b> for this very last week of the year! Since last January it’s
been posted at: </span><a href="https://www.generosity.com/education-fundraising/timothy-mooney-repertory-theatre"><span style="background: white; font-family: "verdana";"><b>https://www.generosity.com/education-fundraising/timothy-mooney-repertory-theatre</b></span></a><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";"> , and there’s still
about $5,000 to go to hit our previous goal. (We actually came close to that previous
goal through the great folks who mailed us checks.) The amount that remains to finish up on-line just happens</span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";"> to be just about as much as we need to
pay for new swag (T-shirts! “Breakneck Julius Caesar” mugs!), conferences with
teachers who still need to be introduced to these shows (if we hit our goal, I’ll be
able to attend the January Modern Language Association National Conference in NYC), and
general operating expenses that have lately accumulated on my credit card…!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Last we talked, I
was driving back from Canada, following a very successful summer run of “Breakneck
Julius Caesar”! I did a quick turn-around, gearing up for the fall tour while
observing (from the safe distance of the TV) three “500-year storms” hitting
Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico in quick succession. (Global warming? Yes: A
Thing.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">After five years
off, I returned to emcee another edition of “Pathways Idol,” raising about
$6,000 for “Pathways to a Better World,” which enables people to change their
life to chase fully after their dreams. Which just happens to be what I’m
working on with my life, too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">The next day, I was
off to the races, once again, with a performance of “Breakneck Julius Caesar”
at Herron High School in Indianapolis, for an audience of about 250 high school
kids. It was an odd setting in a former church, with light streaming through
stained-glass windows, a vast cubic-footage to fill with my voice and little
opportunity to focus the attention of a mass of students who seemed already to
have attention issues. BUT, they stuck with it all the way through to the
end, and were mostly quiet, trying to get what this play was all about. And
while this may not have been my best performance, two of of the acting students
who been sitting toward the back, came up to give me a wonderful response.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">On my way again, I
had another performance the very next night in Danville, Kentucky. I’d been to
Centre College once, perhaps ten years prior with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Moliere than Thou</i>, and a few of the faculty remembered it clearly
as they brought me back, this time, for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Julius
Caesar</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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shows where English teachers bring me in with grandiose assumptions of a packed
house, only to find myself playing to a group of 30-40 (if lucky), but this time around, there
were over 300 students assembled for a packed house. Fortunately I videotaped
it, and the Q&A afterwards, and several of those clips can be found on my
YouTube page. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I had one brief
“down day” in Nashville, Tennessee, gearing up for the Educational Theatre
Association conference, where my booth in the exhibit hall enjoyed really good
traffic throughout the three day event, where this time my “customers” were
teachers who might actually book me for shows at their schools. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">The next day, I
zipped east, <a href="https://www.greenevillesun.com/living/breakneck-hamlet-brings-high-energy-shakespeare-to-behan-arena/article_4f69bc09-d64d-5405-926d-6b1b409eff1a.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share" target="_blank">returning to a venue I’d last performed at WAY back in the very first year of my tour (Fall, 2002), at Tusculum College. </a>The teachers, at
least, still seemed to remember me from fifteen years prior, though there was just
maybe 30 in attendance for <i>Breakneck Hamlet</i> this time around.
Even so, they responded with love and enthusiasm, and were talking about
bringing be back yet again (in hopefully something less than a 15-year
turn-around). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I raced on
northeast, for my second appearance at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts,
this time with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shakespeare’s Histories</i>.
It was a relatively small audience, but I was really delighted to find a
good balance of History, Theatre and English students had made up the
crowd. This meant that each group saw this from some slight different angle, variously enjoying the excitement, the in-jokes and insight. I later commended the history teacher
whose initiative had brought the show together to actually live the goal of
hosting an “interdisciplinary” event. <b><a href="http://www.theonlinebeacon.com/mooney-recites-shakespeares-histories/" target="_blank">This review (</a></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; text-indent: 0in;">"Mooney's energetic personality and portrayals took care of the rest... moving and speaking at whirlwind speed.")</span><b style="color: #1d2129; font-family: verdana; text-indent: 0in;"><a href="http://www.theonlinebeacon.com/mooney-recites-shakespeares-histories/" target="_blank"> came out some two weeks later.</a></b></div>
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off in the northeast, I found that my tour overlapped with the tour of one of
my favorite (hilarious) performers, Roy Zimmerman, who had a show in Hartford,
CT. I grabbed a hotel in Hartford and showed up for the show, with opportunity, after, to shake Roy’s hand. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I doubled back up to
Massachusetts, with<b> <a href="http://www.berkshireschool.org/newsfeed/~post/breakneck-hamlet-20170927" target="_blank">my first-ever performance at the Berkshire Academy</a></b>. This
time it was a showing of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Breakneck
Hamlet</i> with a couple of workshops. Amid this lush southwest corner of
Massachusetts, I got to walk the dirt roads (see the top of this page) for a bit while working on my
lines. Once again, the turnout was great, and the students responded with
enthusiasm. I went out for dinner and drinks with faculty right after the show,
and was, the next morning, again, on my way.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">As I drove, reviews
from the road would gradually catch up to me, and some great reactions from
MCLA and the Berkshire School would appear on my screen. The Berkshire review headlined: "STUDENTS INSPIRED BY ONE-MAN SHOW, BREAKNECK HAMLET," calling it a "lightning fast sixty-minute version..." One student astonishingly revealed to the interviewer, "I actually stayed awake for the whole thing." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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weekend in Chicago, I went south once again, stopping briefly to visit my
friend, Susan, in Carbondale, Illinois, before heading on down for a return visit to Texas Lutheran University, which ALSO last booked
me perhaps ten years prior! This time around, though, cousins Kathy and Larry
were now headed north, to visit my sister, our cousins and dad while I was
performing about 10 miles away from their house! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">The Texas Lutheran
performance of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lot o’ Shakespeare</i>
(also videotaped), found me confronted with a series of my most
“shouty-screamy” monologues coming out of the Bingo cage one after the other (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Comedy of Errors</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Twelfth Night</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Julius
Caesar</i>). I probably should have started exercising “veto power” early on,
but hating to show I might not be ready to perform whatever challenge the fates might fling at me, I pushed my way through and 15 minutes into the show, I was
already starting to lose my voice. At least one in the audience was generous
enough to suggest that my voice had more “character” in those latter speeches.
<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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again, I had <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Molierelover/videos/10159309158395231/" target="_blank"><b>two shows in Las Cruces, New Mexico</b></a>! (Where I had not performed
since my Moliere show at New Mexico State university back in 2004!) The folks
at the No Strings Theatre Company had stopped, on a whim, to catch <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Breakneck Julius Caesar</i> in Sanford,
Florida, fell in love with it and brought me in to perform BOTH <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Breakneck Hamlet</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Julius Caesar</i> in one single day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of my longest workdays ever. Given that my voice had been in recovery for the
three days following <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lot o’ Shakespeare</i>,
I didn’t want to overdo drilling my lines. But the morning of the event, I got
myself up at 6 a.m. drove to the theatre and ran lines for both shows.
Following breakfast we did a rather long tech rehearsal for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hamlet</i> leading up to the afternoon
matinee, followed by another long tech rehearsal with barely a half of an hour
to get into my costume before a full performance of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Julius Caesar</i>. (There was not much gas left in the tank after
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">As I drove three
long days on back to Chicago, I noted “My GPS sounds very intolerant, as it
tells me to “Stay straight on East Jewess 70…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Brooklyn, half-the-country-away, the theatre group, “Playwrights at the Grand” had a reading of my
brief political show, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">DN & DT</i>. I
am told it went well, and <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/k4zrsorkf7wcgf2/DT%26DN%20By%20Tim%20Mooney.mp3?dl=0" target="_blank">the director just sent me the audio file of the dialogue which played in a recording to the house at large</a>, reminding me of the inspiration that had struck me in the thick of the
scandal when Devin Nunez violated his recusal from the Trump/Russia case. (Director: Chad Chenail, Actors: Parke Stevenson as DN, and Nico Papastefanou as DT)</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I had a quick week
of down-time before racing off to yet one more show at Monmouth College (which
would be the fourth time for this ongoing tour). This time they were bringing me back
for a workshop and a performance of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Breakneck
Julius Caesar</i>. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">The show felt pretty
awesome, but there wasn’t a moment to rest. Once I’d packed up my stuff, I
needed to head south, with about four hours under my wheels before I
could grab a hotel. I might have caught five hours of sleep before working my way
further south, through Kentucky and to Tennessee, for a mid-day rehearsal
and an afternoon performance of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Breakneck
Hamlet</i> for another packed house of over 300 very-much-tuned-in students,
followed by yet another workshop.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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driving from central Tennessee to the east, where this time a performance of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Breakneck Hamlet</i> was pending for some 200 kids and teachers at the Tennessee Educational Theatre Festival. I was
performing in a huge auditorium, but the acoustics were amazing and I could
feel my voice thankfully filling the room with almost no effort. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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out of Tennessee, through North Carolina and into Georgia for my first-ever
show at Young Harris College. Again, it was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Breakneck
Hamlet</i>, this time for another very small audience (in a very large
theatre), but this time my cousin Patti, who had never before seen me in performance,
in the audience, which kept me that much more on my toes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">The following day, I
drove the length of Tennessee (a huge state when you find yourself going
east to west), catching a brief night in Memphis before continuing on through Arkansas to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">another</i> return visit (yes, they seem to
be about 75% “return visits” these days) to Southeast Oklahoma State
University, where my pal, Aaron Adair was booking me yet once again. It
was yet another performance of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Moliere
than Thou</i> (the same show they’d booked me for last time around), and another
small audience, though this time there were a handful of ladies who had not
been able to catch my last visit some five years prior, and who seemed to get
into it every bit as much as the students did. (They bought t-shirts and books
afterwards.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Continuing my lap of
the country, I pushed myself on west to Greeley, Colorado at Northern Colorado
University. Yet again it was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Moliere than
Thou</i>, and I finally got to meet up with Michael White, a playwright who’s
show (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Murder in the Men’s Store</i>) I’d
produced over 20 years prior. (My voice, at this point, barely holding together.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I got back to
Chicago in time for my birthday, and, holding a party at April’s house,
I videotaped another “Facebook Fundraiser,” performing monologues for folks who
were watching (and occasionally donating) on-line. I enjoyed hanging out with
some friends that I hadn’t seen for a while, including Sabra Steurmer, who was
in town all the way from Chattanooga, Tennessee!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">A scant few days
later, I was back once again on the road down to Indy, performing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Breakneck Hamlet</i> for the Christel House,
which had me out to do <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lot o’</i> last
year. I performed for a small group of students who seemed unaccustomed to
somebody performing such intense material in costume with passion. They seemed somewhat uncertain as to how they might want to take the experience. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Once more to
Kentucky! (I feel like I’m going in circles) For yet another repeat
performance, at Georgetown College, where my cousin, George McGee, teaches
theatre, hosting me for yet another <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Breakneck
Hamlet</i> for an assembly of perhaps 100 students. And though the auditorium
was large, and the students were scattered throughout the large space, the
response was quite warm, with the exception, perhaps, of the teacher who
buttonholed me after (on my way to sell books at my table), to argue whether or
not Hamlet did indeed “have his proof” following Claudius’ startled reaction
during the play-within-the-play. </span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">"Mooney was able to breathe new life into a centuries-old synopsis... It was his seamless blend into character that captivated the audience for about an hour... It was still the same Hill Chapel, and yet through Mooney's commanding, confident body language and precise vocal inflection, he was able to transform it into a throne room, into another country entirely... 'Breakneck Hamlet' was a deeply compelling, wondrous performance by only one man. He created a new love for Hamlet in his audience, reminding everyone 'there are many more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'" (Rachel Cheatham, The Georgetonian) </span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I had a great visit
with Cousin George and Cathy (my hosts for the event), as well as their son, Tim, who made it out to the play
with his fiancé, Hannah, before again pushing south to Marietta Georgia, where
my old friend, Lori Etheridge, was hosting <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Greatest Speech of All Time</i> at her Methodist Church for an intimate luncheon. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The slightly enhanced view from Oriental, NC</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";"><br />I was now working on
the final fumes of my voice, driving on east through Greenville, South
Carolina, dropping in on Hollyi Hall, an old friend from the South Carolina <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Misanthrope</i> production (now almost ten
years past) and visiting my artist-buddy, David Jensen in Raleigh, before
proceeding farther east than I thought North Carolina quite went for a show in the
town, Oriental, a small fishing/shrimping/crabbing/tourist town just this side
of the Atlantic Ocean.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">The people were
charming and very supportive, but, now, in my 18th performance of the fall, my voice was not quite responding with the recovery
time I had come to depend on (possibly because all my stops in-between found me
engaging in animated conversations along the way).</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tim and Isaac, together again</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">No one in that
theatre was quite fooled into thinking that my voice was full strength, yet I
somehow managed to muscle my way through the ten thousand words, and the
viewers still managed to laugh and shout in all the right places. (All the characters
“sounded like frogs, but each frog had a slightly different attitude!”)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Working east, I had
yet one more stop in Detroit for a dinner with Isaac, and then back to Chicago,
in time for Thanksgiving, and YET ANOTHER email campaign, this time in even
faster record time: 15,000 emails in 14 days! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">While home, with two
months before my next performance, I let my beard grow out for a while, and
found myself a little disturbed to find that it was now growing in about 50%
grey. (My picture of Dorian Gray had finally caught up with me.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I applied for more fringes!
I was NOT picked for the Tampa Fringe Fest, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nor</i>
the Orlando Fringe. (I may yet get into Orlando via a BYO-Venue opportunity.)
But I did apply for the Indy Fringe Festival, which is NOT dependent on a
lottery (first-come-first-served), so I’m “IN” and also for the Minnesota
Fringe, where I was able to apply TWICE for two different tiers (which I think ups my odds to about 75% probability of getting in). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Happy Christmas, my
friends! And, again, if you’ve something to spare, <a href="https://www.generosity.com/education-fundraising/timothy-mooney-repertory-theatre" target="_blank">your donations are warmly accepted</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK4"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK2"></a></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK1"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK4;"><span style="font-family: "verdana";"><span style="font-size: small;">Timothy
Mooney Repertory Theatre Tour Schedule</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></a></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 9.0pt;">(Already-booked dates in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">GREEN; </span>Tentative
bookings in<span style="color: green;"> </span><span style="color: red;">RED</span></b>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 9.0pt;">MTT</span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 9.0pt;"> = “Moliere than Thou”; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">LoS</span></b> =
“Lot o’ Shakespeare;” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">GSAT</span></b> = “Greatest Speech of All Time;” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">SH</span></b> –
“Shakespeare’s Histories” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">BH</span></b> – “Breakneck Hamlet;” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">BJC</span></b> – “Breakneck Julius Caesar” </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 18.0pt;">WINTER/SPRING
2018<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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4-7: MLA Conference, New York City<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jan 8-11:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW JERSEY, MARYLAND, DELAWARE, D.C., VIRGINIA, WEST
VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jan
12:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Pelham, NY, Pelham Memorial High
School (MTT)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jan 13-16:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jan 17-18:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jan
19-20:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Northeast Educational Theatre
Festival (LoS*)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jan 21:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jan 22:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jan
23-24<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Columbus State U, Columbus,
GA (BH + Wkshp)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jan 25:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA, GEORGIA, ALABAMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jan 27-29:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS, OKLAHOMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhefVcQzw55tNfSVlIpJwR2as_9Nz1_CpEQrLioTSbKD6RiTp1-WT3tpyocffelPCGeOA2HKZc2dAQfrMcQrsyIMNtygMuz-1fRqpeO66h461WLRg9ErAQobqEbwnoV1b5CcC-9/s1600/Connecticut+Bridge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: Verdana; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhefVcQzw55tNfSVlIpJwR2as_9Nz1_CpEQrLioTSbKD6RiTp1-WT3tpyocffelPCGeOA2HKZc2dAQfrMcQrsyIMNtygMuz-1fRqpeO66h461WLRg9ErAQobqEbwnoV1b5CcC-9/s320/Connecticut+Bridge.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jan 30-Feb 1:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>TEXAS, NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 2-4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEVADA, CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb
7:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Reynolds High School,
Portland, OR (MTT)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 8-9:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OREGON, WASHINGTON, NEVADA, UTAH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 9:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>NEVADA, UTAH, COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 10-11:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 12:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>COLORADO, KANSAS, NEBRASKA, MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 13:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KANSAS, MISSOURI, OKLAHOMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 14:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OKLAHOMA, ARKANSAS, MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 15:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ARKANSAS, MISSOURI, TENNESSEE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 16-17:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TENNESSEE, MISSISSIPPI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 18-19:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TENNESSEE, KENTUCKY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb
20:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Herron HS, Indianapolis, IN
(LoS)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 21-22:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>INDIANA, OHIO, WEST VIRGINIA, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 23: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WEST VIRGINIA, VIRGINIA, DC, MARYLAND, NEW JERSEY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 24-25:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MARYLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 26:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>VIRGINIA, DC<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 27:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 28:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 28-Mar 3:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ACTF Region 6, San Angelo, TX <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 2-5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA, FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 7-10:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SETC,
Mobile, AL (Featured Workshop Presenter)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>(Criteria)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 11-12:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>LOUISIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 13-14:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OKLAHOMA, ARKANSAS, MISSOURI, KANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar
15:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>USAO, Chickasa, OK (LoS +
Wkshp)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 16:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OKLAHOMA, TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar
16:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>AWTY International School,
Houston, TX (MTT)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 17-19:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar
20: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Laredo Community College,
Laredo, TX (BJC + Wkshp?)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">March 21-22: WESTERN TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar
23:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Eastern
New Mexico University, Portales, NM (MTT + Wkshp)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 24-26:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ARIZONA, NEVADA, CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">March
26-27<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Texas A&M
University-Kingsville (MTT, BH & Wkshp)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 27:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, OREGON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 28:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OREGON, WASHINGTON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 29:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 30-31:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IDAHO, MONTANA, OREGON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Easter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>MONTANA, WYOMING, UTAH, NORTH/SOUTH DAKOTA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 3-4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>UTAH, NORTH / SOUTH DAKOTA, NEBRASKA, WYOMING<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>MINNESOTA, IOWA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>MINNESOTA, IOWA, WISCONSIN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>WISCONSIN, ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 7-8:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 9:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>ILLINOIS, INDIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 10:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>INDIANA, MICHIGAN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">April
11-12:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>U-Kentucky, Lexington, KY (MTT
+ Workshop)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 11:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MICHIGAN, OHIO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 12:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OHIO, WEST VIRGINIA, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 13:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA, NEW YORK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 14:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW YORK, NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 15-17:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 18:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW JERSEY, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr
19-20:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Geneva College, Geneva, PA
(GSAT + BH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 21-22:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WEST VIRGINIA, VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, DELAWARE, D.C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 22-23:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NORTH/SOUTH CAROLINA, TENNESSEE, GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 24:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA, FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 25:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Stetson
College, Deland, FL (BH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 26:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA, GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 27:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ALABAMA, TENNESSEE, KENTUCKY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 28:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KENTUCKY, ARKANSAS, MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 29:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSOURI<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 30:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSOURI, KANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">May 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>COLORADO, UTAH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">May 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEBRASKA, IOWA<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">May
4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Northwestern College, Orange City, IA
(BH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">May 5-6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MINNESOTA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">May 7:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MINNESOTA, IOWA, WISCONSIN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">May 8:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WISCONSIN, ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">May 9-11:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS, INDIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">SUMMER, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri; text-indent: 0in;">May 15-28</span><span style="font-family: calibri; text-indent: 0in;"> </span><span style="font-family: calibri; text-indent: 0in;">Orlando Fringe Festival</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">May 23-28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Oregon Fringe Festival (estimated dates)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">May 29-Jun 9<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>London Fringe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri; text-indent: 0in;">Jun 21-Jul 1:</span><span style="font-family: calibri; text-indent: 0in;"> </span><span style="font-family: calibri; text-indent: 0in;">San Diego Fringe Festival</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jun 22-24<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Seminar?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jun 25-30: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>International Thespian Festival, Lincoln, NE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jul 24-29 (2017): Providence Fringe
Festival<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Aug 1-5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ATHE Boston<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Aug 2-12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Minnesota Fringe Festival<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Aug
16-26<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indy Fringe Festival</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">FALL, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sep 4-7<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS, INDIANA, MICHIGAN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sep 10-11<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IOWA, WISCONSIN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sep 12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WISCONSIN, MINNESOTA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sep
13-16<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EdTA National Conference,
Denver, CO<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sep 13-14<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MINNESOTA, SOUTH/NORTH DAKOTA, WYOMING<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sep 15-17<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MONTANA, IDAHO<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sep 18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IDAHO, WASHINGTON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sep 19-20<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WASHINGTON, OREGON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sep 21-23<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sep 24<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, NEVADA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sep 25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEVADA, UTAH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sep 26<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>UTAH, COLORADO<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sep 27<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>COLORADO, NEBRASKA, KANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sep 28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KANSAS, NEBRASKA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sep 29-30<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KANSAS, MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 1<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>MISSOURI,
IOWA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 2<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>IOWA,
ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 3<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>ILLINOIS,
INDIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 4<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>INDIANA,
MICHIGAN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 5-7<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS, INDIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 8<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>INDIANA,
MICHIGAN, OHIO<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 9 <span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>OHIO, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA, NEW YORK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 11<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW YORK, NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 12-14<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 15<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW ENGLAND, NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 16<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 17<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW JERSEY, DELAWARE, MARYLAND, D.C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DELAWARE, MARYLAND, D.C., VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 19<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>D.C., VIRGINIA, MARYLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 20-21<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MARYLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 22<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 23<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NORTH/SOUTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 24<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA, FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 26-28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 29<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA, GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 30<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA, TENNESSEE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 31<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TENNESSEE, KENTUCKY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 1<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>KENTUCKY,
VIRGINIA, WEST VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 2<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>VIRGINIA,
WEST VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 3-4<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WEST VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 5<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>OHIO,
KENTUCKY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 6<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>OHIO,
KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 7<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>TENNESSEE,
KENTUCKY, ALABAMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 8<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>ALABAMA,
MISSISSIPPI, ARKANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 9<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>MISSISSIPPI,
ARKANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 10-11<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>LOUISIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>LOUISIANA, TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 13<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS, OKLAHOMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 14-15<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS, OKLAHOMA, KANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 16<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS, NEW MEXICO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 17<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW MEXICO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 19<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 20<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 21-27<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, HAWAII, OREGON, WASHINGTON, NEVADA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEVADA, UTAH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 29<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>UTAH, COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 30<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>COLORADO, NEBRASKA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dec 1<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>NEBRASKA,
IOWA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dec 2-4<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IOWA, ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">WINTER/SPRING,
2019<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jan 3-6<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span> MLA Chicago<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jan
7-Feb 16<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span> Available for Residency<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 17-18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 19<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MICHIGAN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 20<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>INDIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 21<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>INDIANA, OHIO, WEST VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 22<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WEST VIRGINIA, OHIO, KENTUCKY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 23-24<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE, MISSISSIPPI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 26<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ALABAMA, GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb
27-Mar 2 SETC Conference, Knoxville, TN <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 3-4<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA, FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 5-6<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 7<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>GEORGIA,
SOUTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 8<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SOUTH CAROLINA, NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 9<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>NORTH
CAROLINA, VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>VIRGINIA, WEST VIRGINIA, MARYLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 11<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>VIRGINIA, DC, MARYLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>D.C., MARYLAND, DELAWARE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 13<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DELAWARE, NEW JERSEY, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 14<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY, NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 15<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 16-18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW YORK, NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 19<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 20<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 21<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OHIO, MICHIGAN, INDIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 22<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MICHIGAN, INDIANA, ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 23-24<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS, IOWA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 26<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IOWA, MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 27<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSOURI, KANSAS, ARKANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KANSAS, ARKANSAS, OKLAHOMA, LOUISIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 29<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>LOUISIANA, OKLAHOMA, TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 30-Apr 1 TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 2<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>TEXAS,
NEW MEXICO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 3<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>NEW
MEXICO, ARIZONA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 4-5<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA,
NEVADA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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15-26<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Orlando Fringe Festival,
Orlando, FL<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
tim_mooney@earthlink.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10251175800373730254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359867.post-63922195125965583112017-09-01T14:31:00.004-07:002017-09-02T10:17:12.798-07:00The View From Here #171: Summer, 2017<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vHjFtyDNatE" width="560"></iframe><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I began my summer heading south, with the last performance of the
year’s “school tour” at the Christel House Academy in
Indianapolis. The Christel House is one of a group of schools sponsored by
Christel DeHaan, who, after seeing my show at the Indianapolis Fringe Festival,
made a healthy donation, and later hosted a “salon” performance of “Moliere than
Thou.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were bringing me in for a
performance of “Lot o’ Shakespeare,” in a somewhat odd setting in what was
essentially a music rehearsal room (somehow adjacent to a gym, with basketball
noise that bled directly through the walls). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">It was a fun
performance for a bunch of kids who obviously didn’t get a lot of exposure to
Shakespeare. They were attentive and responsive, but it wasn’t until “Julius
Caesar” came up that they kids (and their teachers) seemed won over,
recognizing a connection to Shakespeare that they hadn’t previously imagined. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">That same night was
the final night of the Big Fundraiser! I had announced the Fundraiser back in
February, once we received confirmation of not-for-profit status (simultaneous to the beginning of the winter/spring tour). And, while
the fundraiser enjoyed a fairly good first week, things lagged as I focused on the ongoing tour, constantly working
to revive the memorized lines in my head before the next performance. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">With the summer festival season looming, I put a deadline to close out the fundraiser that night
in Indianapolis, and camped out at
the home of one of my best supporters (Sandi Palombi) and engaged in a series
of “Facebook Live” videos, almost as if it were a telethon, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Molierelover/videos/10158532722660231/" target="_blank">performing“Shakespeare by Request” live on Facebook</a><b>,</b> doing about 20 minutes of monologues each hour, on the hour, eventually pulling in a couple of thousand
dollars in the final 24 hours.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Dthcjq9KIQ2SeIGawify2Pmo9xLGFwNq4Kqwoj-eBwuTBPT0rdk2CaI7JlHBi3xLMhgMqQfgzgGK8apxcKYiD7jaI6pksgx1X8eHIjeLKIQPyxQj868pfTjnnpX1cmCnF5jD/s1600/BJC+Logo+w+black+background.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">While the fundraiser
did, eventually pull in about $6,800, this did not quite bring us up to our
goal of $7,500, and if you’d like to give that total a little nudge, please click
on <a href="https://www.generosity.com/education-fundraising/timothy-mooney-repertory-theatre" target="_blank">this link</a><b> </b></span><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";"> to help us out!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I worked my way on
down to Florida, with the inaugural running of the Tampa International Fringe
Festival. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";"><br />I’ve done three
inaugural fringe festivals over the years, and have mostly sworn off of them.
There are rookie discoveries that first-time festival organizers make along the
way, and mostly they are playing to an audience who has no idea what a fringe
festival is… (which means that I end up playing to the occasional audience of 3).
This time, however, a couple of savvy fringe promoters, Will and Trish, friends
and veterans of many festivals, had set up the festival as an “opening act” to
the Orlando Fringe, which would follow on the subsequent weekend. Up until
about 4 weeks prior, I wasn’t actually “in” for the Orlando Fringe, but with a
last-minute drop-out, I was now on the schedule there, too, and would be able
to do a kind-of one-two punch from one festival to the next. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">The Tampa Fringe
hadn’t quite built up a coterie of willing billets in town, which meant that a
bunch of us out-of-towners were coming to town with no place to stay. I took
the initiative to find an “AirBnB” home to support eleven outcast fringe
artists some ten minutes from “Fringe Central.” Which made for a really
friendly artist-home for five different fringe productions to share a space,
sip coffee and, sometimes, drink late into the night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Dthcjq9KIQ2SeIGawify2Pmo9xLGFwNq4Kqwoj-eBwuTBPT0rdk2CaI7JlHBi3xLMhgMqQfgzgGK8apxcKYiD7jaI6pksgx1X8eHIjeLKIQPyxQj868pfTjnnpX1cmCnF5jD/s1600/BJC+Logo+w+black+background.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="870" data-original-width="960" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Dthcjq9KIQ2SeIGawify2Pmo9xLGFwNq4Kqwoj-eBwuTBPT0rdk2CaI7JlHBi3xLMhgMqQfgzgGK8apxcKYiD7jaI6pksgx1X8eHIjeLKIQPyxQj868pfTjnnpX1cmCnF5jD/s200/BJC+Logo+w+black+background.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I was noticing an
increasingly lengthy crack growing in the windshield of my car as well as a
seriously deflated tire in those final miles. Within 24 hours of hitting
Tampa, I’d racked up about $900 in car repair for my “new” MoliereMobile, which
after 18 months and 65,000 miles, needed 4 new tires and a new windshield. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">A Tampa reporter had
responded to my media release with the inquiry: “Is there any chance to see the
show before the first fringe performance?” I proceeded to extend an invite to
the reporter to come to the Wednesday afternoon tech rehearsal, in advance of
my opening night. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">There’s a growing
tradition with the Orlando Fringe of opening up the tech run-through to press
and Fringe volunteers and sponsors to attend this first tech-through, with the
understanding that it will get EARLY publicity out to the public before the
show hits the ground running. I’ve lived through many festivals in which the
rave review doesn’t show up until all of the shows are actually complete,
leaving no opportunity for the review to have an impact on attendance and,
thereby, income. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">My <a href="http://www.cltampa.com/arts-entertainment/performance/article/20860330/tampa-international-fringe-festival" target="_blank">early Tampa Fringe exposure</a> was really good; one of my photos was prominently featured, and
fringe friends (who knew me from other festivals) seemed to have been putting
in a good word for my work.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">But when the tech
rehearsal arrived, it was a race to get set up and set a few cues before the
reviewer arrived, about 45 minutes into the process. The reviewer (not the one
who’d been in touch requesting the preview), sat silent through the (highly
audience-participatory) show, with only one other viewer in attendance. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";"><a href="http://www.cltampa.com/arts-entertainment/theater/article/20861123/tampa-international-fringe-festival-review-breakneck-julius-caesar" target="_blank">This mediocre review</a> ("...little more than a rambling monologue that's difficult to follow or understand...") showed up on-line about an hour before going on… and I note that the reviewer
herself seems to target me for having requested her attendance at the tech in
the first place, which is not quite how this all came about.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Meanwhile, I got to
see some great shows: I revisited a performance of a show I’d
seen at last year’s Winnipeg Fringe, “Beers about Songs,” which was just as
awesome as it was a year ago, as well as a really disturbing look at the global
warming issue, called “Planet Hospice,” which called into question all of the
timelines that we have seen so far regarding the impact of global warming in
the very near future. (Which has me starting to sketch out a global warming
epic of my own my own…)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">While the Fringe
started out slow with some 15-20 people coming to my first two shows. By the end,
I scored much better, with some 40-45 attending the last show, and some of my
fellow artists giving great response: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">“Whether you are a
lover of the bard or simply of the occasional barbs, Tim’s shockingly and
impressively accessible and audience participatory interpretation will have you
crying “huzzah.”… with this one man dynamo in the driver’s seat, it’s
Shakespeare at its schizophrenic finest! (<i>Heather Bagnall</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">“This is vintage
Mooney but it’s kicked up a notch. Even better than his Hamlet because it
covers a play that not as many people know. And it’s so good! Wonderful
characterizations and LOTS of audience participation make this the best Breakneck
yet… (<i>Thom Mesrobian</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">Almost
as good: A teacher came up to me afterwards and said: "You managed to
cover in just one hour what it usually takes me five weeks to teach...!"</span><span style="font-family: "verdana";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">With Lauren Anderson, first met at the <br />NY Fringe back in 2003!</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Following one last
big party, we made one final Facebook alliance between the Tampa-to-Orlando
groups who were moving on to the next festival, and said our fond goodbyes, pressing
on to the Orlando Fringe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Immediately upon my
arrival, I found myself listed first among <a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/orlando-fringe/os-et-mjp-orlando-fringe-festival-2017-20170509-story.html" target="_blank">the Orlando Sentinel preview</a>!</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I had ANOTHER
invited tech rehearsal early that afternoon, with another quick tech-through,
followed by another invited run-through. This time, the Orlando audience
shocked me with a group of some 40+, mostly good friends who have supported my
work for years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">As I addressed the
audience with my usual pre-show instructions, I found myself tripping over my
own tongue, and interrupted myself to say: “Okay, last night was the Tampa
Fringe Closing night party…” This broke the ice, as everyone laughed heartily,
all having been through post-fringe parties of their own. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">This was by no means
my best performance: I skipped, and redoubled backwards to pick up “Beware the
Ides of March,” and found myself sweating profusely (as whatever was left of
the previous night’s alcohol escaped my body). But everybody laughed and
responded in all of the right places. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Within 24 hours,
reviews were already showing up on-line, reaching far beyond my expectations
and, perhaps, even my hopes. <a href="https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2017/05/16/orlando-fringe-2017-review-breakneck-julius-caesar#.WRsitRsUvSk.facebook" target="_blank">Seth Kubersky from the Orlando Weekly</a> has given me
some nice response in the past, but nothing to prepare me for…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“If you think
senators backstabbing their rivals is something recent, let Mooney reacquaint
you with the Bard’s Roman tragedy of tyranny and rebellion, minus all the
boring bits. Mooney is like the high school English teacher you always wished
you had… with a wild-eyed energy usually only exhibited by amphetamine addicts,
but he doesn’t condense this epic by rushing roughshod over its poetry. On the
contrary, his elocuation is so well-enunciated that it illuminates the archaic
language for the modern ear, elucidating familiar but frequently misunderstood
phrases like “Brutus was an honorable man” and “We must take the current when
it serves.” Best of all are Mooney’s snarky asides, fourth-wall-shattering
footnotes that poke fun at the play’s oddities, such as Caesar’s irritating
habit of referring to himself in the third person, and that infamously
anachronistic chiming clock. Even if you usually fall asleep during
sword-and-sandal sagas, lend Mooney your ears for this hour of electrifying
edutainment.” (<i>Seth Kubersky</i>)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">In the past, Matt
Palm of the Sentinel has given me some enthusiastic response, and when I didn’t
see him in the rehearsal audience, I assumed he’d overlooked my show. Later, I
learned that he’d passed the assignment on to an even more enthusiastic
Shakespeare-fan, who produced <a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/orlando-fringe/os-et-fringe-review-2017-breakneck-julius-caesar-20170516-story.html" target="_blank">an almost-as-perfect review</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Fasten your seat
belts, Fringe-goers, Tim Mooney is back with another Shakespearean classic
performed at breakneck speeds… 60 cardiovascular minutes that leave Mooney
sweating, and his audience shouting “Huzzah!” Mooney is obviously well versed
in all things Shakespeare, and his depth of knowledge makes him the perfect
guide for this Elizabethan journey, which is enjoyable for “literary-dorks” and
“Shakespeare-virgins” alike. His play on words and inflections offers a fresh
perspective to a well-known story, and new interpretations take shape as we
“friends, Romans, [and] countrymen” look on… Mooney is like mixing your Shakespearean
Sparknotes with a triple shot of espresso. (<i>Lania Berger, Orlando Sentinel</i>)</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Somewhere between my
first tech rehearsal in Tampa (which left me wondering whether this show might
work at all), and the reviews coming in from Orlando, the show had improved,
not only in the staging, but in the confidence which the response was giving
me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Every show seems to
go through this phase. There always seems to be that existential moment in
which I find myself questioning, just what is it all worth, anyway? Is this any
good? Was this last year of my life a misguided effort to put
something together that doesn’t really hit home? Once Thom Mesrobian cited this
as “the best Breakneck of all,” I began to realize that I was on to something.
(I’m still not 100% convinced of this: as I write this, I’ve now had over a
month between performances.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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who remembered me from last year: "I went back and read 'Hamlet' this year,
and I 'heard' the whole script in your voice!"</span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">Maybe the most gratifying part of what I do: Quite
often, parents bring their kids, or kids bring their parents (or
boyfriends/girlfriends) who HATE Shakespeare (or are, at best, indifferent or
ambivalent), confident that I will turn them around! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">Another patron wrote: "It's rare to find something thatt the entire family loves equally and you manage to impress, entertain and inform each of us. The kids (20, 17, 12) are still thanking me for 'finding you'. (Jennifer Carr McCoy) </span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">That same Orlando Fringe Tech performance was attended by my favorite photographer, Tisse Mallon, who captured more fun pics of the show in action.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">The downside to this year's Orlando Fringe was that since the show was a late addition to the fringe, it didn't appear in the printed program, which makes it hard to bring in an audience who hasn't circled the show as they review the day's line-up of shows that they want to catch. </span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">I did get to see loads of great friends and drink my share of beer. I especially enjoyed Rob Lloyd from Australia, who was in town doing a "Dr. Who" one-man show, and who commended me on my "bold American accent" in Julius Caesar! </span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">I had another week in town, with three performances planned for Winnie Wenglewick's new theatre in Sanford, Florida. She's just finished building out a terrific new space with two theatres that will ultimately be able to operate simultaneously for audiences of some 50-65 people. We draped her current set in black and threw a white sheet over it for the "Caesar slide show. There was some nice coverage in the local Sanford paper and a "<a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/arts-and-theater/the-artistic-type/os-et-fringe-festival-holdovers-20170531-story.html" target="_blank">festival holdover</a>" article in the Orlando Sentinel. I did three performances there to audiences that started out tiny, but grew on subsequent nights.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">I headed back to Chicago, stopping in Chattanooga to celebrate Paul Steurmer's surprise 60th birthday party. (The surprise was: we held it on his 59 1/2 birthday!)</span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">And I dove, once again, into a massive e-mail campaign. Yes! I had just recently FINISHED a massive email campaign. But with the new NFP standing, I've lowered my prices and need to make up the difference in Volume-Volume-Volume! So far, so good: I've booked about 17 shows for the fall so far! </span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Somewhere in the
thick of all of this, the world got hit with the closest thing to a
Shakespearean “scandal” that I’ve seen during my lifetime, as a production of
none other than “Julius Caesar” at the Public Theatre in New York, depicted an
obvious Donald Trump in the role of Caesar. A cell-phone video of the infamous
“stabbing scene” leaked out onto the internet, and the staging of it was so
GOOD that people got really BOTHERED by it! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">(I’m not saying it
was good because “Trump gets attacked;” I’m saying that it’s good because it
was really disturbing, and we really SHOULD feel a little stomach-churned about
the grisliness of this assassination.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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few interesting parallels between Trump and Caesar, much as Caesar has interesting parallels with Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush-the-Elder, Reagan, Lincoln
and probably even Washington. Unfettered presidential power will always echo
“Julius Caesar” to the fertile creative mind. This time, however, there are a
lot of folks noticing stuff like this who don’t have quite the NUANCE to
understand that Shakespeare is suggesting that the killing of Julius Caesar
was, overall, a BAD thing. And many of the folks who are getting so upset don’t
stick around to see the assassins get their come-uppance in the latter acts of
the play. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">But, hey! It’s
publicity. And it’s publicity for the precise Shakespeare play that I just
spent the last year of my life FIGURING OUT!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(I may be benefitting from some really fortunate timing right now!) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Marcus, had an idea for a new photo compilation for “Breakneck Julius Caesar” (BJC
for short) and, with April’s help, I staged a bunch of shots of Caesar being
assassinated. I touched up the pics, sent them to Marcus and he came back with
these two compilations, above…!</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I raced off once
again: this time to the International Thespian Festival in Lincoln, Nebraska,
where I had a booth once more, spinning ping pong balls in the “Lot o’” cage,
and performing Shakespeare monologues for wide-eyed theatre students, while
collecting as many of their teachers’ email addresses as I could. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Also at this
conference was my new publisher, “Stage Rights,” with copies of my new Moliere
scripts: “<a href="https://www.stagerights.com/allshows/school-wives/" target="_blank">The School for Wives</a>” and “<a href="https://www.stagerights.com/allshows/learned-ladies/" target="_blank">The Learned Ladies</a>.” I was delighted to
see them show up with a big stack of them, and a sign promoting the fact that
these would be personally signed by author, Timothy Mooney. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">From there, I
continued on to the American Association of Community Theatres (AACT), meeting
in Rochester, Minnesota, promoting more scripts and sundry schemes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">My booth-neighbors
have been very indulgent of my monologue-performing through the course of a
given day. In Lincoln, a former editor with Playscripts videotaped me
performing for a few giddy students, while in Rochester, they just seemed to
enjoy every time they got to see a new monologue come up in the rotation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">One fellow who was
attending to promote a Greek-themed musical he was promoting, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>stopped by to commend my toga costume, citing
his credentials as one of the guys who worked on the original “Wim-o-weh”
version of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.” Somewhat skeptical, I asked him: “You
mean you worked with the Tokens?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">He seemed amazed
that I knew the name of the band, and reached into his bag, pulling out an 8x10
glossy of the original foursome of the Tokens, pointing out himself,
considerably younger, in the line-up. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Given my karaoke
proclivities, I told him that I think I owe him some royalties. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">When the traffic at
the booth was slow, I was continued to make progress on the e-mail campaign,
which I would ultimately wrap up a couple of days after my return to Chicago.
On the last day of AACT, I was packing up my booth as a guy from a booth one
aisle over was walking by. I’d noticed this guy at least ten times through the
course of the conference, but this time I said hello, and actually read his
nametag.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">“Dan Culhane… I used
to know I guy named Dan Culhane. Where was it… I think it must have been back
in undergrad.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you go?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">“Um, well this would
have been Southern Illinois University.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">“Wow, I went to
Southern Illinois University!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">“No kidding. This
would have been like way back in the late-70s/early 80s.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">“I was there in the
late-70s/early 80s!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Of course we
eventually figured out who each other was, a little shocked that we’d
recognized each other by name, but not by face, and spent a half-hour catching
up before I got back to the business of packing up my stuff and loading out to
my car.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Back in Chicago, I
dug in further on a new book (available now!), “The Breakneck Julius Caesar
Companion.” It’s filled with the full script of the play, as well as a
“concordance:” parallel notes on all of the stuff that I couldn’t quite fit
into the one-hour BJC. David Jensen put together a set of maps of Rome, which
make sense out of the expanding Roman State/Nation/Empire, the vast travels of
Caesar that predate the play, and the relocation of the action to the distant
east where eventually, Brutus and Cassius battle it out against Antony and
Octavius. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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of July party, Isaac came out to visit once more, just as Pat’s family flew in
from the west for a big barbeque shindig.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">I had about two
weeks in town to complete a ton of work, catch up on emails, re-apply for my
passport, arrange posters, postcards, press releases and paperwork for the
coming conferences and festivals. I set up one more performance of “BJC” at my
dad’s retirement facility, and invited local friends who keep bugging me about
sharing my new work in-town. Ultimately the facility meeting room filled with 80
or 90 people, and the older folks got the jokes just as well as the newer ones
do. A retired teacher came up to tell me that after years of teaching “Julius
Caesar” she “finally understood it now!” And Bob Sanders, who’d produced the premiere
of my “Breakneck Hamlet,” said “I directed that play a number of years back,
and found myself getting stuff that I hadn’t gotten before!”</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Perhaps one of the
most important comments came from my erstwhile co-director Deb Pekin, who
remarked that her favorite part of the show was my pre-show warm-up of the
crowd. In recent years I’ve taken to simply hanging out to welcome the audience
in, almost as if I was the host of a party. It spares me the nervousness of
hanging out backstage worrying about whether they’ll like me or the show. Deb
notes that it also gets the audience into the spirit of my personality and
playfulness, so that they’re more ready for the play by the time it launches
(which seems to be a common refrain in some of the reviews to come). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">With that, I hit the
road again… hoping for my voice to recover from the last night’s show. (The
senior citizens got the jokes, but I had to speak up a little more than usual
to make sure they could actually hear them!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">First stop: St.
Louis, where the American Association of Teachers of French was holding their
annual conference. I hadn’t been back to this conference for at least three
years, but they remembered me well. I had a booth in the exhibit hall where
they would drop by to visit, and occasionally sign in. I collected about a
dozen email addresses from sign ups, and later the association sent me along
the list of some 400 attendees, so I had my hands full with mailings for a
while. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">A little bit after
the exhibit hall closed, I had one final appearance at a workshop presentation
of “Moliere than Thou.” Unfortunately, they scheduled me to appear at exactly
the same time as they were holding their “Delagate Meeting,” (and about 90% of
the people at this conference were delegates, so I ended up with an audience of
perhaps 5 people for “Moliere than Thou.” (I think I’m going to take another
year off from this conference.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Apparently my name and Moliere's </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">have become interchangeable </span></b><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I am sparing you,
gentle reader, the long tale of the many strategems of setting up my booth
(about 6 trips from car into exhibit hall), driving to the hotel that I am
actually staying at, another 3 trips from parking garage into the hotel,
crossing back and forth between hotels through the conference, repacking the
car on the morning of the final day of the conference, disassembling my booth
on the final afternoon, and moving it into a holding room for two hours while I
go to perform, after which I walk back to the previous hotel to pick up my car
(no way I was going to pay an extra $35 for a closer parking lot when I was
already paid up through 3 pm), and then out-load my packed-up booth into the
car on a hot July afternoon, before finally making the drive to Kansas City.
(Okay, I guess I didn’t spare you the details after all…)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in Kansas City was finding myself a coffee table at a local thrift store to act
as a small platform in my show (with more unloading and reloading the car to
create coffee-table sized space!).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">The tech rehearsal
went well, and so did the preview performance the following day, for an
audience of some 300 or more “fringers.” I had two minutes to work with and
hauled out Casca’s “I saw Mark Antony offer him a crown” monologue, which
includes my pun of “epileptic Caesar” and concludes with “it was Greek to me.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">The show opened the
following day, and the audience was like a “who’s who” of favorite KC Fringe
fans. Over the course of six KC Fringe appearances, I’d developed a following
of a loyal audience who all seem to show up for my very first performance.
(That steady parade of audience doesn’t seem to actually last through the
course of the festival, which makes me think that this fringe doesn’t have
quite so much depth in the demographic that comes out to see
classical theatre.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My new business cards catch up with me in Kansas City!</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I was, however,
getting good reviews! Deborah Hirsch with “The Pitch” has probably reviewed me
four or five times now, and though I don’t believe we’ve ever met, we’re
Facebook friends, and she messaged me to obtain photos to go with her review. I
was happy provide them, a</span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">nd she insisted that she’d “never miss” one of my
shows. Within about an hour the review was posted, <a href="http://www.pitch.com/arts-entertainment/theater/blog/20970345/solo-shakespeare-and-a-selfstory-getting-started-at-kcs-2017-fringe" target="_blank">and it was another good one<span id="goog_155160194"></span><span id="goog_155160195"></span>!</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129;">...the charismatic and talented Tim Mooney, whose breathless
one-person-one-hour tour through the Shakespeare play is yet another
outstanding production by this Fringe Festival performer who has built a
genuine following in KC. Mooney alone stages this condensed Caesar run-through
– he says he has “sliced this play up… to see more of the forest by removing
some of those obstructive trees” – which highlights the major characters, plot
points, and important speeches and delivers a side of commentary and historical context... The Shakespeare tragedy has never been so much fun and simultaneously instructive. It's a fringe go-to... (Deborah Hirsch, the Pitch)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; text-indent: 0in;">People started
spreading the rumor that my show was really great, and that
I’d probably be selling out by the end of the run. As much as I tried
to help spread that rumor and send people into a frenzy of ticket-buying, the
show never quite sold out.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">The first night of the Fringe late-night beer tent found a smattering of a dozen or so of us huddled under the tent as an approaching storm lit up the sky. As it came closer, the winds picked up and a serious downpour commenced. All of a sudden, the electricity in the tent went out and it threatened to blow away. All 10-12 of us grabbed onto one of the tent poles, literally holding it down (occasionally lifting off of the ground) as the rain poured.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">There was some
legitimate fear that one of us might get seriously injured or that, if we let
go of the tent, the tent itself would hurt one of us, or someone nearby. In the
face of the panic, I started to shout out the King Lear “Storm Speech,” “Blow
winds and crack your cheeks,” which at least seemed to soften the tension. (See video above... storm kicks in around the 4 minute mark; King Lear at the 5:15 mark.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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games until the storm kicks in about 5 minutes in, and we're hanging on for
life through the 20 minute mark, at which point our cameraman heads off for the
train station...!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">The second performance of “Caesar” in Kansas City was
one of the best shows I can remember. There were at least two English teachers
in the audience, including Michael Shaeffer from Alaska (a long-time fringing
buddy), and a student (Shawn Murphy) from Northwest Missouri Community College,
where I’d performed last fall. They were getting all of the literary humor, and
broke into applause at the end of “Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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front row center who REALLY got into the audience participation portion. She
was jumping furiously to her feet during “Friends, Romans, Countrymen,” as the
audience lines appeared on the screen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">And they all cheered out “huzzah” during the curtain
call.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">Terrific reviews continued to show up through the course of the festival, with <a href="https://kcfringe.org/2017/07/25/breakneck-julius-caesar-review/" target="_blank">this one showing up on the Fringe Festival site </a>from a staff reviewer: </span></div>
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and delighted by Mooney’s virtuosic performance… an enjoyable, holistic,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>theatrical experience for the audience. From
welcoming each audience member at the entrance (with stickers!) to explaining the
anachronistic conventions by which the audience will participate and speak
their lines as the character, “Citizens,” Mooney sets the entire space – not
just the stage – for his production. What’s left is for the audience to hold on
to their seats and resist blinking for the next 60 minutes as Mooney
solo-performs his way through over 20 characters, several oratory speeches, a
couple death scenes and two nifty on-stage costume transitions. Regardless of
whether you are a Shakespeare fan or not, this is a must-see – a theatrical
treat, really – for KC Fringe-Goers.” (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hephzibah
Dutt, KC Fringe Reviewer</i>)</span></div>
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perfect for the Shakespeare tragedy of an over-reaching emperor of the Roman
Empire as told by the Bard of the Renaissance… This performance needs to be
filmed and sold to school districts nationwide… This pared-down recitation
strips away much of The Bard’s poetry but preserves enough to keep the action
moving and the story interesting and compelling… Mooney races through the piece
with accuracy and sweat. He’s well-prepared, focused, and magnificent in his
performance. (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bob Evans, KC Applauds</i>)
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thought there would be no further response, <b><a href="https://www.broadwayworld.com/kansas-city/article/BWW-Review-BREAKNECK-JULIUS-CAESAR-at-2017-KC-Fringe-Festival-20170728" target="_blank">this review</a></b> showed up on <i>Broadway
World</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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always excellent… His preparation and rehearsal are obvious, seamless, and
audience appreciated. (<i>Alan Portner, Broadway World</i>)</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Between
performances, I was throwing all of my time into the completion of the new
book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Breakneck Julius Caesar
Companion</i>. My artist-friend, David C. Jensen, finally had the time to
re-work the maps that I was using for the ongoing slide-show and the book. (I
had been using maps downloaded from the internet as place-holders, but David’s
work was much more specific in capturing the exact locations, dates, and travel
paths of the various characters in the two year span of the play.) I assembled
and reassembled the book a few times during those last days of furious
activity, until I was finally ready to hit the “Publish” button on July 30!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Attendance at the KC
Fringe fluctuated, but probably averaged around 45 people per show. We enjoyed
one final party by the beer tent (in much better weather), and some of us
fringers who had traveled to Tampa, Orlando and Kansas City finally said
good-bye, and I realize now that I seem to have a favorite party shirt for
warm-weather opening night and closing parties!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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racing off to Colorado, where I caught a night north of Denver, swung through
Colorado Springs to visit with Amber, Andrew and their baby, Charlotte (photo
by Amber of me on our walk through the hills), and pushed on west. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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toward Las Vegas, where the Association of Theatre in Higher Education was
having their annual confab. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">This time, my
friend, Robert Hubbard, from Northwestern College was presenting a paper on my
work, tracing historical one-person Shakespeare performances from Sarah Siddons
on through John Geilgud and Ian McKellen, to an overview of my work on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lot o’ Shakespeare</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shakespeare’s Histories</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Breakneck
Hamlet</i>. (Bob has yet to see <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Breakneck
Julius Caesar</i>.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Let me take a second
to register the bizarre notion that someone was delivering a paper about the
work of Tim Mooney in a formal, intellectual symposia. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Bob’s presentation
followed a discussion of another one-person performance artist (whose work was
very different from my own). That performer was not present at this event, so I
was the only one who got some sort of a “rebuttal” in this setting. Which is
not to say that I had anything to contradict Bob about, so much as to draw a
distinction between what someone’s work may look like on the outside looking
in, as opposed to on the inside looking out. While Bob had researched my books,
program notes, and reviews of my work, to demonstrate my place in a tradition
of Shakespearean one-person performers, I explained how each of my particular
works had developed from a place of the need to express or explain something,
such as the overall arc of the ten <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shakespeare
History</i> plays, or the deep dive into <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hamlet</i>,
or the need to make sense of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Julius
Caesar</i>, after having performed “Friends, Romans, Countrymen” so many times (but being otherwise, so disappointed by performances of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Julius Caesar)</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">And then I
demonstrated the results of those tasks, presenting the opening of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shakespeare’s Histories</i>, the lead-in to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hamlet’s</i> “Oh, what a rogue and peasant
slave am I,” and the resolution of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Julius
Caesar</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">It was time for me,
once again to pack up and race off. I headed for Alamo, Nevada, in the thick of
a pouring thunderstorm, and continued on up into Idaho, visiting with the
Larsens in Twin Falls, and with Carrie Lasher in Coeur d’Alene. (Carrie had
recently gone through the Pathways Advanced program, and was sorting out a lot
of shifting tectonics in her life.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">From Idaho, I made
the trip north, finally crossing the Canadian border (for once NOT having to go
inside to present my financial papers), and continuing on through the southern
Canadian Rockies and into Calgary, where the final weekend of the Calgary
Fringe Festival was almost concluded. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I had told no one
but my previous hosts that I would be coming through town, so when I got to the
Fringe, I headed for the main ticket booth where a handful of people were
selling tickets and Michelle, the Fringe director was staring down at a
computer screen. Someone asked “Can I help you?” and I responded, “Are there
any tickets still available for ‘Breakneck Hamlet?’”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Michelle, still
looking down at her screen, piped in, “That was LAST yea—“ when, looking up,
she realized who was asking. We had a nice reunion, and I spent the next day
going around catching shows, before continuing up to Edmonton on Monday morning
with my good friend, Bremner Duthie riding shotgun. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">In Edmonton, I
finally caught up with copies of the new book! It was almost two weeks since
I’d ordered the delivery, and an attempted delivery to meet me at the Las Vegas
hotel had fallen victim to an intransigent business office at the Planet
Hollywood Hotel (which, GRRR, seems to hold packages hostage for a $15 fee). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I managed to get
some quality time with a video recording of my performance in Kansas City. My
friends, Ken and Kim Hill had videotaped a fairly good performance, and I
chopped the hour-long show down to some 19 minutes, and, from there, down to 7
minutes, to 3 minutes and to 1:30. I pasted in some review quotes for a promo
and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHjFtyDNatE" target="_blank">put it up on YouTube</a> (as seen above at the top of this blog). </span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Performances got
underway in Edmonton, and I was delighted to find that my late night opening
(10:45 on a Saturday night), was fairly full, with an audience of some 90
people, much due to an active ticket giveaway program, and the hiring of a
flyering assistant, who was putting in a couple of hours a day while I was in
town. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Almost immediately
there was <a href="http://www.edmontonfringe.ca/play/breakneck-julius-caesar/" target="_blank">a review up on the Edmonton Vue</a> website, which rated the play at four
stars: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Meeting up in Edmonton with the friend who <br />introduced me to "Fringing," Beth Amsbary</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129;">“An excellent fit for
the fringe… what makes Mooney’s adaptation of Julius Caesar so great [is that]
he tells the brunt of the story within an hour, in a one man display of
dramatic prowess… Mooney shows a great command of the original text… with real
time commentary that criticizes the story’s details through a modern lens…
Mooney helps the audience follow the action in intelligent ways too…His
production also cast the audience as ancient Rome’s gallery to shout mob-like
lines when they appear on screen [which] keeps the audience invested and helps
cut through the period jargon, making for a Shakespeare production that’s well
worth seeing.” (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kevin </i></span><i style="color: #1d2129; text-indent: 0in;">Pennyfeather</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; text-indent: 0in;">, </span><i style="color: #1d2129; text-indent: 0in;">Vue</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; text-indent: 0in;">)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; text-indent: 0in;">I
had a single day off, before beginning two sets of
three-performance-days-in-a-row. </span><a href="https://12thnight.ca/2017/08/22/breakneck-julius-a-guest-fringe-review-by-marc-horton/" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; text-indent: 0in;" target="_blank">Monday had another reviewer in the house</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; text-indent: 0in;">, but
I didn’t find out who until a few days later when a tweet led me to:</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">“It’s
all amazing stuff, and surprisingly unhurried given that Mooney has whacked
Shakespeare’s three-hour historical play down to a brisk and brilliant 60
minutes… Mooney, who just might be the most affable performer at this year’s
Fringe is a welcoming sort of guy. Before the show begins, he moves among his
audience handing out Caesar stickers, trading quips, swapping a few jokes, and
setting the tone for what’s to come… Mooney’s seamless editing of the Bard
means that he’s kept all the good stuff… But this is not exactly
Shakespeare-lite, played for laughs and little else. There is fun to be had
here to be sure, but there’s also serious intent at work… Breakneck also
manages to provide a fresh interpretation of Brutus, who is presented as a very
stubborn, somewhat pompus ass. What if Antony’s final speech, the “here lies
the noblest Roman of them all” number, was delivered with the same irony as his
“lend me your ears” bit? What then? That changes the whole texture of the play
methinks. Hey, I’m convinced. Huzzah!” (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Marc
Horton, 12thnight.ca</i>)</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">And then, on my “BJC”
Facebook event page, this commentary was posted… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Give Timothy Mooney
credit for truth in advertising, it’s the whole play in 59 minutes and 50
seconds. Or more specifically it’s an exposition of the play with reference to
the major speeches and dialogues. Now, I’m a Shakespeare fan, not a fan of
pre-digested Shakespeare or one-person shows, but I’ve got to admit Mooney does
a darned good job of contextualizing the action, speeches and dialogues
(including providing maps and timelines for scene changes which escaped me
completely when I watched this in Stratford Ontario). Also, Mooney was entirely
consistent in using his toga folds to indicate which chatacter was speaking
from moment to moment. All in all, an excellent production. (<i>Gunnar Blodgett</i>)</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Unfortunately, no
review ever appeared in the Edmonton Journal (which had given me 4.5 stars the
year before), and while attendance was up from last year’s show, I never quite
threatened to sell out any of the performances. And the final three shows of the
run showed a decline in attendance. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">All that said, this
was still the most financially rewarding festival of the 50-60 festivals that
I’ve performed at. While last year’s festival enabled me to buy a new laptop
(which I’m typing on now), this year I’ll settle for being able to pay off my
credit card bill.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Just as I thought I'd written the last about the Edmonton Fringe, with one final performance just 90 minutes away, <a href="http://globalnews.ca/video/3699217/edmonton-fringe-reviews-the-wallaby-way-breakneck-julius-caesar-letter-to-west-113th-almost-heroes" target="_blank">one last long-awaited review went up on the "Global News" site<b>,</b></a> with the reviewer giving the show four stars, and calling it "a feat of condensation and memorization... outstanding performance." (Todd James) </span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">In the thick of griping about the review which arrived too late to do me any good, I went on in to the Fringe grounds to pass around some flyers for the final performance, and after hanging out there for about 30 minutes, I somehow flashed upon the fact that I'd left my billet with my laptop (used for my slide show) sitting back at the house. </span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I raced back to the house (an 18 minute drive), picked up the laptop and started to race back to the fringe when I realized that both of the remote controls that I use to actually make the slides go forward were still in the laptop case. I raced back once again, grabbed the remotes and got back to my venue at almost exactly the time that they were about to let the audience in. I hooked up the laptop, aimed the projector and threw my costume on, with just enough time to do my usual pre-show banter and start. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The Alberta/Saskatchewan Border</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I generally, actually LIKE having a last-minute crisis to throw me into action. It keeps me from sweating the small stuff when I've got plenty of "big stuff" to concern myself with. But this time it felt like one too many crises. By the time the audience came in, I was feeling a bit bewildered and dizzy, and while it didn't affect my performance at first, I think I came off a bit brusque to my audience (like, when they didn't sit close to the stage as is my usual preference), and eventually I missed a cue to move the slides forward, which threw me off in the middle of Brutus big eulogy in Act III. </span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">And, as "off" as I might have felt, at the end, the audience still came up and told me how very much they'd enjoyed the show. </span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Cue the closing
night party, packing up my car, and hitting the road first thing the following
morning. I made it back to Chicago in three days, and while I was driving, my
new publisher, Stage Rights, put out <a href="https://www.stagerights.com/blog/stage-rights-interviews-classics-master-tim-mooney/" target="_blank"><b>this blog post</b></a> interviewing me about my
work. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Discoveries</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">: “There always
seems to be that existential moment in which I find myself questioning, just
what is it all worth, anyway? Is this any good? Was spending the last year of
my life, a misguided effort to put something together that doesn’t really hit
home?” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>* “Hanging out to welcome the
audience in spares me the nervousness of worrying about whether they’ll like me
or the show. It also gets the audience into the spirit of my personality and
playfulness, so that they’re more ready for the play by the time it launches.” * I like having just ONE last minute crisis just before a play gets underway. More than that and I get befuddled.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">On the
I-tunes</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">: Ivy Levan, Gin Wigmore and Elle King<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">On
Netflix</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shameless</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Defenders</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">While the outline of Michigan is usually called "the Mitten"<br />The outline of Manitoba looks like "a Mitten with the thumb<br />and fingers chopped off in some horrible threshing accident."</span></b></td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Next performances</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">: Emcee, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pathways Fundraiser</i>, Sept 9; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lot o’ Shakespeare</i> Riverside High
School, Indianapolis, (Sept 11); <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Breakneck
Julius Caesar</i>, Centre College, Danville, KY (Sept 12), Breakneck Hamlet, Tusculum
College, Greeeville, TN (Sept 19); <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shakespeare’s
Histories</i>, North Adams, MA (Sept 21); <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Breakneck
Hamlet</i>, Berkshire School, Berkshire, MA (Sep 26)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Temperatures</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">: 50s-70s in
Edmonton (or, as they call it 10-20s)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK4"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK2"></a></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK1"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK4;"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Timothy
Mooney Repertory Theatre Tour Schedule</span><span style="font-family: "verdana";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></a></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">(Already-booked dates in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">GREEN; </span>Tentative
bookings in<span style="color: green;"> </span><span style="color: red;">RED</span></b>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">MTT</span></b><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> = “Moliere than Thou”; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">LoS</span></b> =
“Lot o’ Shakespeare;" <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">GSAT</span></b> = “Greatest Speech of All Time;” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">SH</span></b> –
“Shakespeare’s Histories” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">BH</span></b> – “Breakneck Hamlet;” <b><span style="color: #38761d;">BJC</span></b> -- "Breakneck Julius Caesar"</span><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">FALL,
2017<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Sep 5-10:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Sep 9:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Pathways
Fundraiser, Wheeling, IL (Emcee)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Sep 11: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Riverside
High School, Indianapolis (LoS)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Sep 12:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Centre
College (BJC)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Sep 13-14:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE (Daytime Only)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Sep 14-16:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EdTA
Conference, Nashville, TN<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Sep 17-18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TENNESSEE, KENTUCKY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Sep 19:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Tusculum
College, Greeneville, TN (BH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Sep 21:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts,
North Adams, MA (SH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Sep 22-25:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW ENGLAND, NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA, NEW
JERSEY, DELAWARE, MARYLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Sep 26-27:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Berkshire
School, Berkshire, MA (BH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Sep 28-29:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DELAWARE, MARYLAND, D.C., VIRGINIA,
NORTH/SOUTH CAROLINA, TENNESSEE, GEORGIA, ALABAMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Sep 30-Oct
1:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Oct 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>TEXAS, LOUISIANA, MISSISSIPPI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Oct 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>TEXAS, MISSISSIPPI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Oct 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Texas
Lutheran University, San Antonio, TX (LoS)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Oct 5-6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Oct 8:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Black Box
Theatre, Las Cruces, NM (BH & BJC)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Oct 9-10:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Oct 11:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, OREGON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Oct 12-13:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, OREGON, WASHINGTON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri";">Oct
12-14: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Rocky Mountain Modern Language
Assn, Spokane, WA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Oct 14-15:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WASHINGTON, IDAHO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Oct 16:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IDAHO, MONTANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Oct 17-18:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MONTANA, NORTH / SOUTH DAKOTA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Oct 19-21:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NACA Central Conference<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Oct 19:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MINNESOTA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Oct 20:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MINNESOTA, WISCONSIN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Oct 21:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WISCONSIN, ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Oct 22-23:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Monmouth
University, Monmouth, IL (BJC)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Oct 24:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Webb
School, Bell Buckle, TN (BH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Oct 25-26:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Lee University:
Tennessee Theatre Association (BH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Oct 27-28:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Young Harris
College, Young Harris, GA (BH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Oct 29:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSISSIPPI, OKLAHOMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Oct 30-31:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Southeast
Oklahoma State U, Durant, OK (MTT)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Nov 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ARKANSAS, MISSOURI, KANSAS, NEBRASKA,
COLORADO, UTAH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Nov 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ARKANSAS, MISSOURI, KANSAS, NEVADA,
NEBRASKA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Nov 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IDAHO, WYOMING, NEBRASKA, NEVADA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Nov 4-5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>COLORADO, NEBRASKA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri";">Nov 6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Iowa Wesleyan
University<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Nov 7:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MINNESOTA, IOWA, MISSOURI, WISCONSIN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Nov 8:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Nov 9:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Herron High
School, Indianapolis, IN (BJC)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri";">Nov 10-12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>APCA Midwest
Regional Conference, Chicago, IL<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Nov 10:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MICHIGAN, INDIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Nov 11:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MICHIGAN, INDIANA, OHIO, WEST
VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Nov 12:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WEST VIRGINIA, VIRGINIA, NORTH
CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Nov 13:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Georgetown
College, Georgetown, KY (BH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Nov 14:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Nov 15:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Marietta
Senior Center, Marietta Georgia<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Nov 16-17:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Nov 18: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Old Theater,
Oriental, NC (BH or BJC)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Nov 20-22:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>VIRGINIA, FLORIDA, GEORGIA, TENNESSEE,
KENTUCKY, INDIANA, ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">WINTER/SPRING
2018<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri";">January 5-9:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>APAP
Conference, NYC<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri";">January 4-7: MLA Conference, New York City<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">January 24-27:
International Performing Arts for Youth Showcase, Philadelphia, PA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jan 10-12:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jan 13:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW JERSEY, MARYLAND, DELAWARE, DC,
VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jan 14-15:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MARYLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jan 16:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jan 17:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jan 18:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jan 19-22:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA, FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jan 23:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI, LOUISIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri";">Jan 24-27:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Texas Educational
Theatre Association, Galveston, TX<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jan 28-29:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jan 30-31:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri";">Feb 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Snow
College, Ephraim, UT<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Feb 2-4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Feb 5-6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, OREGON, NEVADA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Feb 7-8:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OREGON, WASHINGTON, NEVADA, UTAH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Feb 9:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>NEVADA, UTAH, COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Feb 10-11:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Feb 12:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>COLORADO, KANSAS, NEBRASKA, MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Feb 13:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KANSAS, MISSOURI, OKLAHOMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Feb 14:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OKLAHOMA, ARKANSAS, MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Feb 15:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ARKANSAS, MISSOURI, TENNESSEE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Feb 16-17:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TENNESSEE, MISSISSIPPI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Feb 18-19:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TENNESSEE, KENTUCKY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Feb 20:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KENTUCKY, INDIANA, OHIO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Feb 21-22:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>INDIANA, OHIO, WEST VIRGINIA, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Feb 23: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WEST VIRGINIA, VIRGINIA, DC, MARYLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Feb 24-25:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MARYLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Feb 26:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>VIRGINIA, DC<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Feb 27:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Feb 28:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mar 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mar 2-5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA, FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mar 6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Mar 7-10:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SETC, Mobile, AL<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mar 11-12:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>LOUISIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mar 13-14:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OKLAHOMA, ARKANSAS, MISSOURI, KANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Mar 15:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>USAO,
Chickasa, OK (LoS)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mar 16:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OKLAHOMA, TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri";">Mar 16:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>AWTY
International School, Houston, TX (MTT)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mar 17-20:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri";">Mar 20: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Laredo
Community College, Laredo, TX (BJC)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mar
21-22:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mar 23:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ARIZONA, NEVADA, CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mar 24-25:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mar 26:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, NEVADA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mar 27:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, OREGON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mar 28:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OREGON, WASHINGTON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mar 29:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mar 30-31:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IDAHO, MONTANA, OREGON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Apr 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Easter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Apr 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>MONTANA, WYOMING, UTAH, OREGON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri";">Apr 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Portland,
OR, Reynolds High (MTT)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Apr 3-4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>UTAH, NORTH / SOUTH DAKOTA, NEBRASKA,
WYOMING, OREGON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Apr 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>MINNESOTA, IOWA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Apr 5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>MINNESOTA, IOWA, WISCONSIN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Apr 6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>WISCONSIN, ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Apr 7-8:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Apr 9:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>ILLINOIS, INDIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Apr 10:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>INDIANA, MICHIGAN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Apr 11:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MICHIGAN, OHIO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Apr 12:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OHIO, WEST VIRGINIA, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Apr 13:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA, NEW YORK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Apr 14:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW YORK, NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tim_mooney@earthlink.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10251175800373730254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359867.post-76369270705074076572017-05-02T11:31:00.005-07:002017-05-03T11:26:52.229-07:00The View From Here #170: Spring, 2017<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";"><a href="https://www.generosity.com/education-fundraising/timothy-mooney-repertory-theatre/x/187391" target="_blank">The FundraiserContinues</a>… this time with a deadline!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I started the
current fundraiser with the intent to make a one month blitz out of it, but, in
the throes of the tour, the new show, and a rough patch with a flurry of
allergies, the fundraiser sat idle for a while… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">With the spring tour
almost entirely behind me, the spring e-mail campaign complete, and “Breakneck
Julius Caesar” memorized and ready to go, I’ve set a definitive end to the
campaign (May 5!) and am making one last big push! As of today, our on-line
giving has reached $1,720, and checks-in-the-mail brought in $2,875, which puts
us at $4,595, with $2,905 left to go!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My quick update on the tour, visiting some awesome "swag!" (Stickers!)</span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">What that means is
that we’ve already been able to afford a slick new brochure (I have copies for anybody out there who wants one!), a sharp new exhibit hall banner, brilliant new artwork for
“Breakneck Julius Caesar” and a classy toga and leather armor for the new show.
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">This last phase is
to jumpstart our grant-writer, April Peterson, on a flurry of projects to bring
in funds from foundations, corporations and government programs that are
dedicated to furthering Shakespeare, Moliere or theatre-in-general in
the schools. We are actually anticipating the arrival of our first such "seed grant" around May 5, so we really want to close out this campaign by then so that, whatever that grant should be, it won't go towards patching up the previous campaign, but rather launch us into a new (stable!) organization, with the entirety of that grant going toward the simple mission of bringing awesome events to schools! </span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVVJKbrfQWA&t=5s" target="_blank">Here's April herself</a> (click there) talking about her plans for TMRT!</span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">If you can help us get over that last hump, please visit <a href="https://www.generosity.com/education-fundraising/timothy-mooney-repertory-theatre/x/187391" target="_blank">our Generosity.com fundraising page</a>! There's t-shirts and coffee mugs waiting with your name on them!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Tracing back to where we left off three months ago, I stayed at a
friend’s house in Colorado through Super Bowl weekend, but by the end of the
weekend, I seem to have had a bad reaction to her cat, as my eyes started to
itch like crazy, and I was sneezing non-stop. Between Flonase and Zyrtech, I
got it sufficiently in control to (barely) make it through my next two
bookings. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; text-indent: 0in;">Concordia High School
in Kansas was working on my version of “Tartuffe,” and as the director found
his students struggling with the verse, he put together a last-minute series of
class visits and a nighttime workshop to give them a quick immersion in Moliere
and style. (Word has it that the show was very well received!)</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">From there, I
doubled back west and north for a show in the northwest corner of Nebraska,
where they’d just gotten about a foot of snow (just as I’d been getting used
to spring-like weather)! That night I visited a rehearsal
of “Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind,” and gave some feedback to the cast. I surprised myself with how
much I had to say on the absurdism of this play! The next day, I did my usual Acting Workshop,
followed by a performance of “Moliere than Thou” that night (still
struggling to shake off the coughing fit from the nagging allergies) I seem to get a boost of adrenaline every time I step in front of a crowd, though it might also be the shot of 5-Hour Energy Drink I had before
the show that kept the coughing at bay. (Though, immediately after the show, the coughs returned!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";"><o:p>As I continue to make the adjustment to being a full not-for-profit organization, I drew up a new "company" Facebook page for the Timothy Mooney Repertory Theatre, which you can find <a href="https://www.facebook.com/timmooneyrep/" target="_blank">here</a>! Swing by and give it a "like," or click the "donate" button, and keep posted on all the latest!</o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I met up with
my Designer, Kathy Conery, in Virginia, who had been planning out the “Breakneck
Julius Caesar” costume. She set me
up with a mock-up toga to practice in. It turns out that "wrangling" a
toga is a HUGE challenge! It wants to slip off at about 9 different contact points, making it "a show about a toga!" I found that the trick was to anchor pieces of it
down (via safety pins on this mock-up version) to the tunic below, so that I only really had to worry
about the stretch of cloth that extends over my right arm, while the rest of it
stuck securely in place. Once I had only that one extension of fabric to
concern myself with, I could manipulate that one piece a half-dozen ways which
would help me define the many characters who all happened inhabit that
same costume.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I had two quick (well received) appearances in colleges in Ohio (Kenyon College and College of Wooster),
coordinated by two French teachers, followed by yet another Ohio event at the University of Urbana. I cut them a bit of a “deal” to to help them afford it, and they managed to pack the small room with a very
enthusiastic crowd for "Breakneck Hamlet."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Amid the performance, I describe
Hamlet as returning from “college at Wittenburg,” which was met by a sudden burst of
laughter. I immediately realized that for them, the college at Wittenburg
was not some obscure institution in medieval Germany. They have a "Wittenburg University" just about
15 miles down the road in Springfield, Missouri!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I
continued on to Lexington, Kentucky (dropping in on Cousin George along the way),
for the Southeast Theatre Conference! Once again, I had a booth
in the exhibit hall, a workshop to deliver, and the very first public
performance of “Breakneck Julius Caesar!” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I had no idea just how my workshop would go. I had offered up coaching for whatever Shakespeare monologues the actors might be working on, but had no
idea how many people (or monologues) might show. A dozen or so showed up, but only three
of them had monologues ready to share. It gave us the opportunity to offer some intense exploration of the language, the plot and the
intent of the characters. It so happened
that the only monologue of the three that was already part of my own growing repertoire was
the female piece: Portia from “Julius Caesar.” And yet we seemed able to give each performer significant improvements over repeated recitations. (There always seems to be a “lightbulb moment”
when the speech gathers an extra special, unanticipated meaning for the
performer.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">April was helping me
with the exhibit booth through most of the festival, as I was struggling to squeeze two or three
run-throughs in every morning before getting in to the conference. There was a
late confusion about the costume, as Kathy, working on it up until the
last possible minute, realized that the conference was not in Lexington,
Virginia, but in Lexington, Kentucky (about 5 hours farther away than
she’d planned to drive). I ended up improvising with the “mock costume” (which
you can see in the VIDEO below). (Those
who did not already know that there’d been a problem assumed that the
multi-hued look of what I ended up wearing was an intentional comment on the
characters.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I headed east once again, this time for a stay at my sister
Maureen’s house. She and her husband, (also) Tim, headed south for a two
week Florida vacation, and I had their place to myself,
house-sitting their cat. (Oops! There's those allergies again!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I was running the lines for “Caesar” about twice a day, as the "Ides of March" came and went, marked mostly by a series of joke posts on my Facebook page, mostly featuring Caesar salads and knives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Claiborne Town Hall about
five times now, and, before leaving town, Maureen managed to get me on their schedule with a couple of the stalwart Claiborne "fans" to manage the event. We’d assumed there would be a low turnout, but
once again, the place filled up with about 35-40 people. Now, fully draped in a
proper costume, I warmed them up with what will likely be an ongoing pre-show
banter (to let them know about their own participation in the crowd scene),
before launching into the play. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">This time it went even
better than the performance at SETC. Everything was
getting great laughs, and I ended up feeling pretty good about the shape that
the show was now in. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLFfIOvs36xMJF1O3wvocknk6orO5K9Qb5SXzY2ANIyUbpXIvz-Q-rpQAGkDkvR9uDyYH3DNOlITrsGhYY66O_wqsZYDJfZ9Y3eNVU81mC-vGaDLrY1k9gUqcUUwn-MRIP024A/s1600/TSFW+BW.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLFfIOvs36xMJF1O3wvocknk6orO5K9Qb5SXzY2ANIyUbpXIvz-Q-rpQAGkDkvR9uDyYH3DNOlITrsGhYY66O_wqsZYDJfZ9Y3eNVU81mC-vGaDLrY1k9gUqcUUwn-MRIP024A/s200/TSFW+BW.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I spent much of my
time in Maryland editing my new plays for publication. (David Jensen has
created a cool new ILLUSTRATION for “The School for Wives”.) I also finished my
taxes, put together a mailing to all of the schools that have booked me in the
past, and assembled publicity for the first “Fringe Tour” of the new
show.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">I also met up for beers with Kevin Brooks of the awesome band, Eastport Oyster Boys (catch them live if you can!), and had a terrific conversation about performance and art. (We traded swag, including stickers, books and CDs.) Packing up once more, I headed up to Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, a
historically black college which was bringing me in to talk Shakespeare with a
couple of the classes. The English teacher was covering Othello, Measure for
Measure, Merchant of Venice and Julius Caesar with her classes, and I did
monologues and scenes from each, discussing the challenges of making sense
of them, as well as my own approach to performing them. The teacher was
especially responsive to “Friends, Romans, Countrymen,” and insisted I do it again for the second class.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I
continued on to South Carolina, where Shakespeare
Carolina (“<a href="http://www.shakescar.org/" target="_blank">Shakes Car</a>”) was producing my “Tartuffe,” and had me in for another workshop. (They’d
produced my “Misanthrope” about 4 years back, and enjoyed my workshop for the
cast.) Word has it that the show was well received.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">At about this same time, a West Virginia high school presentation of my "Tartuffe" went on to the Thespian State Finals! The North Marion High School production had already come in second place in their district finals, but a last minute cast dropout kept them from a genuine shot at winning state. Word has it, though, that their Tartuffe won "best supporting actor" and "best actor overall!"</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">The University of
Cumberlands, in Southern Kentucky, had me in for “Breakneck Hamlet,” and my old friend, Bess Park, now their technical
coordinator, ran lights. It was a tiny and QUIET audience, with perhaps 25 students
scattered over three rows, and I assumed that I was
bombing. At the end, though, they applauded heartily and remained sitting in place in the auditorium
until I returned for a brief Q&A session. (Helping me load the props back into the
car, they assured me that they had LOVED the show… so, go figure.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Amid the thick of the ongoing Russia/Trump catastrophe, I had an inspiration for a very brief 10-minute play regarding the secret FBI briefing, and it's consequences. The language is a little salty, but if anybody wants to read a copy, you can find it <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/03/29/1648312/-DN-DT-at-the-WH-a-10-minute-Play" target="_blank">HERE</a>. The fun I had doing this one has me thinking of possibly doing a series of these...</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I shot back north, for a performance up at Northern Kentucky
University, where their French department was bringing me the
fourth time! While I'm usually uncomfortable working in the small auditorium in
their student center, they now had a much better lighting
arrangement, and I was able to focus attention away from the very modern,
computerized podium which we never seem to be able to push out of the way. We also directed the
audience into the two banks of seats with the best view of the
stage (not watching the show “through the podium” as it were). The crowd started out quiet and respectful, but I seemed to win them over with each
subsequent monologue, and by the end they were laughing boisterously. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">And, with that done,
I headed back to Chicago, immediately diving into my “Spring e-mail campaign,” sending out a total of 15,480 e-mails in an unheard-of fourteen days, all while running Julius Caesar once a day. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7tuLgunpe5XWqYdvfhZducWNBCjXWVcqe0gjj2f1LYHKjbTfBof3Ycjd0iw16wSNfOAatN0gYPrXVF_M5nzeN68p6ZgfrxuWLR0X2TZl9urAM6YAfFFWMlxtrbCurNqV0b59Z/s1600/Kansas+Storm+Brewin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: transparent; clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><br /></a><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">With the mailing is done, I jumped back into the fundraising campaign, with a new deadline looming. I got April (above) to record her own plea for donations (as she'll be the immediate beneficiary of the grant writing support, and, realizing that her birthday was coming up, exploited the timing to encourage donations. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9KeGXQPma6Mh4UOqCUFHEjIXQ92UQZwggI9rVqrV6syKUb1ewUtRnJvArIp1tdY1jEPMCkQ5XuDj8nfhpXNUuRF3nzRzhTErZ1fbfRPBIOL7BMvtbtgmkiBetfdn7y7a1nbGx/s1600/Mesa+Verde+Natl+Park.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Many of my bookings for my spring "western tour" had fallen through, with schools either unable to afford the show, or failing to raise the necessary funds, and facing the lack of bookings, decided to do the tour ANYWAY(!), dropping in on friends along the way (pictures below), and capturing testimonials about the shows we produce from the friends and teachers who have been so supportive over the years. It was great to have people other than myself making the case for the value of these events. While I certainly agree with everything they said, I'm a much less credible messenger than these folks are.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">And so, I raced from Chicago to San Diego to Portland (catching up with friends all along the way--see below), and on back to Chicago, where I'm now gearing up for "Fringe Season" and "Conference Season" with four fringe festivals and four conferences currently on the calendar!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; text-indent: 0in;">At the moment, there’s only one more
school show on the calendar, for May 5 in Indianapolis, before finally bidding the impetuous spring weather behind for Florida weather!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; text-indent: 0in;"><b>Discoveries</b>: I guess it wasn't pollen that was stimulating my allergies all these yeare... It was cats! * I've been doing so much classical theatre for so long that I've forgotten that I know a thing or two about some other styles as well! * In fact, I can also manage to hold my own in a Shakespeare monologue workshop, even when I don't know which monologues students are going to walk in with! *</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; text-indent: 0in;">Even when I think I'm bombing in a performance, sometimes the audience is just quiet (for whatever reasons), and I'm actually doing really well. * The Trump "presidency" is comedy gold for writers. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; text-indent: 0in;"><b>On I-Tunes</b>: Ivy Levan "I Don't Want to Get Up</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; text-indent: 0in;"><b>On Netflix</b>: Luke Cage and Shameless</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; text-indent: 0in;"><b>Upcoming shows</b>: May 5 at Christel House South (Indianapolis), May 11-14 at the Tampa International Fringe Festival and May 17-21 at the Orlando Fringe.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; text-indent: 0in;"><b>Miles on the CX-5: </b>60,100</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; text-indent: 0in;"><b>What was that Fundraiser address again?</b> https://www.generosity.com/education-fundraising/timothy-mooney-repertory-theatre/x/187391 </span><br />
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House South (LoS)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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2017<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 11-14 Tampa Fringe
Festival<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 17-28 Orlando Fringe
Festival<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">June 1-3 Dangerous
Theatre, Sanford, FL<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">June 19-24 International
Thespian Festival, Lincoln, NE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">June 26-July 1 AACT Festival, Rochester, MN<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">July 17-18 American Assn
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">July 20-30 Kansas City
Fringe Festival, KC, MO<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">August 3-6 ATHE Conference,
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Aug 11-20 Edmonton Fringe
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2017<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 13 OHIO, KENTUCKY, WEST VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 14-16 EdTA Conference,
Nashville, TN<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 17-18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TENNESSEE, KENTUCKY, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 27 NORTH / SOUTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lutheran University (Shakespeare) <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 12-14 Rocky Mountain
Modern Language Assn, Spokane, WA<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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University, Monmouth, IL (BJC)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Tennessee Theatre Association <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 28 OKLAHOMA, MISSOURI, OKLAHOMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 29 MISSOURI, KANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 30-31 Southeast
Oklahoma State U, Ada, OK (MTT)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 31<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>COLORADO, UTAH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 2 NEVADA, IDAHO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 3<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IDAHO, WYOMING<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 4-5 COLORADO, NEBRASKA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 6<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Iowa Wesleyan
University<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 7<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MINNESOTA, IOWA, MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 8<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MINNESOTA, WISCONSIN, ILLINOIS<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 9<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS, INDIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov
10-12 APCA Midwest Regional Conference,
Chicago, IL<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MICHIGAN, INDIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 11 <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WEST VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 13<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NORTH / SOUTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 14<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 15<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Marietta
Senior Center, Marietta Georgia<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 16<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TENNESSEE, KENTUCKY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 17<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>INDIANA, ILLINOIS<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 18-22 <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2018<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">January 5-9 <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>APAP Conference, NYC<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">January 4-7 MLA Conference, New York City<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 10-Mar
3 FLORIDA, GEORGIA -- OPEN FOR
RESIDENCY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 17-21<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NACA Conference<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 28-Mar 3 Region 6 ACTF, San Angelo, TX<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 4-7<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA, ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 7-10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SETC, Mobile, AL<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 11-12 <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>LOUISIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 13-14<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ARKANSAS, MISSOURI, KANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 15<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>USAO,
Chickasa, OK (LoS)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 16<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>AWTY
International School, Houston, TX (MTT)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 17-20 <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar
21-22 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 23<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ARIZONA, NEVADA, CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 24-25 <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 26<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, NEVADA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 27<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, OREGON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OREGON, WASHINGTON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 29<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WASHINGTON, IDAHO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 30-31 <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IDAHO, MONTANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 1<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Easter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 2<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>MONTANA, WYOMING, UTAH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 3<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>NORTH / SOUTH DAKOTA, NEBRASKA,
WYOMING<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 4<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>MINNESOTA, IOWA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 5<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>MINNESOTA, IOWA, WISCONSIN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 6<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>WISCONSIN, ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 7-8 <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 9<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>ILLINOIS, INDIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>INDIANA, MICHIGAN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 11<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MICHIGAN, OHIO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OHIO, WEST VIRGINIA, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 13<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA, NEW YORK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 14<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW YORK, NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 15-16<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 17<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Blair
Academy, Blairstown, NJ (LoS)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW JERSEY, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 19-20<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Geneva College,
Geneva, PA (GSAT)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 21-23<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WEST VIRGINIA, VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, DELAWARE,
D.C., NORTH/SOUTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 24-26<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA / FLORIDA<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 27<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TENNESSEE, KENTUCKY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KENTUCKY, ARKANSAS, MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 29<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSOURI<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 30<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSOURI, KANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 1<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KANSAS, COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 2<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>COLORADO, UTAH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 3<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEBRASKA, IOWA<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 4<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Northwestern
College, Orange City, IA (BH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 5-6<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MINNESOTA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 7<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MINNESOTA, IOWA, WISCONSIN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 8<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WISCONSIN, ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 9-11<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS, INDIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 18.0pt;">FALL,
2018<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 4-7<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS, INDIANA, MICHIGAN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WISCONSIN, MINNESOTA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IDAHO, WASHINGTON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 21-23<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEVADA, UTAH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KANSAS, NEBRASKA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 20-21 <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MARYLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="color: red;">Jan 3-6 Modern Language Association Chicago</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; text-indent: 0in;"><br /></span>tim_mooney@earthlink.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10251175800373730254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359867.post-38624660851481624352017-02-05T19:46:00.000-08:002017-02-06T18:37:48.462-08:00The View From Here #171: Fall/Winter, 2016-17<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: large; text-indent: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">Thanks to everyone who's been popping in to donate at </span><span style="color: red;"><b><a href="https://www.generosity.com/education-fundraising/timothy-mooney-repertory-theatre/x/187391">Generosity.com</a>!</b> </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: large; text-indent: 0in;"><i>In just two days, we're brought in $830, putting us 11% of the way to our goal, and just $170 shy of the new "Breakneck Julius Caesar" costume! </i></span><br />
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<b style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Back
to the tour!</span></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Racing back from
some successful Utah shows, I made a quick stop in Nebraska, with a Shakespeare
workshop at U-Nebraska-Kearney, and pushing on back to Chicago for one day. In
an odd stroke of timing, my “agent” called me in for an audition on the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">one day</i></b>
that I would be in town! It was for an “industrial,” which is usually an
in-house video for corporate use. The director seemed very enthusiastic about
my performance, and as the door was swinging closed behind me, I could hear him
tell the cameraman, “That was a Five.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">(Which, of course,
begs the question, “On a scale of…?”) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I had another return
visit to Lewis University, where they’ve now hosted me <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">four times</b> (they also use my textbook, “Acting at the Speed of Life” in
their acting classes)! This time, I was doing “Breakneck Hamlet,” which was
well received by my hosts, including the University President who was in attendance.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">The very next day, I
had a show at “BardFest,” just north of Indianapolis. They were hosting three
fully-mounted Shakespeare performances, and brought me in as a teaser, leading
in to the festival with early evening performances of “Lot o’ Shakespeare” and
“Breakneck Hamlet.” Attendance was very light for both shows, but one of the
teachers from Indy’s Herron High School was there to see “Breakneck Hamlet,”
and immediately confirmed that she wanted to book me at her school on my very
next pass through town! (Also present was my friend, Sandi Palombi, who
generously volunteered to underwrite that event!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I was off to
Altoona, Pennsylvania, for another tavern show at McGarvey’s Bar! The owner was
a former theatre major from way-back-when, and is trying to nurture a
theatrical clientele, to replace their former punk-rock band vibe. Again, it
was a tiny house, but it’s great to see somebody taking the long view on
embracing the arts. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I had about a week between
shows, and holed up at my friend, Deb’s house in Bloomington, Indiana, to
finally get serious about memorizing “Breakneck Julius Caesar!” After one week
of work, Act I was under my belt!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Somewhere in there,
I got word that I had been cast in the aforementioned “industrial,” which would
be filming, coincidentally, just after Thanksgiving break, when I would be back
in Chicago. (which answered the question of what scale the director was using!) The odds of me being available for both an audition and the filming of any given video are pretty steep.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I headed back for my
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">third</i></b>
visit to Lander University in Greenwood, SC, and this time, their theatre
professor, Monique, had me up on the big stage, with a nice house of perhaps 200
students responding warmly to “Breakneck Hamlet.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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headed about 30 minutes south to work with a group of mature community theatre
performers for a day-long workshop (they totally wore me out). By this point, I was
starting to time my departures/arrivals so that I could arrive at my next hotel
(or bar) in time to catch the Cubs in the World Series. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">With another week between
performances, I headed down to Orlando to celebrate my birthday with friends. I
picked up where I left off on my memorization process, and got Act II of “Breakneck
Julius Caesar” under my belt (and actually performed the opening act for a
dozen friends on my birthday… somewhere in the middle of answering a ton of “happy
birthday” posts…).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">The Cubs won the World
Series…! My friends aren’t big TV watchers, so all we could find was the Spanish
version of the play-by-play. (We tuned in the radio, instead, which gave us the
description on a 50-second delay.) As a life-long Cubs fan, I was astonished
and delighted… that the sun still came up the next day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Although, six days
later, I might have been happy to trade in that once-in-a-lifetime experience
to reverse another. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">After the election,
I posted: </span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">“The good news is that ‘Tartuffe’ and ‘Don Juan’ will be increasingly
relevant. </span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">The bad news: so will ‘Richard III’ and ‘Macbeth.’”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I pushed west, to Schreiner
University in Kerrville, Texas (which gave me the opportunity to drop in on
cousins Kathy & Larry just outside of San Antonio). I’ve been corresponding
with Schreiner for years, and somehow “Breakneck Hamlet” was the right show at
the right time for them. (There was an annual lecture/event sponsored by some
local folks, who responded with really lovely enthusiasm, and sent me a very
gracious thank you afterwards.) <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tim, Tucci & Tucci's Art</td></tr>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Westward again... I don't get to southern Arizona very often, but now it seems filled with old friends: I dropped in on former theatre
chair, Al Tucci, playwright William Luce, former student Patti Lahey, and
former Minnesotan, Erika Loen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">And then: back to Idyllwild! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Betty Anderson has
been a great friend for a dozen or more years now, sponsoring a previous
performance at Idyllwild arts (in Southern California), hosting shows in her
living room, and contributing to the “Breakneck Hamlet” campaign. This time I
was back to do another workshop and a performance of “Breakneck Hamlet” to a
full house of about 120 students (which was a blast). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My workshop at Idyllwild!</td></tr>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Also, while in
Idyllwild, I got a call from a publisher who was interested in picking up some
of my plays! We’ve signed the contracts for the first two, and soon, “The
Learned Ladies” and “The School for Wives” will be available via “Stage
Rights”!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">The next night,
Betty and I retreated to La Jolla, where I shared some of the new “Julius
Caesar” with her. We went out to catch the film of “Hamlet Live” featuring Benedict Cumberbatch. (We didn’t make it past Act III… B.C. tends to
pause… a lot.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">More driving! I dropped
in on Jayne Day in Fresno, and Marina & Steve in Chico, on my brother, Pat
in Salem, Oregon, and continued out to catch a show at the Coaster Theatre,
where I met a hitherto unknown, and never-before-met 3<sup>rd</sup> cousin, Karen, who, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">it just so happens</i>, is on the board of
directors at the Coaster Theatre, where I just <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">happened</i> to have performed last spring! (I didn’t know her then,
and she wasn’t in town when I performed, so we only met for the first time this
fall!) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The View in Coeur d'Alene</td></tr>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I pushed back east
again, visiting my friend Carrie in Coeur d’Alene, and working my way back to
Chicago once again. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">My old friend,
Paul Schreiner stumbled across this anonymous post-it note (below) on (somebody else’s)
Moliere script, while hunting around in the prop room!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Note to the wise...</td></tr>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">News came in that I
was “IN” once again at the Edmonton Fringe Festival (where last summer, I sold
out five performances, and got two amazing reviews!)! More news: I am also "IN" at the first ever Tampa Fringe Fest, though not (yet) “IN”
at the Orlando Fringe Festival (which starts several days after Tampa's closes), but I am high on the waiting list! </span></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I dove back into
another e-mail campaign, before swinging south through Carbondale (Hi, Susan
Patrick Benson!), Bloomington (dropping in on their awesome karaoke bar, “Bear’s
Place”) and Indianapolis, where my friend, Sandi had arranged for “Breakneck
Hamlet” at Herron High School. (90 Students! Terrific acoustics! Standing
ovation!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Visiting fans after... some more excited than others...</td></tr>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Somewhere in there,
Act III of Julius Caesar was memorized! (It’s the longest act, but I had one
advantage: Mark Antony’s epic 8-minute “Friends, Romans, Countrymen” speech was
locked away in my memory about 9 years ago when I memorized “Lot o’
Shakespeare”!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I took one final
swing north through Detroit, dropping off a Christmas present to Isaac (a case of beer, that would have cost just as much to ship as the beer itself), and raced home just ahead of a big snowstorm. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Proud to be a "Michigan Dad"</td></tr>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Once again, I
volunteered for a Pathways weekend, which, as usual, lit a fire under me and
rejuvenated my chase after some pretty huge goals. I just happened to have
picked up the book “Mind Hacking,” (highly recommended) as I was getting ready
for Pathways, and felt pretty lit up with the power of positive thinking…!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">With renewed
enthusiasm, I dove into Act IV of “Breakneck Julius Caesar” and, faced with the
need to resolve an upcoming (March) performance at the Southeast Theatre
Conference, I officially switched my submission from "Criteria" to what will be the world premiere of “Breakneck Julius Caesar”! (I find that the more I can challenge
myself with ever encroaching deadlines, the harder I work.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charlotte's first Christmas</td></tr>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Word came back from
the IRS! There was just one final “Anti Terrorism Compliance” form that they
needed us to fill out (given that I do business overseas now and then), and
I placed an immediate call to our Board of Directors compliance legal expert,
Ted Banks (who has literally “written the book” on corporate compliance), and
he had the wording of our reply fashioned within twenty minutes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">By December 25 Act
IV was memorized! And I paused for Christmas, visiting with April, her kids, and
(now) grandkid, Charlotte, before diving back in on the memorization. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I stuck my neck out (even further) on-line, declaring that I would have the rest of the play memorized before the
new year!, And, as George Bernard Shaw would say that “focused my mind” (like a man awaiting hanging in the
morning). </span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";"><br /></span><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">This led me to eat, drink and sleep <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Julius
Caesar</i> for a week, reworking and reworking the ending of the play until I found that
this one was going to have a SURPRISE ending! My complete submersion in the
logic that holds "Julius Caesar" together took me farther and farther from the typical
ending that you see when heavy-hitters like Jason Robards or James Mason play
the role of Brutus. I don’t know if the high school teachers are going to hate
it or love it, but once I had factored every other piece that led up to it, it
was the only ending that made any sense to me. (Spoiler alert: my version is funnier than any other "Julius Caesar" you've probably seen)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I paused for a New
Year’s Eve celebration, with “Breakneck Julius Caesar” now fully memorized!</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">And while I worked
on drilling those lines to get them down under an hour (I've managed it three times so far!),
David C. Jensen was spooling out early drafts of a “BJC” illustration, which he
refined, and refined into something really “splashy.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">At one point, I
hosted a “living room showing” of the new show, and about ten people showed up
to get the first opening peek at the full performance, giving me great feedback. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I had to cut way
back on the Caesar recitals, as it was now time to “wake up” Moliere than Thou”
in my mind (and my mouth), for yet another performance at DePaul university
(where my old friend, Claudia Anderson, is in the theatre department… though,
as previously, it was the French Department bringing me in). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tim & Claudia, 32 years later!</td></tr>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">At DePaul, Moliere was once
again, a rock star (perhaps evidenced by a special, somewhat intimate contribution
left in the “tip basket” at the end of the show), and the French teacher, who specializes
in 17<sup>th</sup> Century French authors, promised that she’d bring me back in
again. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "verdana";"><span style="color: #1d2129;">The Not for Profit
confirmation finally arrived from the IRS! Given that I was now in the midst of packing for the road, it was now too late to whip together any
kind of a fundraiser, but I
started making plans…! (See </span><a href="https://www.generosity.com/education-fundraising/timothy-mooney-repertory-theatre/x/187391"><b><span style="color: blue;">Generosity.com</span></b></a><span style="color: #1d2129;"> Campaign, above…)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Monmouth Hamlet Poster</td></tr>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Pulling my vast
amount of “stuff” together once again, the first stop was a performance of
“Breakneck Hamlet” at Monmouth University. (My third show at Monmouth!) Again
this show was extremely well received and, moments after it was done, one of
the non-theatre students turned to the theatre student sitting next to him with
one of my favorite ever post-show comments ever! </span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";"><br /></span>
<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">“How…?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Off to the races
once more, stopping in Kansas City on my way to Austin, Texas. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">And for the first
time since beginning this ongoing 15-year mega-tour, I GOT THE DATE WRONG! I
drove like crazy to get to Austin in time for a January 23 show at Lake Travis
High School, only to discover that the show had been scheduled for January 24!
(We’d been discussing either Jan 23 or 24, and I hadn’t noticed when the choice
shifted from one to the other!) Fortunately, I had the day off (or I probably
would have been more concerned about whatever performance-day clues I was
overlooking), and did the show the following day to a roaring response of
hilarity from the 200+ students (who were scandalized, and went wild for “Tartuffe!”).
The play concluded with a big standing ovation from the whole group. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">With my schedule pushed back a day, I now had no time to revel in the success of one
show, as I had to get myself up to Dallas to perform the very next day… this
time: “Breakneck Hamlet” at St. Mark’s School. We raced through a quick tech
rehearsal, which seemed to be going well, though I was a little distraught to
see lights coming up in the audience’ face at times that didn’t actually have
audience interaction… Even so, my host seemed quite happy with the show,
repeating my favorite phrase-you-can-hear-from-a-host: “making an annual event of this…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Again, within minutes of the end of this show, I had to race back south once
more, to the Texas Educational Theatre Association conference in Galveston, TX.
I’d attended TETA a couple times in past years as a special guest artist, but this
time there was radio silence from the organizers when I proposed another appearance, and, ultimately, I booked my own table in the exhibit hall.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Even so, this seems
to have been one of my best conferences of late. There were people who
remembered me from previous appearances, people who’d read my book, and loved
it… one girl who reported that she had just quoted me in one of her school
research papers. So, I was mostly feelin’ the love in Texas. (And, I walked
away with a list of about 40 names of people who wanted to be on my
distribution list.)</span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";"><br /></span>
<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">I zoomed down to Kingsville, visiting with my friend, Michael, who I knew from several Kingsville performances, before pushing on to Laredo, Texas, where I was going to give the first public preview of "Breakneck Julius Caesar." Over the course of the workshop, I'd had no time to rehearse the lines for "BJC," so I was "waking a show back up" that I'd never performed on stage before. I had a scheduled performance of "Breakneck Hamlet" that same night, but I had to trust my ability to "wake up" Hamlet in the several hours between the morning preview and the evening show. </span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">It was an interesting event, with the kids mostly attentive, and particularly excited at all of the audience participation pieces that I had layered in to the show, as they got to respond with "Huzzahs" and cheer back at Mark Antony during "Friends, Romans, Countrymen," and, (spoiler alert!) eventually, stab me with a rubber sword at the end of the play! </span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">And, "Breakneck Hamlet" was also pretty good. One teacher e-mailed me to describe his reaction as "utterly delighted... left me in stitches."</span><br />
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "verdana";"><span style="color: #1d2129;">I pressed north, driving in brief stints, writing my blog, organizing the fundraiser, and putting a video together. While you may see the official fundraising video at Generosity.com, you can see my collection of "outtakes," below... </span></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">See you on the road!</span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";"><br /></span>
<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Love,</span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";">Tim</span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";"><br /></span>
<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana";"><b>Discoveries</b>: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0in;">Some of my lightest-attended shows have had some
of the most positive impact on my career. * The longer you do this kind of
thing, the more that the coincidences seem to pile up in quick succession:
chance encounters, people who know the same people, old friends who know other
old friends, that by rights, shouldn’t know each other. * If you want to get a
project done fast, move up your deadlines. * Sometimes, you have to go with the
ending that is staring you in the face, rather than the ending that everyone
around you expects.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>On the nightstand</b>: Mind Hacking by John Hargrave</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>On the I-tunes</b>: Anything by Caravan Palace</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>Next shows</b>: Feb 7, Concordia High School (KS); Feb 8-9, Chadron State College (NE)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Timothy Mooney Repertory
Theatre Tour Schedule<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">(Already-booked dates in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">GREEN; </span></b>Tentative bookings in<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"> </span><span style="color: red;">RED</span>; </b>Probable bookings in<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"> </span><span style="color: #000090;">BLUE</span></b>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "verdana";">MTT</span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana";"> = “Moliere than Thou”; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">LoS</span></b> = “Lot o’ Shakespeare; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">GSAT</span></b> =
“Greatest Speech of All Time;” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">SH</span></b> – “Shakespeare’s Histories” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">BH</span></b> –
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">WINTER /
SPRING 2017</span></b></div>
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<b style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 7: Concordia High School, Concordia, KS (Workshops)</span></b><br />
<b style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 8-9:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Chadron
State College, Chadron, NE (MTT & Workshops)</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 10-11:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KANSAS, NEBRASKA, OKLAHOMA, South/North Dakota<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 12:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ARKANSAS, LOUISIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-w7EGwmifT5LtFQNQmTBimgecavrZVWWHkusR_uOGWDD52UBPdlQVhZyMbWamjtmm4aX3NwMaubT1_qnKJziXHc0SCSLmWsdGLJqVhi_UcqB7LKBJAsvUXogW6yzfX42atrmG/s1600/Above+Idaho+Clouds+11-21.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-w7EGwmifT5LtFQNQmTBimgecavrZVWWHkusR_uOGWDD52UBPdlQVhZyMbWamjtmm4aX3NwMaubT1_qnKJziXHc0SCSLmWsdGLJqVhi_UcqB7LKBJAsvUXogW6yzfX42atrmG/s320/Above+Idaho+Clouds+11-21.jpg" width="319" /></a><span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 13:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>LOUISIANA, MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 14:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA, GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 15-16:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>New College of Florida, Sarasota, FL<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 17:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SOUTH / NORTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 18-22:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NACA Conference, Baltimore, MD<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb
22:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Rutgers University, New Brunswick,
NJ (Julius Caesar)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb
23:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>College of Wooster (Workshop)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb
24:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Kenyon College (MTT)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 24-25:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA, NEW YORK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 26:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA, WEST VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 27:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OHIO, WEST VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb
28 <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Urbana University (BH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KENTUCKY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar
2-4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SETC, Lexington, KY<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(BJC)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>INDIANA, MICHIGAN, OHIO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar
7:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Illinois Wesleyan University,
Bloomington, IL (MTT)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 8:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MICHIGAN, OHIO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 9:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OHIO, PENNSYLVANIA</span></div>
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students), Boston, MA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 20:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 25:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Winthrop
University, Rock Hill, SC (Workshop)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 26:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA, GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 27:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Webb
School, Bell Buckle, TN <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 28:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>University
of the Cumberlands, Williamsburg, KY<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>(BH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar
29:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Northern Kentucky U, Highland
Heights, KY (MTT)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar
30:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Georgetown College, Georgetown, KY
(Workshop)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 31:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OHIO, MICHIGAN, INDIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 1-3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>INDIANA, ILLINOIS, WISCONSIN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WISCONSIN, MINNESOTA<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IOWA, MINNESOTA, MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 6-7:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NORTH / SOUTH DAKOTA, NEBRASKA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 8:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MONTANA, WYOMING<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 9:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WYOMING, MONTANA, IDAHO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr
10: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Moscow High School / U of Idaho,
Moscow, ID<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr
12: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Troutdale High School, Troutdale,
OR<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr
13:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Mount
Hood Community College, Gresham, OR (MTT & BH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 11-13:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WASHINGTON, OREGON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 14-16:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr
16: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Vanden High School, Fairfield, CA<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 17:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, NEVADA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 18:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEVADA, UTAH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 19:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>UTAH, WYOMING<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 20:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>UTAH, WYOMING, COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 21:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>COLORADO, KANSAS, NEBRASKA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 22:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KANSAS, NEBRASKA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 23-24:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KANSAS, MISSOURI, Texas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 24:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Springdale High School, Springdale, AR<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 24-28:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS, IOWA, ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">SUMMER, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">May
11-14<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>: Tampa Fringe Festival<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">May
17-28: Orlando Fringe Festival, Orlando, FL<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">June
5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Chattanooga, TN<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">June
19-24: International Thespian Festival, Lincoln, NE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">June
26-July 1 AACT Festival, Rochester, MN<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">July
17-18:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>American Assn of Teachers of
French, St. Louis, MO<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">July
20-30:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kansas City Fringe Festival, KC,
MO<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">August
3-6: ATHE Conference, Las Vegas, NV <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Aug
4-12:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Calgary Fringe Festival, Calgary,
AB<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Aug
11-20:Edmonton Fringe Festival, Edmonton, AB<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">FALL, 2017<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sep 5-10:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sep 11: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>INDIANA, MICHIGAN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sep 12:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MICHIGAN, INDIANA, OHIO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sep 13:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OHIO, KENTUCKY, WEST VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sep 14:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KENTUCKY, WEST VIRGINIA, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sep
14-17:EdTA Conference, Nashville, TN<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sep 15-17:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA, NEW YORK<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sep 16:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW YORK, NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sep 19:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sep
20:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Massachusetts College of Liberal
Arts, North Adams, MA (SH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sep 21-22:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW JERSEY, DELAWARE, MARYLAND, D.C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sep 23-24:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MARYLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sep 25:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>D.C., VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sep 26:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sep 27:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NORTH / SOUTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Seb 28-30:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NACA South Conference<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sep 28:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SOUTH CAROLINA / GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sep 30-Oct 1:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA, GEORGIA, ALABAMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Tougaloo College, Jackson, MS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>LOUISIANA, TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Southeast Oklahoma State U, Ada, OK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Richardson High School, Richardson, TX<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 7:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>AWTY International School, Houston, TX<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 8:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA, NEVADA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 9:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Cupertino High School, Cupertino, CA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 10:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 11:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, OREGON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 12:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, OREGON, WASHINGTON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 12-14: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Rocky Mountain Modern Language Assn,
Spokane, WA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 13:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OREGON, WASHINGTON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 14-15:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WASHINGTON, IDAHO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 16:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IDAHO, MONTANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 17-18:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MONTANA, NORTH / SOUTH DAKOTA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 19-21:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NACA Central Conference<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 19:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MINNESOTA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 20:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MINNESOTA, WISCONSIN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 21:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WISCONSIN, ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 22:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 23:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS, INDIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 24:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>INDIANA, KENTUCKY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 25:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 26-28:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NACA Mid-America Conference<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 26:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TENNESSEE, ARKANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 27:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ARKANSAS, OKLAHOMA, MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 28:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OKLAHOMA, MISSOURI, OKLAHOMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 29:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSOURI, KANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 30:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KANSAS, COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oct 31:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>COLORADO, UTAH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>UTAH, NEVADA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEVADA, IDAHO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IDAHO, WYOMING<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 4-5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>COLORADO, NEBRASKA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Iowa Wesleyan University<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 7:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MINNESOTA, IOWA, MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 8:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MINNESOTA, WISCONSIN, ILLINOIS<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 9:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS, INDIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 10:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MICHIGAN, INDIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 11:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WEST VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 12:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 13:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NORTH / SOUTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 14:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov
15:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Marietta Senior Center, Marietta
Georgia<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 16:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TENNESSEE, KENTUCKY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 17:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>INDIANA, ILLINOIS<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nov 18-22:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">WINTER/SPRING
2018<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">January 5-9: APAP Conference, NYC<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">January 5-8: MLA Conference,
Philadelphia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jan 10-Mar 3:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>OPEN FOR RESIDENCY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 17-21:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NACA Conference<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 7-10:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SETC, Mobile, AL<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 11-12:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 13:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA, GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 14:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA, SOUTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 15:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA, ALABAMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 16:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 17-18:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>LOUISIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 19:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>LOUISIANA, TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 20:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS, OKLAHOMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 21:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS, NEW MEXICO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 22:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 23:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ARIZONA, NEVADA, CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 24-25:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 26:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, NEVADA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 27:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, OREGON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 28:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OREGON, WASHINGTON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 29:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WASHINGTON, IDAHO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 30-31:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IDAHO, MONTANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tim_mooney@earthlink.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10251175800373730254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359867.post-40213566641237451652017-02-03T16:54:00.001-08:002017-02-03T17:12:19.081-08:00The View From Here #171-A: The First Official NFP Fundraiser!<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hey View-ers!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've got the latest TMRT blog coming your way in about 24 hours, but I didn't want that to distract from this very important announcement!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>The Timothy Mooney Repertory Theatre is now an official Not-for-Profit 501(c)3 organization!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All donations are now tax deductible to the fullest extent allowable by law. Our mission is to create performances that inspire, inform, enlighten, educate and entertain through the works of our great theatrical, literary and rhetorical thinkers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After 15 years of sharing our work just with the schools that could AFFORD it, we are now seeking government, corporation and foundation support that will enable us to share this work with every school that WANTS it, and to reshape the vision of what-is-possible for some of the people who most NEED it! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This news, of course, comes just a little late for "end-of-year giving" and, at the moment, I'm back on the road with more performances, so I'm just launching a quick fundraiser during a brief lull in the tour! <a href="https://www.generosity.com/education-fundraising/timothy-mooney-repertory-theatre/x/187391" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: yellow;">Click HERE for that!</span></b></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our grant-writer, April Peterson, is already working to meet deadlines for several funding applications, but the turn-around between submitting an application for a grant and receiving the commission for a successful grant can be several months, and I want to give a full and healthy launch to the organization while these (and more) grants are pending. There will come a tipping point when efforts for future grants are supported by income from previous commissions, but up-front money will enable her to expend the time and effort that this work demands now, rather than later. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We've also got a new play just about ready to go! "Breakneck Julius Caesar" is now memorized and starting test performances and, as in the past, the new start-up costs of a new show hit us all at once. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As such, we're looking to set aside $5,000 for a grant-writer, $1,000 for a new brochure and banner design (New "Breakneck Julius Caesar" designs above and latest logo below), as well as another $500 for printing. Beyond that, $1,000 will get us a new costume! This $7,500 total goal will be a quick one-month blitz in the shortest month of the year (and we're three days late already!) amid a brief lull in the winter tour, so we're looking to pull this together by February 28! It's not going to make us rich, but it's enough to get up to speed, fast!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some of the grants that we're chasing down are "matching grants," so it's likely that your contribution will count DOUBLE! More than that, the $5,000 for the grant writer will support the writing of $50,000 in grants, so that pretty much ten-tuples your donation!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We will once again have T-shirts and mugs (and more)available as special "swag" premiums, and this time we're adding in stuff with our new "Breakneck Julius Caesar" designs! Please take a spin on over to <a href="https://www.generosity.com/education-fundraising/timothy-mooney-repertory-theatre/x/187391" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: yellow;">THIS SITE</span></b></a> to choose some stuff that you like!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thanks for your generosity, and for sharing this info around!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Love,</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "myriad pro"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The Timothy
Mooney Repertory Theatre is now “in the queue” to get our 501(c)3
Not-For-Profit status! We are set up and ready to receive donations made to the
Timothy Mooney Repertory Theatre (just click the “DONATE” button at </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="http://timmooneyrep.com/"><span style="font-family: "myriad pro";">http://timmooneyrep.com/</span></a></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "myriad pro"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> ), and once we are “official,” all donations received (either
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It feels like forever since
the Orlando Fringe Festival last May, and certainly my travel schedule has
carried me over more miles than I usually cover in two years! But though that’s
only four months, it's also over FORTY performances ago! </span><span style="font-family: "myriad pro"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As mentioned before, some
reviews from Orlando were already out in advance of my first performance of the
festival, thanks to the preview living-room performance I’d given way back in
November 2015! My host, AKA, “Carl F. Gauze,” always comes up with a fun
review, and had also written one from this preview event, but somehow lost it
on his computer between November and May. He and his wife, Gale, came to see
the show a second time, and his review was worth the wait!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">...People are reluctant to sit through an entire Shakespeare play; the material is long, the grammar is complicated, and the jokes are out of date. But more than anything else, they dislike the pauses. People HATE pauses; but you need them to allow them to process the words even at the expense of baby sitter overtime. But here you are saved. Mr. Mooney completely removes ALL the pauses from Hamlet. Zero. Nada. A complete purge. He gets rid of a few words here and there as well; those are the words that slow down the always desirable soliloquies. He then can focus on "To be or not to be"; "Oh, that this too too solid flesh" and "O, my offense is rank!" He expands and explains the material between the soliloquies as concepts, not endless, pause filled lines; thus we know what Hamlet is thinking in modern expression: "Is suicide an option?" "Damn, I wish I were dead." and "God, I am a douchebag." It's breathless, breathtaking, and exciting; it's as close tothe experience a groundling would have had 400 years ago. Take this crash course, and you can bluff your way through an entire Orlando Shakespeare season. (<i>Carl F. Gauze, Ink 19</i>)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">..."After seeing your show, I finally "get" Hamlet. I get the play and I get the man. You turned a dry reading assignment into a story and gave it life. Thank you for that gift. (<i>Christopher Leavy</i>)</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large; text-indent: 0in;">Apparently, there are big fans of the "alas poor Yorick" speech out there. One night as I approached the skull, out of the corner of my eye, I could see a woman quivering with anticipation, and heard her whisper, "Say it! Say it!"</span></div>
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build throughout the course of the week, with at least one terrific house
giving me a standing ovation, with actual "hoots" and "whoops!"
during the curtain call. I came very close, but never actually sold out the
entire house. Word has it that I outsold the other shows in my venue, but the
need to race off to another fringe kept me from getting the “holdover show.” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I got in to London in time for the big preview event, where I performed the opening two minutes of Hamlet, handing out a couple hundred postcards to the big crowd, and catching up with John Huston, who I hadn't seen since my last Canadian Fringe, some nine or ten years ago!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Every so often someone would ask me where I was staying while in town, and given that I was new to most of these towns, I would usually explain that I was staying "Out by the Tim Horton's?"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(Most Canadian cities have about a dozen or so Tim Horton's.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The London Fuse was the local website for arts-stuff, and Jocelyn Graham had written with interview questions... <a href="http://londonfuse.ca/blog/13300" target="_blank">which you can find here</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is the one big downside of the internet. Given that everyone i son line and wired these days, rather than doing old fashioned telephone interviews where the writer types madly while talking to me on the phone; they now just send me a list of questions, and I do their typing for them. And since, I tend to have loooong answers, "getting interviewed" means spending an hour or more pounding away on the keyboard. For this interview, at least, I was able to do my own cutting and pasting, for a portion, anyway. The question of "What inspired you to create Breakneck Hamlet?" was essentially the introduction to my book, <i>The Breakneck Hamlet Companion</i>, and cut-and-pasted that to serve double duty.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My venue in London was "Procunier Hall," a small theatre inside "The Palace" in London... The theatre, which held about 80 seats, was half-full for most of the run, with perhaps one particularly small late-afternoon show. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After the first night's, very responsive, audience, somebody at the book office suggested that the reviewer from the London Free Press had been at my show, and I (relentlessly) kept checking the paper for a review, to no avail. Apparently that reviewer spent much of the Fringe up at Stratford (about two hours away), which was opening their festival right about then. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And yet, a couple of awesome reviews DID show up on line! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">John Houston and I managed to arrange for a common night off and ran off to the Stratford Festival to catch their production of two of Shakespeare's History plays (<i>Richard II & Henry IV, Part I</i>) combined into a single evening. It was my first time to stratford, and it was quaint and charming. One of the actors in the show had actually been in one of my all-time favorite series: "Slings & Arrows."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As the fringe wound down, it became clear that either my review would never appear in the Free Press, or it would appear too late to do me any good. I happened to notice John Huston talking with the reviewer at Fringe Central, and drifted over to join them for a beer. John introduced us, and the reviewer remarked, "I'm so disappointed that I haven't had a chance to catch your show. I've heard so much good stuff about it!" (Not half as disappointed as me...)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Closing night, we gathered at Fringe Central for a final party, and five of the six "Procunier Hall" casts gathered around one table (with our technician). We'd become rather close over the week, seeing each other's shows and giving moral support. And I was reminded that a Fringe festival is the only place where you can gather the casts of five entirely different plays around a single table! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was facing a three week gap before the next fringe festival, and, as I mentioned in my last issue, I'd decided to FLY TO EUROPE! My good friend, Nicola, had offered me a place to stay if I ever came to Ireland, which led me to realize that plane-fare to Ireland was cheaper from Toronto than Chicago, and the Toronto airport was just two hours away from London. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And so, the next morning, I packed up my things, squeezing my costume into my Big Suitcase, parked my car in long-term parking in Toronto, and flew away! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There was a long layover in New Jersey, but by that evening, I was winging my way towards my very first visit to Ireland! It was morning by the time that I arrived, and I felt a surge of good feeling sweep through me as I saw the wash of pure green out of the window of my flight.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was landing in Belfast, where my friend, Chelley, a poet I'd met at the Minnesota Fringe, had arranged an event as part of the "Belfast Book Festival." In fact I was appearing there that very night! And while Chelley had offered to put me up at her place, word got to me that they'd secured a hotel room for me at the Hotel Europa. (It's famous for being the "most bombed" hotel in Europe!) It was a lovely place, but I must mention: The electrical adapter that I'd picked up at Walgreen's back in the U.S. was a cheap piece of crap which would not charge my phone. I had to go out the following morning to find a real piece of equipment that would translate European power into American.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Belfast Book Festival was at the Crescent Theatre, which had a nice little flexible platform stage, in front of a bank of perhaps 100 seats. I'd offered Breakneck Hamlet to this (and the other venues on this tour) for free, with the option of "passing the hat," if only to avoid difficult border crossings and an overload of revenue paperwork. I had no idea if this was going to make any kind of dent in my travel expenses. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">By the time I hit the stage there were a good eighty people in the house! I dove in, giving it the best that I had, with no idea how badly my American accent was mangling the anticipated </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">experience for these Irishters. But the occasional laugh led me to think that maybe this was going over well. About halfway into Act II, I realized that I had never gotten hold of an actual "hat" to pass. I tossed around in my head while reciting "Oh, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!" And an idea came to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I pushed my way through the rest of the show, and increasingly, it seemed, the Irish crowd acclimatized themselves to my American vowels, and I could feel the tension and the humor build through the climax and the conclusion. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At curtain call, I thanked them for their enthusiasm, and announced that this was my "First ever performance in Ireland!" And a huge cheer went up. I then explained that while this was a free performance, any of their contributions would be most welcome, and, given that I'd forgotten to acquire a "hat" to pass, I would set out one of my character's "boots," in case they felt like tossing in a pound or so. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I hadn't been able to pack enough books to sell, but had one or two to at least show the audience as they exited, and got to shake hands and hug a great bunch of the audience on their way out. Chelley assured me that I "killed Belfast!"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I gathered my stuff and my tips, and we walked down the block to grab a Guinness (of course), before continuing back to the Hotel Europa, where I allowed myself to dump out the loot from the evening's contributions, and was delighted that my boot was about a hundred fifty pounds heavier. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Somewhere in there, I learned of the horrible shooting in Orlando. While I didn't know any of those killed in the incident, many of my Orlando friends did. Once I could catch a breath from the condolences, I posted my thoughts on no longer publishing the names of</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> the perpetrators of terror and hate. Rather than long investigative profiles attempting to get inside the head of the terrorist, the only name that we know this shooter by should be 'misguided ignorant jackass,' which might perhaps dissuade the copycat jackasses out there who emulate his body of work and aspire to share his place in history." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is a brilliant and hilarious sketch from Peter Cook and Dudley Moore (on this particular topic) which can be found on their "Good Evening" album (which you can see, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLvPNVQXia0" target="_blank">performed live, here</a>.) </span></span><br />
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finding my way to the bus pick-up, navigating my huge suitcase around the Irish
sidewalks. I bussed and cabbed my way to meet up with Nicola in Dublin, and,
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territory for me, by the way. I am, at heart, a total control freak, entirely
dependent on myself and my own car to get me around. Giving my fate over to
planes, busses, cabs or trains is entirely out of character for me, and my anxiety
level was spiking at every new transport I needed to catch with my valise in
tow. I was, however, delighted when the cab driver pointed out the home of
James Joyce, and the Guinness brewery!</span></div>
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house was actually about 45 minutes east of Galway, still in Galway county, but
well out in the country, and the next morning we commuted in to get to her
workplace, and to get me to the theatre. I’d been struggling with my laptop of
late, with several of the keys failing to function, and with a strange power
failure. We dropped the laptop off at a repair shop, as I continued in to the
theatre. (The technicians fixed the power issues, but the keyboard seemed
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in the nearby town square, I came across this poster, protesting a rally that
Donald Trump was giving in town, just as the Brexit vote was approaching.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">While the head of the theatre had predicted an audience of about 100, there were perhaps 60 who actually showed up, and they scattered themselves all over the theatre, so there was little "collective" response of laughter. For a while, I assumed I was moving too fast in an unfamiliar accent for them to keep up, and couldn't notice the difference between impassioned delivery and snarky commentary. (And yet the applause was pretty big at the end.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I took an intermission and came back for a round of Shakespeare on Demand, and it looked like 20% of the audience may not have hung around for the second go (which I write off at least partially to the lack of publicity around anything other than the <i>Hamlet</i> part of the presentation). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This part of the program, however, went extremely well. Given that I introduce each piece in my own persona, I think that they were able to keep up with my intended tone and laugh (or cry) along with me as each monologue came up. (I was a little shocked at how few memory glitches I had, given that I'd not performed this for over a month.) While the audience remained scattered, I refused to do the "Titus Andronicus scene without two men and a woman in the front row to interact with, and was surprised that three people quickly volunteered, including Tom Durand, an old grade school chum, who just happened to be vacationing in Galway!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I got to do just about all of my best pieces: Julius Caesar, Henry V, Richard, Mercutio, Iago, Lear... and by the end, felt that they'd been very much won over. When I mentioned thatthere were two hats on either side of the stage for the "neediest actor's fund (i.e., Tim's beer money)," they surprisingly outdid their Belfast nieghbors in generosity... this time with Euros, rather than Pounds. </span></span><br />
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</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHiNqkixJdC1H3mzVaG57Y2PdOn9u0jualJHC2jLESY__7cgwgq7e6ft0utuSu9ZR-jz9HPnAACHpTWVnj4WJM4CQwApxdkcUNiCjW4G3OMkWtmBZ7aFWve8Ddwqiw4e8NFa-I/s1600/At+the+Cliffs+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHiNqkixJdC1H3mzVaG57Y2PdOn9u0jualJHC2jLESY__7cgwgq7e6ft0utuSu9ZR-jz9HPnAACHpTWVnj4WJM4CQwApxdkcUNiCjW4G3OMkWtmBZ7aFWve8Ddwqiw4e8NFa-I/s200/At+the+Cliffs+4.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was now traveling with FOUR denominations that I was trying to keep track of: Dollars, Canadian Dollars, Pounds and Euros. Given that two of those four seem to have the queen's profile on them, I keep looking for more pockets, to keep clear on what currency goes with what country! (Which is, of course, a great problem to have...)</span></div>
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bookings (writing to my “maybe list”), and going out for the occasional dinner
or Guinness. I took a day to push away from the work to do a bit of
sight-seeing, and Nicola dropped me off at a Belfast bus station to take the
tour that everybody seemed to have recommended: the Cliffs of Moher. (Or, if
you’re familiar with “Princess Bride,” “the Cliffs of Insanity.”)</span></div>
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on the visit to the Cliffs of Moher. Having posted that pic on Facebook,
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7mUvnmPu2-4KMs6lqrXo7__SU7fIVK3QmiYQ0bnrLFqkWiU4FsbVRsRTtIeaN-HCd1fkMrOm17IHQwKfzRpM8chJ2sAteHvPXk0X8Om5nWFXRkctGtamSFVTzHKpNESx4TN0J/s1600/Charlie+Bachmann.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7mUvnmPu2-4KMs6lqrXo7__SU7fIVK3QmiYQ0bnrLFqkWiU4FsbVRsRTtIeaN-HCd1fkMrOm17IHQwKfzRpM8chJ2sAteHvPXk0X8Om5nWFXRkctGtamSFVTzHKpNESx4TN0J/s320/Charlie+Bachmann.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Also on the Ireland leg of the tour, I learned that my best friend from grad school, Charlie Bachmann, had passed away... apparently struck by a sudden heart seizure while filling his gas tank. Charlie and I had been through a lot together, as he worked on his Acting MFA while I worked on my Directing MFA, both on assistantships, both teaching acting, sharing notes and experiences, throwing parties and doing projects together, such as The Zoo Story, and a truly insane script called <i>Let's Eat Hair</i>. We were in at least two shows together, and, later, we both landed internships at the Milwaukee Rep, where we roomed together for almost five months. Charlie was bigger than life, and loved by all of his students. I hadn't seen him for about 10 years, but his anarchic spirit has stayed with me all this time. I think he, along with Lindsay Reading Korth, kept me sane through the whole grad school process. Thanks, Charlie. I'll be missing you. </span><br />
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</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvlk66udXKzN2kxcoF3SmM7UX-l1fbW3gxlCyaiqNNVCwphHUXziP5BG1XjqupcXuGe-NdjEabDb9f-5NxXP9F6CqbOHP7ya_GnCoB0R5U4CjA_KO8eVEWbOABHyuP4hEUtlvO/s1600/Kilkenny+Welcome+Sign.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvlk66udXKzN2kxcoF3SmM7UX-l1fbW3gxlCyaiqNNVCwphHUXziP5BG1XjqupcXuGe-NdjEabDb9f-5NxXP9F6CqbOHP7ya_GnCoB0R5U4CjA_KO8eVEWbOABHyuP4hEUtlvO/s200/Kilkenny+Welcome+Sign.jpg" width="160" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As my time in Ireland drew to an end, Nicola and I took a spin down to Kilkenny, my "ancestral home," some eight generations back. I kept hoping to find a "Mooney's Pub" while we were there, but we stumbled across something almost as good!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">From Kilkenny, we headed up to Dublin, and took a nice walking tour, visiting St. Patrick's Cathedral, the Ha'Penny Bridge, and did just a bit of shopping to find an external keyboard to pair with my Mac. (A good half dozen of the keys had almost entirely stopped working, and I have this bad habit of using all 26 letters of the alphabet.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nicola headed back to Galway, and the next morning, I took a cab to the ferry, terminal, and caught a ferry from Dublin to HolyHead. All of my mass transit control issues were screaming, as I then caught the train to Birmingham (changing trains halfway), and then caught yet another cab!</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzs5Iux8s_TaxS519PGltwYrdJ3HPc2vUhDzAMKaNTME-O9yBnZF7REziU5n-6HujixRR-_X5v8uT1zbbrVJfMwCiorrGnKAuX2Dt80QioFmGSuyjqu8Dykhd9EBtjBjmuy0Dc/s1600/Departing+Dublin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzs5Iux8s_TaxS519PGltwYrdJ3HPc2vUhDzAMKaNTME-O9yBnZF7REziU5n-6HujixRR-_X5v8uT1zbbrVJfMwCiorrGnKAuX2Dt80QioFmGSuyjqu8Dykhd9EBtjBjmuy0Dc/s200/Departing+Dublin.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This time my hosts were Marcus and Tina. I hadn't seen Marcus for about 10 years, back when we were both at the Edmonton Fringe Festival, but I'd gotten on his (very fun) blog list, and as a very accomplished photographer, he had volunteered to help me with photo projects, and put together several of my very fin composite images. Odds are, that if you've seen publicity for one of my shows, you've seen Marcus' work!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro"; font-size: 14.0pt;">For the moment, however, Marcus was out of town, and I hung out with Tina and the kids (Pascale and Sebastian) for a few days. A couple of shows that I'd been hoping for had fallen through, and I had a little extra time on my hands before the planned Birmingham performance. Mostly, I worked on editing a couple of manuscripts: <i>Breakneck Julius Caesar</i>, and the fourth draft of my next book, <i>How Do You Remember All Those Lines?</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro"; font-size: 14.0pt;">At some point, I decided that I would hate myself if I came to England and didn't do any sight-seeing, and so, mass-transiting once more, I hopped on a bus, to the train... this time for Bath, which was really special. The city, itself, dated back to Roman times, and the architecture was awe-inspiring. Not knowing what to expect, I set out on a walk, and found my mouth dropping at just about every corner I turned.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A couple of more trains brought me to Cardiff, which, though not as spectacular as Bath, was charming, especially as seen through my host, Gemini Anderson, who showed me around, as we passed by the glorious Cardiff Castle, and stopped for a bite at the Owain Glyndwr, a name that I recognized from working on the play, <i>Henry IV, Part 1</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In retrospect, I wish I'd gotten a little more time at Cardiff Castle, as I later discovered that that castle had been the home of Mary Sidney, after marrying Henry Herbert, the Earl of Pembroke. In case you haven't heard my lecture on the topic, Mary Sidney is my candidate as the most likely answer to "the authorship question." (Google "authorship question," and you'll see what I'm talking about...!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There was a last minute panic, catching the train back to Birmingham, as Gemini had helped me out by buying the train ticked on an app on her phone, but, unfortunately, the ticket could not be printed out at the station. The traveling party had to have the actual phone in hand to make the trip. Since Gemini was planning to travel to Birmingham the next day to catch my performance, she actually loaned me her smartphone, overnight, so that I wouldn't have to purchase a second ticket. (A sign of a true friend.)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Marcus was now back in Birmingham, working on two shows that he's be bringing to the Edmonton Fringe in less than two months. The "Brexit" vote had happened, and the glazed faces reminded me of the state of shock when it turned out that George Bush had been named president! (Hopefully we won't repeat that particular dance this November.) Marcus had set me up with a venue, the Blue Orange Theatre, and that next day, I bussed downtown, met the staff, ran a rehearsal and performed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">There had been extremely limited publicity for this performance (mostly a posting on the theatre's website), and the audience was tiny, with Marcus, Pascale, Gemini, and perhaps a dozen others in attendance. I was performing </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">both <i>Breakneck Hamlet</i> and <i>Shakespeare in Demand</i> this time, both of which went over quite well. After the show, we caught a couple of drinks at the theatre bar, and one of the patrons in attendance, a British fellow, told me that he'd decided, following a recent (unfortunate) performance of "King Lear," that he was "done with Shakespeare." He added, having seen my show, that perhaps he's not quite "done with Shakespeare." </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I had a quick turn-around to make, with my next show, the following night, in Copenhagen! I was up early, cabbing to the airport, catching the plane to Copenhagen. This time, I was trading in my Pounds and Euros for "Kroner." </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I'd gotten used to thinking of Canadian Dollars, Pounds and Euros as roughly equivalent to the American Dollar. There are, of course, significant differences, but I didn't want to do elaborate equations every time I spent any money. If the bottle of wine is worth 10 Euros, I'm going to assume that it's roughly the expense and quality of a 10 dollar bottle (not always a reliable metric, but you get the idea). </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I was significantly thrown off when I turned in 110 Euros, and received some 950 Kroner in return! Thomas, my host for the Danish leg of the tour was not available for my first night in country, as he was performing with his big band, back in Ribe (on the western edge of Denmark). Instead, I met up with Jeremy, an American ExPat, who had taken up residence in Copenhagen, where he now ran an English-language theatre. In Copenhagen, Thomas had set me up with a hotel room that was... to put it delicately, the height of Danish efficiency. Every inch of space in the hotel room served a purpose... and there were no extra inches!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The performance space was a small garden-level basement downstairs from a boutique. We plotted out the easiest arrangement to perform in, and they arranged some thirty chairs and window-cushions for the audience. We followed up with a quick tech rehearsal, and Jeremy operated certain tiny lighting instruments to suggest "moonlight" or "blood" at specific points. As the audience began to gather on the street outside, I went up the back stairs to get into costume. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Perhaps the best description of what happened after that was captured in my Facebook posting the next day:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "myriad pro"; font-size: 14.0pt;">"HAMLET in DENMARK! The only question is whether last night's show was my favorite performance in a long time, or just flat out my favorite performance. Thirty people crammed into the small basement below a vintage clothing store while I worked myself into a torrential sweat. I could feel them riding the roller coaster along with me, from the bits in which I turn audience into unwilling "volunteers" as Ophelia and Gertrude (whose reactions where perfect) to the grand sewep of the soliloquies, to the closing moments in which Hamlet's (now, extremely) sweaty death has left burning tears in the eyes of Horatio on "Good night, sweet prince!" It's enough to make me wish for a tiny room with thirty seats every time I perform this. </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Helsingor" is, in fact, the modern, or Danish term for the city and castle we all know as Elsinore, where Hamlet actually took place. That night, I would be performing Breakneck Hamlet in a courtyard about a half-mile from the castle! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Castle was a magnificent piece of architecture, with a rather foreboding facade, overlooking the narrow strait between Denmark and Sweden. In the city, we could see that Hamlet was rather a cottage industry, where in the window of at least one shop, we could see a 3D printer <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BHKcNPDDw2a/?taken-by=molierelover" target="_blank">churning out Yorick skulls in a variety of bright colors!</a> (I got one in purple.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro"; font-size: 14.0pt;">This time, there were a variety of posters and flyers scattered through town, but little in-person "buzz" to get people out to the venue. And given the number of Hamlet-related events that took place in and around the castle, my impression was that the general population was a bit "Hamleted-out." I believe we had about five people in attendance. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There were a handful of bars and restaurants within shouting distance, and the rain held off for just long enough. Upstairs in the building behind me, a concert band was rehearsing, and I found myself interpreting that noise into the sound of: "The King doth wake tonight and takes his rouse... the kettle drum and trumpet thus bray out the triumph of his pledge." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[Ironically, my previous show for 30 people was in the tightest imaginable space, where the crowd heard every syllable, while this enormous courtyard demanded a huge expense of oxygen, even though I was only playing to a group of five.] I could hear my voice bouncing off of the buildings, some 40 yards away, and every once in a while, some curious onlooker would poke their head into the courtyard and listen in. Along with the generous applause at the end, a nearby train tooted its horn during curtain call, as the nearby clock tower sounded the hour, revealing that the show had taken exactly an hour to perform. The enthusiastic audience smiled throughout, and filled my boot at the end with generous contributions way beyond their numbers! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro"; font-size: 14.0pt;">That night we caught dinner across from the hotel, and we noticed the patrons around us taking a growing interest in their smartphones and i-pads. Apparently there was a big upset underway as a tiny little Iceland was defeating Britain in an important football (soccer) match. (Apparently the British were much more disturbed at this than they were in the actual Brexit vote!)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The next morning, Thomas and
I found our way back to the castle, this time, getting in for a look around. It
was a magnificent structure, but the most interesting part was a visit to the subterranean
basement, where the statue of Holger the Dane sat on guard, holding his sword
and shield. The legend has it that if Denmark is in danger, “Holger Dansk” will
revive and come to its rescue. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The visit would not be complete without a stop in the Elsinore chapel, where Thomas had been christened nearly seventy years before. (This was his first top back in some 40 years!)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">We traveled west, across Denmark almost to its eastern coast. Thomas lived and worked int he city of Ribe, a quaint, cobble-stoned fishing village. We had a night to relax, and Thomas cooked outside while I worked on loads of laundry. While my street clothes were mostly tolerable, every single performance of <i>Hamlet</i> always left me soaked with sweat. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The next day we went over to Theatre Drakomir, the theatre that Thomas runs in Ribe, a small black box with a cool new lighting system. (Literally, a "cool" new lighting system; it uses LED lights.) We discovered a bit of a language barrier; even though Thomas has been in theatre for most of his life, when he went to set up lights for the show, he mixed up my Stage Right with Stage Left. Apparently in Denmark, Stage Right is known as "The King's Side." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thomas had long been warning me that he didn't expect significant attendance, and yet fifty people showed up to fill the place, which made for my second sold out house in Denmark! (The publicity advantage of this is that, I can now announce proudly, "DIRECT FROM SOLD-OUT PERFORMANCES IN DENMARK!")</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">All summer long, by the way, I have been noticing effective publicity: posters and banners that really catch my eye, and have made a big shift away from the text-heavy flyers that I used to do, blasting out brief 3-4 word soundbites. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">With the European tour now in the books, early the following morning, Thomas drove me to the airport (passing "Legoland" along the way), and I was back in the air, flying Ribe to Copenhagen, and Copenhagen to Toronto. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I picked up my car (thrilled to have my own wheels, and control, back) and pushed my way west, crossing back into the U.S. by way of Michigan, and on to Chicago the next day. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">I was racing off again the next day, this time heading through Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Dakota, before crossing over into Saskatchewan, in time for the Regina Fringe Festival. Once again, John D. Huston would be performing, but this time he was presenting Shakespeare's Histories; Ten Epic Plays at a Breakneck Pace! That's right, for the first time, someone other than Tim Mooney would be performing a Tim Mooney one-man play. I had little idea of what John was going to be doing with the material, but it was a matter of some curiosity to me... a curiosity that would have to go unsatisfied, at least for a while, given that John and I had identical performance times through the extent of the Regina run. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This festival had a preview event, and John had a brainstorm; He would call me out from the stage, and the two of us would perform "Dueling Richard III's" for some three minutes of preview. It helped explain the odd connection between the two "break Shakes" shows in the festival, and got a good round of applause afterwards. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">This time around, I was performing inside the Royal Saskatchewan Museum... a large proscenium space with some 250 seats in perhaps 20-25 rows. Again, I had some nice pre-festival publicity, with prominent photos in the Regina Leader-Post, a radio interview and a morning TV appearance. None of which quite translated into ticket sales. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Regina is a quick five-day
festival, with everyone performing on each day of the festival, and very little
opportunity for “buzz” to build over the course of what would otherwise be two
weeks, and I worked to get audience to fill in to the front rows, to make it as
intimate as I could. Even so, the strain of performing five shows in five days
quickly began to wear on my throat, and I was pleased to get through the event
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Regina, which may be a reflection of either the sense of humor of this
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">This show is what would happen if the Coles notes for Hamlet came to life. See all the famous soliloquies without having to sit through the scenes in between. While the program description calls it "an inspiring and hilarious one-hour romp," this show is not a comedy. There are a few chuckles but no hilarity. However, if you're a Shakespeare fan, you will likely enjoy it. (<i>Sabrina Cataldo, Regina Fringe Review Coordinator</i>)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Once my Sunday show was
complete, I packed up to head over to where John Houston had just finished
performing, and somehow we squeezed his luggage in with mine and made the trek
back east to Winnipeg. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It had been nine years since
my last Winnipeg appearance, and a few people actually remembered me from my
previous appearances. Wendy Molnar had spotted me on the list and volunteered
her house as a billet for me. (She also helped share my flyers around, and
brought her family along to one of my early performances.)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The Break-Shakes Boys head for Winnipeg!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">I got more early coverage (I had hired a publicity assistant, Afton Benson, to circulate press releases, and that advance work really seemed to pay off, as just about every fringe had something in the papers before the festival even got underway.) This time, a university paper, "<a href="http://www.themanitoban.com/2016/07/ten-festival-performances-you-should-go-see-this-july/28582/" target="_blank">The Manitoban</a>," listed me among its "top ten festival performances," right at the top of the Winnipeg Fringe shows. Unfortunately, summer issues of a university paper don't get much circulation, nor do a lot of theatre patrons turn to them for their ticket-buying decisions. Though they did say, "Expect to leave this show amazed and well-entertained."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">While Winnipeg is a much larger festival, my great venue (with its talented technician, was over a mile away from "Fringe Central" (the beer tent), inside a labyrinthine building (it takes about five visits to get your bearings), and up on the third floor. All of the excellent shows I was sharing the stage with were struggling for attendance.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The first performance felt pretty good (at least for a 3:30 pm show). That night an <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/breakneck-hamlet-1.3672677" target="_blank">early review appeared</a> on the CBC website. Highlights: "Charisma, skill and remarkable speed" and "obvious chops." Lowlights, the reviewer couldn't leave good enough alone, and wrote one paragraph too many. (I'll paste the "good enough" part, and you can click the link above for the full review.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Chicago's Timothy Mooney wants to take Hamlet's legacy away from its historic titles (Shakespeare's longest play, greatest play, most produced play, etc.) and give it back to the story. And he almost succeeds. This is not a truncated Hamlet. The plot's all there, though many scenes are narrated rather than performed (27 speaking parts get reduced to a dozen) and only the most famous soliloquies and exchanges are left unedited. When Mooney says "breakneck," he means it. We get the whole shebang in 60 minutes flat, performed with charisma, skill and remarkable speed... (<i>Kelly Stifora, CBC</i>)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Right after my show was
complete, I ran over to FINALLY catch John Huston performing my <i>Shakespeare’s
Histories; Ten Epic Plays at a Breakneck Pace</i> at a small venue much closer to
Fringe Central. It’s a major trip to see somebody else performing the words
that you yourself wrote and performed, quite often with inflections and
interpretations that you had never even thought of. I was trying to not get too
judgmental, and just let the play kind-of wash over me, as if I had never seen
it before. I would say that the major difference is that, while my
interpretation was very much about the overarching story of these 500 years of
English history, John’s variation was more about the 20+ characters that any
actor would clearly want to sink his teeth into. His accents were thicker, and
his shifts from one to another more deliberate. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Meanwhile the Free Press review of <i>Shakespeare's Histories</i> showed up on the web, which described...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">...Equal parts British history lesson and whirlwind guided tour... While you don't need to be well-versed in Shakespeare, it doesn't hurt, and at times the rapid-paced show teeters toward linear didacticism. But there's no denying Huston's a king among actors, able to whip off rapid-fire Shakespeare monologues with a royal passion that only whets the appetite for more. (<i>Holly Harris, Winnipeg Free Press</i>)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I looked forward to <i>Breakneck Hamlet</i> "basking in the glow" of Sh<i>akespeare's Histories</i>' success. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">My second performance in Winnipeg had MAYBE nine people in the audience (if you include the ushers), with one of those nine being another reviewer. It still felt fresh, and as the show concluded, I glanced back at the timer to see that the lights were going down at PRECISELY 59 minutes, 59 seconds. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Ever since going overlong in my first Orlando performance, I'd set up the timer on my smart phone in a position where the audience can see it. Not only does it keep me honest, it builds an amazing tension in the audience, as they find themselves increasingly focused on whether I can possibly finish the play in time. Their curtain call reaction always reflects how close I get to 60 minutes (without going over). Anything between 59:50 and 59:59, they go wild. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Another rave review went up for John Huston. There were perhaps six Shakespeare-themed shows in the festival, and this reviewer, who had already seen mine, seemed to be taking a sideways jab at me (though I will take full credit for "helpfully illustrated" and "meticulous distillation").</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">"Sir John D. Huston is not a man of common talent. He's also not a knight as far as I know, but he carries himself like one, and is easily the best Shakespearean actor I've seen on the Fringe circuit, so I'm going with it. Aided by an ingeniously simple wardrobe, a sometimes uncooperative, but helpfully illustrated, slideshow and Timothy Mooney's (Breakneck Hamlet) meticulous distillation of the sources, Huston does so much more than lecture and recite. He takes bloody, dusty history and turns it into a witty celebration of performance itself. (<i>Kelly Stifora, CBC News</i>)</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The buzz grew, and somewhere in the middle of it all, I achieved
my best attendance of the run with 52 people showing up. That night, a much
more enthusiastic Winnipeg Free Press review showed up from the reviewer who was evidently there for Friday night's 9-person, 59:59 show! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">This one-man, one-hour-on-the-dot abridgment of Shakespeare's Hamlet feels like what would happen if you let an auctioneer loose in the Globe Theatre. It's fast and furious, but surprisingly, you actually understand every word. Timothy Mooney, who's from Chicago, adapts and performs all the relevant parts of the bard's greatest hit, reducing the length by 75 percent while retaining 100 percent of the intensity... (<i>Wendy King, Winnipeg Free Press</i>)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The festival continued with a visit from my very good friends, Deb, April and Karen, who decided to take their vacation in Winnipeg this summer, seeing shows and visiting tourist attractions. They came back to my show a couple of times, and Deb's laugh is always infectious. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Even with the generally good reviews, getting a crowd to that venue remained an ongoing struggle. Also, the balance between lottery-drawn shows and BYOV ("bring your own venue") shows seemed very much askew. When there were popular shows going on in the Portage Place spaces, there was a clear decline in attendance, and it felt like "pulling teeth" to get people out to the show. Even John Huston, who was better-reviewed than myself, and whose venue was much better located, didn't seem to be selling more tickets. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I said goodbye to Wendy and
her husband, Robert, who posted this last picture of me loading up the car,
graciously captioning it, "All my friends in Calgary and Edmonton will get a chance to see him at their fringe festivals coming up! Go see Breakneck Hamlet! Tell him I sent you! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Back on the road, I was heading west once more, back in the direction I'd just come, through Regina, and continuing on to Calgary. </span></span></div>
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Calgary. It was another “small fringe,” which always makes me a bit tentative,
but the one thing I had noticed throughout, was that the director of the
festival, Michele Gallant, was always immediately responsive to any questions
or concerns that might come up, if, for instance, there was a difficulty with
Canadian Revenue paperwork, she would always turn my request around within
about 24 hours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Somewhere in this, I finished the first draft of <i>Breakneck Julius Caesar</i>, cutting the original (21,000 words) down to 14,329. I've got similar first drafts done for Breakneck Romeo & Juliet and Breakneck Macbeth, but this feels like the one that I'll be chasing down that rabbit hole for a while. It'll probably take another 7 drafts (and months of memorization), but for the time being, I turned my attention to Breakneck Antony & Cleopatra (a near-impenetrable 26,800 words) while the situation and characters are still clear in my head! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Calgary Fringe is the "hugging fringe," as the warm welcome that Michele extends to seemingly everyone is passed on among the staff and volunteers, which can be a valuable compensation on those days when the show, itself, may or may not be going over well.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">I went in with little to no hope of getting much in the way of media coverage, and, indeed, it seemed that there was just a single reviewer for the local paper, Louis B. Hobson, trying to cover as many shows as he might. There was an opening night party/promotional event, at which Louis camped out at a table, and interviewed, seemingly, as many performers as he might. I was uncertain whether these interviews had been pre-arranged in some way, but decided to actually nudge my way in, lining up behind one of the actors who was waiting for their interview and introducing myself. Louis immediately flipped a page in his notebook and started peppering me with questions. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">There was also a blogger who was actively tweeting about the Fringe. Apparently James Hutchison had been getting the Fringe press releases, and released a list of the <a href="http://jameshutchison.ca/calgary-fringe-2016/#more-1501" target="_blank">top ten shows</a> he intended to catch, with the caveat that these were listed in "no particular order." (<i>He listed Hamlet first</i>.)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">James was there for my opening night performance, in a hot, sweaty, basement auditorium with a small stage at the far end which featured an odd pillar breaking the stage picture about four feet from the edge of stage right (on a stage, perhaps, 22 feet wide). Almost immediately, James was putting out a Twitterstorm...!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Breakneck Hamlet - revenge, ambition and bloodshed - the original Game of Thrones!</span></span><span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Before long, James uploaded a <a href="http://jameshutchison.ca/fringe-favourites-calgary2016/#.V6C2TWwQ2Yk.twitter" target="_blank">new blog post</a>, describing his favorite shows from the Fringe. </span></span></span></div>
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Festival Favorites</span></b><span style="font-family: "myriad pro"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <i>Breakneck Hamlet</i> ...breathes fresh life and excitement into the epic tale.
If you love <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Game of Thrones</i> or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">House of Cards</i>, the political intrigue,
thirst for power and ever rising body count in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hamlet</i> make this your show. Filled with Shakespeare’s insights
about mortality and death and the nature of life, Mooney has compressed all the
action into a single hour. A single hour that flies by powered by the energetic
and riveting performance of Mooney as he plays narrator and leaps between the
various players in a single breath all the time rushing towards the final and
bloody end. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Breakneck Hamlet </i>is must
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Reviewers usually only dream of the double header I enjoyed at Day 4 of the Calgary Fringe Festival, when I caught back-to-back performances of <i>Breakneck Hamlet</i> and <i>P.S. 69, A Teachers Grows in Brooklyn</i>. </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">I have to admit, I was reluctant to see Breakneck Hamlet [but] the buzz on Mooney's show was so enthusiastic I headed down to the Lantern Church Basement to see what all the talk was about. I'd also seen people wandering about wearing the Breakneck Hamlet T-shirts, and one festival goer proudly showed me her coffee mug, but it was all those stickers people were wearing on their jackets that told me Mooney had hit some kind of nerve. </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">When I talked to Tim earlier in the week, he told me he'd taught acting and stage movement at a university, and boy is that evident both in his performance his editing of Shakespeare's master work... His running commentary, introducing scenes and explaining important references are hilarious... When he does slide into those famous soliloquies, he really nails them, and even though he's delivering them at breakneck speed, he still gets the subtleties in Shakespeare's language... His pouncing on poor unsuspecting Ophelia is funny, but when he laces into the disbelieving gertrude, Tim had the audience in stitches, and the woman he'd chosen was still dumbfounded as she walked away from the theatre. </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">I really liked what Tim did with Hamlet's advice to the players... as he gets more and more excited, Tim begins sawing the air... even as he is admonishing actors for such excesses. He completely won me over at that point... (Louis B. Hobson, Calgary Journal)</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Also present were John Huston (who was NOT performing in Calgary), and Marcus Fernando and Tina Hoffman (my hosts from England), who were returning to the scene of the crime, where we'd all met ten years before. While I didn't seem to be drawing any attention to my table, the gracious John Huston, once again introduced me to the main Edmonton Herald Reviewer, Liz Nicholls. (Liz later wrote, asking for comments in support of a feature article she was writing, and I quickly turned around another long essay about Hamlet & Me.) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I picked up my flyers and posters at the Fringe
office, and had been planning to leave the posters behind, given that I was hiring a
fellow to put a hundred of them up at the various postering sites around the
Fringe, but... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I had the impression that my
show was doing very well in Calgary, with perhaps only one other show in my
venue doing quite as well sales-wise (the very good <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Almost a Stepmom</i>). And between the buzz, the great reviews, the
enthusiasm that my technicians kept expressing, and a hint from one of the
volunteers, I thought there may be one more surprise in store…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Checking my e-mail on my way
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">The votes have been tallied and those vacant slots on the Calgary Fringe website have now been filled. Each year, the fringe reserves a performance spot at each of the venues which is awarded to the show from that venue that receives the most enthusiastic feedback. "We take feedback from people who have seen three or more shows at a particular venue or are particularly enthusiastic about one of the shows they've seen anywhere on the fringe and we get so many people coming up to us to tell us which show they feel is the best of the festival. Those comments and votes online are coupled with press reviews, word-on-the-street and input from the technicians serving the venues," explains festival director Michele Gallant. ... "First up on Saturday at 11 a.m. is Tim Mooney's <i>Breakneck Hamlet</i> in the basement of the Lantern Church. In 59 minutes, Mooney takes his audiences through the entire plott of Shakespeare's epic play, <i>Hamlet</i>: Quite a feat considering some productions of <i>Hamlet</i> can run almost five hours. Mooney doesn't just explain what is happening in each scene of the play, but becomes the characters involved. He may speed through all of Hamlet's famed soliloquies but he still gets the sense and poetry of Shakespeare's verse. The play is also hilarious because Mooney has a few sly comments about the absurdities in the play and because he uses a couple of unsuspecting audience members... </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I immediately drew up a "Best of Fest-Venue" sticker to add to the Edmonton flyers and posters.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">T</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">he extra morning performance would be paired with my already-scheduled afternoon performance, meaning that I would be performing <i>Hamlet</i> twice in a single day! (I was more concerned for the sweaty costume than my own survival.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Unfortunately, there were only about 20 people who made it to the 11 am show. And, while I might have wanted to blame that on the early morning start time, through the course of the day I heard rumor that each of the winning shows had enjoyed a similar house of about 20 people. (And yet, that's 20 tickets that I would not have sold otherwise...)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">That night was the Calgary Fringe closing night party, and I was surprised to learn that I had won a "Westey," a "spirit of the fringe award named after a special Fringe volunteer. Michele Gallant announced that this was in honor of "bone crushing hugs and spreading happiness." </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">The next day, I caught breakfast with my billets, David and Lisa (a very fun couple, who took me out to see "Ghostbusters" on my first night in town), before heading back to Edmonton. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I enjoyed the trip, this time with Tara Travis in the passenger seat. Tara had performed the brilliant Till Death; The Six Wives of Henry VIII, which had been getting great reviews and selling out shows in Winnipeg. I finally got to catch it in Calgary and it blew me away. We cot into a fascinating conversation about "The Authorship Question on our travels north... which reinvigorated my intent to, perhaps, write a play on that very issue. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Arriving in Edmonton, there was already some great advance coverage for Breakneck Hamlet with an interview from "<a href="https://afterthehouselights.com/2016/08/08/breakneck-hamlet-at-the-edmonton-fringe-festival/" target="_blank">After the Houselights</a>," as well as <a href="http://edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/festivals/hey-bill-can-we-call-ya-bill-shakespeare-at-the-edmonton-fringe" target="_blank">Liz Nichols' advance peek</a> at the Shakespeare shows in the Fringe. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro"; font-size: 14.0pt;">While <i>Breakneck Hamlet</i> had gotten encouraging and even great response all summer long, I had reason to believe that it might do especially well in Edmonton, which is the grand-daddy of Canadian Fringes. While I would be performing in a tiny theatre which only held 74 people, that tiny theatre was located in the main fringe building, perhaps a hundred feet from the main box office windows. In addition to that, my venue was a "kids show" venue during the day, so all of my performance times were locked into the "prime time" schedule, with no performance earlier than 5:30 and no show later than 9:30. Thus were my two biggest complaints: time and location, eliminated for this fringe. The only challenge I faced was that my performances were mostly "front-loaded." I performed Friday-Saturday-Sunday-Monday-Tuesday all in a row, with little opportunity for the buzz to circulate through the course of a day off. I'd need to do some legwork! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro"; font-size: 14.0pt;">For my first two shows, I gave out free tickets to volunteers, and offered up single tickets to interested couples. On top of that, I sold just enough tickets for my first two performances to register as "SOLD OUT" on the posted Fringe schedule, which is, itself, a nice selling point in Winnipeg. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">"Packed house for my first Edmonton Fringe show! They were responsive, but not overtly boisterous, so I wasn't entirely sure how it was going over, but I pushed it to the edge every chance I got. As I turned to deliver the final speech, I could see that the clock was at 59:45, and though I couldn't see the clock on the final word, I knew that it was just turning 60:00 by the spontaneous cheer that went up just as the lights were coming down. And, afterwards, they went wild for t-shirts, books, and coffee mugs! (I think I've got beer money covered for the remainder of the fringe!) 6 more performances to go over the next 8 days!"</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The next day, <a href="http://www.edmontonfringe.ca/play/breakneck-hamlet/" target="_blank">a review appeared on-line</a>. I MAY have received five-star reviews before, but, given that it's been 9 years since doing Canadian Fringes (where "stars" are the common currency), I can't recall. Here's what appeared on the website of "The Vue"...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><b>Five Stars.</b> One man, one dozen characters, one hour. <i>Breakneck Hamlet</i>, performed by self-proclaimed "adaptor, editor, explainer, actor," Timothy Mooney is just that -- the classic Shakespearean work condensed from 32,000-plus words and mounted at an impressive speed where neither Mooney nor the audience can catch their breath. A timer is visible on stage throughout the performance, contributing to the "I can't believe he's really going to do this" feel of the show and you're taken along for the ride. If you're a fan of Shakespeare, it's a must see. And even if you aren't, <i>Breakneck Hamlet</i> is a highly entertaining experience that's worth the price of admission. (<i>David Martin Botwick-Ries, Edmonton Vue</i>)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Point: Me. I started celebrating early, doing my happy dance. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I eventually wore out the giddy energy of the awesome review, and found myself crawling into bed, but, just for the heck of it, I checked the Edmonton Journal. (I hadn't seen Liz Nichols in my audience, so I assumed that it would be a long time before I saw any coverage from the Journal.) I didn't realize that they'd sent a different reviewer! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Boom! Two awesome reviews in one night! Just as I'm getting ready for bed, <a href="http://edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/festivals/fringe-review-breakneck-hamlet" target="_blank">the Edmonton Journal checks in</a> with FOUR 1/2 STARS!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "myriad pro"; font-size: 14.0pt;">...Chicago's Timothy Mooney has done every time-stressed fan of the doubting Dane a great service with his pared-down version of this lengthy masterpiece that keeps all the key elements while cutting out great swaths of verbiage. Clocking in at precisely one hour (as the digital timer on the stage attests), Mooney's show provides liberal narration that moves us along quickly from one highlight to the next, proving that brevity is the soul of wit. This isn't a joke adaptation of the bard's great work, although Mooney does throw in the occasional ironic reference to Hamlet as a man of action and compares the booze-ups held by his uncle King Claudius to frat parties. </span><span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">It is instead a <i>Cole's Notes Hamlet</i>, put together by someone who obviously feels passionately about the work and presents it well... Hamlet Lite obviously doesn't plumb the depths of this magnificent play, but for someone trying to decide whether to be or not to be a fan, this is a great introduction. (<i>Gordon Kent, Edmonton Journal</i>) </span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Point: Me. It took a while to get to sleep that night.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The pressure never quite let up entirely through the course of the run. While I did end up selling out five of my seven performances, it took a while for the buzz to catch up to the show. The two shows immediately after the reviews did well, but never quite sold out. I kept waiting for the on-line reviews to get printed in the newspapers (the classical theatre demographic still tends to read their news in hard copy), but in neither case did the review appear, which always leaves me contemplating the proverbial tree falling in the forest. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">The neat thing about Edmonton is that they give the performers a link to the box office figures, so that I know, up to the minute, how many tickets remain to be sold at a given performance... and how many flyers I need to keep giving out. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">By the time we hit show #4, I was selling out shows again (without padding the house with comps), even though shows 4, 5 and 6 didn't actually sell out until the final minutes. Even the last performance had one lone ticket still available for sale up until the day of the show. For these final five days, I gave myself the time off from flyering. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Five shows in five days, combined with allergies, had taken their toll on me through the first half of the fringe, but I got to finish out the run with every-other-day performances, as the allergies began to fade. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">The last two Br<i>eakneck Hamle</i>t houses were a blast. One woman in the second row informed me that she'd written her Masters thesis on Shakespeare's Histories, and her dissertation on Hamlet (which meant that she got all the jokes, and led the audience in laughter throughout). </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">"Totally blown away by <i>Breakneck Hamlet</i>. Incredible performance by an incredible actor!!!" (exclamation points, hers.) The final performance was followed by a party, fond goodbyes, packing and racing off again. </span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large; text-indent: 0in;">I made it over the border and into North Dakota on the first day of driving, continued on to Minneapolis the second day (realizing that I'd left my computer plug/transformer behind in the hotel in North Dakota), and the threat of an unavailable computer was enough to launch me into a serious pursuit of a new laptop. With my better-than-expected Edmonton ticket sales, I finally felt ready to make that investment, shopping for the best Apple MacBook Pro available. A good friend gave me a special discount on the purchase, though I would have to wait about ten days for delivery. </span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">With just over a week to spare in Chicago, I dove full-time into finishing the Not-for-Profit application paperwork, which was now organized well enough that we were able to hold our first official "Timothy Mooney Repertory Theatre Board Meeting," where we officially adopted the Articles of Incorporation, the Bylaws, and the (very long) government application for the status. Thanks very much to new board members, Terry Hall, April Peterson, Jayne Day and Ted Banks! (Word from the IRS suggests that we should have our status resolved no later than December 28!) </span></span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">Also on this brief break, I raced through another draft of Julius Caesar, and laid out my touring schedule through May of 2018!</span></span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">With the new schedule established, I weeded my way back through the "Maybe List," reminding the folks who have expressed interest in bookings. From there, I traced my way back through the "Past Performances" list, and took a couple of days off to pack up and hit the road once more!</span></span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">This time I was driving to Kansas City, not just for a quick layover, but for a full month!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">My good friends, Allan and Sandy had planned a bicycle trip around Europe. While they were gone, they needed somebody to feed the cat and water the lawn, and it just so happened that I had a window of time open. As such, I worked out two bookings within a couple hours of Kansas City, and settled in for a long stay. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">I lit into the huge, mega-campaign, the twice-annual mailing to Theatre, French, English and History teachers, a list of some 15,000 folks that I tackle one state at a time (continually adjusting the dates to reflect the various times that I'm planning to drive through their particular states). </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">In recent years, I've gotten better, or perhaps more determined to push my way through this campaign in less than a month, and this time around I finished up in just over three weeks. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">About six days into the process, my new laptop arrived! I backed up the old, loaded the backup onto the new, and kept pushing forward. (I was finally letting go of the laptop that I'd RUN OVER WITH MY CAR some three years ago!) ((It lasted much longer than anticipated.))</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">I took two major pauses in the process: the first, to head up to Northwest Missouri State University, where they were planning for a presentation of <i>The Learned Ladies</i> in the spring. They wanted a performance of <i>Moliere than Thou</i>, along with two workshops and a classroom appearance (essentially answering "How did you end up doing what you do?" -- like this blog, only much shorter!)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The whole faculty at MWMSU was really charming, and took me out to dinner twice. It happens that three of the four theatre teachers were Southern Illinois University grads, to we spent a lot of time gossiping about folks we knew mutually. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm guessing that I've performed <i>Moliere than Thou</i> about 500 times by now... I think the shows that really distinguish themselves from the rest are the first ones that I do when I come back from a long layoff... when I haven't performed it for 5 months or more (like when I spend the summer performing nothing but <i>Breakneck Hamlet</i>). It's the uncertainty (and the fear) f not knowing exactly what is going to happen next that forces me to live through every moment as if it had never happened before, and suddenly lines that have't gotten laughs in over a year are spontaneous and surprising and startlingly funny. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>September 12</b>: I finally signed the paperwork and sent it off: the clock is now ticking on the NFP status of the Timothy Mooney Repertory Theatre. (What started out as a joke name is now official!) And while it's legal now to go ahead and solicit grants and contributions in support of our mission: "To create and present performances exploring the works of our great theatrical, literary and rhetorical thinkers, along with dramatic works of modern import, that will inspire, inform, enlighten, educate and entertain," I'm probably going to save the big push for when the confirmation arrives. (84 days and counting...) </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">An <a href="http://www.nwmissourinews.com/features/article_04089c02-7a25-11e6-b7b7-ebba99705e64.html" target="_blank">on-line review</a> appeared for <i>Moliere than Thou</i> at NWMSU, written by a student reviewer. I was amused to see myself quoted as having "invested those words with as much double autonomy and layers of meaning as I possibly could." </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">A week later, I headed out for <a href="https://www.ucmo.edu/daily/readMore.cfm?digestID=2970457DB034C5C571" target="_blank">my very first appearance</a> at U of Central Missouri. The theatre professor there had seen me perform at the KC Fringe a few years back, and was eager to get me out to do <i>Breakneck Hamlet</i>. This time, it was just a single day's event, with an especially long acting workshop (no one was in a hurry to go, so I threw in a fourth exercise, where I usually only have time for three), a quick lunch, an elaborate tech rehearsal, followed by Breakneck Hamlet for an audience of 40, including the Dean of Arts & Humanities, who (rumor has it) enjoyed the show very much, as did my host. (It was an especially large auditorium, so I was taxing my voice for the first time since the summer fringe tour!)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">That following week, as I closed in on the final states of my e-mail campaign, I finally managed to shorten <i>Breakneck Antony & Cleopatra's</i> 27,000 near impenetrable words to about 15,500. It will probably take another six drafts to get it down under the tight 10,000 word limit (as much as I can possibly speak in a single hour), but the plan is to take the long view with <i>A&C</i>, perhaps to test it out on its own two or three years down the line, and eventually to make it part of a two-act event, serving as an "Act II" to <i>Breakneck Julius Caesar</i>. It can be the breakneck <i>menage a trois</i> of <i>Breakneck Julius Caesar, Antony & Cleopatra</i>. (Auditions for the role of Cleopatra set for sometime in 2018.) </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">I officially finished the e-mail campaign on October 24, nine days in advance of my anticipated departure from Kansas City. That left me nine days to turn to EIGHT projects that had been waiting for me to actually have a "free moment!"</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Over each of the next several days, I put about an hour apiece into...</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">1) Working through the "maybe list" again</span></span><span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px;"> 2) Reworking my "Shakespeare Spaghetti" workshop, in anticipation of a presentation at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (where I expect that they'll be a little sharper than many of the college kids who have seen this workshop before),</span></span><span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px;"> 3) Working Lot o' Shakespeare back into performance condition, as I'll be performing that as part of "<a href="http://uncannycasey.wixsite.com/bardfestindy/schedule" target="_blank">Bard Fest</a>," just north of Indianapolis, this October 13 (info on this and <i>Breakneck Hamlet</i> at <a href="http://uncannycasey.wixsite.com/bardfestindy/schedule" target="_blank">this link</a>), </span></span><span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px;"> 4) Finishing the fifth draft of <i>Breakneck Julius Caesar</i> and starting to memorize,</span></span><span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px;"> 5) Designing a full "Timothy Mooney Repertory Theatre" brochure, in anticipation of a "relaunch" of sorts, once the Not for Profit status in approved,</span></span><span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px;"> 6) Getting my e-mail inbox back down to 150 messages once more (fighting weight),</span></span><span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px;"> 7) Exploring a new one-person play on "The Authorship Question," tentatively titled, <i>And This Gives Life to Thee</i>, and...</span></span><span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px;"> 8) Finishing the latest edition of "The View from Here." </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>POST SCRIPT</b>: That was going to be my final word of this blog, but when I hit "publish," I noticed that a lot of my cutting-and-pasting from reviews had given the blog a terrible white background over about 3/4 of the text. So, I typed all that stuff over from scratch. And, given that I didn't plan on spending so much typing, it took me an extra week, during which I drove to Colorado Springs (dropped in on Amber and the baby), and on to Utah, where I performed <i>Breakneck Hamlet</i> at Utah Valley University (which was awesome), and again the following day at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association in Salt Lake City (even awesomer). I finished reworking my "Shakespeare Spaghetti" workshop just in time for the workshop that I gave, which may have been as well received as <i>Breakneck Hamlet</i>. I have decided that the Modern Language Association folks are as much "my people" when it comes to my Shakespeare work, as the American Assn of Teachers of French are for my Moliere work. I am definitely going to try to get this work in front of more of these groups. With the conclusion of that conference, I am now racing back east, stopped in Rawlins, Wyoming tonight, on my way to giving a class in Nebraska Monday, and then a single day's visit back to Chicago before the Lewis University show on October 12!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>On the I-Tunes</b>: Caravan Palace, an awesome electronic swing band.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>On Netflix</b>: Binge-Watching "House"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Discoveries</b>: I am, at heart, a total control freak, entirely dependent on myself and my own car to get me around. Giving my fate over to planes, busses, cabs or trains freaks me out. * No self respecting technician actually wants to "dumb the show down" while there's lighting cues that they can find a way to make work. * The more effective publicity is not so text-heavy, but can probably be fit onto a bumper sticker. * The "hugging fringe" can be a valuable compensation on those days when the show, itself, may or may not be selling out. * The classical theatre demographic still tends to read their news in hard copy. * It's the uncertainty (and the fear) of not knowing exactly what is going to happen next that forces me to live through every moment as if it had never happened before, and suddenly lines that haven't gotten laughs in over a year, are spontaneous and surprising and startlingly funny. * Sometimes, I let the paperwork for major changes in administration daunt me, but my challenge is to push through my apprehension, over the seemingly endless process... a process which kind of demands that I stand up for the work I do, and say, "Yes, this is worth your while." </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "myriad pro";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Next Performances</b>: Oct 6: Utah Valley University (BH; Oct 7-8 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (BH); Oct 12: Lewis University, Joliet, IL (BH); Oct 13-14: Bard Fest, Carmel, IN (BH & LoS); Oct 16: McGarvey's Bar, Altoona, PA (MTT) </span></span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Timothy Mooney Repertory Theatre Tour
Schedule</span></b></span></div>
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(Already-booked dates
in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">GREEN; </span>Tentative
bookings in<span style="color: green;"> </span><span style="color: red;">RED</span>;
</b>Available dates in<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"> </span><span style="color: #000090;">BLUE</span></b>)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">MTT</span></b> = “Moliere than Thou”; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">LoS</span></b> =
“Lot o’ Shakespeare; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">GSAT</span></b> = “Greatest Speech of All Time;” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">SH</span></b> –
“Shakespeare’s Histories” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">BH</span></b> – “Breakneck Hamlet”</div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep
3-30: Kansas City, MO; AVAILABLE FOR RESIDENCY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 9 & 10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NW Missouri
State U, St. Joseph, MO (MTT)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 17:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>U of Central
Missouri, Warrenburg, MO (BH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 6: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Utah
Valley University, Orem, UT (BH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 6-8:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Rocky
Mountain MLA, Salt Lake City, UT (BH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 9-10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>UTAH / IDAHO / COLORADO / WYOMING /
MONTANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 11:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEBRASKA / IOWA / N/S DAKOTA /
WISCONSIN / MINNESOTA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 12:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Lewis
University, Romeoville, IL (BH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 13:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS, INDIANA, OHIO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 13-14:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Indianapolis,
IN (“Bard Fest”) (LOS & BH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 15:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MICHIGAN, OHIO, KENTUCKY, WEST
VIRGINIA, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 16<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Altoona, PA (MTT)<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 17:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA, WEST VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct
19: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>English Speaking Union,
Boston, MA (LoS)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 19-20:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(I can't take you people anywhere...!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 21-22:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 23-25:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW JERSEY, MARYLAND, DC, DELAWARE,
VIRGINIA, N/S CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 26:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NORTH / SOUTH CAROLINA <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 27:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Lander
University, Greenwood, SC (BH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 28:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Might
Arts Players, Savannah Lakes Village, SC (Wkshp)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 29-31:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA, FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span> 1-3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA,
TENNESSEE, ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI, KENTUCKY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 4-7:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ARKANSAS, LOUISIANA, MISSOURI<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 7-8:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 8-9:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS, OKLAHOMA, KANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio8V_fqNPhyphenhyphenhkC8R-qD0tZFEtRV8XYMedrNzOWwnjLcdUDSrehkgXf4fTZKjmZjXJqj7dmXkL57mwEBM0hIEP5I8wM4tpCkZHJbvyaicxmBHKN9K9LbskDfz2KKSQRxuH5_xag/s1600/Bath+Walk+11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio8V_fqNPhyphenhyphenhkC8R-qD0tZFEtRV8XYMedrNzOWwnjLcdUDSrehkgXf4fTZKjmZjXJqj7dmXkL57mwEBM0hIEP5I8wM4tpCkZHJbvyaicxmBHKN9K9LbskDfz2KKSQRxuH5_xag/s200/Bath+Walk+11.jpg" width="200" /></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 10:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Schreiner
University, Kerrville, TX<o:p></o:p></span></b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio8V_fqNPhyphenhyphenhkC8R-qD0tZFEtRV8XYMedrNzOWwnjLcdUDSrehkgXf4fTZKjmZjXJqj7dmXkL57mwEBM0hIEP5I8wM4tpCkZHJbvyaicxmBHKN9K9LbskDfz2KKSQRxuH5_xag/s1600/Bath+Walk+11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 11-13:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS, NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 14:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Idyllwild
Arts, Idyllwild, CA<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov
16:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Vanden
High School, Fairfield, CA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 16-17:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, NEVADA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 18-20:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, OREGON, WASHINGTON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 21-23:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IDAHO, MONTANA, SOUTH DAKOTA, NORTH DAKOTA,
WYOMING, COLORADO, MINNESOTA, WISCONSIN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 24-Dec 9:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #660066;">MICHIGAN, OHIO</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 18.0pt;">WINTER
/ SPRING 2017<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 1-14: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS, WISCONSIN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 5-7:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Illinois High School Theatre Festival<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 6-10:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>APAP NYC<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 11-12:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 13-14:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OHIO, MICHIGAN, WEST VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13.5135px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In front of Theatre Drakomir</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 17:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DePaul
University, Chicago IL (MTT)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 18-19:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS, WISCONSIN, MINNESOTA, IOWA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">January 20:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Monmouth
University, Monmouth, IL (BH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 21-22:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IOWA, MISSOURI<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 23-24:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEBRASKA, KANSAS, OKLAHOMA, TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 25:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>St. Mark’s
School of Texas, Dallas, TX (SH or BH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 26-28: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Texas Educational
Theatre Association, GALVESTON<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 30:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 31-Feb 4:
NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA, NEVADA, CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, NEVADA, UTAH, COLORADO<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 7:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>NEVADA, UTAH, COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 8:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>WYOMING, COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 9:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Chadron State College, Chadron, NE<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 10-11:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KANSAS, NEBRASKA, OKLAHOMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 12:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ARKANSAS, LOUISIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 13:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>LOUISIANA, MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 14:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA, GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 15-16:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA, FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 17:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SOUTH / NORTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb
18-22:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NACA Conference, Baltimore, MD<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 22:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MARYLAND, DELAWARE, NEW JERSEY, WASH
DC<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 23:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW JERSEY, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 24-25:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA, NEW YORK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhAutS2qpqWkWtaDqNzerIODddOcTHkFRJO9_qD_wmZbGItcCTUX1_fhAjYoyPVE9UYPjc14ap_jU3Hz6Bcy-cqBcAGzE434BZaMUR5dGz-Xf3Qpa2UAtI7c9Bg52seGNxZ7Jk/s1600/Galway+Walk+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-indent: 0in;"><img border="0" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhAutS2qpqWkWtaDqNzerIODddOcTHkFRJO9_qD_wmZbGItcCTUX1_fhAjYoyPVE9UYPjc14ap_jU3Hz6Bcy-cqBcAGzE434BZaMUR5dGz-Xf3Qpa2UAtI7c9Bg52seGNxZ7Jk/s200/Galway+Walk+4.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 26:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA, WEST VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 27:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OHIO, WEST VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 28:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OHIO, KENTUCKY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KENTUCKY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 2-4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SETC, Lexington, KY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>INDIANA, MICHIGAN, OHIO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 7:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>INDIANA, MICHIGAN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 8:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MICHIGAN, OHIO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 9:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OHIO, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 10:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA, NEW YORK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 11-12:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW YORK, NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 13-14:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 15:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 16:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW JERSEY, DELAWARE, MARYLAND, D.C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisSJOXTrf_qIoxZgUythqc_C3LCopXb4euA1gkMkpIstPyIFihfPDY0jmgtD0hboohL9GWadshyLEGwivTrkk74ZcDExRI11BdLNw-bPH9cGF7HK_k26f9kn5iW3OJSLOWhSzU/s1600/At+the+Cliffs+6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-indent: 0in;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisSJOXTrf_qIoxZgUythqc_C3LCopXb4euA1gkMkpIstPyIFihfPDY0jmgtD0hboohL9GWadshyLEGwivTrkk74ZcDExRI11BdLNw-bPH9cGF7HK_k26f9kn5iW3OJSLOWhSzU/s200/At+the+Cliffs+6.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 17-19:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MARYLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 20:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 21:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NORTH / SOUTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 22:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SOUTH CAROLINA, FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 23-25:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 26:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA, GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 27:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA, ALABAMA<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 28-29:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TENNESSEE, KENTUCKY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 28: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>University of
the Cumberlands, Williamsburg, KY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 29:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Northern
Kentucky U, Highland Heights, KY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 30:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KENTUCKY, OHIO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 31:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OHIO, MICHIGAN, INDIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 1-3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>INDIANA, ILLINOIS, WISCONSIN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>WISCONSIN, MINNESOTA<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>IOWA, MINNESOTA, MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 6-7:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NORTH / SOUTH DAKOTA, NEBRASKA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 8:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>MONTANA, WYOMING<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 9:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>WYOMING, MONTANA, IDAHO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 10: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IDAHO, WASHINGTON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 13:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Mount Hood Community College, Gresham,
OR (MTT & BH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 11-13:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WASHINGTON, OREGON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 14-16:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 17:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, NEVADA</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBeXJMA4L53HvrwnuhquUpV0-aI-6DqnzYmY-QRQde-XkvnELhmLoc9dPihyphenhyphenBTOpdeOvRzVAn8jJAZ7sffrMn8QsCu3ihaJ4ED3xmvbZKn74mWWrB5XQX9ps7yOQo_keu-yv94/s1600/Kings+Heath+Park+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBeXJMA4L53HvrwnuhquUpV0-aI-6DqnzYmY-QRQde-XkvnELhmLoc9dPihyphenhyphenBTOpdeOvRzVAn8jJAZ7sffrMn8QsCu3ihaJ4ED3xmvbZKn74mWWrB5XQX9ps7yOQo_keu-yv94/s200/Kings+Heath+Park+1.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13.5135px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Running lines, walking</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">through Kings Heath...</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 18:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEVADA, UTAH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 19:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>UTAH, WYOMING<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 20:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>UTAH, WYOMING, COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 21:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>COLORADO, KANSAS, NEBRASKA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 22:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KANSAS, NEBRASKA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 23-24:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KANSAS, MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 25:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSOURI, IOWA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 26:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IOWA, ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 18.0pt;">SUMMER,
2017<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 17-28:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Orlando Fringe Festival,
Orlando, FL<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">June 19-24:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>International
Thespian Festival, Lincoln, NE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">July 17-18:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>American Assn of
Teachers of French, St. Louis, MO<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">July 20-31:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Kansas City
Fringe Festival, KC, MO<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">July 28-Aug 5:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Calgary
Fringe Festival, Calgary, AB<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">August 3-6: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ATHE Conference,
Las Vegas, NV (prop deadline Nov 1)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Aug 3-13:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Minnesota Fringe
Festival, Minneapolis, MN<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Aug 11-20:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Edmonton Fringe
Festival, Edmonton, AB<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 18.0pt;">FALL,
2017<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 5-10:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 11: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>INDIANA, MICHIGAN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 12:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MICHIGAN, INDIANA, OHIO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 13:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OHIO, KENTUCKY, WEST VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 14:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KENTUCKY, WEST VIRGINIA, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 15-17:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA, NEW YORK<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 16:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW YORK, NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 19-20:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 21-22:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW JERSEY, DELAWARE, MARYLAND, D.C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 23-24:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MARYLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 25:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>D.C., VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 26:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 27:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NORTH / SOUTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt28fHmW5n2Wi6H02dqZDBGttGMoWzg40h058bjbUK2gbwZigeUjea9pb3Vx6CR6q-vPfAbxozJ8wkxVVbZVb_B7Dun7RqIzsH_kSRm0ezNC6lJkkkUSN3NxmqSgnAvbWo-bb5/s1600/Gem+in+Cardiff+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt28fHmW5n2Wi6H02dqZDBGttGMoWzg40h058bjbUK2gbwZigeUjea9pb3Vx6CR6q-vPfAbxozJ8wkxVVbZVb_B7Dun7RqIzsH_kSRm0ezNC6lJkkkUSN3NxmqSgnAvbWo-bb5/s200/Gem+in+Cardiff+2.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13.5135px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If she looks happy,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">it's because she's been</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">liberated from her phone...!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Seb 28-30:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NACA South Conference<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 28:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SOUTH CAROLINA / GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sep 30-Oct
1:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>FLORIDA, GEORGIA, ALABAMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI, LOUISIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>LOUISIANA, TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>TEXAS, OKLAHOMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>TEXAS, OKLAHOMA, NEW MEXICO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 7:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 8:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA, NEVADA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 9:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>ARIZONA, NEVADA, CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 10:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 11:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, OREGON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 12:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, OREGON, WASHINGTON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 13:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OREGON, WASHINGTON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 14-15:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WASHINGTON, IDAHO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 16:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IDAHO, MONTANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 17-18:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MONTANA, NORTH / SOUTH DAKOTA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 19-21:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NACA Central Conference<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 19:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MINNESOTA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 20:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MINNESOTA, WISCONSIN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 21:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WISCONSIN, ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 22:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 23:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS, INDIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 24:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>INDIANA, KENTUCKY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 25:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 26-28:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NACA Mid-America Conference<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 26:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TENNESSEE, ARKANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 27:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ARKANSAS, OKLAHOMA, MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 28:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OKLAHOMA, MISSOURI, OKLAHOMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 29:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSOURI, KANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 30:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KANSAS, COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oct 31:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>COLORADO, UTAH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>UTAH, NEVADA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEVADA, IDAHO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IDAHO, WYOMING<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 4-5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>COLORADO, NEBRASKA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEBRASKA, IOWA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 7:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MINNESOTA, IOWA, MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 8:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MINNESOTA, WISCONSIN, ILLINOIS<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 9:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS, INDIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 10:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MICHIGAN, INDIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 11:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WEST VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 12:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 13:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NORTH / SOUTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 14:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 15:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA, TENNESSEE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 16:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TENNESSEE, KENTUCKY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 17:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>INDIANA, ILLINOIS<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nov 18-22:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 18.0pt;">WINTER/SPRING
2018<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">January 5-9:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>APAP Conference, NYC<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jan 10-Mar
3:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>OPEN FOR RESIDENCY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Feb 17-21:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NACA Conference<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 7-10:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SETC, Mobile, AL<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 11-12:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 13:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA, GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 14:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA, SOUTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 15:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA, ALABAMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 16:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 17-18:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>LOUISIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 19:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>LOUISIANA, TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 20:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS, OKLAHOMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 21:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS, NEW MEXICO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 22:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 23:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ARIZONA, NEVADA, CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 24-25:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 26:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, NEVADA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 27:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, OREGON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 28:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OREGON, WASHINGTON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 29:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WASHINGTON, IDAHO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mar 30-31:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IDAHO, MONTANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Easter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>MONTANA, WYOMING, UTAH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>NORTH / SOUTH DAKOTA, NEBRASKA,
WYOMING<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>MINNESOTA, IOWA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 5:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>MINNESOTA, IOWA, WISCONSIN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 6:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>WISCONSIN, ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 7-8:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 9:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>ILLINOIS, INDIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 10:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>INDIANA, MICHIGAN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 11:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MICHIGAN, OHIO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 12:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OHIO, WEST VIRGINIA, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 13:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA, NEW YORK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 14:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW YORK, NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 15-16:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 17:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Blair
Academy, Blairstown, NJ<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 18:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW JERSEY, PENNSYLVANIA, MARYLAND,
DELAWARE, D.C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 19:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WEST VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, DELAWARE,
D.C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 20:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NORTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 21-22:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MARYLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 23:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 24:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NORTH / SOUTH CAROLINA<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 25:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 26:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA, TENNESSEE, KENTUCKY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 27:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TENNESSEE, KENTUCKY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 28:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KENTUCKY, ARKANSAS, MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 29:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSOURI<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Apr 30:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSOURI, KANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 1:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KANSAS, COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 2:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>COLORADO, UTAH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 3:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>COLORADO, NEBRASKA<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IOWA, MINNESOTA, NEBRASKA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0pt;">May 9-11:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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tim_mooney@earthlink.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10251175800373730254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359867.post-78393760057762658512016-05-13T17:39:00.000-07:002016-05-18T12:17:55.565-07:00The View From Here #169: Winter/Spring, 2016!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>The Timothy Mooney Repertory Theatre is now under the fiscal sponsorship of Fractured Atlas, a 501(c)3 organization! </b><br />
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<b>If you'd like to support our mission of "Inspiring, Informing, Enlightening, Educating and Entertaining through our Great Theatrical Thinkers," your contribution by way of <a href="https://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/fiscal/profile?id=13837" target="_blank">THIS LINK </a>is now deductible! (...to the extent permited by law). (This is our first step toward going not-for-profit under our own "umbrella.")</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.suscc.edu/about-suscc/news-and-events.cms?id=60" target="_blank">Southern Union State Community College</a> is the first college ever to request “The Greatest Speech of All Time” and “Shakespeare’s Histories; Ten Epic Plays at a Breakneck Pace” as part of the same evening’s entertainment. Both of them trace a historical series of events in chronological order, with “Speech” spanning from 500 BC to 1968, and “Histories” spanning from 1066-1533, and it works, at least theoretically: We take a look at the macro and the micro in short order, spanning some 2500 years, and focusing in tighter on some 500 years. It was a combination that could bring history alive in a vivid way to folks who may know next to nothing about the people and events of those periods.</div>
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But mostly, this combination was the result of my host having seen me do both of these shows in past SETC conferences, and he knew, at least, that he liked them both.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And while I have had much more experience at pairing “Moliere” with “Lot o’ Shakespeare” or “Shakespeare’s Histories” with “Breakneck Hamlet” (or various permutations in-between), this combination felt different enough that preparation was a challenge. I got into town a couple of days early and walked about reciting each at least twice a day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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All of this is by way of saying that I screwed up my lines for “Greatest Speech” at least three times in the opening Socrates speech, and found myself playing “catch-up” through the night.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The screw-ups didn’t last long (though they seemed INTERMINABLE to me), and I got through the remainder of “Speech” and all of “Histories” without further mishap, but by that time I was already feeling like it was a lost cause.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Apparently the students and faculty did not have the same feeling, as they gave me a generous standing ovation afterwards. My favorite Alabama “groupie” was in the audience, as Jenny Moody (no relation/not a typo), who has seen me perform about 5 different times, sometimes traveling large distances, this time only had to travel from about an hour away. (Jenny is a history teacher, and corrected me on the fact that the hundred years war was NOT 114 years, but, in fact, 116 years long.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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I pushed on through Mississippi, Louisiana and well into Texas, where I did workshops at the Trinity School of Midland, Texas, and performed at the nearby community theatre. The father of one of the school’s students was the Artistic Director of the theatre, and we had a fun show for perhaps a hundred in a rather large auditorium (on the set of “The Little Mermaid”).<o:p></o:p></div>
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The plan had been to head on from there to another performance in Idyllwild, California. My good friend, Betty Ginsberg Anderson had arranged for a performance at a local restaurant, and I’d even done an interview with a local paper, but, sadly, days before the planned performance, Betty’s ex-husband Pete Pedro Anderson, who had been a good friend, a warm, appreciative supporter (and a huge talent in his own right) over the years, had died following a bout with pneumonia. Knowing that no one in town (least of all, Betty) would be in the mood for a play in the midst of the tributes and funeral preparations, I begged off, with plans to return to southern California the following fall. (Miss you, Pete!)</div>
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I rerouted my passage from Texas on up to Kansas City, where Allan and Sandy once again provided me a shelter from the rough-and-tumble life on the road. The tour was off to a challenging start, with only three performances in the first month of travel, and I needed to limit gas and hotel expenses as much as possible. Before too long, I was heading out from Chicago, this time with April driving behind me, as we worked our way down to Carbondale, Illinois, where her daughter, Amber, who graduated last December, had given birth to a tiny baby girl, Charlotte Rae, a couple of weeks prior.</div>
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From Carbondale, we continued on to Greensboro, North Carolina, with three fun days at the Southeast Theatre Conference. Once again, I had an exhibit booth, with books and t-shirts for sale, and I would be appearing on a panel (aimed at encouraging actors toward entrepreneurship and creating their own theatre). There was lots of traffic this year, and many who have seen, and/or booked me over many years. All of the energy was focused on promoting “Breakneck Hamlet,” which I would be performing on the last morning of the event. All week long, April and I handed out flyers for the Saturday performance, inflated balloons, and gave away stickers. As usual, I put the “Lot o’ Shakespeare” bingo cage out front and welcomed curious passers-by to spin the balls... as it were.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have learned, over the years, not to get my hopes up for a huge turn-out for performances at conferences. However much people might assure me of their plans to attend the show, I’m used to spare handfuls of good friends and past hosts, with perhaps a couple of dozen attendees that I don’t quite recognize.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This time they opened the doors to the huge ballroom in which I would be performing, and people poured in, including the usual friends and hosts, but this time it felt like the audience was at least 50% “newbies:” students and faculty who I may have only met in passing in the exhibit hall, or perhaps never before.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Perhaps 300 of the 800 seats in this large ballroom were quickly filled, and I welcomed them all into the space, passing out stickers and programs, while encouraging them to sit at the front of the hall. (Plays are always better when the audience sits in tight proximity to each other.) After about ten minutes of folks filing in, I slipped backstage, just long enough to pull my focus together, watch the lights go down, and start the show.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There’s a special pleasure to speaking without a microphone in a large space: feeling the “surround sound” of my voice fill the room and resonate back. And while at least 50% of that space was empty of audience, the acoustics of the room demanded that I “speak through” its entire cubic footage.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is another of my secret super powers. Decades of performing have given me a hyper-awareness of the dimensions of the room, and the rhythm in which my voice reaches the far walls and bounces back at me. This becomes crucial when the echo of my voice overlaps with any new sound that might be coming out of my mouth, and something in me “knows” just how much space to leave between one word and the next, and “rides the wave” of that resonance. (I have spent so many hours sitting through so much incomprehensible dialogue, that I just wish that I could impart this special spidey sense with everyone.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Guys, guys, guys! I just saw Tim Mooney's "Breakneck Hamlet" at SETC, and you GOTTA see it. It's going to be at Orlando Fringe this year. It's like Shakespeare, stand-up comedy and Shakespearean studies education had a baby. -- (Ashleigh Ann Gardner)</blockquote>
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The Rogue Theatre Festival is a two week affair which always manages to overlap one weekend with the Southeast Theatre Conference, and while, four years ago, I managed to perform one weekend of “Lot o’ Shakespeare” before racing off to do SETC the following weekend, this time I was running the other direction, catching them after the festival had been on for a week already.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And while last time, I had been sincerely impressed and excited by the attendance and support for my Weekend #1 performance, this time, the bloom seemed to be well off of the rose for a show that didn’t even start its run until Weekend #2, and my numbers were very low. I found myself questioning the urgency of racing across the country.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There were, however, still some terrific (some, less terrific) responses. Here’s what I clipped and saved:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Tonight I saw Tim Mooney's "Breakneck Hamlet". It is masterfully performed and written. You don't need to know Hamlet to enjoy the show and if you know Hamlet, well you'll find something new to the play you've never seen before. I've read this play more times than I can count and I still learned something new tonight I had never known. Mooney straddles the line between Shakespeare scholars and non-theatre goers. See this show!! - (Renee Elizabeth Newlove)</blockquote>
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Much more grounded and true to the original material than its cartoonish counterparts… His face and body are expressive without being over-the-top (suggestion: watch his eyes). There are no goofy accents or costume changes, just one man’s talent, skill and enthusiasm. All the famous words are here and with Mooney’s recitation, they finally make sense… I never cared much for Hamlet… But tonight my opinion was changed in 45 minutes. It could happen to you, too. – (<a href="http://kingsriverlife.com/03/06/rogue-reviews-2016/" target="_blank">Mallory Moad, KingsRiverLife.com</a>)</blockquote>
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A one-man performance… that entertained, educated, and established Mooney as a stalwart Bard actor… making his rendition one for the fringe festival ages. Mooney’s stellar commitment and fluid pacing was exhausting but pleasing to watch… This was a one-man Hamlet done right! -- (<a href="http://brothermarc7theatre.tumblr.com/post/141174432207/rogue-review-breakneck-hamlet-show-536" target="_blank">Marc Gonzalez, The Roadto 1000</a>)</blockquote>
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This one-hour soliloquy whirlwind was difficult to weather without a seatbelt... Mooney's explanation of the innuendos and history added something extra to a typical production... Overall it was a great performance -- perfect for anyone who loves Shakespeare and/or lacks the patience necessary to sit through a full production. - (Rory Appleton, FresnoBeehive)<br />
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For this last review, I have limited myself to quoting the first paragraph. I always have a sense of a review which keeps you waiting for the other shoe to drop, in which the writer is then going to go on to tell you why those opening thoughts were less relevant than their ultimate opinion, and this certainly turned out to be one of those. But, I don't want to get defensive about what I think turns into a rather pedantic critique. You are welcome to read the entire thing, <a href="https://whatsmycalltime.wordpress.com/2016/03/12/breakneck-hamlet-timothy-mooney/" target="_blank">HERE</a>, if you are curious, but I'm guessing that it's not this writer's best work. As briefly as I might, I'll simply say that clearly I didn't write the play that she (the woman who wishes she'd come up with this concept herself), would have written had she the chance.<br />
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I headed for Angola, Indiana, where Lou Ann Holman was booking me to do <a href="http://www.trinehac.com/2016/03/20/brevity-is-the-soul-of-wit-and-hamlet-in-this-case/" target="_blank">“Breakneck Hamlet” for Trine University</a>. Lou Ann was in the audience for the performance at the Indy Fringe Festival last summer (she was actually the one who I targeted as “Ophelia” in the front row during a notably hilarious scene). She was making a major Shakespeare event out of it, delivering sonnets on the town square every day in April (I showed up to do one). Unfortunately, the auditorium I wound up in had extremely limited lighting and an odd performing configuration with the lights on the auditorium floor (the 8 feet or so between the stage and the audience) much brighter than on the stage, itself.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I improvised my way through, placing half of the performance on the stage and half on the auditorium floor, literally jumping down and back up, in the middle of scenes, and sometimes in the middle of lines, as the impulse carried me… creating, for instance, the Hamlet/Laertes fencing strip down in front of the audience, while King Claudius and Gertrude observed from above. It was exhausting, but very effective, and the hundred or so in the crowd laughed and applauded warmly. (Rebecca threw a party at her house afterwards, and I enjoyed being the center of attention… which seems to be my thing.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Tim Mooney’s non-stop riveting "Moliere Than Thou" is a first-rate one-man show which is both hilarious and most impressive. All in attendance were extremely pleased by what they saw and heard. Succinctly, Mooney is an accomplished actor, and his production is truly sui generis. – (Mel Yoken)<o:p></o:p></div>
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I checked in for a couple of days with my sister Maureen, and her husband, Tim, in anticipation of a stop at Blake High School: yet ANOTHER venue I hadn’t performed at since the year 2004! (Perhaps they’re all on a 12-year turn-around!) About 250 students enjoyed the show, and by that night I was in Wheeling, West Virginia (visiting Meaghan Macey and her mom, Jennifer Irle). From there, it was on to Boomington, Indiana, Evansville, Indiana (visiting one of my favorite students from Texas, Julia Toney), Carbondale, Illinois (checking in again with Amber Peterson and Susan Patrick Benson, who was directing “Tartuffe” -- I sat in on a run-through), and Allan and Sandy in Kansas City (who have asked me to house sit for them next September when they head off for a month in Europe). Here, I managed to catch my breath long enough to finish the “Mega Mailing” campaign in record time, with a surprising number of affirmative responses coming back, and a lot of teachers making the move toward an event for the 2016-17 school year.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The second Indy Fringe performance was a slight improvement, with about 15 people in the house, but was especially well received. It seemed that everyone at the theatre was a huge Shakespeare fan, and each monologue drew big laughs or applause at the end.<o:p></o:p></div>
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After the show was done, a couple of young women approached, explaining that they had met me some five years prior in Steubenville, Ohio. As Freshmen at Franciscan University, their first college play had been my version of “The Bourgeois Gentleman,” and I’d visited to work with the actors and to perform “Moliere than Thou.” The two had become good friends in the course of that experience, and in the years to follow, and were now enjoying a reunion in Indianapolis, and decided to see what was playing in town: when they saw that I was performing that night, they decided that they HAD to come and see me.</div>
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Once the dust had cleared and the car was packed up, I raced off once more, driving late into the night, and up early the following morning, heading to Ann Arbor, Michigan, for Isaac’s graduation from the University of Michigan. Even though I had only gotten a couple of hours of sleep, the morning chill seemed to keep me awake, although it became a bit more of a struggle when we got back to the post-graduation party. I was in much better shape once I’d managed to check into the hotel, catch a nap, and meet up for dinner with Isaac, Jo and Kevin & Sue, where we were proud to discover that Isaac had won the “C. Wilbur Peters Outstanding service Award” for his efforts toward increasing diversity in the Society of Physics Students, of which he was the President this past year.</div>
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I made yet another trip to Indy! Christel DeHaan, the President of the Christel DeHaan Family Foundation (the terrific benefactor who had seen “Breakneck Hamlet” last summer, and surprised me with a generous donation), was now bringing me in to perform “Moliere than Thou” for a salon, complete with cocktails, performance, panel discussion and dinner. It was held in the main hall of the glorious “Linden House,” with 45 people seated around four tables. I hid out during the cocktail hour, awaiting my introduction before springing out to present Moliere for an hour of raucous fun. Switching to my 21<sup>st</sup> century suit-and-tie ensemble afterwards, I joined a panel comprised of a Shakespeare scholar, a French/Moliere scholar, and a moderator. After an hour or so of Q&A, we enjoyed dinner, and I got the rare opportunity to mingle with my audience (which usually disappears before I get changed into my street clothes), enjoying their enthusiasm and encouragement.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><b>Anybody out there know Timothy Mooney?</b></span></td></tr>
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Checking my post office box back in Chicago, there was a package waiting from me from the Screen Actors Guild... which was odd. I cracked it open to realize that I had been given an award! I was a member of the cast of "Spotlight," which had won the award for Best Cast in a Motion Picture... </div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">Apparently "I" had played the role of "Bad Priest" (mom always wanted me to be a priest), who was apparently the non-speaking character who appears through a window in the opening frames of the film. And, apparently, THAT Timothy Mooney is not in the union. So, when the Screen Actors Guild had to distribute the award, they just looked up the address of the only Timothy Mooney in the union, and I was it. If anybody knows who the REAL Timothy Mooney (I sure don't), please put me in touch with him!</span></div>
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I had just a few days at home to sort out the maze of projects I
always seem to be juggling: Working on William Luce’s script for “Baptiste”
(which uses some of my Moliere dialogue), working through not-for profit
paperwork, and developing the next THREE “Breakneck Shakespeare” plays on my
list (“Breakneck Macbeth,” “Breakneck Romeo & Juliet” and “Breakneck Julius
Caesar”)! <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">Back on the road, I
drove to McGarvey’s Bar in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where a fellow who’d recently
taken over the space, was shifting the entertainment orientation from punk rock
to live theatre! He brought me in to perform “Lot o’ Shakespeare for a very
savvy theatre audience, mostly composed of a local community theatre group and
a fun improv team. (The Improv group was my opening act!) They were a very
“live” crowd, laughing hysterically at “Titus Andronicus” and really nailing
the crowd scene in “Julius Caesar,” while buying books and t-shirts
afterwards. (The bar owner wanted to pay me in cash, because that’s what the
bands usually demand. I realized that a lot of that money wouldn’t do me much
good once I hit Canada and Europe.)</span></div>
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Speaking of which,
the European leg of the tour is coming into clearer focus. There have been lots
of developments in the last couple of days, leading to two pending performances
in Wales, and a not-quite-ready to be announced Denmark performance in the
shadows of Elsinor Castle (Yes, THAT Elsinore Castle!). And just last night I
met up with a fellow with big connections in Edinburgh, so I may be doubling
back to this blog to add dates and info to the list very soon! For the moment,
though, I’m up to five confirmed performances scattered through Ireland,
England and Denmark!<o:p></o:p></div>
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From Pennsylvania, I
had less than two days to get down to Orlando for my tech/preview performance! (Taking and tweeting more pics of state lines along the way!) Even before I’d crossed the Florida line, <a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/arts-and-theater/os-breakneck-hamlet-orlando-fringe-20151024-story.html" target="_blank">the Orlando Sentinel review</a> of my
show came out! You may recall that I did a living room performance of the show
last October, and the reviewer had been waiting to release his review ever
since! (It was his earliest-ever review of a fringe show!)<o:p></o:p></div>
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A tribute to the
great work… really hitting the highlights. … There are enough engrossing
moments to fill the whole hour… [a] fun reminder of the debt we owe
Shakespeare. (<i>Matt Palm, Orlando Sentinel</i>)</blockquote>
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I probably won’t catch
significant time in Chicago again until next Thanksgiving! So, catch up with me
on the road! Come join me at a festival! <o:p></o:p></div>
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And then last night’s
rehearsal/performance felt like one of those magical evenings where everything
works. My technician, Carrie, created some gorgeous lighting effects, and
really felt the rhythm of how the cues should run, and the preview audience of
twenty or so were lively and responsive, to the point that I felt comfortable
in pushing some of the emotional moments of the show far beyond anything I’d
attempted before. It climaxed in a standing ovation (part of which I’m sure was
due to the fact that the audience had to race off to another preview that was
getting underway in a neighboring theatre). But my feeling about the show was
reinforced by a new friend who quickly posted on Facebook:<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m sure it helps
that I’ve seen 3 different productions of HAMLET since February. But in one
hour solo performer Tim Mooney has grabbed its heart. (<i>Kathleen Denny</i>)</blockquote>
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And then this
morning, <a href="http://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2016/05/17/fringe-review-breakneck-hamlet#Disqus" target="_blank">the Orlando Weekly review</a> was out:<o:p></o:p></div>
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This year's "Breakneck Hamlet" finds [Mooney's] disposition at its most entertainingly antic. Mooney cleverly condenses the Bard's best and longest tragedy down to an airtight 60 minutes... Mooney is exhaustingly impressive... deep set eyes practically popping from his skull with dramatic passion. If your only exposure to this masterwork has been Mel Gibson and Ethan Hawke movies, do yourself a favor and see Mooney's take -- if nothing else, you'll finally get to enjoy Shakespeare's words with impeccable enunciation. (<i>Seth Kubersky, Orlando Weekly</i>)</blockquote>
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">And so, with the official first Orlando performance of "Breakneck Hamlet" tonight, I start the
most ambitious summer tour that I’ve ever attempted with good omens preceding
me, and following me around. See you on the road!</span></div>
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Discoveries: Decades of performing have given me a hyper-awareness of the dimensions of the room, and the rhythm in which my voice reaches the far walls and bounces back at me… something in me “knows” just how much space to leave between one word and the next, and “rides the wave” of that resonance. * Some reviewers are just going to review how close you came to the show that they wanted to see. * Do the huge mailings DURING the tour. The reason that’s the busy season is because the teachers all all in town at that time! * Perhaps many of my bookings are on a 12-year turn-around!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Coming up soon: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/824706930974244/" target="_blank">The Orlando Fringe Festival, May 18-28</a>, The London, Ontario Fringe Festival, June 3-12, and then Ireland, England, Scotland and Denmark! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Timothy Mooney Repertory Theatre Tour Schedule<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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(Already-booked dates in <b><span style="color: green;">GREEN; </span>Tentative bookings in<span style="color: green;"> </span><span style="color: red;">RED</span>; </b>Available dates in<b><span style="color: green;"> </span><span style="color: #000090;">BLUE</span></b>)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: green;">MTT</span></b> = “Moliere than Thou”; <b><span style="color: green;">LoS</span></b> = “Lot o’ Shakespeare; <b><span style="color: green;">GSAT</span></b> = “Greatest Speech of All Time;” <b><span style="color: green;">SH</span></b> – “Shakespeare’s Histories” <b><span style="color: green;">BH</span></b> – “Breakneck Hamlet”<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "calibri";">SPRING/SUMMER, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">May 14 Altoona, PA (LoS)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">May 18-30 Orlando Fringe Festival (BH), Blue Venue<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "arial";">Wed May 18<sup>th</sup> 8:45 PM</span><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "arial";">Sun May 29<sup>th</sup> 11:45 AM</span><b><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">May 31-Jun 12 London Fringe Festival (BH) </span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Procunier Hall </span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">, </span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">710 Dundas St.</span></b><b><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "arial";">Fri Jun 3, 9:45<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "arial";">Sat Jun 4, 3:30<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "arial";">Sun Jun 5, 6:30<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "arial";">Mon Jun 6, 6:30<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "arial";">Wed Jun 8, 9:30<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "arial";">Fri Jun 10, 8:00<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Jun 13-17 IRELAND<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">June 12 Crescent Arts Center Cube Theatre, Belfast, Ireland (BH)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">June 14 Town Hall Theatre, Galway, Ireland (BH & SoD)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Jun 18-20 SCOTLAND<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Jun 21-25 ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Jun 25 Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham, England (BH & SoD)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Jun 26-30 DENMARK<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Jun 26 Copenhagen, Denmark (Venue to be Announced)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><b>Montana: Big Sky Country</b></span></td></tr>
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<b><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">July 6-10 Regina Fringe Festival (BH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">July 13-24 Winnipeg Fringe Festival (BH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">July 29-Aug 6 Calgary Fringe Festival (BH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Aug 10-21 Edmonton Fringe Festival (BH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Aug 24-Sept 1 ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri";">Aug 27-28 Milwaukee Fringe Festival (BH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri";">Sep 1-Oct 4: Kansas City, MO; AVAILABLE FOR RESIDENCY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri";">Oct 5: Utah Valley University, Orem, UT (BH)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri";">Oct 6-8: Rocky Mountain MLA, Salt Lake City, UT<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Oct 9-10 UTAH / IDAHO / COLORADO / WYOMING / MONTANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Oct 11: NEBRASKA / IOWA / N/S DAKOTA / WISCONSIN / MINNESOTA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Oct 12: Lewis University, Romeoville, IL<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Oct 13: ILLINOIS, INDIANA, OHIO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri";">Oct 14: Indianapolis, IN (“Bard Fest”)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Oct 14-15: MICHIGAN, OHIO, KENTUCKY, WEST VIRGINIA, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Oct 16 Altoona, PA (MTT)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Oct 17: PENNSYLVANIA, WEST VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri";">Oct 18: Blair Academy, Blairstown, NJ (LoS or BH)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri";">Oct 19: English Speaking Union, Boston, MA (LoS)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Oct 19-20: NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Oct 21-22: NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri";">Oct 21-23: APCA New York<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Oct 23-25: NEW JERSEY, MARYLAND, DC, DELAWARE, VIRGINIA, N/S CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Oct 26: Newberry College, Newberry, SC<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Oct 27: Lander University, Greenwood, SC (BH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri";">Oct 28: The Might Arts Players, Savannah Lakes Village, SC (Wkshp)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Oct 29-31: GEORGIA, FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Nov 1-3: GEORGIA, TENNESSEE, ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI, KENTUCKY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Nov 4-7: ARKANSAS, LOUISIANA, MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Nov 7-8: TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Nov 9-10: TEXAS, OKLAHOMA, KANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Nov 10: Schriener Unviersity, Kerrville, TX<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Nov 11-13: TEXAS, NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">Nov 14: Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri";">Nov 15 or 16 Vanden High School, Fairfield, CA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Nov 16-17: CALIFORNIA, NEVADA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Nov 18-20: CALIFORNIA, OREGON, WASHINGTON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Nov 21-23: IDAHO, MONTANA, SOUTH DAKOTA, NORTH DAKOTA, WYOMING, COLORADO, MINNESOTA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Nov 24-Dec 31: ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jan 1-14: ILLINOIS, WISCONSIN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jan 5-7: Illinois High School Theatre Festival<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jan 11-12: NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jan 13-14: OHIO, MICHIGAN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jan 17: ILLINOIS, INDIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jan 18-19: ILLINOIS, WISCONSIN, MINNESOTA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri";">January 20: Monmouth University, Monmouth, IL<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jan 21-22: IOWA, MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jan 23-24: NEBRASKA, KANSAS, OKLAHOMA, TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri";">Jan 24: University of Science and Arts, Chickasha, OK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri";">Jan 25: St. Mark’s School of Texas, Dallas, TX (SH or BH)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri";">Jan 25-28: Texas Educational Theatre Association, GALVESTON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jan 30-31 TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Feb 1-4: NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA, NEVADA, CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Feb 5-7: CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Feb 8-10: UTAH, WYOMING, COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Feb 11-13: NEBRASKA, KANSAS, OKLAHOMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Feb 14-15: TEXAS, ARKANSAS, LOUISIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Feb 16-17: MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA, GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Feb 18-21: FLORIDA, GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Feb 22-24: SOUTH CAROLINA, NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Feb 25-27: VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, D.C., WEST VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Feb 28*: TENNESSEE, KENTUCKY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri";">Mar 1-5: SETC, Lexington, KY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mar 6-11: INDIANA, MICHIGAN, OHIO, PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mar 12-14: NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mar 15-18: NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mar 19-26: SPRING BREAK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mar 27-28: NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA, WEST VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri";">Mar 29: University of the Cumberlands, Williamsburg, KY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mar 29-30: KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE, OHIO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mar 31-Apr 3: ILLINOIS, INDIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Apr 4-5: WISCONSIN, MINNESOTA, IOWA, MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Apr 6-7: NORTH/SOUTH DAKOTA, NEBRASKA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Apr 8-10: MONTANA, IDAHO, WASHINGTON, COLORADO, UTAH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri";">Apr 11 (or 15): Mount Hood Community College, Gresham, OR (MTT & BH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Apr 11-15: OREGON, CALIFORNIA, NEVADA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Apr 16: Easter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Apr 17-18: ARIZONA, NEW MEXICO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Apr 19-22: TEXAS, LOUISIANA, ARKANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Apr 23-24: MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA</span><br />
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tim_mooney@earthlink.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10251175800373730254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359867.post-69493838843380890022016-02-01T15:50:00.001-08:002016-02-03T15:24:32.834-08:00The View From Here #168: Fall/Winter, 2015-16!<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">
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There was an author
who wrote something to the effect of… “I apologize for the length of this
letter… I would have written less, but I didn’t have enough time.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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We pick up this epic on October 13, 2015, departing Kansas City for…<o:p></o:p></div>
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Fort Worth! Texas
Wesleyan University is beginning to turn into my most reliable booking, having
brought me in for four appearances now! Their Dean, Steve Daniel, had been a
French professor at Auburn University of Montgomery, which booked “Moliere than
Thou” way back in 2009, before he headed off to Texas. Since then, he has
booked me in Texas to perform “Lot o’ Shakespeare,” “The Greatest Speech of All
Time,” and “Shakespeare’s Histories; Ten Epic Plays at a Breakneck Pace!” This
time around, I was back in his wheelhouse, presenting “Moliere than Thou.”</div>
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I had a really fun
workshop with the theatre students on “Producing and Touring the One-Man Play,”
and I revealed all of my trade secrets… (essentially, a much abridged version
of this blog), focusing on my “Discoveries”. (If you’ve never read through to
the end of this blog, you might not know that I extract out the “discoveries”
that I make along the way…) “Moliere than Thou” was well attended and well
received, and some students and teachers bought book copies after the event. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I immediately, pushed
on south (burning off the adrenaline that was still bubbling for a couple of
hours after the show), getting into San Antonio around 1 am, in anticipation of
a workshop at a private school the following morning. The workshop that I give
for French classes, titled “The Life of Moliere,” tends to be a more sober look
at how this great comic playwright came to balance a very strong early
education, with a life on the road as an itinerant player, to create some of
the most effective comedies of all time. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Well, these mostly
middle-school kids were mostly disinterested, and the teachers repeatedly
requested more interactive, performance-oriented material. I obliged, all while
continually trying to maintain the thread of Moliere’s life story, even as one
class of students had to move on to something else, and another class of
students arrived. I ended up simply performing portions of “Moliere than Thou”
that were the most effective in waking students up… which, of course, the
teachers loved, but which leaves me feeling like the clown at the children's birthday party. Afterwards, I realized that what the school really wanted was a
performance of “Moliere than Thou,” but they had opted for my lower cost
option, a workshop. (When we traded e-mails after the fact, I noted that next
time around, if they wanted this kind of an experience, they would need to go
for the full performance.) As it was, I came away from the event with a ragged voice
(I hadn’t warmed up vocally beforehand) and less money.</div>
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I caught up with my
cousins, Kathy and Larry, just outside of San Antonio, before hitting the road,
stopping in New Orleans to catch a drink with fringe-star-and-dear-friend, Bremner
Duthie, swinging up to Chattanooga, visiting with Sabra & Paul (hosts
of many Chattanooga adventures over the years) and picking up the box of the
newly-published “The Breakneck Hamlet Companion.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Yes! It’s out and
available! On-line or in-person, complete with comments on plot, snarky
remarks, historical context, acting advice, and Book Antiqua text! It’s only
picked up a single reader review so far on Amazon. So, please, go to, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Breakneck-Hamlet-Companion-Actors-Notebook/dp/098318125X/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8">http://www.amazon.com/Breakneck-Hamlet-Companion-Actors-Notebook/dp/098318125X/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8</a>
, and share your opinion! Even if you’ve only seen the performance, you know
enough about the material in this book to have something to say! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Somewhere in the
course of all of this, I discovered that I was a winner in the <a href="http://fringefestivals.com/for-artists/touring-lottery/" target="_blank">CAFF lottery</a>! <o:p></o:p></div>
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CAFF stands for the
Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals, and the several lottery winners each
year win automatic acceptance into each of the Fringe festivals that they
select. We still have to pay the entrance fees, but we get to plot out the tour
that we want to perform, choosing our favorite fringe stops, and/or places that
we’ve heard are really great, but never got the chance to perform in. This time
around, I signed up for Orlando (I know: it’s in the United States, but it’s
still a member of CAFF), London (Ontario, not England), Regina, Winnipeg,
Calgary and Edmonton! It’s been ten years since I’ve performed in Canada (not
counting French teachers conferences), and I’m hoping a few people still
remember me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As opposed to other
Fringe tours, when I have sometimes performed as many as five different shows
through the course of the summer (or, sometimes, in a single festival), this time around, it’s all “Breakneck Hamlet”
all the time! It’s a new show that none of these festivals have hosted yet, and the
intention is, for once, to let performances in one city build up a reputation for the show in the next city along the way, as reviews, buzz
and gossip gather around me from one tour stop to the next. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In the interest
of building up that gossip (and with a few days off), I headed south to
Orlando, to check in with old friends, visiting with my usual host, Al. (Al
seems to prefer anonymity on social media sites, so I’ll leave his last name
off.) Al and I cooked up the idea for a preview performance of “Breakneck
Hamlet” in his living room, and we both invited a bunch of Orlando friends. Two
of the friends in attendance included the long time Fringe Reviewers, Matt Palm
(Orlando Sentinel) and Carl F. Gauze (Ink19.com). I gladly granted both permission to
write their fringe reviews based on this living room show (which was very well
received). These reviews won’t actually appear in the media until
late May, but, given that the Fringe Lottery
hadn’t even taken place yet, it made mine the earliest-reviewed fringe
performance ever! Somewhere, tucked away on two computers, are responses to
“Breakneck Hamlet,” which will only show up some eight months after they were
written!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Given that I had a
few days in Orlando before doubling back to Georgia for another performance of
“Breakneck Hamlet,” the rebuilt costume (thanks Kathy Conery!) had a chance to
catch up to me. With the previous costume stolen in Sacramento (by a thief who
clearly thought there was an item of more saleable material inside the bag),
Kathy had gone to work to rebuild the costume, largely from memory. (She seemed
to have misplaced the pattern, and my measurements.) <o:p></o:p></div>
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Nevertheless, the
costume came out just fine for my performance in Newnan, Georgia, for a group
of three acting-classes of students – about 60 people, who filled the several
front rows of a theatre which seemed to have about 3,000 seats. While they may
not have gotten some of the more subtle, snarky humor (such as: “Hamlet,
famous, of course, as a swift, responsive man-of-action…”), they enjoyed it quite
a bit, and it was fun to do it on another proscenium stage, with loads of
lighting effects available to create moonlight, ghost appearances, and red
pools suggesting bloody murder (for “the witching time of night…”). Despite me
being a one-man event, the performing arts center at Newnan did not skimp on
any of the extras, with a nice backstage snack table, and a star on my door! <o:p></o:p></div>
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From Newnan, I
continued on to Greenwood, South Carolina, with a repeat visit to Lander
University. The theatre professor, Monique was bringing me in for a workshop
and a performance of “Moliere than Thou,” which she’d caught on my last trip
through, workshopping and performing for Bess Park's troupe, Wild Hare
Productions (which was then producing my “The Learned Ladies”). <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Demonstrating "Tartuffe Seduction Techniques"</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">...</span></td></tr>
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The workshop was
extremely well received, and the show went even better. Monique had scheduled
me to present in the school’s small “black box” studio theatre, and even though
I was performing on a Saturday (which is rare for colleges in which students
often go home over weekends), the place was packed with over 70 people and NO
empty seats (they had to turn people away). Monique, and the
students, were extremely gracious, as were my hosts for the weekend, Byron and
Lou, who were putting me up at their house for the third time. </div>
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<o:p></o:p>
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In Americus, Georgia Jeff Green was producing a shortened
adaptation of my shortened adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Richard II,” “Henry IV
1 & 2” and “Henry V,” collectively known as “The Henriad.” They had opened
the show the previous weekend, but were between performances, which meant that
I wasn’t going to get to see what they did with my material… though they did
seem keenly interested in seeing “Shakespeare’s Histories; Ten Epic Plays at a
Breakneck Pace,” and attending to my workshop, afterwards. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Them Eastport Oyster Boys</span></td></tr>
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North again: I swung through Harrisonburg, checking in once more with Kathy Conery, who was
finally able to do an actual fitting of the costume she’d rebuilt, mostly from
memory (and some photographs), and I continued on to visit once again with my
sister, Maureen, and brother-in-law, Tim in St. Michael’s Maryland, and we
enjoyed a fabulous performance of the Eastport Oyster Boys, a rollicking fun
quartet of fisher-guys, with surprisingly hip nautically-themed music!</div>
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<o:p></o:p>
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I enjoyed a birthday
performance of “Moliere than Thou” at Newton High School in Newton, New Jersey,
where I’d last performed back in the Spring of 2004! The French teacher there
pushed for a grant to support the event, publicizing it widely and even <a href="https://www.tapinto.net/towns/newton/categories/news/articles/moliere-appears-at-newton-high-school" target="_blank">gettinga local reviewer out to the high school</a>! I loved getting the 200 or so Facebook
well-wishes, but the upshot is that I spend about 48 hours responding to
messages, and don’t get to spend much time on the “happy” part of the happy
birthday… I think next year I’ll just read, enjoy, appreciate, but spread out my replies through the year. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Theatre professor, Michael Swanson (who
had also booked me way back in the very first year of the tour: Fall, 2002,
when he was working with Franklin College in Indiana!) and I have kept in touch over the years, arranging a couple of American
College Theatre Festival events, before he finally found himself at a school
which might afford to bring me in… this time to do a workshop and present, “Lot
o’ Shakespeare.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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This performance (at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania) was
the shakiest I’ve ever been on my “Lot o’ Shakespeare” lines, and I write it
off to the fact that, with six entirely different shows on the fall tour, “Lot o’ Shakespeare,” almost double the length of any of the others… and
randomized through a bingo cage, is a challenge beyond what any single
narrative hour of memorization might present. Also, as I’m presenting a
potential two hours worth of material, doing my preferred “three-run-through prep” on
the day of the show is almost physically impossible. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Hillary, holding down the best day job ever: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Barkeep at a micro-brewery!</span></td></tr>
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New
England is not “on the way” to any other part of the country, which makes my stops out that
way are few and far between. If I’m lucky, I seem to arrange a single performance
out that way, but, with a number of friends in the area, this time, at least, I
took advantage of the opportunity to drop in on Hillary from the fabulous “Fruit
Flies Like a Banana” fringe show, and on Patrick Gabridge, the proprietor of
“Playwright Binge,” a listserv of playwrights who support each other in the
relentless submission of plays. This time, Patrick had a production
of one of his shows, “Lab Rats,” being presented in Boston, and I got there
just in time to see the well-executed performance. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">GSAT at MCLA!</span></td></tr>
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I settled in a hotel
for a couple of days to catch up on work before heading to the Massachusetts
College of Liberal Arts, where I presented the SIXTH play of this fall’s tour,
“The Greatest Speech of All Time.” Ironically, the poster they put together for
the event featured me in the midst of a performance of “Criteria, a One-Man
Comic Sci-Fi Thriller!”</div>
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<o:p></o:p>
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I sometimes wonder
whether I should give up on including history teachers in my e-mail campaigns,
but this was one of those rare occasions in which a history teacher had
actually booked my show, and a nice crowd of perhaps sixty students crowded in
to a conference room for the show, which was, once again, <a href="http://www.theonlinebeacon.com/actorauthor-recreates-classic-speeches-as-they-were-first-given/" target="_blank">reviewed by the college paper</a>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Heading southwest
again, I raced back through Harrisonburg, picking up the now-adjusted costume
from Kathy Conery, and pushing on through West Virginia, into Ohio. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Perhaps pushing a
little too hard… <o:p></o:p></div>
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As I drove, I was
feeling a little pushback from the engine… a glitch, or a hitch, or a flutter
of some sort. Somewhere in the mountains of West Virginia, a dashboard light
came on: “check engine…” <o:p></o:p></div>
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I eased back from my
hurry. I didn’t need to go 75 mph… Perhaps 60 would get me there just fine. <span style="text-indent: 0in;">Crossing from West
Virginia to Ohio, I ratcheted back down to 50. Around the one
hour mark, I dropped under 45, with the “check engine” light now
flashing at me! </span><span style="text-indent: 0in;">Switching over to a
state road, I dropped down to 35 miles per hour, and I still had to push another
10 miles past Cedarville, to where my hotel was waiting, as darkness gathered.</span></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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The next morning I
left the car with the Firestone folks, and late that afternoon that they called me back to let me know the
car was fixed. But as I drove it back down to Cedarville, I noticed that the
engine light back on and flashing once again! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Though I was running late, the tech staff at the
school were pros, focusing the specials and learning the cues all in the course
of an hour. Students gathered in the foyer as I finished last-minute
details, and ultimately almost all of the 70 or so chairs that had been
set out were filled. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The poster for Breakneck Hamlet </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">at Fresno's Rogue Festival!</span></td></tr>
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The show, on a small wooden platform stage with a wide staircase
descending four feet from the front of the stage to the first row of audience, was lots of fun.
That staircase provided an excellent playing space in the nether world between
stage and audience, and every time I worked any of my scenes in that space, I
could feel the tension and attention heighten, knowing that I was in a danger
zone where anything could happen. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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We did a talkback
afterwards, mostly about my strange living as a one-man show performer, before
heading out for dinner with a couple of the teachers, who caravanned back north
to the hotel with me, to make sure that I got back without further breakdown. <o:p></o:p></div>
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My next task would be to take the
car to a dealer, and I pushed through to<span style="text-indent: 0in;"> Bloomington, Indiana, where I had a bed, and a few days’ down time waiting for
me at Deb & Edwards’ get-away house. Somehow, I was able to get it to the Bloomington
Ford dealer, and they wanted to put a new engine in… a $7,000 investment in a car
that already had 245,000 miles on it.</span></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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I rented a car and
headed for Lexington, Kentucky. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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It was dark when I
finally got the rental, with some odd litter
still in the car from the previous renter, including a coffee cup in the cup
holder. I tossed that stuff out, replacing the cup with my smart phone, in
the only position where I could glance at the GPS to follow my route. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Checking into the hotel in Lexington, I noticed that the battery level of my phone, which
had been charging by way of the car’s cigarette lighter, was still down around
19%! <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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The next morning, the cell phone was completely unresponsive. It was then that I noticed that the cup holder where
I’d set my phone (in the darkness of an unfamiliar car the night before) seemed
to have a large puddle of coffee still in it! The base of my phone had
been soaking in a pool of coffee through the previous day’s drive! <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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I found my way to the
Sayre School where I’d performed a couple of times in previous years. This time
around, I would be performing in the school’s gymnasium, and we arranged a
“bandshell” surrounding so that my voice would remain directed to one bank of
bleachers where some of the students sat, between two angled banks of folding
chairs, giving me a slight thrust stage… but one where each bank of seats was
entirely separated from the other two. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This arrangement
created a split focus, and students seemed to struggle with understanding the
show. Even the teacher, who has seen me perform a couple of times in the past,
was less than enthusiastic this time around. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Actual Cover of Southern Illinois Newspaper...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"I swear: it wasn't me!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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I got out of town…
now without a working cell phone... but noticing <span style="text-indent: 0in;">just how very dependent I’d become on smart phone technology in the seven-or-so years since I’d gotten rid of my flip-phone. It's been years since I've kept a road atlas in the car, and I was now using guesswork to get from
Lexington to Carbondale, Illinois.</span><br />
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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</div>
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Explaining the problem to the guy at “Saluki
Screen Repair” in Carbondale, he immediately realized that the only
part of the phone that was probably soaked in coffee was the charging port at
the base. Within an hour, he’d replaced that port and the phone was functional
again, a $50 repair, rather than a dreaded $500+ phone replacement!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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I
was performing at my alma mater, Southern Illinois University. Only one of my
former faculty, Dr. Christian Moe (now long retired), was still in town, and he
and his wife Carolyn, both still in fine shape, managed to show up for the
show. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tim & The Moes</span></td></tr>
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The rest of the SIU faculty has brought me in
to perform in other years, and I bump into them at conferences from time to
time. This time, rather than the laboratory theatre (coincidentally, the “Christian
H. Moe Laboratory Theatre”), where I’d performed so very often as an undergrad,
I would be on the main stage (the “Macleod Theatre”), where I’d performed
mostly supernumerary parts in years past. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">
I happily announced
to my SIU Facebook friends that I was, at last, performing a lead role on the
Macleod Stage. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This time the show was extremely well received. The acoustics were excellent, and the savvy audience extremely attentive. There
may have been a hundred students (including the awesome Amber
Peterson, in her final semester as an undergrad), but they, and especially the
faculty, were feeding my energy with a really rollicking response.<br />
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When it came
time for the “Tartuffe Volunteer Scene,” the Voice Professor, Susan Patrick
Benson, who was quickly becoming a good friend, put up her hand. <span style="text-indent: 0in;">More often than not,
the volunteer scene becomes a bit of a joke at the expense of the volunteer,
who is a bit bewildered by the seduction scene now happening around her, but
Susan gave me a run for my money, giving back as good as she got with a
sparkling showing.</span></div>
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The next day I was on
my way back to Bloomington, this time with Amber joining me. Amber’s
mom, April was getting ready to move out of her house back in Glenview, and I
was driving her back for one final goodbye to the old homestead. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But first, it was
time for a new car! With some research help from April, I knew that the model I
now wanted was a Mazda CX-5. It had good mileage, enough room and a little more
pick-up than the Ford Escape. Also, six years after my last car purchase, new
cars have gotten much more interactive with Bluetooth technology.<o:p></o:p></div>
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knowing that I was stranded, with the need to leave town right away, had little
incentive to negotiate the price. But when they only offered me $1500 for the trade-in on the old car, I said no. <o:p></o:p></div>
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There was a winter
storm blowing through Indiana that night, so Amber and I stayed the night at
Deb & Edwards’ house, where (leaving my old car parked in the garage) I
pushed on the following morning… encountering plenty of snow blowing across the interstate, leaving packed ice along the path.
By the time we got back to Chicago, my brand new car was coated and splattered with salt and ice. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In Chicago, I
split my time between working my latest mega-e-mail campaign, promoting the
2016 tour,
and helping April get packed up and moved out. April’s house was sold, but she
had yet to close on her new condo, so there was a lot of maneuvering with
storage spaces over a couple of weeks. Meanwhile, I picked up a sublet in
Waukegan, where I’d be returning for more performances at Clockwise Theatre in
January. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I doubled back to Bloomington, managing to sell the old Escape (for a thousand
dollars more than the dealer had offered), and returning, yet again to
Carbondale, this time for Amber’s early graduation. (Amber pushed herself to get
done a semester early, and still graduate summa cum laude!) We somehow managed to surprise her, as nobody actually mentioned that I, and her sibling-figures, Nick and Victoria had made the trip. </div>
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Christmas and New
Year’s raced by while I rehearsed three different one-man Shakespeare shows
(“Lot o’ Shakespeare,” “Shakespeare’s Histories” and “Breakneck Hamlet”) to perform in rotating repertory at Clockwise! <o:p></o:p></div>
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The shows themselves
were well received, although most of the publicity surrounding them seemed to
not have had much impact, as the coverage was minimal. (We did at least, pick
up <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-county-news-sun/lifestyles/ct-lns-tim-mooney-clockwise-st-0108-20160102-story.html" target="_blank">this feature article in the Tribune/News Sun.</a>) <o:p></o:p></div>
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Meanwhile, though,
various audience and friends were posting their own effusive responses on
Facebook:<o:p></o:p><br />
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"An extraordinary and enlightening experience." (Bonny Davidson)</blockquote>
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"...Phenomenal. His memory of the lines is breathtaking... Anyone looking for a very entertaining and amazing act... you really need to check this out... Simply amazing." (Suzy Bowe Sadowski) </blockquote>
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"Your performance was INCREDIBLE... I was completely enthralled on the edge of my seat. Shakespeare is alive..." (Wade Dickson) </blockquote>
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"The show was SO entertaining. I highly recommend going... Especially if you don't know much about Shakespeare. You'll have a whole new appreciation and understanding after watching Tim Mooney's incredible and energetic performance." (Linda Fagan Emmerich)</blockquote>
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"Whole new fun and entertaining way to present Shakespeare. Tim Mooney is a gifted performer. Wish my high school English lit teachers would've made Shakespeare as enoyable! Go if you get a chance. You will not regret it." (Jamie McMahon Shaw)</blockquote>
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"Such talent! Thanks for "turning me on"... to more interest in Shakespeare. Your talent astounded me. EVERYONE, go see this!" (Kris Seegren) </blockquote>
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"We loved both shows and area still shaking our heads over the remarkable amount of Brit istory Tim teaches through Shakespearean eyes. Most astounding is Tim's ability to convey the Bard's most profound soliloquies with full tilt emotion in 'Shakespeare's Histories'... How does one guy keep all that info in his head?" (Jan McGee)</blockquote>
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And... as long as I'm citing the reviews... I received this happy report from a parent the other day:<br />
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"My 15 year old son won a Shakespeare monologue contest by studying your videos on YouTube... He is moving on to the regional level the end of this month... He considers your books and videos his secret weapon." (Mendee Rock)</blockquote>
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With just three weeks
of January before hitting the road, I booted up yet ANOTHER e-mail campaign.
The bookings for the coming year were looking pretty thin, despite the “big
anniversary year,” and so I offered a “January White Sale” discount that tends
to “shake the trees” to bring out last minute bookings. With such
a limited schedule, I pushed through the e-mail campaign faster than ever: in just over two weeks. Several venues have responded, and more are still
checking in. (If anybody reading this now wants to book a show, I’ll honor the
“white sale” discount through the first two weeks of February.) <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hugo spotted me at a Waukegan Bar,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">surreptitiously drawing this...</span></td></tr>
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Meanwhile, I am once
again looking seriously at going not for profit. The year now-gone-by has seen
a very effective fundraising campaign, as well as a large spontaneous “award”
from an audience member. The reviews that these works have collected over the
years, have increasingly testified to the educational value of the material.
And the vast majority of the schools out there cannot begin to afford to book
me… even during a “sale.” How much more fun would all this be if I didn’t have
to worry about each individual booking clearing my costs for touring, and if
the schools didn’t have to run bake sales and chase grants, just to bring me
in? (I’m going to be kicking this into high gear as soon as I get this blog out...!)<o:p></o:p></div>
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With the deadline screaming
toward me, I packed up from the sublet space, loaded up the car, and hit
the road. Once again, the first stop was Bloomington, and from there,
on to Chattanooga, Tennessee. I was bringing “Breakneck
Hamlet” to Berry College, just outside of Rome, Georgia. T<span style="text-indent: 0in;">he little 200-seat thrust theatre space was
packed, with about 20 turned away at the door. The audience got ALL of my
jokes, and it felt both funny and “dangerous.” Having bought a new camera, I
captured what looks like some terrific video of the show. (The two videos in this blog are from that performance.)</span></div>
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Finally, I was
surprised to receive an invite from a friend who now lives in Ireland, to come
over and visit sometime. Looking at my schedule for the summer, I realized that
I still have a three week gap in which I neither had any plans, nor any place
to stay… And, thinking about the possibilities, I realized that I have some
connections in other countries (England, Scotland, Denmark), where they might
also want to see a performance of “Breakneck Hamlet!” And, as such, I am in the
process of scoping out a European Tour this summer, in addition to the Canadian
fringe circuit! (More on that as plans develop… but I've already begun to promote the European leg of the tour in my videos!)<o:p></o:p></div>
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And finally, while working on this edition of the blog, I've been camped out in Alabama, updating my computer's operating system, so that I could get my new camera (replacing the one stolen in Sacramento) to interact with the computer. I managed to book a last minute appearance in Idyllwild, California (arranged by the amazing Betty Ginsburg Anderson) for next week. She posted the news on Facebook, and yet another commenter replied:<br />
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"I never was interested or understood Shakespeare until I experienced Tim's performance!" (Stacey Grant)</blockquote>
<b>Discoveries: </b>Sometimes they want a serious lecture; sometimes they just want the clown at the birthday party... at a discount. * Sometimes a narrower variety of available shows enables me to spread a more active buzz from one festival to the next. * If the people sending wishes for a happy birthday on Facebook really want you to have a happy birthday, then they won't mind you responding to their greeting some other day... * Somewhere in between the performance space and the audience lies a "danger zone." If I can find my way into that, the attention shoots through the roof. * If I can find a way to do these performances without me or the hosting schools having to freak out about money, that's a much healthier way to get by.<br />
Next Performances: Wadley, AL (Feb 4), Midland, TX (Feb 8), Idyllwild, CA (Feb 11).<br />
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(Already-booked dates
in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">GREEN; </span>Tentative
bookings in<span style="color: green;"> </span><span style="color: red;">RED</span>;
</b>Available dates in<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;"> </span><span style="color: #000090;">BLUE</span></b>)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">MTT</span></b> = “Moliere than Thou”; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">LoS</span></b> =
“Lot o’ Shakespeare; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">GSAT</span></b> = “Greatest Speech of All Time;” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">SH</span></b> –
“Shakespeare’s Histories” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">BH</span></b> – “Breakneck Hamlet”<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">WINTER, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb
4:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Southern
Union State Community College, Wadley, AL (GSAT & SH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 5-7:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>LOUISIANA,
MISSISSIPPI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb
8:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Trinity School of Midland,
Midland, TX (MTT)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 7-10:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS, NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>Feb 11: Cafe Aroma, Idyllwild, CA (BH)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 12-16:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 17:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEVADA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 18:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>UTAH, WYOMING<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 19-21:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 22-23:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KANSAS, NEBRASKA,
OKLAHOMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 24<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSOURI, ARKANSAS,
LOUISIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 26<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TENNESSEE, MISSISSIPPI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Feb 27-29<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TENNESSEE, ALABAMA,
GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 1<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 2<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>SOUTH/NORTH
CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar
3-5<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SETC Greensboro, NC<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 6<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>TENNESSEE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 7<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>ARKANSAS, OKLAHOMA,
TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 8<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>TEXAS, NEW
MEXICO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 9<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>ARIZONA,
CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar
10-12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Rogue Theatre Fest, Fresno, CA
(BH at Fresno Soapco)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 13<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA, NEVADA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 14<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Vanden
High School, Fairfield, CA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 16<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Astoria
High School, Astoria, OR<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 17-21<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OREGON,
WASHINGTON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar
22<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Coaster Theatre Playhouse,
Cannon Beach, OR<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 23-24<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WASHINGTON, IDAHO,
UTAH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 25-26<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MONTANA, WYOMING<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 27<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SOUTH/NORTH
DAKOTA, NEBRASKA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MINNESOTA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 29-30<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IOWA / WISCONSIN
/ ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mar 31-Apr 2 ILLINOIS, INDIANA, MICHIGAN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr
3<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Indianapolis, IN (MTT
Salon Performance)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr
4<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Trine University, Angola,
IN (BH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 4-5 <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WEST VIRGINIA,
PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 6-7<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA, NEW
YORK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr
7<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Neumann University, Aston,
PA (LoS)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 7-10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr
11 <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Brown University, Providence
RI 4 pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Apr 12-13<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA,
NEW JERSEY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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30<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>U of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (Isaac’s
Graduation)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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tim_mooney@earthlink.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10251175800373730254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359867.post-64253422777160034692015-10-11T13:56:00.001-07:002016-02-03T15:22:23.969-08:00The View From Here # 167: Summer/Fall, 2015<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Yorick & Hamlet (L-R) (Photo by Dale Jessen)</span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">I have often thought
that life on the road is just like real life, only more exaggerated, with
higher highs and lower lows… Having enjoyed both in the course of the last 48 hours, I’m thinking it’s time to gather thoughts and
update the blog… I now notice that it’s been
quite some time (six months) since the last release... April 7! Those have been some <b>very full months!</b></span></div>
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I tend to do much more updating on Facebook, so if you’re interested in
more live action play-by-play, you might want to check in with me there… (Right
now it’s just a personal page, but one of these days, I’m goi<span style="text-align: center;">ng to set up a
performer page and find out how many people “like” me.) </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">And, at least one friend (I'm looking at you Bill Webster!) has complained of my loquacious style in these epic tales, requesting that I edit it back to "maybe one or two pages." To which I respond: "Thanks for the input." </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><i>Breakneck Hamlet</i> Costume Design<br />by Kathleen Conery</b></span></td></tr>
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I left you in the
midst of the breathless Indiegogo Campaign for <b><i>Breakneck Hamlet</i></b>, following a
flurry of donations in the first week and a drop off in weeks 2 and
3. We were slowly creeping up on $8,000 with just one week to go to hit $11,000. Just in case you didn’t hear me cheering from where YOU were,
you should know that we hit that, and have since gone $896 <b>past</b> it! (<a href="http://igg.me/at/BreakneckHamlet" target="_blank">Donations are still being graciously accepted</a>...!) The
collection of “Swag” has continued to expand, beyond “Breakneck
Hamlet” stickers, coffee mugs, t-shirts, to, now, DVDs and, now, books! I’ve
begun fulfilling on the “Living Room Performances” for those $1K donors, and am
gradually beginning to catch my breath, even as the Fall Tour is in full swing!<o:p></o:p></div>
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And, THANK YOU to
everyone (150 people!) who stepped up with support, moral, financial or
otherwise! Here I am late at night after a full day of awesome fundraising...!</div>
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With the Fundraiser
in the bag, I turned full-force toward opening night: May 29 at Clockwise
Theatre in Waukegan, Illinois (about 3 blocks from where I used to run the
Stage Two Theatre Company)! I applied for three fringe festivals, all
of which I got into! (Sadly, the
Orlando Fringe application deadline had already passed, but I’ve been hearing
from folks who “missed me” there this year, and the build-up of anticipation should be that much the greater next spring!) <o:p></o:p></div>
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I tried the show out
on it’s first audience… about 10 friends at Deb Pekin’s house. They were a
theatre-savvy crowd and laughed a LOT at my Hamlet in-jokes. My performance
was breathlessly rapid-fire, and I captured it on video to study the parts that
drew responses and examine where I needed to “take my moment.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>And this is the <i>BORING PART</i>...</b></div>
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I was reciting my lines sometimes three times a day in my temporary Chicago basement apartment. Very conscious of the dues that
need to be paid to make these things work, I struggle to get my psycho-physical-neurological
self into the habit of repeating these things over and over and over again. My magic number is usually three times a day. If there’s a particular
portion of the play that I really want to nail down: NINE times a
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What I do is roughly
5% talent and 95% repetition. Since there are no other actors who quite do what I do, there is no standard benchmark or process for this work; I am inspired
by the pianists who work their scales over and over and over again, or the
dancers who execute their routines. I work to get
the remembering and recitation so entirely <b>unconscious</b> that I can still
contemplate the emotional nuances, the physical/vocal dynamics, and the
perceived attention/distraction of the audience as I work. And so, I <i>bored myself silly</i> for well over a month!</div>
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North Idaho College
produced my “The Misanthrope!” Thanks Joe Jacoby!<o:p></o:p></div>
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The fundraiser enabled me to hire a publicist
for the Summer’s run of shows, and enjoyed nice coverage wherever I went!
Thanks Sabrina Wottreng! <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>Breakneck Hamlet</i></b> t-shirts arrived! Awesome! You are going to want <a href="http://igg.me/at/BreakneckHamlet" target="_blank">one for yourself</a>! <o:p></o:p></div>
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I did a pre-opening
night Arts-Waulk event (in Waukegan, Illinois), performing in many of the
galleries in Waukegan… and then this happened (quoting from my Facebook page): <o:p></o:p></div>
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In the midst of one of my Art Gallery previews of <b><i>Breakneck Hamlet</i></b> and <b><i>Shakespeare on Demand</i></b> last Saturday, a street person carrying a bible and what we assume was a tall can of some kind of alcohol, walked into the gallery, just after I had started the Henry V "St. Crispin's Day" speech. Walking right past the audience which was standing a respectful distance of 10-15 feet away, he got to just a few feet in front of me, staring for about 30 seconds, and then knelt down, leafing through his bible, with his head angled to the ground, waiting. No one, including me, had any idea what he was going to do, and everyone looked to me to see if I had any clue. Eventually, on the line, "For he today that sheds his blood with me... this day shall gentle their condition," I "knighted" him, touching the sword to his shoulder. At that point, he gathered his things, stood up, seemingly satisfied with a successful result, walking back out of the gallery. Everyone looked just a little bewildered. </div>
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brief stop in Harrisonburg, Virginia, getting fitted for the <i>Hamlet</i> costume,
I continued to Annapolis, Maryland, in time for opening night of the world
premiere of my <i><b>The Servant of Two Masters</b></i>. It was a blast! </span><br />
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There is nothing more enjoyable than a pleasant summer evening, unless, you happen to be at Annapolis Shakespeare Company's 'Comedy in the Courtyard' at Reynolds Tavern [to] take in the madcap, drama-filled spectacle that is <i>The Servant of Two Masters</i>. For a play written originally in Italian and premiered in 1753 (262 years ago!), Carlo Goldoni's play holds up well for modern audiences. This new adaptation by Timothy Mooney is relevant, rhyming and raucous. Mooney's modern word usage and clever innuendos allow everyone to laugh at the jokes... (<i>Winters Geimer, DCMetroTheaterArts</i>)</blockquote>
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">Soon after, another
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...A jewel in the firmament of Reynolds Tavern Courtyard, Director Sally Boyett choreographs a "Commedia D'ell Right Now" that doesn't just tickle the funny bone, it hits it hard and rubs it for you afterwards. Punny to a quip from the couplets to the sound effects... this consummate cast and crew returns us to a form that brings the laughs to the audience firmly in the know of all the inside jokes... This cast runs circles around each other, each one cranking up the volume of performance until the last moment rings out. (<i>Paul Davis, Theatrebloom.com</i>) </blockquote>
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">(Since then, this
play has been chosen as “<b>Recommended</b>” for competition in the DC area “Helen
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWtf9KJKbSx7MxAEyvBKX8lzbBEMQ2H5ovF7wYb3YAERTyDCoXgwDBQmYL_hoARtGoJ_6zDF1JOg_HwDoNA7zpL4OWJCbskvIoW0MA_IhCbgYS5qZR0d5gVR-FS8JsZ-Ep146b/s1600/BH+at+Moe+%2526+Tim%2527s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWtf9KJKbSx7MxAEyvBKX8lzbBEMQ2H5ovF7wYb3YAERTyDCoXgwDBQmYL_hoARtGoJ_6zDF1JOg_HwDoNA7zpL4OWJCbskvIoW0MA_IhCbgYS5qZR0d5gVR-FS8JsZ-Ep146b/s200/BH+at+Moe+%2526+Tim%2527s.jpg" width="200" /></a>Before heading west
again, I tried <b><i>Breakneck Hamlet</i></b> out on another living-room test audience at my sister’s
house in Maryland. Again, a terrific response this time from an
audience vividly caught up in the internal/psychological character of Hamlet.
(His choice to NOT kill the king in Act III, Scene 3 drew much response.)
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since my stop in Harrisonburg, Kathy Conery had developed her initial
stitched-together take on the <i>Hamlet</i> costume to an awesome result which felt
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">Back in Chicago, feature
articles started appearing in the papers, and (rare for me), I got to rehearse on-site
for about a week prior to opening the show. And the Clockwise folks actually
built a stage floor and set for the show! I videotaped a late
rehearsal and clipped together a promo video. A photographer showed up to do
some great shots. </span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">In addition to <b><i>Breakneck Hamlet</i></b> I would be performing a second act: a variation on <b><i>Lot o’
Shakespeare</i></b>, entitled <b><i>Shakespeare on Demand</i></b>… taking requests from whatever
Shakespeare play the audience wanted to throw at me!</span><br />
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And then opening
night! From my own remarks posted on Facebook:<br />
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The world premiere opening night of <b><i>Breakneck Hamlet</i></b> felt really awesome tonight! It taxes me to the limit, and a couple times in Act V (dying as Laertes, and then hopping back up to do Hamlet), I felt like I was on the edge of passing out! Looking forward to upcoming reviews, but in the meantime my dear friends seem to be unanimous in their enthusiasm!</blockquote>
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">These friends began
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">LAURA SCRUGGS:</span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">Thrilled that I got to see Tim Mooney in his spectacular world premiere of </span><b style="text-indent: 0in;"><i>Breakneck Hamlet</i></b><span style="text-indent: 0in;"> tonight at </span><i style="text-indent: 0in;">Clockwise Theatre</i><span style="text-indent: 0in;"> in Waukegan! I cried a lot; it's just so inspiring when you see someone who is really living in their purpose. He truly captured the essence of </span><i style="text-indent: 0in;">Hamlet</i><span style="text-indent: 0in;"> in his one-man show; the versatility he displays in playing multiple characters and portraying the story in a clear and interesting way is stunning. He is brilliant and hilarious; during the second half, he asked the audience to call out ANY Shakespearean play and then he did a monologue from that show!</span></blockquote>
<span style="text-indent: 0in;">BOB BANKS:</span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">...Tim Mooney as EVERYBODY Shakespeare ever created. WHAT FUN! ... Mr. Mooney digs into the speeches he likes and then fills in the plot on the rest of the interminable stuff with humor, yet never letting the art of the play disappear. Act II is forty-five minutes of interactive magic. Even if you are not a Shakespeare fan, I think you'll be amazed and amused by this simple, black box production, and by Mr. Mooney's incredible skills in both character portrayal and memorization. </span></blockquote>
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hours, press response started to come in:</span></div>
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Brilliant... he seamlessly throw in asides, explanations and famous lines, as he whirls to the play's conclusion... (<i>Jodie Jacobs, Examiner.com</i>) </blockquote>
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Fun, Fearless
Shakespeare… Great success… Cliff Notes on caffeine. (<i>Cora Vasseur, Halfstack
Magazine</i>)</blockquote>
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">I started piecing
some video together for promotion, including a raced-through capture from
opening night (when I still wasn’t quite ready for some of the sudden laughs
the show was getting from the responsive audience)!</span></div>
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Shortly after<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><i>Breakneck Hamlet</i></b> opening, Laura Scruggs
(quoted above) and her husband Jake, who do a podcast via skype with their
friend Bryn Packard (“<a href="http://areyoufamousyet.libsyn.com/tim-mooney-is-moliere-than-thou-episode-82" target="_blank">Are You Famous Yet?</a>”) posted an interview we’d done a couple
of weeks prior. They’d asked a lot of the questions that I get asked on a
fairly regular basis. I always dread those inquiries, as any serious answer
would require hundreds of pages of detail… but finally these answers are
collected in a single place, so I can refer people there!<br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">More friends were
coming to <b><i>Breakneck Hamlet</i></b>, and for the second performance, I had both Dad
and Isaac in the house! One acquaintance who’d never seen <i>Hamlet</i> before summed it
up thusly: “That guy had one hell of a rough day! And his girlfriend died!”</span></div>
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The basement apartment that I’d been subletting flooded! Soaking a lot of my
personal papers (essays, letters, scripts, files, promotional postcards…) that I’d been carting around for as much as 35 years (just in case some PhD
candidate somewhere is researching their dissertation around the work of
Timothy Mooney). I took that as an inspiration to toss some of the less
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With the audience
reaction fresh in mind, I redoubled my work on <b><i>The Breakneck Hamlet
Companion</i></b>, finishing the first rough draft detailing my thoughts on the
dramatic structure, the character of Hamlet, the historical issues that a modern American audience might not realize, and about acting this greatest role of all time. (You can
see me flashing my early scratches on the first draft in the top video above!)</div>
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I managed to enjoy a St. James grade school reunion! (Go, Bulldogs!) <o:p></o:p><br />
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The Kansas City Fringe Preview event was captured live on film, and I had 2 1/2 minutes to do the opening of <b><i>Breakneck Hamlet</i></b>!<br />
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A group had dropped
out of the KC Fringe Festival late in the process, and I snuck a second show
onto the Fringe schedule: <b><i>Criteria, A One-Man Comic Sci-Fi Thriller!</i></b> <a href="http://www.pitch.com/kansascity/sixty-or-90-minutes-at-a-time-fringe-and-the-invasion-reveal-heroes-and-also-rans/Content?oid=5340004" target="_blank">And, both <b><i>Criteria</i></b> and <b><i>Hamlet </i></b>got great pre-festival notice from Pitch.com</a>! (Thanks, Sabrina!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Opening night would
feature both shows in immediate succession, and <i><b>Breakneck Hamlet</b></i> proceeded to
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Arguably the greatest
play of all time, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hamlet</i> is a
behemoth... Mooney provides stage directions; settings;
weaves commentary, context, and criticism; and, most importantly, gives
prominence to the recurring themes so much so that it’s as if they are lit up
in neon lights… The highlight of Mooney’s presentation is his deft willingness
to pause a beat, albeit a breathtakingly quick one. These caesuras were used
both for comedic timing and to launch into monologue. It was so well done that
the comedic beats never failed to earn a laugh and the soliloquies flowed naturally.
There were no stage whispers here. His Hamlet is not a wishy-washy worry-wart;
instead, he’s a man that sees all possible outcomes of his actions, and the one
moment of his inaction causes all the ruin. <i><b>Breakneck Hamlet</b></i> is a
whirlwind of wonderful. Hold on to your seats and watch a master at his work. (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lee Hartman, KCMetropolis.org)</i></blockquote>
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">The summer was just getting underway… </span><span style="text-indent: 0in;">Another review found
both </span><b style="text-indent: 0in;"><i>Breakneck Hamlet</i></b><span style="text-indent: 0in;"> and </span><b style="text-indent: 0in;"><i>Criteria</i></b><span style="text-indent: 0in;"> winning honorable mentions in the annual
“Pitch” list of favorites:</span></div>
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Don't skip the succinct and engaging <b><i>Breakneck Hamlet</i></b>, a fast-moving hour that condenses the great play... an animated and eloquent performance, and amusing as well... The entertaining Mooney also appears in his own play, <b><i>Criteria</i></b>... the absorbing, very personal tale of Albert and his experiences on a mission on enemy turf.</blockquote>
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Last night I turned the mature woman in the front row into "Queen Gertrude," as Hamlet gave her holy hell. Momentarily, I turned to a sweet little four-year-old off to the side on "To flaming youth let virtue be as wax!" When I turned back to the now visibly shaken "Gertrude" to hassle her for lying "in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, stewed in corruption, honeying and making love over the nasty sty," the woman's husband discreetly got up out of his chair, moving one seat away from his wife as the audience roared.</blockquote>
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">And then, one more
review from </span><i style="text-indent: 0in;">KC Metropolis,</i><span style="text-indent: 0in;"> this time for </span><b style="text-indent: 0in;">Criteria</b><span style="text-indent: 0in;">, </span><span style="text-indent: 0in;">from a reviewer who has cheered on my work several times in past
festivals</span><span style="text-indent: 0in;">…</span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">Along with his signature comedic timing and vigorous delivery, Timothy Mooney is nothing short of an indefatigable creative force. After bringing pieces based on history and Shakespearean literature to previous KC Fringe Festivals, this year he shows off his talent for original speculative fiction. His flair for storytelling and imaginative worldbuilding completely immersed me in this vision of future America, focusing on totalitarianism, identity, security, and class structure... (<i>Kristin Shafel Omiccioli</i>)</span></blockquote>
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When I'm in a rush, with only ten minutes to pack up my show, I generally pull out the bin of t-shirts and coffee mugs and trust people to toss in what they deem appropriate. On the last night of my Kansas City run, somebody tossed a hundred-dollar bill into the bin...! (Sweet...!)<br />
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As great as the response was, I have to note that attendance was down for this fringe. I was doing two shows and making <b>less</b> money than <b><i>Shakespeare's Histories</i></b> earned by itself just last year. I'm willing to bet that at least part of the problem was that I was, in fact, offering <b>two</b> shows rather than one, and the crowd wasn't being driven to my show with the single firm "elevator pitch" highlighting <b><i>Breakneck Hamlet</i></b>, which was, rather, being sold to them in conjunction with an entirely unrelated show.<br />
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<b>On to Minneapolis!</b><br />
The Minneapolis/St. Paul Magazine had already listed <b><i>Breakneck Hamlet</i></b> at the top of "Most Intriguing Titles" this year, and the first review out came from TwinCities.com (aka, Pioneer Press) which once listed my <b><i>Criteria</i></b> as "Avoid it like the plague," which now listed <b><i>Hamlet</i></b> as a "Must See."<br />
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Timothy Mooney's tour de force performance clocks in at exactly [an hour], and what an hour it is! Mooney, billed as adaptor, editor, explainer and actor, may have trimmed the bard's best-known play from 32,000-plus words to 9,000, but audiences will still come away with a thorough understanding of it and get a few laughs along the way -- from a work not exactly known for its humor. Be prepared, however. <b><i>Breakneck Hamlet</i></b> is truly breakneck, and may leave you panting with exertion as Mooney goes through his paces.</blockquote>
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Timothy Mooney delivers an engaging, amusing, and respectful version of <i>Hamlet</i> that doesn't miss a thing, despite being less than an hour long. I've seen <i>Hamlet</i> many times (more than any other Shakespeare play), and yet I feel like I've gained new insights through this production. Timothy is a charming host as he leads us through every scene in the five-act play, sometimes describing the action, sometimes offering historical context, and sometimes reciting lines or monologues from the play. It's super fast but feels like a complete story, and Timothy delivers his adaptation with much energy, excitement, physicality, and a great use of the space at the Theatre Garage. You've probably seen <i>Hamlet</i> before, but you've never seen <i>Hamlet</i> quite like this. (<i>Jill Schafer</i>) </blockquote>
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As I'm sure I've mentioned before, the Minnesota Fringe Festival on-line-review website is amazing. I usually walk away with some 25-30 audience reviews which help me define and promote my shows. This year I came away with 35 reviews, brimming with hyperbole <i>and I will spare you all but one</i>... <span style="text-indent: 0in;">My favorite this year was from fellow performer, Amy Salloway...</span><br />
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Of the vast Mooney Canon, forsooth, methinks this show be my favorite of all. Cleverly hath Sir Tim compressed, like a grape 'neath stomping foot, the scenes of lesser import, thus carving time to strut & fret & utter the whole of Prince Hamlet's monologues. He includeth the "greatest hittes" of the play's verbiage, such that we, the unwashed masses of audience, might exclaim "What ho! Didst I not memorize that in sophomore English?", & thus feel smart. Tim's asides be mirthful yet unforced; his energy like a monsoon; his acting clear & stellar; &; best of all, his unique narration doth illuminate the story such that even I -- Hamlet-soaked for nigh 3 decades -- didst see things I had not seen afore now, & I LEARNED ANEW. The rest is silence.</blockquote>
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="text-indent: 0in;">...Tim always presents Shakespeare in a way where it actually makes sense to the audience. His plays always make me feel smarter when I leave the theater because I just spent an hour with a Master. (</span><i style="text-indent: 0in;">Don Stremski</i><span style="text-indent: 0in;">)</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">Saying sad goodbyes to my Minnesota friends, the migration to Indianapolis got underway... I've been following the folks from "</span><a href="http://www.boxofclowns.com/" style="text-indent: 0in;" target="_blank">Box of Clowns</a><span style="text-indent: 0in;">" from one city to the next, but this time I found myself pulling up to my billet just behind their car! We were being billeted just across the street from each other, and got together for dinner before the festival got underway.</span><br />
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Those of you who remember the adorable four-year-old who came to see my show two years ago, will be happy to see her back, as a precocious six-year-old this time around.<br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">She actually ran up to give me a hug <b>during the curtain call</b> of <i>Hamlet</i>, reporting that all of that dying in Act V had "freaked me out."</span><br />
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the Mayor of Indianapolis, who had been to see </span><b style="text-indent: 0in;"><i>The Greatest Speech of All Time</i></b><span style="text-indent: 0in;"> took a moment to pose with me and Anna (Mango”) of </span><i style="text-indent: 0in;"><b>Box of Clowns</b></i><span style="text-indent: 0in;"> fame. </span><br />
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Opening night won a
standing ovation in the presence of at least two reviewers in the audience. The
visceral reaction from the woman in the front row who I treated as “Ophelia”
(actress/storyteller Lou Ann Holman) spilled over to one of the reviewers, as she clung to her two friends
seated next to her… which <i>included</i> IndyStar reviewer, Allison Carter, who sent this series
of tweets immediately after the show:<br />
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<b><i>Breakneck Hamlet</i></b> is my favorite show so far and it is EXHAUSTING. 9,000 words spoken in 59:42.<br />
<b><i>Breakneck Hamlet</i></b> is basically a madcap Cliff's Notes with high-speed and breezy narration and impassioned monologues.<b><i><br /></i></b><b><i>Breakneck Hamlet</i></b> is by turns funny, frightening and lovely. How Shakespeare should be taught, really.</blockquote>
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When the she posted her actual review, she called it:<br />
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...Madcap, high-energy and both funny and affecting take on one of Shakespeare's most beloved plays... Mooney struts and prowls through the makeshift theater... "Get thee to a nunnery!" he bellowed at my friend, prompting her to pull me closer for protection. This is not a show one watches passively. You are roughly three feet away from the actor. He is making eye contact with you... This is the way Shakespeare should be taught -- heard, lived, experienced... And Mooney brings it together with tremendous passion and way more energy than any one man ought to possess. (<i>Allison Carter, IndyStar</i>) </blockquote>
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="text-indent: 0in;">(She also went on about my "electric blue eyes flashing," but... you know, modesty...)</span></span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">The </span><a href="http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/indyfringe-live-reviews/Content?oid=3405994" style="text-indent: 0in;" target="_blank">Nuvo</a><span style="text-indent: 0in;"> reviewer began posting, too! (Indy is the “TwitterFringe”.) He tweeted out:</span><br />
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If you are like me, you've felt frustration with Hamlet for his inability to act at the right time. But Timothy Mooney can act, in a hyper-caffeinated performance that offers great history and insight and runs rings, not just rhetorical rings, around that other performance by Mel Gibson. (<i>Dan Grossman</i>)</blockquote>
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">Unfortunately,
neither the </span><i style="text-indent: 0in;">Indy Star</i><span style="text-indent: 0in;"> nor </span><i style="text-indent: 0in;">Nuvo</i><span style="text-indent: 0in;"> posted more than a fraction of their reviews in
an actual printed paper... an unfortunate trend that is squelching
theatre attendance. Like it or not, the theatre-going demographic (especially
for classical theatre) tilts older… folks who still read their
news in hard copy rather than on-line. Getting an on-line review that never
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But, the good
response continued… <span style="text-indent: 0in;">Jay Harvey, an Indy
institution (former entertainment editor for the Indianapolis Star) called it:</span><br />
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Astonishing... a concise cliff-hanger [with] distinct acting triumphs... an assured and lively adaptation...</blockquote>
Attendance remained low. In none of the three Fringe festivals were great reviews translating into ticket sales. And, perhaps no review can overcome the initial inertia that attaches itself to the name "Shakespeare," at least in a "fringe festival." There came one night in which I was feeling particularly down about empty seats, particularly as the late show I'd just performed was attended by more artists than ticket-buying patrons. I was coming away with the tiniest payout from the night's efforts.<br />
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The next morning, the head of the festival (Pauline) called to tell me that a local arts-funding patron/benefactor/foundation-head had been to last night's show -- loved it -- and wanted to present me with "an award." (At first this sounded vaguely like some sort of plaque or a certificate.) I slowly gathered that this would, in fact, likely be a <i>check</i>, from a very generous foundation. I met with her briefly that afternoon, and ended up with a check for $2,000!<br />
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It endlessly fascinates me how often Great Things follow Borderline Despair...<br />
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The final weeks of the Fringe Tour (and some weeks thereafter) were caught up in one more booking campaign, sending out my usual mass of 15,000 e-mails announcing the availability and the success of the new show. This time, however, I was also promoting a special discount. Given my obsessive-compulsive work on funding and performing the new show, I was way behind in getting events lined up!<br />
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And so, for this one semester, I've made a significant price cut, at least until the new year comes and my promotional efforts recover their momentum...<br />
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And, while I face the challenges of selling full-priced shows once again, I am also looking at the challenges of going not-for-profit. My <i>Box of Clowns</i> friends have gone NFP under the umbrella of a group called <a href="https://www.fracturedatlas.org/" target="_blank">"Fractured Atlas."</a> Given the remarkable success of the <a href="http://igg.me/at/BreakneckHamlet" target="_blank">Indiegogo Campaign</a>, followed by the $2,000 award, perhaps there are better ways of tackling expenses, and easing the costs that get passed on to schools that book the show. (If I were able to cut the cost of the show in half, more or less, might the reach of this program not expand to an audience of double the size...?)<br />
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I had about two intensive weeks of e-mail campaigning, while family from the coasts came back in for a "Mooney Reunion." I also put together one more performance of <b><i>The Greatest Speech of All Time</i></b> for Dad's Retirement facility, where family and friends going all the way back to grade school days showed up for the event.<br />
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First stop: University of Jamestown (North Dakota)! Quoting myself:</div>
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A bunch of firsts tonight! First time performing <b><i>Breakneck Hamlet</i></b> for a college crowd! First time performing <b><i>Breakneck Hamlet</i></b> for a crowd of over 200 people! First time performing the show on a proscenium stage, where I was up on a stage above the audience. First time in a very large auditorium which sucked my lungs of every bit of oxygen I could pump out. And (fortunately) NOT the first time that the show's gotten a standing ovation!</blockquote>
On south to U-Nebraska-Kearney, where Janice Fronczak, who will be directing my <b><i>Tartuffe</i></b> this fall (she did my <b><i>Imaginary Invalid</i></b> about ten years ago!), brought me in to give an acting workshop.<br />
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Denver...! Where I performed two weekends with Denver's Dangerous Theatre (again). This time I was doing both <b><i>Breakneck Hamlet</i></b> and <b><i>Criteria</i></b>, but a lack of publicity left attendance much diminished from last year's terrific turnout, and solely thanks to the good graces of a couple north of the city (Felicia and James), who put me up for much of the run, I managed to come away without losing too much money on the proposition.<br />
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Between performances, I also managed to finish the latest round of promotional e-mails. The pickings were still slim for the first half of the semester, but bookings have continued to come in for the latter month of the tour, and late October/early November are looking almost jam-packed!<br />
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I dropped in at Boulder, Colorado, where the Boulder Fringe was getting underway... crashing their opening night party, surprising some of my veteran fringe friends, and getting surprised, in turn, as, halfway through a conversation with a fringer I'd never met before, she realized that she'd seen me perform <b><i>Karaoke Knights</i></b> at the Southeast Theatre Conference (way back in 2006), and that she's been my "volunteer tango dancer" on stage during the "Bite My Tongue" number! (It's an ever-shrinking world.)<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQWN8OPsBwHSVFoNHMuF-5IQWf9y5vITugpcPzO3pO9Cf6Tpw68Ju0PCiqeYABERhBgCRPpNWcSchoVilEi2W3PDgxzx8yQdz__7OMTagMx8ziPxHE98tPCfILZoH3fHLQev8y/s1600/Tim+%2526+Janae+in+KC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQWN8OPsBwHSVFoNHMuF-5IQWf9y5vITugpcPzO3pO9Cf6Tpw68Ju0PCiqeYABERhBgCRPpNWcSchoVilEi2W3PDgxzx8yQdz__7OMTagMx8ziPxHE98tPCfILZoH3fHLQev8y/s320/Tim+%2526+Janae+in+KC.jpg" width="320" /></a>This, by the way, was just one of many such coincidental encounters I've experienced in these last several months. In Kansas City I was approached by a half-dozen students (including Janae Trotter, pictured) who had been studying from my book, and recognized me on preview night! In Minnesota, Nathan Kelly Rouse, an actor from North Carolina (who'd been in my <b><i>Misanthrope</i></b> with Shakespeare Carolina) posted his excitement about my show. In Indianapolis, Anthony Logan Nathan, an actor attending <b><i>Breakneck Hamlet</i></b>, gradually realized that he recognized my voice and my face... Checking his program, he realized that I had written the version of <b><i>Misanthrope</i></b> he'd seen me perform on YouTube, and subsequently memorized as an audition piece! And, passing through Sacramento, Meg Masterson, the receptionist at the Sacramento Theatre Company remembered me from a performance at her high school several years back! (Eventually, these things -- I'm only citing the most surprising -- feel less and less like "coincidences.")<br />
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I finished up the final promised "Perk" of the Indiegogo campaign: <b><i>The Breakneck Hamlet Soliloquy Collection</i></b>, featuring eight soliloquies from <i>Hamlet</i> (six by Hamlet, and two by Claudius) recorded through the summer tour. These special videos are, of course, available for a small contribution... ( <a href="http://igg.me/at/BreakneckHamlet" style="text-indent: 0in;">http://igg.me/at/BreakneckHamlet</a> <span style="text-indent: 0in;">)</span><br />
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I had been working <b><i>Lot o' Shakespeare</i></b> back up to speed in my free time, and did a 40-minute performance for Snow college (my third visit there), immediately continuing north for a performance of <b><i>Breakneck Hamlet</i></b> that same night in the living room of my friend, Brenda Larson, who'd given generously to the campaign. It made for a very long, but very satisfying day.<br />
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I stayed over with Brenda and her husband, Ed, for an extra couple of days, putting final touches on <b><i>The Breakneck Hamlet Companion; An Actor's Notebook</i></b>, and finally hit the "Publish" button on that one! (...now available as a <i><b>never-before offered perk</b></i>... at <a href="http://igg.me/at/BreakneckHamlet" style="text-indent: 0in;">http://igg.me/at/BreakneckHamlet</a>.)<br />
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I swung through Spokane to catch dinner with my former SIU Acting Professor, Joe Proctor, who you may recall used to live in Missoula during previous passes through the vast northern states. Joe has relocated from Missoula to Spokane while awaiting a heart transplant. He is, very literally, carrying his heart around on his sleeve, with an external pacemaker, while he waits, somewhat apprehensive, without a heartbeat, but with great resolve and great spirit.<br />
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Following another performance of <b><i>Breakneck Hamlet</i></b> at North Idaho College, I was off once more, to a performance of <b><i>Moliere than Thou</i></b> in Astoria, Oregon, drilling lines I hadn't recited in quite <span style="text-align: center;">some time as I drove. Astoria is almost as far northwest as you can go in Oregon, and the bed-and-breakfast that I stayed in was well within shouting distance of a group of sea lions who serenaded me all night long.</span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">Rebecca Pierce, the high school French teacher who hosted me in Astoria, was a delight, and she and her husband treated me to a terrific dinner the night before the show. (Rebecca had previously escorted groups of kids to catch my shows at Mount Hood Community College, but I was passing through too early in the semester for MHCC to host me this time around.)</span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">There was a nice, enthusiastic turnout of perhaps a hundred French and Voice students for the show, but it was feeling a little rustier than usual to me... Only now do I look back at the calendar and notice that I hadn't performed <b><i>Moliere than Thou</i></b> since February 4 (seven months ago)!</span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">Heading through Portland, after a quick stop at Powell's Books, I visited in quick succession with: two-thirds of Box of Clowns (happy hour, of course), <a href="http://www.williamluce.com/" target="_blank">William Luce</a> (author of <b><i>Belle of Amherst</i></b> and more), <a href="http://www.asktheredhead.com/" target="_blank">Ruth and Gary</a> (my t-shirt and coffee-mug suppliers), and <a href="http://thefamoushaydellsisters.com/" target="_blank"><b><i>The Famous Haydell Sisters</i></b></a>. I had met the Haydell Sisters in Minneapolis, and Box-of-Clowns-Laura told me they were performing at the Rialto that night (dollar beer night), and I can never resist the opportunity to surprise somebody who probably assumes that I'm thousands of miles away. (<i>It's my own special super power</i>.) We had a brief, fun reunion, but it had been a very long day, and I could only stay for one set before heading off to a hotel. </span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">Following breakfast with my brother Pat in Salem, I pushed quickly south, stopping in Ashland, Oregon, for a visit with the awesome Cil Stengel. On the way, I met up with the manager of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's <a href="http://www.tudorguild.org/" target="_blank">Tudor Guild Gift Shop</a>, who, delighted by the early proof copy I showed her of the new <b><i>Breakneck Hamlet Companion</i></b> immediately ordered 25 copies (sight unseen) for her store!</span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">I resumed running lines for <b><i>Shakespeare's Histories</i></b>. Given that I haven't performed that one since last March, they needed a fair amount of "waking up" before they would be ready to perform later this month, and I had to check the occasional line in the published version. </span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">Glancing at the book, I realized that there was something to the printed text I seemed to have missed in my newest <b><i>Breakneck Hamlet</i></b> book. Grabbing a hotel in Redding, California, I sat down to figure out that, even though the font size (10.5) was identical in the two publications, my <b><i>Shakespeare's Histories</i></b> book used the "Book Antiqua" font for the actual Shakespearean lines, which gave the text greater "weight" or "presence" than the "Times New Roman" font in <b><i>The Breakneck Hamlet Companion</i></b>. </span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">Rather than order less-than-perfect books for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (<i>OCD ALERT!</i>), I dove back in, changing the fonts... which, of course, changed the spacing of the lines... which made the text on the opposing pages line up kind-of-wrong. </span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">On the opposing pages, the text is generated via Power Point, and imported into the Word document as a pdf... a single "photo" of the opposing page, and the arrows which had been pointing across the span of the pages to indicate the relevant passage that was being discussed on the opposing side, were all now off by tiny fractions of an inch. I spent another four hours lining up each and every one of those annoying arrows, until they were all pointing at the perfect spot. I resubmitted this new text to <a href="https://www.createspace.com/5625046" target="_blank">CreateSpace</a>, and gave myself the afternoon off, treating myself to a movie (<b><i>The Martian</i></b>) before heading down to Chico, to visit with my old Coeur d'Alene friend, Marina, and her husband, Steve, where we enjoyed a fun trip to the Sierra Nevada Brewery/Restaurant. </span><br />
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<b>On to Sacramento...</b><br />
I always have trouble booking shows on the west coast, if for no other reason than that the venues are so much farther apart from each other. After Denver, I only had four performances lined up, and a couple of those were casual for-fun-and-tips performances... but even those were thinly attended. A couple of Southern California possibilities had fallen through, and several friends who have provided shelter along the way in past years were all out of town. I needed to linger at the Extended Stay America in Sacramento, awaiting a Monday meeting with the <i>Sacramento Theatre Company</i> before racing off, but I was quickly rethinking my path, which was now going to carry me back east as quickly as possible.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxMvF8vAa9w8X1pkPm0bQSZPzSaS62SOsxTnZn6Lsy9rzueYBNzMFbbrPuFU6s2L7er-_70V5WYTAccqnU2BJNL1QqZ0Zq5CHaJlsz3Rf84g0XlYO3kAi5HfjrdbACHtCPPIgf/s1600/Broken+Window.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxMvF8vAa9w8X1pkPm0bQSZPzSaS62SOsxTnZn6Lsy9rzueYBNzMFbbrPuFU6s2L7er-_70V5WYTAccqnU2BJNL1QqZ0Zq5CHaJlsz3Rf84g0XlYO3kAi5HfjrdbACHtCPPIgf/s320/Broken+Window.jpg" width="255" /></a>Not quickly enough... That Sunday morning, I needed to check on some paperwork I'd left in the passenger seat. It was my second stop down to the car that morning. And while all had been fine, thirty minutes before, this time the window on the passenger side... was smashed in.<br />
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Someone had broken into my car in the broad daylight of a Sunday morning... and taken stuff.<br />
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Most importantly, my big red vinyl bag was gone. This was the bag that held my Hamlet costume... my Hamlet boots... Hamlet t-shirts... Hamlet coffee mugs... Yorick's skull... <span style="text-indent: 0in;">The only human being to whom that bag could possibly be of use was me.</span><br />
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Something more seemed to be missing... Oh, ouch... the video camera. That, actually, <b><i>was</i></b> probably worth something on the black market.<br />
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Maybe an hour later I realized that my big black overcoat (useless on this leg of the tour, so far at least, but probably important soon) was missing, along with my brown jacket.<br />
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Between car glass, costume, props, swag, video camera and coats, I'd lost over $2,000 of stuff in a single stroke. (Still working with the insurance folks to see what I might be able to recoup...)<br />
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I tried to put a positive spin on the theft on Facebook, but one friend, realizing the impact of the loss, made a kind contribution to the Indiegogo Campaign (as you know, still operational at <a href="http://igg.me/at/BreakneckHamlet" style="text-indent: 0in;">http://igg.me/at/BreakneckHamlet</a><span style="text-indent: 0in;">).</span><br />
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<b><i>Super Low Price Auto Glass</i></b> did the work quickly the
next morning (and for $80 less than the leading company in that field, which
neither had the proper glass, nor an appointment available to do the work for another 48 hours). <o:p></o:p></div>
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I managed a
rendezvous with the Artistic Director and Educational Director of the
<i>Sacramento Theatre Company</i>, who had produced my <b><i>Imaginary Invalid</i></b> several
weeks before and fell in love with my adaptation. We talked about my one-man
shows, my availability for commissioned work, and the other scripts I had
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I pushed eastward at
last, with a brief coffee meet-up with David Jensen who had created the awesome "double-headed" <b><i>Breakneck Hamlet</i></b> illustration, as well as the “Bowing Moliere” for <b><i>Moliere than Thou</i></b>. I hadn’t seen David in person for well over 10 years (he’s
living “off the grid” now, in the woods and hills northeast of Sacramento), but
every once in a while, he comes up with a genius design for my work. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">That night I made it
to Elko, Nevada, followed by an extreme day of driving which brought me all the way back to
the Denver area, visiting once again with Felicia and James. (I had picked up a
copy of “Asimov’s Guide to Shakespeare” for them while I was at Powell’s in
Portland, and was glad to not have to ship the very heavy book!)</span></div>
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One more day of
driving brought me across Kansas and back to Kansas City, where Allan and Sandy
had their guest room ready for me once again, and I could take a few days of
not driving and not worrying about hotels to push my way through the 360+ e-mails
in my inbox, visit with a couple of KC friends, and work out the final details on the several bookings
that were, surprisingly, still falling into place as the more-than-challenging
westward swing transformed into a promising eastward swing to follow. The
calendar now has 11 bookings in place yet to come, with a potential couple more
that might still jump on. <o:p></o:p><br />
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I managed to capture five relaxing days in Kansas City while catching this blog up to speed... which took a surprisingly long time, what with typing, retyping (when pasted text looked all wrong on the page), uploading photos, editing and formatting, resizing and rereading... In the course of that time, I managed to catch up on a few other things and enjoy a visit with Alan & Sandy, as well as Anne Marie Kauffman, who suggested stops at a Renaissance Fair and a Karaoke Bar! Thanks!<br />
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Starting tomorrow: I resume the road warrior life...!<br />
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Oh, and... not to jinx anything but... "Go Cubs." (That'll kill their chances...)<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Discoveries</b>: Life on the road is just like real life, but more
exaggerated, with higher highs and lower lows! * The first lesson I get from
every first performance of every one-man show I've done is when I can “take my moment.” * I work to get the remembering and recitation so
entirely UNCONSCIOUS that I can still contemplate the emotional nuances, the
physical/vocal dynamics, and the perceived attention/distraction of the
audience. * Rather than doubling attendance, offering TWO shows rather than one, confuses
the “elevator pitch” and depresses attendance. * Often Great things follow Borderline Despair... and Vice Versa. * If I were able to cut the expense of the show in half, more or less, might the reach of this program not expand to an audience of double the size? * It's an ever shrinking world. * I can never resist the opportunity to surprise somebody who probably assumes I'm thousands of miles away.<br />
<b>Upcoming Shows</b>: <b><i>Moliere than Thou</i></b>, October 15 at Texas Wesleyan in Fort Worth, TX; <b><i>Breakneck Hamlet</i></b>, October 23 in Newnan, Georgia; <b><i>Shakespeare's Histories</i></b>, October 27 at Southwest Georgia State University in Americus, Georgia.</div>
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tim_mooney@earthlink.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10251175800373730254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359867.post-70570733518611798802015-04-07T14:14:00.001-07:002015-04-08T08:17:05.750-07:00The View From Here #166: Winter/Spring, 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well, it’s been all
Hamlet, almost all of the time now! <o:p></o:p></div>
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I spent much of
January working on Hamlet’s Act III, which is the longest of the five, at least
as I’ll be performing them. As with all of my Fringe Festival shows, I’m
fighting to keep this show under 60 minutes, which means that Hamlet’s five
acts need to AVERAGE 12 minutes each.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Act III checks in at
around 18 minutes! But it’s where all the fireworks happen: From “To be or not
to be,” to “Get thee to a nunnery, to the “Advice to the Players,” to the
crucial play within the play, to the passed opportunity to kill Claudius (“Now
might I do it pat”) to the unfortunate killing of Polonius, to the reprimand of
Gertrude (“Oh, Shame, where is thy blush?”)… It all kind-of had to BE there in
order to tell this story. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(In time since
January, I seem to have picked up the pace to get Act III down closer to 16
minutes, so there’s hope.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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I paused to do
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Why so negative, man?"</td></tr>
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As I’ve mentioned
many times, doing Pathways fifteen years ago gave me the werewithal to realign
my goals and priorities to take on the things that I really wanted to be
spending my time and energy on, and over a series of deliberate steps, I
managed to let go of my day job, and promote my scripts and performances, to
the point that on September 5, 2002, I pulled out of the driveway on a tour,
with no guarantees of success and a shadowy dread that I would, before long,
come crawling back to my day job. <o:p></o:p></div>
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560,000 miles, 500+
performances,150,000+ students, and 7+ one-man plays later,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I seem to still be at it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Over the years, I’ve
gone back to Pathways, giving back for the great things I have received, and
getting a renewed focus and energy each time. I signed on as a Group Leader for
last January’s seminar.<o:p></o:p></div>
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With this new round
of inspiration, I dove into working out of my own apartment, improving my
voiceovers, recording my first book for an audio-book audience, chasing down
acting and literary agents… and working on Hamlet. <o:p></o:p></div>
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There was a moment of
honest inspiration this time around, when I found myself strongly moved by the
generosity of the students and the attendees at large, who stepped up
enthusiastically to support a friend in need. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Contemplating that
discovery (people are genuinely supportive), in light of the new project
(Hamlet) and the sticking point that I have found so challenging over the years
(working my way out from under all of the production, promotion and travel
expenses that my plays have demanded)… and the fact that I was reading Amanda
Palmer’s terrific book, “The Art of Asking…” <o:p></o:p></div>
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I realized that amid
my determination to make it all happen myself, as a “one-man show,” I was
stubbornly holding on to my need to demonstrate that I could do it all by
myself… to survive by work ethic and will power, perhaps embarrassed by any
need to turn to others. But clearly, over the years of doing this, I had the
work ethic and the will power, as well as a “base” of people who actively care
whether this work gets done. <a href="http://igg.me/at/BreakneckHamlet" target="_blank">What I needed was support</a>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And, as Amanda Palmer
points out, amid issues of the modern predicament of downloading and cd
burning, the question is not “how to get people to pay for music,” but “how do
we let them?” <o:p></o:p></div>
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became “Something about Hamlet,” which became “The One Man Hamlet,” which
became, and now is, “Breakneck Hamlet.” I was facing, once again, all of the
start-up costs that come with a new show… Normally, I would throw it all on the
credit card and hope to make it up over a year or so of performances. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But, given that I was
also working to develop a home base (i.e., maintaining rent for a space that I
might actually live in), with no immediate alternate source of income, might
there be a way of making this show happen without putting myself in the hole?
Might it be possible to actually secure the costume, the production, the
promotion, the tour IN ADVANCE? To support the birth of the new show with confirmed
resources, rather than doing it halfway, spending as LITTLE as possible on the
event? <o:p></o:p></div>
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The vision for the
<a href="http://igg.me/at/BreakneckHamlet" target="_blank">Indiegogo campaign</a> had begun to form, though it wasn’t quite there yet.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Because, I was back
on the road!<o:p></o:p></div>
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January 22, I was
performing “The Greatest Speech of All Time” for the Georgia Health Care
Association. Their Vice President had seen me perform “Criteria” for the
Georgia Theatre Conference last fall, and name-tagged me as a "Renowned Speaker."<o:p></o:p></div>
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January 23 I was back
in Greenwood, SC, where my good friend, Bess Park was directing my version of
“The Learned Ladies,” with a bunch of enthusiastic high school students. I sat
in on a rehearsal that night, and another rehearsal and a workshop the
following afternoon, pushing the boundaries of many of the stylized performance
techniques that I’d been exploring over the years. (I shortened my usual “three
second rule” to a “zero second rule,” so that the actors would sharply pivot to
look directly out at the audience every time they had a line. I haven’t laughed
that hard in a long time!) <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; text-align: center;">Fringe Friend Charlie Bechtel,<br />
who showed up in <span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Greenwood, SC</span></td></tr>
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That night I had a
performance of “Moliere than Thou” with a terrific audience, and a really nice
reception sponsored by the generous family of one of the actors in “Learned
Ladies.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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With a brief break
between shows, I zipped down to Florida, visiting with the Pergandes, and my
friend, Tisse, enjoying a bit of warm weather. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I was working on a last
minute “Romeo & Juliet” project. A woman from Charlotte Latin School had
contacted me some three weeks prior to ask if I might be able to do something
on “Romeo & Juliet” for her students. The main North Carolina touring Shakespeare
troupe had gone out of business, but they had funds set aside for programming
in support of R&J, which their students would be reading. By the time I’d
be passing through North Carolina, they would be somewhere around Act III in
their work. Might I be able to do a performance of material from the first
three acts? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Well, I already had
Mercutio’s “Queen Mab” speech memorized as a part of “Lot o’ Shakespeare”… <o:p></o:p></div>
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I sat down and edited
R&J down to it’s bare essentials, with my usual snarky narrative bridging through
the important speeches of the first three acts. My hosts would be forgiving if
I carried the script with me for this show, rather than performing “off-book,”
and, given that my January assignment (memorizing Act III of Hamlet) was
complete already, I gave myself a week to repeat all of this material some nine
times a day. I actually had a good grasp on it by the time I performed it, and
was able to get my eyes up off of the page for the majority of the show. It was
the first time I’d ever done anything in depth with “Romeo and Juliet” and I
was seeing it, almost for the first time, not so much for the plot, but for the
imagery that saturates the dialogue throughout. I was noticing “star-crossed”
themes of stars, light, the sun, the moon, the darkened night, sight and
blindness and their relation to love, riddled throughout the play. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It struck me that
this was a whole new opportunity: as long as I didn’t have to be word perfect
on the dialogue, I might be able to “channel” a dozen or so of Shakespeare’s
most in-demand plays, for schools like this, where the curriculum might be
centered around “Romeo & Juliet,” or “Macbeth,” “King Lear,” “Midsummer,”
“Twelfth Night,” “The Tempest,” “Julius Caesar,” “Measure for Measure” “Much
Ado,” or “Shrew…” Of course, “Hamlet” was already well on its way, and I had
the “Histories” covered. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Following the
performance, I presented to seven classes over two days. The teacher had been
vague about what she wanted me to cover in these sessions, but after a little
discussion, we went with “Shakespeare Spaghetti,” in which I take requests from
the students, and disentangle monologues, illuminating their special
challenges, before putting them back together for performance. It made for a
fun variety of performances through all seven class sessions, and for just
about every session that I performed, some teacher from outside the class
seemed to be sitting in to observe. They seemed eager to get me back in again. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The next day I was
back to Duke University for a second performance. (I’d performed here perhaps
four years prior, with a nice audience and a fun reception following the show.)
This time the teacher and the facilty seemed overpressed for time, and while I
might get in to set up in advance, I wouldn’t have a technician, and the teacher
and her class (of perhaps a dozen) wouldn’t arrive until just before the
performance. They did, still, host a bit of a reception, and I secured a glass
of wine to keep as a prop, on stage with me, not indulging until the end of the
play. It was a quiet crowd, and I was surprised by the enthusiasm they
expressed after the show was done. (I generally interpret quiet as discomfort
or even hostility.) <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">21?! How is this possible?</td></tr>
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Heading north, I
swung through Georgetown, KY, visiting my cousin George, Ann Arbor, MI,
catching a movie with my son, Isaac (in anticipation of his 21<sup>st</sup>
birthday!), and continued the race back to Chicago, settling back in, and
getting back to work on Hamlet. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Meanwhile, there were
some Significant Life Decisions pending…<o:p></o:p></div>
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The opportunity in
Annapolis seemed to be less focused on my work as an actor,
with very little money to earn once I might relocate out that way. In the
meantime, I picked up a new voiceover agency in Chicago, and seemed to be
making and reestablishing more connections in that area. Also, I was getting
more excited about “Hamlet.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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I made the decision
to nix relocation out east, and concentrate my efforts on “Hamlet” and Chicago.
And now that I had cleared my decks for the summer ahead of me, there was still
time to apply for some of my favorite Fringe Festivals: Kansas City,
Minneapolis and Indianapolis, thus premiering “Hamlet” in advance of offering
it on the road. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But if I was going to
premiere “Hamlet” this summer, following a spring of (purposely) few bookings,
would I even be able to afford a costume? Or the Fringe tour? Or the million
things that went along with producing a new show? I grew more focused on the
Indiegogo campaign, while plotting out yet another tour for the fall…<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’d planned to give
myself the month of February to memorize Act IV, and the month of March to
memorize Act V. But once I finished my work on Act IV I just kept going,
getting all five acts under my belt before February was through, and proceeding
to run the entire play on a daily basis.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Getting a play memorized
and getting it performance-ready are two very different things. Having “Hamlet”
memorized simply meant that I could somehow make my way through it, with a
modicum of accuracy, without looking at the script, even if, in those first run
throughs, it might take me 70 minutes to make it through a play that I needed
to be able to perform, ultimately, in 60. I often tell people that I memorized
my first one-man show in about 6 months, but it wasn’t until about 6 months
after that when I felt secure performing it. And so, my goal in subsequent
productions has been to start that six-month clock ticking as far in advance of
the first performance as possible!<o:p></o:p></div>
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With “Hamlet” mostly
secure, I directed my energy back onto “Shakespeare’s Histories; Ten Epic Plays
at a Breakneck Pace,” which I would be performing March 6 at the Southeast
Theatre Conference in Chattanooga. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But first! My
promotional campaign in January had landed me an audition with the Folger
Theatre in Washington D.C.! Of course, I’d sent to them while I still had plans
for an extended stay in Annapolis this summer, but as one of the premiere
Shakespeare companies in the country, I wouldn’t let the opportunity slip past.
I plotted out a run-out to the east coast, checking in with the Annapolis
Shakespeare Co, as Sally prepared for rehearsals of “Servant,” visiting with my
sister, Maureen, and auditioning on March 3 in D.C. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The audition, itself,
seemed a bit of a bust. Given that the auditor was not listed as the director
of any of the plays in the coming season, and the questionnaire I filled out in
advance had queries such as “Would you be willing to understudy, even if not
cast?” I realized that exposure and/or income from this particular opportunity
would be minimal, at best. <o:p></o:p></div>
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For years I have
lectured students about “finding your light,” always using the audition session
as my extreme scenario, but since I haven’t auditioned in years, I generally
felt like I was mostly inventing the crazy situation where you find yourself
auditioning in a darkend room with only a single light giving you perhaps five
square feet of viable playing area. Well, that was pretty much exactly what I
had to work with at the Folger: it was a conference room with dim window
illumination, and only a couple of overhead “can” lights offering little spots
of light, only one of which was in any relation to the director’s table. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I did my “Comedy of
Errors” monologue right under that light, moving out of it only long enough for
Antipholus to say: “They fell upon me, bound me, bore me thence, and in a dark
and dankish vault at home, left me, and my man, both bound together, till,
gnawing with my teeth, my bonds in sunder, I gained my freedom…” and, finding
my way back into the light, I remained there for the rest of the speech. <o:p></o:p></div>
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From D.C., I raced on
to Harrisonburg, Virginia, meeting with my costume designer, Kathy Conery (she
did the cool “Lot o’ Shakespeare” costume) to talk “Hamlet,” and, from there,
worked my way to Chattanooga. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It turns out that it
was good that I headed out early and traveled the route that I did, as I
arrived in Chattanooga from the east at the same time as a winter storm was
working its way from the west. My friend and assistant, April, having car
trouble, got slammed by the snowstorm, pulling up in a hotel in Kentucky. While
she attempted to proceed south the following morning, so many cars and trucks
had gotten stuck in the snow, the highway remained impassable, forcing her to
head back to Chicago. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It was good to be
back at SETC, which I’d missed the year prior, while performing “Scapin” in
Michigan. I got to visit with a bunch of old friends, and performed
“Shakespeare’s Histories” as part of their fringe festival. The show was very
well received by an audience of about 80, and extending the one-man show
metaphor, I also passed out programs prior to the start, and sold books as
people were leaving. My favorite comment from the audience that night was
“After seeing your Moliere play a few years back, I made a promise to myself to
never miss a Tim Mooney show…!” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Heading back towards
Chicago a few days later, there was very little snow left on the ground, but as
I passed through Kentucky, the many broken branches and fallen trees testified
to the massive weight of the snow that had descended along this highway! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Following one last
performance of “Shakespeare’s Histories” at Lewis University, I put myself
full-force into “Hamlet:” now entitled “Breakneck Hamlet,” a nod to the brand
that I had begun to establish with “Shakespeare’s Histories; Ten Epic Plays at
a Breakneck Pace!” Between that and “Hamlet” and the new “Romeo & Juliet”
presentation, the new brand was taking shape as “Breakneck Shakespeare,” which
seems to instantly dismiss our greatest fear surrounding Shakespeare: that we will
sit there for a long time with very little action. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I engaged Marcus
Fernando to do one of his fun photo compilations again, and with my usual
illustrator, Lee Rushton, unavailable, I chased down David Jensen, who had done
my original “Moliere than Thou” illustration 15 years before, to do a new piece
for “Breakneck Hamlet”. (It will make an amazing coffee mug; it reminds me of
how I feel just before that first cup of coffee.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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I started an on-line
“countdown” on Facebook, putting up sketches and photos as they came in,
beginning one week in advance of the anticipated “Indiegogo Breakneck Hamlet
Campaign!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4OHT8h9rm91V87fT7WRfx3JmIoWfYIOPVvUiBU8S4jTaQNyVKlU9N9YbH1yGQqGdBX7BJIEUz2rg_j6T6r9jPYRqEHYOJIflAGO1oiVt0ozZG4CU11_mlwwf_hRIB7_yGAzPy/s1600/BH+Mug+Back.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4OHT8h9rm91V87fT7WRfx3JmIoWfYIOPVvUiBU8S4jTaQNyVKlU9N9YbH1yGQqGdBX7BJIEUz2rg_j6T6r9jPYRqEHYOJIflAGO1oiVt0ozZG4CU11_mlwwf_hRIB7_yGAzPy/s1600/BH+Mug+Back.jpg" height="190" width="200" /></a>Once I had gone
“public” with the plans for the campaign, and a date for it to begin, suddenly,
I had to take the launch of the campaign VERY SERIOUSLY! I composed text for
the Indiegogo website, and repeatedly edited and re-edited a script for a video
in support of the campaign. The video script started out somewhere around ten
minutes long, carefully laying out all of the rationale and the need and the
benefits of this program, with lots of detail and lots of talk about swag or
“perks.” (I hate spelling the word this way, because perqs is actually short
for “perquisites,” but I think that people just assume that these are extra
things that “perk up” our interest.) <o:p></o:p></div>
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researching successful campaigns, learning that videos really ought not be more
than three minutes long. (I continued cutting and cutting, and then memorizing
and memorizing…) I learned that the most successful day to start a campaign was
on a Monday (when people got back to work with a fresh start), and the most
successful day to end was on a Friday (when people got paid). <o:p></o:p></div>
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I was drawing and
redrawing the website plans, but was having a hard time “seeing” how it would
all look once it was officially launched. I noted that there seemed to be an
interim step, where I could put up a draft of the website, and go back and work
and rework it before officially setting the campaign in motion. There was a
“button” there in the set-up phase that seemed to enable that process. <o:p></o:p></div>
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After much back and
forth, I simply could not NOT work any further without seeing what this was
going to look like and on Friday, March 13, somewhere around 3 pm, I hit the
“LAUNCH” button. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Apparently, the button
that I had intended to click was the “PUBLISH” button. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Three days early, <a href="http://igg.me/at/BreakneckHamlet" target="_blank">the campaign was underway</a>! There was no looking back, and there would be no
“getting it right.” If ever I would need to “go with the flow,” this was it.
(In fact, the surprise launch was probably going to work in my favor: it gave
me a story to tell about this adventure, and underlined the urgency of the
event. It also meant that the fundraiser would END three days early, too. So
much for wrapping things up on a Friday!) <o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpZmjsG3b0yX9crUfS6VGGuhnFN7U5jx3S98sz0L1Vlzmx812WwgeVKuve-185UBuJZGGFuPpgYmmvu31BZcaAt1_bBcjAdSmc4UlvhTDki7gAqFrbGlLHvDs5uVjXwvJxRCap/s1600/MTT+Mug+via+Baron+Dave.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpZmjsG3b0yX9crUfS6VGGuhnFN7U5jx3S98sz0L1Vlzmx812WwgeVKuve-185UBuJZGGFuPpgYmmvu31BZcaAt1_bBcjAdSmc4UlvhTDki7gAqFrbGlLHvDs5uVjXwvJxRCap/s1600/MTT+Mug+via+Baron+Dave.jpeg" height="200" width="200" /></a>Of course, if you
read my most recent edition of “The View From Here,” you know this already. If
not, this might be a good moment to track back to “<a href="http://timmooneyrep.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-view-from-here-165-indiegogo.html" target="_blank">Issue #165: The IndiegogoCampaign</a>!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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I raced that edition
into publication that same night, all the while dashing off e-mails to my most
likely and loyal supporters. I believe I was up until about 3 am that night,
rather astonished at how quickly the contributions were coming in! <o:p></o:p></div>
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By the time I went to
bed that first night, we were just shy of the $1,000 needed to guarantee the
design/construction of Hamlet’s costume, and by the time I woke up the next
morning, we were there! I recorded a video to commemorate the successful reach
of the first goal, and turned my attention to the next major hurdle. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Raising the next
$3,500 would not be easy. I had set my easiest hurdle for the opening of the
campaign, since the costume was simply something that the show could not be
done without. This time, I was taking on Photos, Art, Web Design and Publicity:
less “sexy,” but very necessary. I was posting to Facebook repeatedly, creating
an Indiegogo Facebook event, to which I could “invite” people, and hitting up
good friends and family. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Early on, some $1,600
arrived via “snail mail” from friends who weren’t comfortable posting their
credit card info on-line. That gave us a confusion of tallies, with the
Indiegogo site reading one total, but with me knowing that we were
significantly farther along. By Thursday, March 19, our cumulative total
crossed the second goal, and I pulled together another video. (The videos were
a further enticement to donate… or at least to keep the narrative going, as I
promised to perform another monologue for each goal that we managed to pass.) <o:p></o:p></div>
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And there, the energy
dropped…! While the first four days of the campaign had averaged about $800
each day, the second full week of the campaign was almost entirely under $100.
(Only on that first day of that week did we reach $115.) <o:p></o:p></div>
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I started
transferring over the monies that had come in to the post office, so that the
success of the campaign would be reflected in the on-line totals, and potential
donors would realize we were on-track to make our goals. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I found that
campaigns that do, actually, reach their goals on Indiegogo, get to retain a
higher percentage of their donations, which would mean more than $500 going to
the cause, as long as we hit that magic number of $11,000. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I was biding my time
somewhat, keeping the campaign afloat long enough until that final week, where
a sense of “urgency” would once again, push the program forward. There is a
clear difference between telling someone that there are three weeks left to
contribute vs. ten days, vs. one week, vs. ONE DAY! <o:p></o:p><br />
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And as I post this, we are only SEVEN DAYS OUT from the exciting conclusion! We've leveled off at
$7,847 (averaging only $10 over the last three days). Actually reaching our
goal remains very much in doubt. The trending lines aren’t good at the moment. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It is still a HUGE
success, and I can’t deny that we’re doing MUCH BETTER than I’d dared to hope,
but hope is an addictive commodity. Poised, as we are, just shy of the goal,
I’m gearing up to take one more run at it, hoping that I haven’t alienated
everyone in my address book.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Of course, this is
the moment that I turn to you and ask for your support, either by going to <a href="http://igg.me/at/BreakneckHamlet"><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">http://igg.me/at/BreakneckHamlet</span></a><span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span>with a donation, or sending word to your friends. I do
think that we will probably make it… though I don’t know quite how, quite yet.<o:p></o:p></div>
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offchance that those last minute donations do push us through Goal #3 (Fringe
Festival Tour) and Goal #4 (The Fall School Tour), I have begun work on a new
“Stretch Goal,” which is the creation of a book: “The Breakneck Hamlet
Companion,” in much the same style as last year’s “Shakespeare’s Histories”
book: with script on one side of each page, and discussion on the facing side. Each
time I rehearse these lines, I seem to think of new things I want to talk about
in such a “Companion” book, and over the weekend, I drew up a bunch of ideas for Act
I already. How cool would it be to hit the ground running with a fully
produced, publicized, funded and, now, annotated production? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Speaking of hitting
the ground running, the new “Swag/Perqs/Perks”, with t-shirts and coffee mugs
and sticker that making great use of the new illustration have begun to arrive!
These will be popular not only for the fundraiser, but for sale after
performances, as well. <o:p></o:p></div>
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AND, not to bury the
lede, but, in addition, I’ve begun negotiations with a theatre in Waukegan to
host the World Premiere of “Breakneck Hamlet,” this June! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Yes, opening day just
crept up about SIX WEEKS EARLIER than planned!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Good thing I’ve been
drilling those lines!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Love,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Tim<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="text-indent: 0in;">Discoveries</b><span style="text-indent: 0in;">: People
are genuinely supportive. * My need to demonstrate that I can survive by work
ethic and will power, cuts me off from the potential of support. * Securing the
production needs of the play in ADVANCE of the first performance is a radical
idea, whose time has come. * My formula for “Shakespeare’s Histories” and
“Hamlet” could be applied to a dozen or so Shakespeare plays, opening up the
possibility of many exciting presentations, as long as I let go of the need to
memorize each one of them to perfection. * What seems like discomfort or
hostility from the stage, may simply be “awe” from the audience. * Getting a
play memorized is one thing; getting it performance-ready quite another. * Our
mistakes sometimes make great stories, which lead to unexpected success. * Hope
is an addictive commodity. * Just when it looks like you could never possibly
achieve your goal is when you should figure out what you will do next once you
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This blog dedicated to fond memories of Leonard Nimoy and Ernie Banks! I have been and always shall be your friend.</div>
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Timothy Mooney Repertory Theatre
Tour Schedule<o:p></o:p></h1>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">(Available dates in CAPITAL LETTERS; Already-booked
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Pending bookings in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">BLUE</span>; Festival opportunities in <span style="color: red;">RED</span></b>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 11.0pt;">7/16-26<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Kansas City Fringe Festival<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 11.0pt;">11/23-12/4<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
tim_mooney@earthlink.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10251175800373730254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359867.post-90836968318749418282015-03-13T19:50:00.000-07:002015-03-13T19:59:25.395-07:00The View From Here #165: The Indiegogo Campaign!<br />
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Illustration by David Jensen</td></tr>
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Hey, Loyal View-ers! <o:p></o:p></div>
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I know, you haven’t
heard from me since December! And I’ve got three months of stuff to catch you
up on! The plan was to update you all this weekend as I lead up to my new
<a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/breakneck-hamlet/x/187391" target="_blank">Indiegogo Campaign</a> going live this Monday! <o:p></o:p></div>
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And then, today, I
hit “LAUNCH” when I meant to hit “PUBLISH” and all of a sudden my big campaign
is LIVE and <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/breakneck-hamlet/x/187391" target="_blank">OUT THERE</a>!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Word has it that how
these campaigns go in the first 24 hours impacts the “Bandwagon Effect,” which
means that, if people see that other folks are “jumping on,” then they know
that they’re contributing to a campaign that lots of people belive in, and
which will probably make a difference in the world! <o:p></o:p></div>
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If not… not. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But let me catch you
up just a little bit!<o:p></o:p></div>
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You may recall that
last summer I performed SHAKESPEARE’S HISTORIES; TEN EPIC PLAYS AT A BREAKNECK
PACE at the American Association of Community Theatre International Festival in Venice, Florida, where
the adjudicator from Denmark suggested that I should really do a one-man "Hamlet!"<o:p></o:p></div>
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Well, since then I’ve
been like a house on fire, memorizing BREAKNECK HAMLET! It’s all up there in my
brain somewhere, and I’ll probably be doing three Fringe Festivals with it this
summer, but with all of the changes in plans, there’s costumes, art, photos,
travel, entry fees to consider. Thus, the big fundraiser! <o:p></o:p><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">BREAKNECK HAMLET!<br />
Photo Compiled by Marcus Fernando</td></tr>
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I’ve got all kinds of
cool swag! Much available for the first time on-line: stickers, t-shirts,
coffee mugs, the Karaoke Knights CD, a yet-to-be created Hamlet Soliloquy
Collection on DVD! And much more all the way up to a full performance in your
living room! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Your support in
getting this show to living rooms, Fringe Festivals, and beyond this summer
would help me create an event that would make a huge difference in how we look
at the greatest play of all time!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m so excited to see
things coming together: David Jensen, the amazing artist from “Moliere than
Thou” is back with a new image for Breakneck Hamlet! <o:p></o:p><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Original Sketch by David Jensen</td></tr>
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Kathy Conery, who
created the gorgeous “Lot o’ Shakespeare” costume is on board for “Breakneck
Hamlet”! <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Costume(s) by Kathy Conery</td></tr>
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And in just the six
hours since this went live, people have already been amazingly generous! We’ve almost
paid for the costume already! And once we do… In fact with every goal this
fundraiser passes, I have pledged to post a video of yet another Hamlet
soliloquy!<o:p></o:p></div>
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So, hey! Take a run
over to <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/breakneck-hamlet/x/187391">https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/breakneck-hamlet/x/187391</a>
and toss a couple bucks toward the cause! Or… almost as important: SHARE news
of this with your own individual networks! Your reach exceeds my grasp! Not
only does this increase the financial possibilities of this new Hamlet, but it
builds a growing network of folks interested in the project, who might come out
to see it when I show up in your town, or in your living room!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Thanks! A new blog
coming your way soon!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Love,<o:p></o:p></div>
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tim_mooney@earthlink.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10251175800373730254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359867.post-27180719362999247662015-01-04T09:55:00.000-08:002015-01-05T08:50:51.173-08:00The View From Here #164: Fall, 2014<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;">
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">Happy New Year!</span></div>
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And now, flashing back to last year! September, 2014! There I was, getting back to the highway! </div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">This time around,
it’s the “First and Last Month’s Rent Tour!”</span></div>
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Gearing up to tuck in
with my own place to live, yes, in just ONE region of the U.S., I drew up one last
full-country tour, and set out. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I met Winnie
Wenglewick of The Dangerous Theatre during the Orlando Fringe Festival, and she
brought me in to perform for two weekends in Denver. Given that it was the
first two weekends of September, it was too early in the semester for most
schools to bring me in, but I managed to get in seven performances over two
weekends with a very warm audience response, along with a nice Colorado
vacation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Moving westward, I
pushed on to a series of visits with a who’s who of Friends-On-The-Road: Brenda
in Twin Falls, Joe Proctor in Missoula, Joe Jacoby in Coeur d’alene, David and
Beth and Babs and Jorj and Patti and Lee in Seattle, Bill Luce in Portland,
my brother Pat, and Brenda & Ty Marshall in Linfield, Oregon.</div>
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Along the way, I did
“Shakespeare’s Histories” at North Idaho College, to a fully packed crowd in a
small auditorium. It was a hastily gathered performance, with only about a
week’s notice to get the word out, but come show time people showed up, and
showed up, and kept showing up… They quickly filled the 75-seat auditorium… and
kept filling it. People started sitting on the steps, and on the floor in front
of the first rows. (I’m guessing 120 people, but don’t tell the fire marshall.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Seeing the great
turnout, I took advantage and raced out to the car to grab a microphone to
capture a recording of the event. The show really rocked, with great laughs in
all the right places. There were some reactions in a few of the wrong places,
as a couple of the crowd seemed to have indulged a bit in advance of the
performance. Occasional audience participatory reactions may have screwed up
the recording for full release as an audio-performance, but, oh, it sounded
good!<o:p></o:p></div>
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For fun, I offered to
do monologues-on-request for anyone who wanted to stick around, and did some
Shakespeare as well as selections from “The Greatest Speech of All Time.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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A couple of weeks
later, <a href="http://www.nicsentinel.com/2014/10/actor-tim-mooney-performs-one-man-shakespeare-show-molstead/" target="_blank">this review showed up on-line</a>! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Likewise, the Linfield
College show went great. This time, not only did I get my brother Pat and
sister-in-law Kathy out for the show, but I finally got Bill Luce out to see a performance.
Bill (author of “The Belle of Amherst”) and I have been friends ever since he
wrote a play about Moliere and used one of my adaptations for the scene that
featured “The Bourgeois Gentleman.” And while we’ve met up on the Oregon coast
a half dozen times over the years, I’ve never had a show in close proximity to
him. This fall, however, Bill moved to Portland, about 90 minutes from Linfield
College. Unwilling to miss this opportunity, I drove out to Portland to pick
him up and drive him back to see the show at Linfield. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Again, it seemed to
be a full house for “Shakespeare’s Histories”! It may have been as many people
as were present at the North Idaho show, but the size of the auditorium allowed
them all to have their own seat…<o:p></o:p></div>
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After the show, I met
the woman who sponsors this series of shows at the college, who posted on her
Facebook that night: <o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.466667175293px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Thank you to actor/explainer/ editor/ adapter /author Timothy Mooney for bringing almost all of Shakespeare's often impenetrable history plays and the history of the British Crown to the Linfield stage in a form that was so entertaining and easy to comprehend. One actor, a sword and a chair, one costume and 25 characters as well as an explainer's voice. Projected royal family trees. What a fun and educational evening of Shakespeare, and a full house of all ages to boot!</span></span></blockquote>
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A cancellation in
Arizona enabled me to push back directly east, dropping in on Brenda in Idaho
once again, and slipping through Denver before dropping south to Fort Worth
with yet another performance at Texas Wesleyan University. Steve Daniell at TWU
had brought me in to perform Moliere at Auburn U-Montgomery in Alabama years
ago, and when he relocated to Fort Worth, he continued to bring me in, and even
though he’s originally a French Professor, as the Dean of the School of Arts
and Letters, he’s brought me in to do “Lot o’ Shakespeare,” “Greatest Speech”
and “Shakespeare’s Histories” in short order! <o:p></o:p><br />
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With a few extra days to spend, I swung through
beautiful New Orleans, visiting with Bremner and Lisa for a few days, and
taking a Haunted New Orleans tour from my friend Ashton (where I took this “<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Touchdown Jesus” pic</span>) before pushing on
east once again.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In Montgomery,
Alabama, I got to visit with my Southeast Theatre Conference friend, Michael
Howley (who wrote a great review for “Acting at the Speed of Life” for Southern
Theatre Magazine). Michael showed me the sights of Montgomery before I had to
push on to Georgia for another visit at the Georgia Theatre Conference. This
year’s host of GTC, Steve Graver, had asked me to attend this 50<sup>th</sup>
anniversary conference about two years ahead of time, and, wanting to find
something that would appeal to the many high school students who would be
attending, he asked me to perform “Criteria, a One-Man Comic Sci-Fi Thriller!” <o:p></o:p></div>
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In past years, over
the course of many conferences, I have often come away disappointed that we
didn’t get more folks out to see whatever show I was performing, but Steve came
up with an idea. He drew up the schedule in such a way that there would be NO
OTHER EVENTS happening during my show! …not even a board or a committee meeting
happening at that same time. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The result was the
biggest audience ever for “Criteria,” with about 600 people in attendance,
including “adults” who’d been good friends for several years (several of whom
later admitted that they’d never actually caught one of my shows) and my friend
Jenny Moody, a Moliere fan and friend from Alabama, who seems to never miss one
of my shows within a two-state radius.<o:p></o:p></div>
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They picked a good
one to see. I don’t tend to perform “Criteria” more than once a year these
days, so I was a little bit tense about remembering all of my lines and keeping
the audience’ attention throughout. As the show proceeded, there was very
little laughter in the audience, so I was uncertain how well it was going over.
All of the lights were focused on me, and aside from vague, dark shapes, I
couldn’t make out anybody in the audience. All I could do was stay focused,
recite my lines, run in place, shift from one scene to the next and hope it was
working. At the end, my character walks off stage as the lights dim… <o:p></o:p></div>
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I was still in the
wings when I heard the audience come to life with a robust cheer. As I walked
out on stage, I could see the entire crowd go immediately to their feet. Wow.
There’s no better feeling in the world.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I did a few workshops
through the course of the conference, and I got to meet Jasmine Guy, of “A
Different World” fame, who was the keynote speaker at this conference. <o:p></o:p></div>
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From Georgia, it was
a long one-day race up to Valparaiso, Indiana, where they had to cancel last
winter’s scheduled performance due to frigid weather. This time around it was
“Lot o’ Shakespeare” and a workshop for a fun bunch of kids. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Three days later, I
was back at DePaul University, for my third go-around with them, including
another “Life of Moliere” workshop (I never get tired of telling the tale of
Moliere’s life), lunch with the always-charming French profs, and a performance
of “Moliere Than Thou.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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A week later, I’m off
to Minnesota, with another third go-around: my third event at Central Lakes
College for my old buddy, Patrick Spradlin, who was bringing me in for a
performance of “The Greatest Speech of All Time.” This one completed the cycle
of six entirely unique one-man shows performed over the course of about seven
weeks! (The only show I did NOT perform on this go-around was “Karaoke
Knights,” which I retired about seven years ago!)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Back to Chicago,
with, at last, a little down time, another booking push, another draft (#5) of
“The Servant of Two Masters” and a birthday celebration! Jeez, I’m getting old.
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Timothy-Mooney/e/B00J7O48NK/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1419998380&sr=8-1" target="_blank">I set up an “author page” on Amazon, </a><o:p></o:p></div>
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I took a spin up to
Delevan, Wisconsin for the life celebration of my friend Deb’s mom, who passed
away a couple weeks before. They set off fireworks and scattered her ashes on
the beautiful lake where she spent her final years.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Once again, on the
road, I squeezed in a visit with Isaac in Michigan, before pushing on to a
couple of workshops in Charlottesville, Virginia, where they put me up on the
University of Virginia campus. I got to check out their outdoor auditorium the
night before my event. (I can’t walk by a space like that without standing on
the stage and testing the acoustics…)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>Not long thereafter, I kept seeing photos of this very same space on-line, as the
stories surrounding scandals o<span style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0in;">n campus continued to develop. The
workshops themselves went very well. The students there compete in the
Shakespeare speech competition, as run by the En</span></div>
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glish Speaking Union, so they
were very eager for my perspective. Afterwards, I heard from the teacher: <br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">“The kids have had very positive, flattering responses to the
workshops...they feel they learned a lot from you; even my most reticent, I'm-only-here-to-fulfill-my-arts-requirement
kiddos enjoyed the second workshop immensely.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Northward to
Connecticut! The Connecticut chapter of the American Association of Teachers of
French (AATF) were bringing me in for a performance of “Moliere Than Thou.” I
rarely get a show in the Northeast, and, ironically, I was performing in the
same building (Pomperaug High School) that I’d performed in on my last pass
through Connecticut (though the last time it was the theatre teacher who’d
brought me in to perform in the studio theatre, just across the hall from the
mainstage where I was performing this time around). <o:p></o:p></div>
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This particular show
may have demanded more back-and-forth correspondence in preparation than any
previous performance. The host was a little concerned about making this more
French-appropriate and age-appropriate, so there were loads of e-mails to help
set up a French study packet, and to make sure that the naughty, naughty
Moliere innuendo might be as nice as I might manage to make it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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For what it’s worth,
they did manage to make it work <a href="http://patch.com/connecticut/newcanaan/st-lukes-school-helps-bring-molire-many#.VG3lGusBPxA.facebook" target="_blank">(click here for review)</a>, with about 800 students buying tickets for the
event in an auditorium which held just about 800. For a crowd of such size, they were amazingly well-behaved. </div>
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The teachers took me out to lunch after the show, but I
needed to race off before dessert, so that I might get through New York before
rush hour hit, on my way back down to Maryland and my sister, Maureen. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Once again, Mo set me
up with a show at the Claiborne Village Hall. This was the first time I would
actually be repeating a show: They wanted another performance of “The Greatest
Speech…” which I’d done here a couple of years ago. Even though I’d done it
here before, there was a very nice turn-out, with some of Maureen’s new (St.
Michael’s) friends now coming out for the Claiborne show. (They were good
tippers, too.) After the show, I got in another visit with Rennie and the
Claiborne crowd, at least one of whom seemed to have a line on an apartment for
me, if I made it back to Annapolis this summer for “The Servant of Two Masters!”
<o:p></o:p></div>
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Speaking of which, I
got in another visit with Sally at the Annapolis Shakespeare Company, and we
read through the fifth draft of “Servant.” I hadn’t really “heard” the play
aloud since we’d read the second draft back in June. I’m never sure whether any
given draft is an actual improvement on the draft before it. Sometimes I wonder
if within any given draft I have simply re-thunk all of my changes from the
previous draft and changed it back to what I had in the first place. The
changes are so incremental that I really don’t notice a difference. But hearing
a variation of the play that is three drafts down the line, suddenly the
improvements are much more vivid. The verbiage was economical, poetic,
rhythmic, and very much “crafted.” It felt like a huge leap forward. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Back to Chicago!<o:p></o:p></div>
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And then back to
Texas!<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Texas Thespians
Festival was happening in Dallas, and once again, I was presenting workshops!
This time it was the 51<sup>st</sup> anniversary of the Kennedy assassination,
and I made the pilgrimage in the rain to the grassy knoll along with Linda from
Dramatic Publishing and Jim from Theatrical Rights Worldwide. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Again, I gave some
dozen or fifteen workshops, and my work on Hamlet had given me a fun inroad to my
“Shakespeare Spaghetti” workshop, which I now start off by deconstructing the
monologue that begins: “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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With all this behind
me, I made tracks once more for Chicago, but this time, I was on a new mission.
I was gearing up for another <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pathways
Weekend</b>, January 15-18, 2015 (you should come join me!), and they always
help me focus on my goals. Given my pending decisions around my career, I knew
I’d need some Pathways right around this time, and the first challenge was to
find myself an apartment.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There was a Chicago
Theatre People Housing group on Facebook, and before I even got back to
Chicago, I’d found a month-to-month deal on an apartment in the neighborhood
that I liked. <o:p></o:p></div>
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My other Pathways
goal was to finalize <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Acting-Speed-Life-Conquering-Theatrical-ebook/dp/B00P9GHYTA/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=" target="_blank">the Kindle version of “Acting at the Speed of Life.” </a>I met
a woman in Denver who was a big fan of my Shakespeare show, who was also a big
Kindle reader. I knew that turning the book into a Kindle would be a challenging
endeavor, but would be a much harder lift if I attempted it myself, given that
I’ve never even read a book on Kindle, and didn’t know how much flexibility to
expect on the new platform. As she worked, I also made a new pass through the
book. I hadn’t reread the whole thing since publishing the material back in
2011, and as I reread it, I was surprised at how my workshops had continued to
evolve, even after I’d fixed them on paper. There were the occasional points
that were implied in the text, but not stated as overtly as I’ve lately been
expressing them. And so, while we put out this Kindle version, I simultaneously
put out a “Revised Edition” of the book. I spent most of the Thanksgiving
weekend trying to get the thing finalized. We didn’t quite get it finished in
time for “Black Friday,” but after much adjusting, we did have it available for
Cyber Monday! (If you haven’t gotten your copy yet, perhaps we’re in time for
the January White Sales!)<o:p></o:p></div>
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My new place has me
living in a garden-level apartment, which is a kind of a nice word for a
“basement”. But I’ve got room to exercise, and a desk, and shelves to have my
books all unpacked and laid out. I haven’t re-read any of them yet, but I think
they need to get some air every three years or so, just to feel needed and
important. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Being on my own has
kept me focused this past month. I get up and exercise most mornings, and then
dive in to work on Hamlet. I’ve now written and memorized one-man versions of
Act I and II, and Act III is well underway. The goal is to memorize Act IV in
February, and Act V in March, and perhaps to have it worked up into performance
mode no later than Fall, 2015. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Meanwhile, my
goal-setting practice has me pushing on several fronts, sending out resumes and
queries to Talent Agents, Literary Agents, Theatre Agents, Publishers and Jobs
(at least seven times a week). I’ve had at least one agent respond to my query,
so fingers crossed…!<o:p></o:p></div>
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And I have developed
my home studio skills and technical abilities to be able to put out some decent
voiceover material from my new place. It took me about two weeks of working and
reworking to get my sound just right, but now I’m pushing to finish (I’m about
halfway through) an Audiobook version of “Acting at the Speed of Life.” It’s a
bit schizophrenic, playing myself in my book, as well as my classroom of
“students” who feed me comments and questions, and play scenes within the book!<br />
<o:p></o:p></div>
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And then, to cap off
most nights, I would push away from the desk and binge-watch old episodes of
“House, M.D.”, all the while sending out e-mails to potential bookings for this
spring. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Yes, I am, in fact,
cutting way back on touring! This spring, there are 21 states where I am not
even TRYING to schedule performances. (Mostly the West and Northeast.) I have restructured
my prices to incentivize performances closer to home, with Chicago-area shows
as low as $700! That incentive will get flipped on its head (or, perhaps its
side) when I shift my base from Chicago to Annapolis. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The plan is to
go out to Annapolis in mid-April, and stay through the summer. Annapolis
Shakespeare Company will be doing their fourth production of one of my
adaptations! The third one, last summer’s “Imaginary Invalid” was just named as
<a href="http://dcmetrotheaterarts.com/2014/12/26/dcmetrotheaterarts-best-2014-best-plays-professional-theatres/" target="_blank">one of the “Best Plays in Professional Theatres” by DCMetroArts.com</a> . <o:p></o:p></div>
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This time, it’s a specially
commissioned new version of Goldoni’s “The Servant of Two Masters,” where I
will likely be playing the role of Truffuldino! Which means that I’ll be
available for shows in Maryland, D.C., Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and New York through the waning weeks of Spring, 2015! There’s still
time to take advantages of the discounts on the east coast! (See schedule
below…!)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Oh, yeah, and somewhere in there was
Christmas with family, a reunion with grade school buddies who were back in town, a nice review that
will be coming out in a French teacher journal for the text version of “Moliere
than Thou” (Preview: “In short, Mooney makes Moliere accessible to many in a most enjoyable manner."), and an acceptance to perform Shakespeare's Histories" at this year's SETC conference in Chattanooga, TN, March 5-6!<br />
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I think that pretty much catches us up to today! (January 4, 2014) See you soon, I hope! </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Temperature</b>:
A balmy 34 degrees for Chicago in January…!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">On
Netflix</b>: “House, MD, Season 7”.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The Nerd Parade”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Discoveries</b>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The trick to getting people out to see my
shows is to ensure that NO OTHER EVENTS are scheduled at the same time! * That
sudden standing ovation is the best feeling in the world. * Those tiny,
incremental improvements to the script eventually add up to vivid, exciting,
quantum changes (once you’ve moved three or four rewrites down the line). * <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Next
performance</b>: Georgia, January 22; Greenwood, SC Jan 23-24. For my Chicago
friends, notice that I’ll be doing a show at Lewis University in Romeoville on
March 10!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Timothy Mooney Repertory Theatre
Tour Schedule</span><o:p></o:p></h1>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">(Available dates in CAPITAL LETTERS; Already-booked
dates in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">GREEN</span></b>;
Pending bookings in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">BLUE</span>; Festival opportunities in <span style="color: red;">RED</span></b>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 9.0pt;">MTT</span></b><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"> = “Moliere than Thou”; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">LoS</span></b> = “Lot o’ Shakespeare; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">GSAT</span></b> =
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 11.0pt;">1/1-16<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 11.0pt;">1/19<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>INDIANA / KENTUCKY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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I last left you, gentle reader, at
the end of the Orlando Fringe Festival, and am happy to report that the final
two performances of that run sold out!</div>
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I was sad to see that some of the
high school students who’d come out specially to see my show were not able to
get in, particularly as the capacity of the theatre was understated, with
always a few empty seats, even in the “sell-outs.” And yet, all in all, I was
grateful for a successful premiere. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Keeping the show under the 60-minute
limit was always a challenge, and I think I averaged 58:30 for most of the run,
though one performance started off with a screw up of the slide show, which set
me back about 45 seconds before I even started!</div>
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and new friends, staying with the Pergande’s once again; this year, they were
also putting up Winnie and Brittney from Denver’s “Dangerous Theatre,” (photo, left) and Winnie even set up an engagement for performances in Denver this
September! <o:p></o:p></div>
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One of the youngest attendees at the
show drew his own interpretive description of his weekend at the theatre, which
quotes me at some length… (that's my sword, leaning up against the chair...)<br />
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With the festival closed, I made a
strategic withdrawal to my friend, Jen’s condo, south of Orlando. Jen had
relocated to a new job in South Carolina, which gave me the place to myself
while diving in on a writing project which would demand a lot of concentration,
parked at a desk for perhaps 10 hours a day over the course of two weeks. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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I was going “radio silent,” not even
posting stuff on Facebook, while exploring a new version of “The Servant of Two
Masters,” a play by the great Italian Commedia author, Carlo Goldoni. Given
that Goldoni is about as close as we can get to the style of Moliere, I have
long dreamed of doing a “Mooneyized” variation of this script in my usual
rhymed iambic pentameter. The folks at the Annapolis Shakespeare Company had
indicated an interest in the play, and I wanted to see to see if the rhyming
magic would still effectively “cross over” from Moliere to Goldoni. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;">Michael Windsor & Jackie Madejski in ASC's "Scapin"</span><br />
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You may recall that Annapolis
Shakespeare did a terrific presentation of my “Tartuffe” last summer, and that
they have been working on both my “Scapin” and my “Imaginary Invalid” this
year. And while I grappled with my new project, a 5-star review of the Annapolis
production of my “Scapin” appeared on the <a href="http://dcmetrotheaterarts.com/2014/05/27/schemings-scapin-asc/">DCMetroArts website</a>:<br />
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Returning for their second annual "Comedy in the Courtyard" series, Annapolis Shakespeare Company is back and bringing the laughter to theatergoers of Annapolis. Right in the back courtyard of Reynolds Tavern, The Schemings of Scapin, a Moliere classic comedy, has all the hallmarks of hilarity -- mistaken identities, schemes, high end physical farce and enough 'private' jokes to flood the whole of Annapolis Harbor. An excellent evening out, this production will have you in stitches as the adaptation by Timothy Mooney brings modern rhyming couplets loaded with innuendo into the mix. Directed by the company's Founding Artistic Director, Sally Boyett, the show is high-end hilarity for all who stumble into this zany show... A great production, a fanciful fun evening of laughing all around, this is a brilliant performance to attend when trying to get a giggle from theatre this summer.</blockquote>
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With the wind of this success at my heels, I plugged away, only barely hinting to Sally (the director) that I was putting
some work in on the project… not wanting to promise, without knowing that the words
would once again achieve their fanciful heights. I set ten-pages-a-day as my
goal and forced myself to grind it out, only occasionally running off for
groceries or pushing away from the desk to exercise. I occasionally managed to
trade e-mails with my good friend, Marcus, from Croatia, who has done a number
of the “collage” promos for “Lot o’ Shakespeare” and “The Greatest Speech of
All Time.” He was working with the latest pictures from Tisse Mallon, taken at
the Orlando Fringe, and ultimately came up with the photo at the top of this
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;">Photos by Tisse Mallon; Treatment by Marcus Fernando</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow;">Presumed author in background...</span></td></tr>
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Gradually, the mass of the project grew.
Five days into the writing, the first act of the play had been completed, and
the second and third acts fell in another four, and three days respectively. Pushing
the limits of my tolerance to sit and sit for hours on end (pun intended), I
was eager to finish the play before a trip northward to see “Scapin.” I even
managed a quick proofread of the play, catching lots of uncoupled rhymes, and
unrythmic lines. <o:p></o:p></div>
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A message came through from the
folks at the American Association of Community Theatres. Four years ago, with
their “WorldFest” coming up in Venice, Florida, they’d asked me to replace a
theatre group from Zimbabwe that was unable to make it to United States to
attend the festival, and I’d stepped in with last-minute performances of “Moliere
than Thou” to fill the slot. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It seemed that lightning was about
to strike twice, as they were asking if I might have a show to present this
year as well…? <o:p></o:p></div>
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I sent them my recent reviews for
“Shakespeare’s Histories.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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I printed up copies of “Servant of
Two Masters” and hit the road, dropping in on my buddy, Jon Tuttle, in South
Carolina, and pushing on up to Annapolis. With a performance of “Scapin” slated
for that night, I popped in on Sally at the ASC office, where I more-or-less
dropped the “Servant” script into her lap. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: yellow;">"Schemings of Scapin"</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow;">Photo by Joshua McKerrow</span></td></tr>
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I don’t know if Sally was entirely
surprised, but she did jump into action rather quickly, running off copies of
the script, organizing an impromptu reading for that night, following “Scapin.”
<o:p></o:p></div>
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Meanwhile, I was getting the royal
treatment in Annapolis, with a huge room at a lovely hotel (the O’Callaghan) ,
just a few blocks from the Reynolds Tavern, where the performance was happening.
The hotel owner/manager was an enthusiastic theatre supporter, and was sending
his employees out to see performances of the show. When I went to check in at
the front desk, the clerk, who had seen the show the week before, was already
singing the praises of the show, not even knowing that I was involved. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The show, itself, was a blast. My
only disappointment was that, having played Scapin just a few months before, I
didn’t get to play along with this terrific cast, myself.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;">First ever reading of the new "Servant of Two Masters"!</span></td></tr>
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After the show, Sally gathered the
cast to do a reading of my new show, and a bunch of the actors stuck around. I
assigned out roles, reading in the role of the servant (“Truffuldino”) myself. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It was lots of fun, with enough
laughs to assure me that the “magic” was still there, but by the time we’d
finished off the first act, many of the actors were drifting off, and so the
following day, Sally and I ended up finishing off the reading with just the two
of us trading off between all of the roles. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Next stop: Charlotte, North
Carolina, where Shakespeare Carolina was producing my verion of “The
Misanthrope.” My previous drop-in on their rehearsal also included an interview
which by now had shown up on YouTube: <o:p></o:p><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/_r0DYkDE0RU" width="560"></iframe> <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">The take on “Misanthope” was quite
different, a contemporary setting, with lots of texting and social media in
place of the intercepted missives that cause so much trouble in Moliere’s
original. The fellow playing the central character, Alceste (which I’ve played
twice, now), gave a brilliant performance, supported by another dozen or so
committed and devoted actors. </span><a href="http://clclt.com/theclog/archives/2014/06/23/theater-review-the-misanthrope" style="text-indent: 0in;">The critics liked it too</a><span style="text-indent: 0in;">.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;">director of "The Misanthrope"</span></td></tr>
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After the show, I joined the actors
for a quick post-show visit to the bar, but called it an early night, given
that I needed to race off early the next morning, getting back to Orlando by
mid-afternoon. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The Breakthrough Theatre of Winter
Park had offered me the opportunity to do three more performances of
“Shakespeare’s Histories” in their venue, as an “extension” of my Orlando
Fringe performances. The owner, Wade Hair, was a warm theatre devotee, who
really seemed to enjoy my show all three nights of the run. While the
attendance was minimal, I could always spot his grin and sense his appreciation
from the back of the house, where he was running the lights. He seemed
particularly appreciative when I occasionally improvised a spontaneous use of
the odd configuration of the platforms that had been set up in the space for
their next show.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3tP9ITGV6u02RWb1Ka9pbGb0rK9hmB0LYWWPvNIfjCgeDjTAvWN-lwr4Q3moxAMrDvvEAIgDzOgUmnBHs0GJm2E7Xqd-qakSxlsCfAt7Dm0mWu1DC0kaSmj5qr542Mu-PoFsn/s1600/Tisse+Boatride+Island.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3tP9ITGV6u02RWb1Ka9pbGb0rK9hmB0LYWWPvNIfjCgeDjTAvWN-lwr4Q3moxAMrDvvEAIgDzOgUmnBHs0GJm2E7Xqd-qakSxlsCfAt7Dm0mWu1DC0kaSmj5qr542Mu-PoFsn/s1600/Tisse+Boatride+Island.jpg" height="320" width="320" /></a>My last day in Orlando, my friend,
and favorite photographer, Tisse, managed to pry me away from work long enough
to go for a boat tour of Winter Park. It was a perfect day for it, and we
passed a tree, on what seems to be the worlds tiniest island, just as a bird
was just taking off, and Tisse snapped a perfect picture.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;">Photo by Tisse Mallon</span></td></tr>
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In Venice, Florida, the American
Association of Community Theatre’s “WorldFest” was getting underway. This time
I’d been put on alert that it looked like the troupe from Togo (in Africa) was
unable to get visa clearance, and that I’d be going in for them. And yet, the
festival folks wanted to play it close to the chest, not announcing the
replacement untl the last possible moment. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Out in the theatre lobby, I was
maintaining my vendor booth, this time promoting my books almost exclusively
(given that I wasn’t planning to maintain the tour as actively), and quite a
number of folks who’d remembered “Moliere Than Thou” four years prior, were
coming up to ask if I was going to perform again this year. Caught between
wanting to celebrate the good news, and the need to hold back on any actual
announcement, I was left teasing them with a vague “could be...!”<o:p></o:p><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;">With the Venice Theatre's Bartender...<br />We have a similar colorist...</span><br />
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It wasn’t until the day before my
first performance that we made the official announcement, as the genial
pre-show host of the events announced that “Shakespeare’s Histories” would be
replacing the group from Togo for three performances, and I paraded onto the
stage wearing my Shakespearean jester hat, waving to the crowd. <o:p></o:p></div>
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My show was the partner show to a
group from Canada, and after they struck their large set, I would proceed to
set up my chair, my projector and broadsword. I was performing in the theatre’s
small 100-seat studio, and the shows were pretty much “sold out” for the run.
That sell-out, however, was for the “block” of performances, featuring the
Canadian show and my own. By the time I took the stage for the first
performance, the attendance seemed to have dropped to below half. It seems that
the audience, originally sold on the notion of going to a performance by those
Togolese, were not entirely convinced that “Shakespeare’s Histories” would be
that fun. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This trend lessened as the week
progressed, and word circulated, but I was always chagrined to see empty seats.
<o:p></o:p></div>
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On the upside, however, I was happy
to note that my books were selling quite well. There was a time, in fact, that
I may have been outselling the Dramatic Publishing booth, right next door to
mine. <o:p></o:p></div>
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A portion of these sales stemmed
from the “breakneck pace” of my performance. Given that I’d prepped the show to
squeeze into a single hour, many of the facts and dates zipped past faster than
the average audience could absorb them and, should they want to actually retain
these details, the book would be a helpful guide.</div>
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The special guest at this event was
the brilliant Ben Vereen, who performed at the opening ceremony, and could be
spotted wandering among the crowd most of the week. At one point, I was
upstairs visiting my friend, Lisa, at her booth on the theatre’s balcony, and I
spotted Ben Vereen approaching my own booth on the theatre’s Mezzanine level. I
raced down the stairs and caught up with him before he moved on. The festival’s
pre-show host, who was escorting him about, introduced us, and before I got the
chance to say it, myself, Mr. Vereen commented that he was “honored to make [my] acquaintance,” and graciously reported that he was looking forward to seeing my
show. Of course, I immediately had to post on Facebook: “Ben Vereen told me he
was looking forward to seeing my show!” (Which picked up about 150 “likes”
almost immediately.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Alas, he never did, actually, show
up to my show, but I did, at least, catch a photo with him (above). <o:p></o:p></div>
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One of the adjudicators at this
festival, by the way, was a fellow from Denmark, who was quite impressed with
“Shakespeare’s Histories.” His only critique was that he wanted to see me focus
on a single Shakespeare play (rather than ten in a single hour), so that I
might dive further into the emotional content of the characters. “Well, which
did he have in mind?” I asked.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“You know, being from Denmark, of
course, I’m rather partial to ‘Hamlet.’”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Hm. Actually, I had been thinking
of King Lear…”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“That’s a good one, too.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;">Becky, Ron & I recreate a pose from 4 years ago</span></td></tr>
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We left the conversation there, but
the more thought I gave to this, the more I realized that the 80-year-old “King
Lear” was a role that I probably still had a few years to work on, but
that, perhaps, the clock was ticking on my opportunities to play “Hamlet.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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The festival in Venice was lots of
fun, with many late-night parties, though my need to rehearse the show
repeatedly kept me from getting too carried away after dark. The organizers of
the festival expressed much gratitude for my willingness to step in at the
last second, though I have to admit being quite disappointed that there was no
recognition of my contribution to the festival at the closing night ceremony. <o:p></o:p></div>
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From Venice, my friend Lisa and I
swung down to Sanibel Island for a bit of fun at the beach, but the lack of
functional wi-fi at the hotel, and my own obsession over the workload I was
facing kept me from being able to enjoy the holiday, and the next day I raced
back up Interstate 75, on a long two-day drive to Chicago. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;">Sanibel Island</span></td></tr>
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I had about two weeks before I would
need to head on to the Kansas City, and the Minnesota Fringe Festivals. I needed
to update my flyers and my press releases, as well as the books, themselves, to
feature quotes from my Orlando reviews. I finished up the third draft of
“Servant of Two Masters,” and began to rework my plans for the coming Fall
term. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’d had just a couple of “nibbles”
for faculty positions in the course of my applications, and one of these
nibbles led me to question just how much I might actually want to land the
position in question. The option that I was anticipating was a good school which
had the unfortunate downside of being “in the middle of nowhere.” Given that
such a commitment would likely run up to mid-May, 2015, I realized that it
would be impossible for me to take an acting job that might go into rehearsal
in April. I was awash in ambivalence. <o:p></o:p></div>
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A teaching gig would, of course,
have a certain amount of security to it, but was this simply a way of putting
off the career move that I actively wanted to throw all of my energy behind?
Was I delaying the inevitable risk of surviving on my wits (and my art) alone? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Of course, I’ve mostly been
surviving on that alone (with the assistance of colleagues, friends and family
across the country), for the last thirteen years… but now I was cutting way
back on the one solution that had gotten me as far as it had. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I drew up a new plan.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;">Sunset over Jimmy Johns</span></td></tr>
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I plotted out one final tour for the
fall, which, in my head, I had begun to think of as the “First and Last-Month’s
Rent Tour.” (The schedule is below, if you want to book me!) All empty portions
of my summer were now filling up with a last second e-mail campaign, offering
my shows at a low, low price that I haven’t offered in about ten years! (Again, the
schedule is below, if you want to book me!)<o:p></o:p></div>
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I already had some requests on hand
for performances and workshops for the coming fall (The Georgia Theatre
Conference and Valparaiso and DePaul Universities), but just one more lap out
west could bolster my ability to maintain a home wherever I ultimately landed. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And where THAT would be remains an
open question. For the moment, the pros and cons have had me leaning toward
Chicago and occasionally toward the Baltimore/DC/Annapolis area. (Of course,
this last lap could find me falling in love with a whole new place…!)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Meanwhile, I was playing around with
Hamlet… current working title: “Something about Hamlet.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Taking a cue from my favorite TV
series, “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/SLINGS-ARROWS-COLLECTION-Paul-Gross/dp/B000XUF6BU/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1408908522&sr=1-1&keywords=slings+and+arrows">Slings and Arrows</a>,” I decided to start with the six major
soliloquies. (As Geoffrey Tennant says, “You nail those, everybody goes home
happy.”) <o:p></o:p></div>
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We generally assume that the
soliloquies are the most honest moments of any character, and Hamlet is a
particularly difficult nut to crack, given his “antic disposition,” and his
tendency to hide his true thoughts from those around him. I might well be able
to build an understanding of the character, and eventually, the play, from the
inside, out. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I didn’t know where this exploration
would take me, or what this might eventually look like as a one-man show, (if
it would even <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">be</i> a one-man show), but
as I began to absorb the soliloquies, they grew in depth and texture and dynamics.
I began to notice trends, understand how they held together, and how individual
words contributed to the through-line, or reveal glimmers of character. And, what surprises me almost every
time, is that speeches that have bewildered me for years, as they are absorbed
into my being, begin to develop a theatrical power, a climax, or even a goofy
idea that strikes me as being just right for the moment. <o:p></o:p></div>
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For instance: Hamlet is famously
reticent about avenging his father’s death, or even expressing his anger about
it, but given the opportunity to articulate his perspective on the theatre, he goes
way beyond the bounds of dispassionate aesthetic criticism, and may even “split
the ears of the groundlings” and “saw the air with his hand” as he complains
about the tendency of the clowns to improvise material that is not “set down
for them.” By the end of the speech, I find myself almost roaring out “That’s villainous
and shows a most pitiful ambition in he that uses it!” <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;">I'm taller than her, now...</span></td></tr>
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Just a couple days before hitting
the road once more, I found myself back at my old grade school, St. James, in
Arlington Heights, to attend their production of “Oliver!”, one of the very
first shows I ever appeared in, also at St. James, back when I was in 6<sup>th</sup>
grade! Through a series of coincidences, it also happened that my First Grade
Teacher (yipes!) was attending this same show! I was reunited with Sister John
Marie, perhaps 48 years later!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Back to the tour! Kansas City was
next up! Early signs were good, as “Shakespeare’s Histories” was listed in a feature
article in the Kansas City Star as “a hit at the Orlando International Fringe
Festival in Florida this year.” (Of course, the only way that they knew that
was because I’d stressed that fact in my recent press release!) ((Fortunately,
they took my word for it.))<o:p></o:p></div>
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From the first performance, ticket
sales in Kansas City were brisk. <a href="http://www.pitch.com/kansascity/fringe-festival-2014-kansas-citytime-enough/Content?oid=4290623">Pitch Magazine</a>, which had given me a very nice
review last year, was back again with a summary of the festival which included
a review of my show that fit into a single parenthetical remark:</div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-indent: 0in;">
(Speaking of Shakespeare, are you
Shakespeare-phobic or lacking background on England's royal past or maybe just
forever hungry for the Bard? In Timothy Mooney's <b><i>Shakespeare's Histories:
Ten Epic Plays at a Breakneck Pace</i></b>, seen Monday, his colorful and
concise monologues on the historical plays combine famous Shakespeare text with
an animated CliffsNotes take on English royal lineage that transfix, leaving
you entertained and feeling smarter.) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Liz
Cook & Deborah Hirsch, The Pitch.com</i></blockquote>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="text-indent: 0in;">And one of the most enthusiastic
responders to last year’s “Greatest Speech of All Time” was back to review
“Histories” for </span><a href="http://kcmetropolis.org/issue/july-23-2014-fringe-issue/article/kc-fringe-2014-shakespeares-histories" style="text-indent: 0in;">KCMetropolis.org</a><span style="text-indent: 0in;">. </span></div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-indent: 0in;">
Is it possible to experience five
centuries of history, literature, and drama in less than an hour? Turns out
it’s not only possible, but entertaining and educational to boot. Mooney
connects the dots between the plays, reveals the author’s liberties with
factual events, and his penchant for having his reality-based characters wildly
prophesying on anything and everything. Pillar of the English language and renowned
dramatist, yes. Reliable historian? Not so much, but Mooney helps make it clear
Shakespeare was trying to provide entertainment and social commentary with his
English history plays more than an accurate telling. Mooney [points] out
ironies and discrepancies with enthusiasm and determination… delivered with
confidence and personality. He slips between narrator and character without
missing a beat... There is a staggering amount of material packed into this
mere 60 minutes—war, murder, deception, banishment, conquests, family drama,
and much more. Mooney respects the audience in that he doesn’t dumb down
Shakespeare, but makes it accessible, enjoyable, and fun. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>– <i>Kristin Shafel Omiccioli, KCMetropolis.org </i></blockquote>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">And, an old friend, and fellow
fringer, Robert Hubbard, provided one of my favorite reviews on </span><a href="http://kcstage.com/?a=Reviews&op=View&md=SortPerf&theatid=306&playid=710&sid=1406095406" style="text-indent: 0in;">KCStage.com</a><span style="text-indent: 0in;">: </span></div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-indent: 0in;">
“I have seen a medicine/That's able to
breathe life into a stone” [Although] this Shakespeare quotation would be more
appropriate if it came from a history play, it effectively captures the magical
alchemy taking place at the Westport Coffee House… Tim Mooney prescribes a
sweet-tasting medicine that resuscitates some majestic old stones… breathing
new life into some of the best set speeches in the history of theatre…. One of
the most experienced solo performers around, Mooney’s performance soars along
at an engaging and thrilling pace… It’s a great show. See it. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Robert Hubbard, KCStage.com </i></blockquote>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">As always, I had loads of fun at the
KC Fringe, where my good friends, Allan and Sandy, put me up for the course of
the fringe. My friend, Cat, a lighting designer, donated some fabric to cover
the “throne” for my show (a wing-backed chair). I enjoyed the late-night arts
bar gatherings, and was asked to host the late-night show for a couple of
nights, the prospect of which used to intimidate me somewhat, but now I just
recruit a few performers and sit back and enjoy the conversation.</span></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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All in all, my show averaged about
45 in attendance for each performance, which was a definite step up for the KC
Fringe Festival, due, perhaps equally, to this being my fourth return to the festival
(with good publicity and reviews) as to the festival taking a significant step
up in exposure this year.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On to Minnesota! The Minnesota
Fringe has likewise been a favorite of mine, and once again I was back at the
Bryant-Lake Bowl. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;">
While the atmosphere of the “BLB” is
really fun, with the audience able to bring their beer (or their dinner) in to
the theatre, there’s a funny shape to the auditorium, which places some of the
audience perhaps as far as 30 feet away from the stage, while the bulk of floor-level
seats are all within about 15 feet. Every once in a while, the loud air
conditioning unit will kick on, or a bus or motorcycle can be heard passing by
(the street is immediately behind the back wall of the stage). And, every now
and then you can, of course, hear a pin drop… from the adjacent bowling alley. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This was the one venue which, all
summer long, has had me concerned about timing. Between the distance of the
audience, the audio interference, and the anticipated crowd reaction, I was apprehensive
about being able to bring the show in under the required 60 minutes. After the
KC shows were done, I combed back over the script once more, finding new cuts
that I might make into the dialogue: removing twenty seconds of material from
two speeches, and another ten seconds out of another… beautiful language, but perhaps
repeating or reframing points that had already been made.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I was caught off-guard when my first
performance, a 7:00 show on the opening night of the festival, was met by a
small audience of only about 15 or so. (Even my opening night Kansas City show
had over 40.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was hard to get the “pulse” of
this particular crowd. Their scattered placement made them less unified in
their reaction as the Orlando or Kansas City audiences had been. The one fellow
that I was pretty sure was a reviewer seemed to be in a dour mood, and the
laughs felt fewer and further between. <span style="text-indent: 0in;">Having amped myself up to perform to a
packed house of perhaps 80, I was “pushing” in ways to which the crowd was not
responding.</span></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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And yet, the first two reviews that
showed up almost immediately, with the <a href="http://www.twincities.com/fringe/ci_26255050/fringe-review-shakespeares-histories-ten-epic-plays-at">Pioneer Press</a>, and with <a href="http://aislesaytwincities.com/2014/08/01/fringe-shakespeares-histories-and-slut-club/">Aisle Say</a>, were
extremely good:</div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-indent: 0in;">
If only cramming for an exam were as
enjoyable as Timothy Mooney's rapid-fire tour through five centuries of English
history. It's an epic in an hour as the Chicago-based actor squeezes together
10 plays about seven kings and creates 23 distinct characters, each employing
Shakespeare's sumptuously poetic words. PowerPoint helps with succession
charts, but it's best when the exhaustingly energetic Mooney introduces you to
rich, complex characters like the existentially conflicted Richard II or Joan
of Arc as seen through Elizabethan eyes (the little witch). Mooney brings
welcome clarity to what all those wars and words were about. -- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rob Hubbard, Pioneer Press (An entirely
different Rob Hubbard from the one who reviewed my show in Kansas City!)</i></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Timothy Mooney is a joy to watch in this one-man show, as he flies through the history of the English monarchy from 1066-1533 AD as explained through Shakespeare. It is an awesome thing to see, in the sense that it will fill you with awe -- awe that one person can not only remember all those names, dates, and details, but that he can also remember all those Shakespearean speeches, the different mannerisms and voices for each character, and make it all interesting... Timothy Mooney makes some sharp, witty insights into Shakespeare's choices in writing up his version of English history, and he truly brings the stories to life... If history and Shakespeare are two of your least favourite things, this obviously isn't the thing for you, but if you're even a little bit into either or both, do yourself a favour and go see this show, if only to marvel at Mooney's outstanding performance. -- <i>Liz Byron, Aisle Say, Twin Cities</i> </blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.fringefestival.org/2014/show/?id=2636">Audience reviews</a> were just as good, all four and five stars, with only one 2-star (“A derivitave
Reduced Shakespeare Company-esque romp”) and one 3-star review (“There wasn’t
enough difference in the presentation of the different characters.”). <o:p></o:p></div>
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My favorite comments:</div>
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</div>
<ul>
<li><span style="text-indent: 0in;">“Cliff Notes on Steroids,”</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: 0in;">“I’ve never come away disappointed
from a Tim Mooney performance, and I surely did not from this one.”</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: 0in;">“Definitely will be in my top 5 (of
the 52 I’ll see…),”</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: 0in;">“The history teacher you wish you
had had in school”</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: 0in;">“The consummate theater nerd.”</span></li>
</ul>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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To top things off, I just <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">now</i> noticed that Matthew Everett, who
I’ve been promoting my material to since my very first time out to the
Minnesota Fringe (in 2004?), did a quick review of the show on his Facebook
page:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Shakespeare's Histories - finally saw a Tim Mooney show, and I might finally understand the context of the history plays, 5 stars. -- <i>Matthew Everett</i></blockquote>
</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;">With Doug and Beth Rusk!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">As always, I had loads of fun in
Minnesota, visiting with people, some of whom had been back to see me for eight
different shows by now (such as Nick of the now-famous Nick & Carolyn… a
couple who met at the Fringe, now married with a small child)! My old college friends, Doug and Beth Rusk, who I haven't seen in ... many years, came out to see the show! It was great
getting to know the new fringe staff led by Executive Director, Jeff Larson,
and to hang out at Fringe Central and visit. (Following my
5-days-into-the-Fringe spontaneous addition to the line up last year, I felt
that the warmth of the welcome I was getting had grown... or perhaps it’s just
a sense of respect for someone who is badass enough to mount a show on a single
day’s notice.)</span></div>
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My old friends Bill and Susan
Wilkinson, who’d followed me ever since I hit the road back in 2002, drove in
from Wisconsin to see the show. And my playwright-friend, Claudia Haas posted,
“Ending MN Fringe with Tim Mooney because he is fearless and if you’re doing
Shakespeare’s histories – you should be! Meanwhile, during the day I was pretty
obsessed with running lines. (This time, the performances were averaging
59:30.) <o:p></o:p></div>
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When I wasn’t running lines during
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The very last performance of the run
in Minnesota may have been the best. Though not a packed house by any means,
they were responding very actively. My opening speech from King John found me
speaking to a “Hubert” perhaps two rows into the audience, shaking his hand
while making it clear that he is to assassinate the 15 year-old Prince Arthur. And
while I usually pick some helpless victim out of the audience to nod towards as
the target of this intended murder, there were two boys, perhaps 10 and 12 years
old in the front row, and, nodding in their direction, the horrifying weight of
King John’s cruel intentions resonated through the audience, a shock which gave
way to a macabre laugh. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Toward the end of the play, when
Richard III informs Queen Elizabeth that he intends to wed her young daughter,
and that she should “Make bold her bashful years with your… experience,” the
woman that I directed the speech towards in the front row got so creeped out
that she was writhing in disgust. In fact, she tried to squirm her way behind
the pole that she was sitting next to.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWr8wplvSd40sCOUYmMaBWrcbGPiw0oU0ER6VtVLf_B2Ev0h5TatIWENXP_UW1cRAIMi8yhK21MewivPyFTrL-lL-MhiJAzAqCAZGh4hX10FlQHJIdhMgghgrUxVw-a87qMAGN/s1600/ASC+Invalid+2014+Flyer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWr8wplvSd40sCOUYmMaBWrcbGPiw0oU0ER6VtVLf_B2Ev0h5TatIWENXP_UW1cRAIMi8yhK21MewivPyFTrL-lL-MhiJAzAqCAZGh4hX10FlQHJIdhMgghgrUxVw-a87qMAGN/s1600/ASC+Invalid+2014+Flyer.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a>Somewhere in there, the Annapolis
Shakespeare Company production of my “Imaginary Invalid” opened, and got 4 ½
stars in <a href="http://dcmetrotheaterarts.com/2014/08/06/imaginary-invalid-annapolis-shakespeare-company/">DCMetrotheaterarts.com</a> <o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijM116EIPijRz-tda_ghZsYPcyXLuwHEaFIVxSdvQ8jdiXMCHBC-s7WJ_GlJH5Vnnkut1Jwpu9VJvk9wcMIIIQ4pbPqRTQfs9YRhmlsRSP3U5xsU1wll3_wqCngeH5N3EG2pvf/s1600/Paiges+Amazon+Image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijM116EIPijRz-tda_ghZsYPcyXLuwHEaFIVxSdvQ8jdiXMCHBC-s7WJ_GlJH5Vnnkut1Jwpu9VJvk9wcMIIIQ4pbPqRTQfs9YRhmlsRSP3U5xsU1wll3_wqCngeH5N3EG2pvf/s1600/Paiges+Amazon+Image.jpg" height="320" width="207" /></a>Back in Chicago, I was delighted to see that my friend and mentor Sue Paige had finally released her terrific "self-help" book, "Paiges of Wisdom." I'm a little prejudiced on this one, since I helped Sue design the cover and wrote a blub for the back of the book, but I highly recommend picking up a copy! Sue is the founder of Pathways, the group that has given me so much inspiration over the years. If you want a taste of what <a href="http://pathwaysseminars.com/">Pathways</a> is about, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Paiges-Wisdom-Sue-Paige/dp/1500140899/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1408902430&sr=1-1&keywords=Paiges+of+Wisdom">this is a great place to start</a>.</div>
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With the vast
e-mail campaign now largely behind me (and at least ten bookings on the
schedule for the coming fall), my point-of-focus shifted, in what felt like a
subtle, but profound manner. <o:p></o:p></div>
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As ever, I have about a dozen
projects either in immediate development, or planned for some time in the
future, but rather than envisioning the endless chase of bookings as my
immediate challenge (a black hole that never seems to fill to any
satisfaction), I was starting to see my creative work as the end-in-and-of-itself.
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These days, I find myself waking up
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;">In the audience at "The Schemings of Scapin"</span></td></tr>
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And usually, my head, or my voices,
have an answer. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And while much of most days is still
filled with memorization (I’ve scheduled six entirely different one-man shows
over the course of the coming fall!), I find myself challenged in other
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Projects currently on my itinerary (some of which I have
yet to get into gear on), include:</div>
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<li><span style="text-indent: 0in;">Improving my voiceover production
quality, reading “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Advice-Encyclopedia-Voice-Over-Business-Working/dp/1496021525/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1408905740&sr=1-2&keywords=Encyclopedia+of+voiceover">The Encyclopedia of Voiceover</a>” by Kate McClanahan, and “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/iVoiceover-Super-Simple-Recording-Martin-ebook/dp/B00B3PYP9S/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1408905787&sr=1-1&keywords=ivoiceover">ivoiceover</a>”
by Erik J. Martin.</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: 0in;">Creating a mini-voiceover studio,
through an ingenious arrangement of foam baffling in a box.</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: 0in;">Rereading Stanislavsky… (Still seeking
out his passage on Richard’s “I can change colors with the chameleon…” from
“Henry VI, Part III.”)</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: 0in;">Writing/editing “How do you Remember
All Those Lines?”</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: 0in;">Chasing down a literary agent.</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: 0in;">Scoping out the audition resources
in Chicago.</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: 0in;">Memorizing “Hamlet”. (Ten major
speeches memorized already!)</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: 0in;">Compiling a new “Shakespeare’s
Histories” promo video. (NOW CREATED, SEE BELOW)</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: 0in;">Doing the “Audiobook” version of
“<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Acting-Speed-Life-Conquering-Theatrical/dp/0983181209/ref=la_B00J7O48NK_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1408905731&sr=1-1">Acting at the Speed of Life; Conquering Theatrical Style</a>”</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: 0in;">Doing the “Audiobook” version of
“<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shakespeares-Histories-Epic-Plays-Breakneck/dp/0983181241/ref=la_B00J7O48NK_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1408905731&sr=1-2">Shakespeare’s Histories; Ten Epic Plays at a Breakneck Pace!</a>” (My attempts to
record a “live” version during the KC Fringe Festival suffered from technical
breakdown.)</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: 0in;">Doing “Kindle” versions of all of my
books.</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: 0in;">Sending out resumes to the major
Chicago theatres.</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: 0in;">Re-introducing myself to the Standardized
Patient community. (Actors who play patients in med schools.)</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: 0in;">Doing the next draft of
“Currency”</span><span style="text-indent: 0in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0in;">(My self-help book)</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: 0in;">Doing the next draft of “Servant of
Two Masters.”</span></li>
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">What this represents to me is the
beginning of taking these projects as ends in themselves. And, perhaps
concordantly, of their value to the universe in-and-of their own right. In
other words, the book promotion is not simply a kabuki dance to enhance my cred
to increase my bookings (though it may well do that), but it could, and should,
be a major income source. Especially with “Shakespeare’s Histories,” I think
I’ve created something that can be a major contribution to our cultural
understanding of some of our most important literary works.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;">"The Schemings of Scapin" in the Reynolds Tavern Courtyard</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow;">Photo by Joshua McKerrow</span></td></tr>
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<b>Temperature</b>: Gradually descending
into the 70s after a summer of 80s and 90s, with the sun going down earlier and
earlier.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>On Netflix</b>: “Firefly” and
“Serenity”.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>On the I-pod</b>: Anything by Caro Emerald, and
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow;">Ashlyn Thompson & Briana Manente in ASC's "Imaginary Invalid</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow;">Photo by Joshua McKerrow</span></td></tr>
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<b>Discoveries</b>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The “magic” is still there, when I take the
risk to invoke its return. * Whether or not I have a show to push, just selling
my books at conferences and festivals is worth the effort. * It helps that I’ve
fashioned the perfect show for post-show book sales. * In chasing down
“security,” am I simply putting off the career risk that I know that I need to
take? * However bewildering or intimidating a project might seem to be, the
very process of memorizing and absorbing it shows me the path for bringing it
to theatrical life. And, thereby, perhaps the farther I stick my neck out in
attempting impossible projects, the greater the upside when I find that life. *
However certain I might be that the show is not going over with a given
audience, I’m usually wrong. (The reverse is also true.) * Mounting a show with
a single day’s notice is a kind of a badass thing to do. * All this creative
work might well be an end in itself. And, perhaps, my most effective choice is
to chase the thing that inspires me on any given day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Next performance</b>: At the Dangerous
Theatre in Denver, September 5-13.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://timmooneyrep.com/">Timothy Mooney Repertory Theatre</a>
Tour Schedule</span><o:p></o:p></h1>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">(Available dates in CAPITAL LETTERS; Already-booked
dates in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">GREEN</span></b>;
Pending bookings in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">BLUE</span>; Festival opportunities in <span style="color: red;">RED</span></b>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 9.0pt;">MTT</span></b><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"> = “Moliere than Thou”; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">LoS</span></b> = “Lot o’ Shakespeare; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">GSAT</span></b> =
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 11.0pt;">9/2-3<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IOWA / NEBRASKA<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 11.0pt;">9/5-6<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dangerous Theatre, Denver, CO (LoS)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 11.0pt;">9/8-10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WYOMING / NEBRASKA / KANSAS / NEW MEXICO / UTAH<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 11.0pt;">9/11-13<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dangerous Theatre, Denver, CO (LoS)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 11.0pt;">9/14-15<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 11.0pt;">9/16-20<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IDAHO <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 11.0pt;">11/25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TENNESSEE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
tim_mooney@earthlink.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10251175800373730254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359867.post-35592670130017112982014-05-23T09:24:00.002-07:002014-08-24T13:51:30.488-07:00The View From Here #162: Winter/Spring, 2014<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yes, another chapter of “My Fab Life
on the Road…!” Will it be the last?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Last January’s book release party
went forward SANS book. While I had a couple copies of the final proof in hand,
the book itself did not arrive until the day AFTER the performance, and I
proceeded to drive copies around the Chicago area. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Shakespeare's Histories! The first published copies!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The reviews showing up on Amazon included
these terrific comments (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shakespeares-Histories-Epic-Plays-Breakneck/dp/0983181241/ref=la_B00J7O48NK_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1399517913&sr=1-2" target="_blank">have you posted yours yet</a>?):
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"This book is a must. Tim Mooney’s
dazzling, encapsulated renditions of Shakespeare’s plays are robust, dedicated,
and nothing short of brilliant artistry. Tim's knowledge and understanding of
the work of William Shakespeare, and easily understood dissemination of same,
are, for me, comparable to Carl Sagan's interpretation of the Cosmos. Only
faster, and funnier." (Eduardo Santiago, award-winning author of “Midnight
Rumba”)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"This book and the performance based
upon it do an outstanding job of explaining the larger context of Shakespeare's
history plays in a manner that is detailed (but not overwhelmingly so), easy to
understand (even for those less acquainted with the material), and above all,
great fun. It should be required reading in classical theatre classes, and will
be a welcome addition to the libraries of longtime Shakespeare aficionados,
those newly enchanted with The Bard, and even those who may not have an
interest in Shakespeare works per se (perish the thought), but who simply have
an interest in history, and an appreciation of excellent history teachers."
("Lisaie")</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"I just ordered the book after
watching Tim Mooney perform the live version of “Shakespeare's Histories.”
Breathtaking, mindblowing, fascinating, and witty (both Tim and Shakespeare.).
I hope Tim willl do an audiobook so everyone can feel his knowledge, passion
and humor. In the meantime, read the book or find his traveling shows! Bravo
Tim, actor and author!!" (Bruce Bloom)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"Centuries of historical detail and
drama strung together in a breathtaking journey! Gives a great bird's-eye view,
and as the author says, 'now you know enough to learn all the
rest...'" ("ALC")</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"After seeing Mooney perform this
compilation in an hour, I wanted nothing more than to download these plays to
my Kindle and read them. High praise, considering that my prior familiarity
with the histories was mostly confined to Henry V's Agincourt speech and
"my kingdom for a horse." This book is both a playable script (for
someone with genius memorization skills and excellent acting chops) and a handy
guide to an important segment of Shakespeare's works. In an era of power grabs,
class struggle and corruption, these histories are eminently relevant. Stop
letting confusion about rose colors, royals, bastards and battles keep you
away. Let Mooney's distilled histories, augmented with photos and helpful
family trees, lead you once more into the breach, dear friends." (Julie S.
Higginbotham)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The next day, I was back on the road
again! I headed west to visit my long-time friends, Jeff and Karen Barker at
Northwestern College in Iowa, where I performed “The Greatest Speech of All
Time” to perhaps the largest, most appreciative group this show has seen, who
were very caught up in the delicate, nuanced moral struggles that each of the
characters were engaged in. As they went off to tally the hundred or so
“ballots” from this very large crowd at the end of the play, I took a couple of
questions, and one of the questions from this predominantly Christian crowd
was, “Why didn’t I include a speech from Jesus as being one of the ‘Greatest
speeches of all time?’” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I quipped, “Well, He had an unfair
advantage.” The audience laughed and we left it at that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="usercontent">Checking the
“ballots,” my favorite comment, left by the viewers was: “I felt like I was
time travelling.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I headed far, far south, to Laredo,
Texas, where the college there was hosting me for performances of “Lot o’
Shakespeare” and “The Greatest Speech of All Time,” almost exactly a year to
the day following last year's “Moliere than Thou” booking. These were
both well-received, and I also gave an acting workshop, sponsored by the local
community theatre. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Usually, I figure that it’s safe to
schedule travel in Texas in January, but when the temperature dips below
freezing in San Antonio, they freak out and close the highways that have
overpasses, so the return trip north hit a major slowdown. Along the way, I got
word from the anticipated next-show at Valparaiso University that, due to the
extreme cold, school had been cancelled for the date of my show. (Curses!) </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Carbondale, looking south on Highway 51</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I did manage to pass through
Carbondale, Illinois on my way back north, where I caught this sunset photo…!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With Rick Plummer</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Speaking of Carbondale, I continued to Ludington, Michigan
where my former SIU undergrad acting and voice teacher, Rick Plummer, was holding
auditions for my “The Schemings of Scapin” at Westshore Community College. (Rick
had already cast me as Scapin, but I wouldn’t be joining rehearsals for a
couple of weeks yet.) He got just the number of actors that he needed to make
the show work, partially by making his lovely and talented daughter, Emma, take
the role of Zerbinette. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">With a brief break, I finally found
the time to switch my computer BACK to the system that it had been using last
summer. While Apple had promised that with “Mountain Lion” and the subsequent
“Mavericks” would be significant improvements to “Snow Leopard,” I found my
computer slowing to a crawl, and freezing up several times a day. It took a day
or two to convince the tech support guy to help me restore the old system, but
as soon as it was installed, my computer went back to working flawlessly. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Trees outside of Westshore Community College</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Heading east, Newman University
(near Philadelphia) hosted me for a couple of very fun workshops: “The Life of
Moliere” and “Shakespeare Spaghetti.” From there, I spent a long weekend
visiting Maureen and Tim in Claiborne, from which they were now getting ready
to relocate. Their home, which was perfect in fair weather, was suffering
through a thoroughly frigid winter, with extremely little insulation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I managed to get in a visit with the
charming and innovative Sally Boyette, the Artistic Director of the Annapolis Shakespeare
Company, which had produced my “Tartuffe” last summer to terrific response.
This summer, they are planning yet another production of “Scapin,” and we shared thoughts
about that one, as well as other Moliere adaptations she was considering for
the coming summer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">From there, I headed on to Washington, DC, with two
workshops and a performance at the Bullis School, before heading back to Michigan.
</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Isaac and I</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I stopped in Ann Arbor a couple of
days in advance of Isaac’s 20<sup>th</sup> birthday. This semester, he started
as an RA at the University of Michigan, with a very large apartment to himself,
perhaps four or five times the size of the previous (shared) dorm room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Back in Ludington (technically, Scottville, Michigan, though everyone seems to reference it as being Ludington), “Scapin” rehearsals were only barely underway, as
conflicts and school closings had limited the early blocking work. Working on
my lines, I was amazed at how quickly they were coming back. I hadn’t played
the role since 1999, but they were still there, tucked away in the back of my
head, waiting to reawaken. This phenomena of memorization was beginning to
inspire me to launch my long-contemplated book on memorization, which I now
decided to title, “How Do You Remember All Those Lines?” (The most oft-asked
first question in any post-show Q&A.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Word came to me that a
scene from my “Imaginary Invalid” (as presented by East Central University) was
invited to the ACTF Region 6 Conference, while my “Misanthrope” took first
place in the Richmond Area High School theatre festival. I discovered that I
was “in” at the Kansas City Fringe Festival and the Minnesota Fringe Festival
(where I’ll be presenting “Shakespeare’s Histories; Ten Epic Plays at a
Breakneck Pace!”). AND… my YouTube channel passed 200,000 views!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A friend at the Oregon Shakespeare
Festival, who was celebrating her birthday, challenged her friends to create
flash-mob dance performances of the song “Happy,” to post to their you-tube
sites. I didn’t have any flash mobs to work with, and it was freezing outside,
so I created a “face dance” from my position at my chair. Just in case you
aren’t thoroughly sick of that song yet, here it is again:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This video was shot, by the way, at
<a href="http://www.ludington-michigan.com/" target="_blank">a lovely bed and breakfast</a> I was staying in while in Ludington: The Lamplighter
Inn. The charming couple that runs it couldn’t have been more helpful
throughout my stay, especially as the snow and the plunging temperatures led to
my car’s battery freezing up a couple of times! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Rehearsals plugged along at
Westshore Community College, and I found myself drilling my lines three times a
day in preparation for the show’s opening. I have taken to timing the run of my
lines as a measure of how well they’ve been absorbed in my head. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Gregory Marcus, LeAnna Engwall, and I in "The Schemings of Scapin" </span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Working with Rick again was a real
pleasure, and the cast was incredibly dedicated. I made a point of coming to
rehearsal an hour early every night, and before long, more than half of the
cast would also turn up early as well. This production broke my personal tradition of
not performing Moliere in “commedia masks,” and Rick was giving me extremely free rein to
improvise and create new “lazzi.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I particularly enjoyed adding new audience
interaction bits, and embellishing on the routine in which Scapin flips back
and forth, between playing himself and playing a series of supposed villains
who have come to beat up Geronte, who is now hiding inside of a sack. At one
point, these two characters started articulating their “t’s” in such a way as
to spit in each others’ eyes. Which is hilariously absurd when you consider
that it is the same character switching roles and somehow spitting in his own
eye. Now and then I come up with a piece of schtick, assuming that
the audience will never pick it up, but this time found myself delighted to hear that the cast (on stage the whole time), is finding it hysterical. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The play was very well received,
with “big laughs and spontaneous applause.” The print version of <a href="http://www.shorelinemedia.net/ludington_daily_news/news/entertainment/article_2934525e-a48b-11e3-a75f-0019bb2963f4.html" target="_blank">the feature story in the local paper</a> was a bit more elaborate than the on-line verison, as
it highlighted the point that this play was definitely “not boring.” (I think
they had “Not Boring” as a bold sub-heading.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It was a bittersweet goodbye to my
new friends in Ludington, pushing on to my next engagement, but I was due to
perform BOTH “Lot o’ Shakespeare” and “Moliere than Thou” at Alma College, in
Alma, Michigan the very day after “Scapin” closed. Which meant that I would be
performing six shows in the course of five days! My final days in Ludington
were filled with drills of the two one-man shows in my head, while maintaining
“Scapin's” performance-readiness. The Alma performances were just as successful as the Ludington
shows, with a standing ovation at the end of “Lot o’ Shakespeare”!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Along with the bitter cold in
Michigan, there was a ton of snow. When people use the phrase “lake effect
snow,” Ludington, Michigan is exactly what they have in mind. It seemed to snow some
six-to-ten inches every other day. I stayed indoors a lot, applying for more
jobs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And while there were a lot of
applications going out, there was very little coming back in. I have a coterie
of “recommenders” who have been writing some brilliant recommendations for me,
but of the 40 or so applications, I’ve only received one noticeable
“nibble” so far. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Which got me thinking. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Would it be so bad, if I didn’t get
a “regular” job?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Might it not be <i>great</i> if I didn't
get a regular job? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I started thinking about all of the
things I might be available to do: audition, voiceover, local one-man
performances (wherever “local” was). I could focus on getting an agent and
promoting the new Shakespeare book, which I am increasingly convinced has a big
audience out there, waiting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And, so, IF I were to get back into
the swing of life (as I left it, prior to setting off on the “big tour”), what
steps ought I be taking?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I made an appointment to get new
headshots done. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I hadn’t done new headshots since
prior to “the big tour…” some thirteen years ago. And not only had I grown a
few more grey hairs, the nature of headshots had also changed, as color photos
had nudged the traditional b&w shots out of the way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I tried to drop a couple of the
excess pounds I’d put on to survive the cold winter, and the pics that Brian
McConkey created were really terrific. One Facebook friend, noting how very
young I looked, remarked “I’ll have what he’s having!” To which I responded:
“Try the Photoshop; it’s delicious.”</span><br />
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warmed up enough to find the keys that I’d thought I’d lost in a snow-pile. It
turned out that I’d actually lost them in a neighbor’s yard, when I paused to
help her with her snow blower! (The car key doesn’t work any more.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On the road, I headed for Texas,
once again, with shows and workshops in El Paso! My host had arranged events
for me while he was traveling internationally, and I ended up shuttling to a
bunch of high schools and colleges around the city, which had not quite been the
original plan. My performances were at the <a href="http://www.nps.gov/cham/index.htm" target="_blank">Chamizal National Memorial</a>, which seemed to have a really elaborate list of rules, most of which were
fairly irrelevant to a one-man show, though they were quick to remind me of the
great privilege to be performing at a National Memorial. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The first half of the performance,
“Lot o’ Shakespeare,” featured some of my best stuff: “Hamlet,” “Julius Ceasar,”
“Twelfth Night,” etc., but it was the second half of the show which seemed to
make the biggest impression, as I returned to perform all of “Shakespeare’s
Histories” for the group. (It was a small group, but most of them seemed to be
Shakespeare afficionadoes.) I was much enthused for the performances of
“Histories” that I’d be giving this summer on the fringe circuit, and very
relieved that I made it through the many events of this visit without ripping
out my voice in the dry El Paso air.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I visited with my new friend, Kate
Mura, in Albuquerque (during which we discovered that I’d seen her in a show back
in Chicago about a dozen years ago), passing through Flagstaff, and stopping in
Las Vegas for a couple of days (where it turned out that Marcus and Shauna, a
couple of my new friends from Ludington, just happened to be spending spring break). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdLYd3Fc2TVe7wTd0yNZd9gpNCQQ-NpyJDXJnOVs6uZd0eCuq5YM7rXod_CdUstxIpSOaPgbFMjznBtwgSWkwdJ2ZjE1l-8UelSFI9uuB9Z9ArJyCQw-I2D0sb6Vt2-w_wkA9g/s1600/Vegas+Sunrise.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdLYd3Fc2TVe7wTd0yNZd9gpNCQQ-NpyJDXJnOVs6uZd0eCuq5YM7rXod_CdUstxIpSOaPgbFMjznBtwgSWkwdJ2ZjE1l-8UelSFI9uuB9Z9ArJyCQw-I2D0sb6Vt2-w_wkA9g/s1600/Vegas+Sunrise.jpg" height="298" width="400" /></a>I got back to Betty’s house in
Idylwild, CA, where she was hosting a presentation of “Criteria, a One-Man Comic
Sci-Fi Thriller”. This one was a favorite of Betty's from back when we first met, about ten years ago in Orlando. I hadn’t performed "Criteria" in perhaps two years, but spent
the trip from El Paso “waking it back up” in my head. Again, Betty’s friends
were very receptive. Between promotional efforts from Betty in California, and
my sister, Maureen in Maryland, I have a couple of groupings of “fans” who come
out in increasing numbers to catch these very informal performances. Given that
“Criteria” was “awake” in my head again, I was looking forward to bringing this
one back to Maryland.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Betty’s friends were kind enough to
buy copies “Criteria” (the book), and two new reviews got posted to Amazon, as
L.F. Salter called it:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">“…A 5-star evening of gripping,
thought provoking material. Written in 2002, the metaphor is stunningly timely
for today...The story is funny, profound, tense, and a great read! …Tim's
one-man performance of this (if one is lucky enough to see one) is a breathtakingly
energetic and astonishing… His performance-insights and writing mastery will
draw the reader into his arena with rapt empathy... You will laugh deeply,
ponder profoundly, and wince knowingly! His presentational presence comes
across even in his writing and will linger with you for days after the reading
(or nag you into wanting to quote him at smug cocktail parties)!... For those
of you who cannot witness Mr. Mooney's performance, his thin book is an
engrossing page-turner!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Meanwhile, another anonymous writer,
“Prowler,” posted: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">“I recently saw Mr. Mooney perform "Criteria: A
One-Man, Comic, Sci-Fi Thriller!" I was eager to see it, but I also must
confess, I wondered whether the material would hold up more than a decade after
the piece was written in the wake of the 9/11 attack on New York. I was
delighted to have my fears punctured and put to rest. A really engaging piece
that manages very quickly and succinctly and entertainingly bring the audience
up to speed in a history lesson of the future and to place the audience solidly
in its own world. Like the most deft of sci-fi writers, Mooney uses the genre
not as a tool to talk about laser guns and spaceships, but as an opportunity to
explore big and small questions of our lives today. He does so by focusing on
the small things -- does humankind ever really change that much? And while we
focus on the small things, thoughts of the bigger issues slip into our heads.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I stopped for several days in
Valencia to visit with Kirsten, while catching up on upkeep issues: getting the
car emission vapor lock fixed (very expensive), and getting new eyeglasses
(also very expensive). It seems that every time I get a nice paycheck from my
publisher (royalties from productions of one of my Moliere plays), I have a
corresponding breakdown of car/computer/eyeglasses… </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Is it that all of my good
news comes with bad news attached to it, or that all of my bad news comes with
good news to mitigate it? (I'm guessing this is the eternal half-full/half-empty conundrum.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I began serious
progress on “How Do You Remember All Those Lines?” while working a bit more
with Kirsten on her show, “Firecracker”. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Passing beautiful
Mt. Shasta, I continued on up to Oregon where I dropped in on the Oregon
Shakespeare Festival “Tudor Gift Shop.” You may recall that the woman at this
shop (which also carries “Acting at the Speed of Life,” and “The Big Book of
Moliere Monologues”) gave me the idea to publish “Shakespeare’s Histories.”
When I showed her the now-published book, she was initially excited by it,
until she heard the retail price was $19.95. I explained that the color
illustrations made the increased price necessary, and she grudgingly took five
copies for her store. Overnight, however, having read the book, she turned
around and ordered ten more. It’s now available on their website, where she
declares: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">“’<span class="usercontent">Shakespeare's Histories; Ten Epic Plays at
a</span><span class="textexposedshow"> Breakneck Pace!’ is a slim volume of
clear, accessible explanations of the history behind Shakespeare's plays. Added
to that is a dizzying performance text summarizing the plays, designed to be
delivered in one hour-bet you can't do it! This is the most fun you'll ever
have preparing for ‘Richard III’.” (Eileen Polk)</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">With Bill Luce</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I dropped in on my brother Pat (and
Kathy and Ryan), swung out to visit with William (“Belle of Amherst”) Luce, and
continued on to Mount Hood Community College, where they were hosting “The Greatest
Speech of All Time” and “Moliere than Thou.” My web-guy, Bruce, got a chance to
see “Greatest Speech” for the first time (amid an audience of about 10 people),
and I also got a chance to visit with my Oregon-theatre friend, Jo Strom Lane,
who introduced me to Michael O’Neill, another hopeful touring-Shakespeare
artist. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Pushing eastward once more! I stopped in to
say hello at Meridian High School (site of last fall’s surprise “Misanthrope”
visit) on my way to Twin Falls, Idaho, and enjoyed a brief visit with Brenda
Larsen in Twin Falls, who continues to work on new ways to present Homer's "Iliad" to
her students. (She wants to do with Homer something akin
to what I’ve been doing with Shakespeare and Moliere.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Continuing east, I pulled up in
Laramie, Wyoming for a couple of days (where I noticed my allergies springing to
life), before descending on McCook, Nebraska, where Clay Grizzle (who had
previously booked me in Texas) was now booking me for his new school, Midlands
Community College. It was nearing Shakespeare’s 450th birthday, and Clay was gearing up
for a production of “The Complete Works… Abridged,” and so he booked “Lot o’
Shakespeare” and a workshop. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It was an early evening performance
in McCook (finishing with an enthusiastic standing ovation), and I made the 5-hour drive to Colorado Springs AFTER the show. (I pulled into Colorado Springs
at about one in the morning!) I was, however, revived in time for a Moliere
workshop at Colorado College, where the French teacher, hosting me for the
second time, threw a lovely reception for me after that evening's performance.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The old homestead-now-McMansion</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Racing on to Omaha, I got to
visit with the staff of the Nebraska Shakespeare Festival folks once again,
this time on Shakespeare’s birthday, where I won the “Shakespeare’s Birthday
Pub Quiz” (which meant my bar tab was paid for for the night). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Working my way back to Chicago, I
made a stop north of Milwaukee to visit my dear friend, Lisa, whose mother had
recently passed away, and on back to Arlington Heights, where the old
homestead, which, when we last visited, had been torn down, was now being built
up into a McMansion. </span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdgNtWwks3G8-G8C3pnNDpTejwqxvboKuu3hFWPPuXJePGckQFnhmJfh1hRJW-mV25gAt2SwllepgYtYJfyo7wWWQvwjnFt9PDkxJW7YApaiJ2NtKUq1gRj22d0V8wnwZfr-Gf/s1600/722+McMansion+from+side.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdgNtWwks3G8-G8C3pnNDpTejwqxvboKuu3hFWPPuXJePGckQFnhmJfh1hRJW-mV25gAt2SwllepgYtYJfyo7wWWQvwjnFt9PDkxJW7YApaiJ2NtKUq1gRj22d0V8wnwZfr-Gf/s1600/722+McMansion+from+side.jpg" height="200" width="200" /></a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">TV hidden behind the painting</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I had a performance
of “Lot o’ Shakespeare” at the University of Cumberlands in Western Kentucky,
followed quickly by both “Moliere than Thou” and “Lot o’ Shakespeare” at Seven
Hills School in Cincinnati. The Seven Hills folks put me up in a really amazing
hotel in Mariemont, Ohio, which was chock full of Tudor furnishings, and which
even hid the flat-screen TV behind a painting!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">End-of-semester activities dampened
attendance at the Seven Hills event, and I ended up workshopping and performing
to tiny audiences, though my host seemed greatly enthused, and one of the
teachers (Barbara Karol) wrote to say “I was affected profoundly, loved every
minute of seeing classics (even if tidbits) that I don't get to see very
often. I spoke to others who were there that night and they all loved
your performance, too.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Finally, I continued on to Clarion,
Pennsylvania, where Clarion University (which had booked me to perform Moliere back
in 2004 or so) was bringing me back for a long-awaited performance of “Lot o’
Shakespeare.” Clarion University is my late-cousin Mary’s alma mater, and it
was great to hang out with the faculty that I’d gotten to know a decade prior,
when they’d produced my “Tartuffe.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And therein did the long National
School Tour, finally come to an end. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The View From Maureen's Porch</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Which doesn’t mean that I am done
with performing on the road…! I continued the next day on to visit Maureen and
Tim, at their beautiful new home in St. Michael’s, this time working “Criteria”
back up into readiness.</span></div>
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<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Experimentation with “Scapin” and
with “Shakespeare’s Histories” has alerted me that three run-throughs of a
given show in a single day is my magic number. Less than that, and I might
struggle with remembering the exact word at the exact moment that I need it;
more than that and the words become a little too rote, and I may actually
forget whether or not I have already spoken a given line in performance. But
over the course of three run-throughs, I may see the time that a particular
play takes to recite descend from, say, 62 minutes, to 59 minutes to 56
minutes. (A fourth rehearsal may well creep back up to 60 minutes.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Repetition is actually more
impactful than study. The muscle memory of the speaking gives me the confidence
that I am moving smoothly from the shaping of one word to another, without
beginning to form odd, uncertain consonants along the way. (Just like the
pianist who works endlessly on his or her scales, I continue to work the
muscles needed to create my art.)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Outside the Claiborne Village Hall</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I realize, hearing an actor proclaim something as "my art" always sounds pretentious. But at some point, we must actually establish that "art" is what we are about, or else we will ever consign ourselves to self-deprecating assessments of "luck" or "hackery." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Two days of 3-rehearsals-a-day
worked “Criteria” back up in my head, and I performed the show at the Claiborne
Village Hall once again. I’ve now performed for these folks five times, and
each time the attendance has increased. This time, following a potluck and a
town meeting, there were perhaps fifty in attendance. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This show was also very generously
received (lots of money in the tip jar!), followed by a brief intermission, a few Shakespeare monologues and a
party. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A few days later, I traveled in to
Annapolis to visit with the director and cast of “Scapin” at the Annapolis
Shakespeare Company. Plans had shifted slightly since my last visit, and while
ASC had previously intended to open the show on May 6 (which would've enabled me to be there for opening night) medical issues had backed
up the opening night to May 20 (tonight, as I type this!). In addition,
however, they have slated yet ANOTHER of my Moliere adaptations (“Imaginary
Invalid”) for later in the summer, and are hinting that they’d like me to try
my hand at a new adaptation: Goldoni’s “The Servant of Two Masters!”</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The cast of "The Schemings of Scapin" in Annapolis</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I caught lunch with Sally, the
director, before the rehearsal, and got to hear these new actors trying out the
lines from this now very-familiar play. Sally’s notes to the actors after the
read-through gave me confidence that they’d emphasize the words with the kind
of value that they apply to their Shakespearean work. She turned the floor over
to me, and, having just performed this show, I shared my thoughts about
interpretation, with some clues on the intended delivery and some of the
psychological nuance surrounding the action. And then we went out for drinks.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Cast of "The Misanthrope" in Charlotte</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A couple of days later, I was on the
way south, stopping to visit Shakespeare Carolina, which was ALSO
in rehearsal with one of my plays: “The Misanthrope.” They put me up in a hotel
for a couple of days, while I dropped in on a rehearsal, running through my
acting workshop with them, and performing a couple of monologues. They gave me
a “Shakespeare Carolina” t-shirt, we also went out for drinks afterwards and
had a terrific visit. The next day, one of the actresses posted the following
via the hashtag #MoliereIsMyHomeboy: “<span class="usercontent">What an honor to
get to meet our plays adapter, the ever talented Tim Mooney last night! Even
more of a privilege to workshop with him! Theatre has stolen my [heart] once
again!"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">While I was there, a videographer captured some of the workshop and an interview as well (above)...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I shifted to working all
“Shakespeare’s Histories” all the time. I was reciting the lines three times a
day, and was easily getting my run-throughs under 55 minutes. I did a test
performance for my friend, Jenn, in South Carolina, and even with this audience
(of one), the performance clocked in under 58 minutes (audience usually adds at
least 5 minutes). I was newly hopeful that the show would not get cut off in
the waning moments by a technician eager to maintain Fringe regulations. I also
found an app for my phone which would provide me with a digital timer big
enough to read from about 15 feet away. I was running this with each successive
run-through, and it was keeping me on track.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The new, green illustration!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Finally arrived in Orlando, I
started coordinating my posters, flyers and “yard signs,” while drilling the
lines, out by the pool in Al’s back yard. (Al and Gale are my “billets” in
Orlando.) </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Meanwhile, I have received updated art for the “Shakespeare’s
Histories” illustration from Lee Rushton. This time around, the sea is in
GREEN, and it loses the “heaviness” that the previous black-sea illustration carried.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My three-hour tech rehearsal was
also serving as a preview performance, and we took one hour to work through the
cues and laptop/projection issues, another hour to race through the performance
once, and the third hour with an invited audience. (In other words, I performed
two full hours back-to-back.) There were at least three reviewers in the
audience, along with some old friends who have seen just about everything I’ve
performed in Orlando over the course of my seven or eight fringes here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I had just one glitch. Somewhere in
the middle of the Henry V “Saint Crispin’s Day” speech, my mind wandered off
and I lost my place. A couple of blurting attempts failed to re-ignite the next
line and I called to the technician for a cue. After a few odd seconds she
spoke a phrase that launched me immediately back into the thick of the action,
and the crowd let out a cheer. I had only probably been delayed by about 15
seconds, and I reinvigorated my attack through the remainder of the speech. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was thrilled to hear some of the
snide jokes that I had written (a whole year ago!) now getting big laughs, and
I’m always gratified that things that strike me as particular funny also strike
a chord with an audience, like describing the way that Queen Margaret forces
the Duke of York to dry his tears with a handkerchief drenched in the blood of
his dead son as “generally considered to be bad form.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The show checked in at around 57:30,
and I was immediately off to the races again, this time readying a two-minute
preview performance for the out-of-towners showcase that evening. I’d selected
and decided against about a half-dozen sequences in short order, and when my
technician asked what portion of the show I was going to do for the preview, I
asked “What part do YOU think I should do?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">“I like the part where everybody
stabs Prince Edward.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">“Great. That’s what I’ll do.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the midst of the chaos around the
preview event (35 different acts, all nervously hanging out backstage), I
figured out where I needed to start the performance so that it would climax
with the stabbing scene, and still come in under the requisite two minutes. I
transcribed the scene on my notebook, to remind myself of the very specific
section that I was going to do, and then ran those lines about twenty times. I
wasn’t scheduled to come on until late in the evening (I was 27<sup>th</sup>),
and so I took that time to drill that section again and again. (Which couldn’t
help but improve that part of the show, anyway.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The performance went even better
than hoped, with big laughs, as Prince Edward calls Richard III “mis-shapen
Dick!” and even bigger laughs as I describe the three brothers killing Prince
Edward, with the last, George, doing it “Perhaps out of peer pressure.” And as
the audience filed out of the auditorium, nearly all of them willingly took the
promotional postcards I was handing out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The next day, the reviews started
showing up on-line. <a href="http://blogs.ink19.com/archikulture/2014/05/15/shakespeares-histories-ten-epic-plays-at-a-breakneck-pace/" target="_blank">Carl F. Gauze</a> noted the special challenges of knowing the
necessary history to appreciate the plots of these ten plays:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">“…Mr. Mooney set out to clear all
this up for us. He’s well equipped for the battle, there’s a PowerPoint
presentation with org charts and performance reviews and color coded maps, the
detail of medieval romantic politics are explored, and we run across all sorts
of interesting women from Joan of Arc to Margaret of Anjou. Armed with a sword
and defended by a slit-sleeved doublet, Mooney is the English teacher you
always wish you had. His speeches are delivered with a fury that will rally the
troops, and I think Shakespeare’s politics are beginning to invade my 20th
century skull. You may well be exhausted by the end of the hour, and all you
need do is sit still and clap. Yes, this is all the stuff that would be 3
credit hours in an English lit program, but this show is quicker, more fun, and
doesn’t have that nasty midterm theme paper due.”</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpUSteITVvnzPrI_QpaJqnkziV7UA17_mi5_9hdzBuA87OdzU-aavxVMSx-6a9Y9fSeO-7KXBfL7krj7T0HMYmZSbAzFZw6DLcQiPhhqRtTSTlr0K9uSreVRO9_4PjUsZjwMyF/s1600/Shakes+Hist+Orlando+Tisse+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpUSteITVvnzPrI_QpaJqnkziV7UA17_mi5_9hdzBuA87OdzU-aavxVMSx-6a9Y9fSeO-7KXBfL7krj7T0HMYmZSbAzFZw6DLcQiPhhqRtTSTlr0K9uSreVRO9_4PjUsZjwMyF/s1600/Shakes+Hist+Orlando+Tisse+1.jpg" height="640" width="425" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Later that day, some terrific new
photos, taken by Tisse Haven at the preview performance (above and below) also appeared on-line. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The next day, two MORE reviews
showed up: first, <a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/arts-and-theater/os-orlando-fringe-shakespeares-histories-20140516,0,6196515.story" target="_blank">from the Orlando Sentinel</a>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9Q4sqQEFr-250qsvNEwGG9I9GOEIQOye-Z7wSVMobAUE58e56h7lVyh5Bq5rHmmHLLCYN0kBsM4zfbmShyphenhyphenNeUSjXPZ2DcG4lcc06yFLoQYq-vbKkBdrRQ9YzaHdFYqoklo7j9/s1600/Shakes+Orlando+Tisse+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9Q4sqQEFr-250qsvNEwGG9I9GOEIQOye-Z7wSVMobAUE58e56h7lVyh5Bq5rHmmHLLCYN0kBsM4zfbmShyphenhyphenNeUSjXPZ2DcG4lcc06yFLoQYq-vbKkBdrRQ9YzaHdFYqoklo7j9/s1600/Shakes+Orlando+Tisse+5.jpg" height="320" width="213" /></a>"Mooney nicely lays
the groundwork for each speech he gives, with family tree diagrams, photos and
boundless enthusiasm. I especially liked the segment on Shakespeare's
"King John," in which the king urges a henchman to kill a rival — and
then passes the blame onto him. The breakneck speed occasionally gets in the way
of fully savoring Shakespeare's words — a dramatic pause or two would provide a
bit more emotional variation. But such is Mooney's likeability that when he
bobbles the St. Crispin's Day speech from "Henry V," as he did in a
preview, the audience members cheer him when he recovers. They are, of course,
cheering both for Mooney and for Shakespeare's glorious words that are too
rarely heard." (Matt Palm)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And later that day, an even better
one <a href="http://blogs.orlandoweekly.com/the-gist/culture-2-go/orlando-fringe-review-shakespeares-histories/" target="_blank">from the Orlando Weekly</a>, that I can’t resist quoting at length:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc_57-c-wqsn4aSYiA5S76tD7GDPGZhthpwZXJ337aVK7aGewPbi2d0wUNTM3newoWp9QoMT5FznXzHh7Z4j9_rg_IHVgSgZHkSylP0hIRBy8gAlANc1368FHu-e9nGJkwye07/s1600/Shakes+Orlando+Tisse+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc_57-c-wqsn4aSYiA5S76tD7GDPGZhthpwZXJ337aVK7aGewPbi2d0wUNTM3newoWp9QoMT5FznXzHh7Z4j9_rg_IHVgSgZHkSylP0hIRBy8gAlANc1368FHu-e9nGJkwye07/s1600/Shakes+Orlando+Tisse+4.jpg" height="320" width="212" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"Clad
in doublet, breeches and hose, Timothy Mooney goes HAM on the 10 history plays
attributed to William Shakespeare, rapidly and deftly explicating the
historical and geopolitical background of each play, then delivering
choice bits of speeches from the relevant characters. His embodiment of figures
from portly fun guy Falstaff to twisted creeper Richard III, from a horridly
witchy Joan of Arc to a nastily lisping French Dauphin (oooh, that tennis-ball
speech! It made my blood boil), is spookily impressive. Mooney has two
settings: loud/fast and louder/faster. I don’t mean that to imply that he’s just
shouting all over the place; his control over the material and his delivery of
it is almost unbelievable. (Toward the end of the preview I attended, a patron
behind me muttered, 'That’s insane,' in awe.) Watching <i><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">SHAKESPEARE’S HISTORIES</span></i>
is somewhat like attending one of the most entertaining college-level English
lectures ever; this is a man imparting a torrent of knowledge upon you, and
it’s up to you to drink from the firehose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"...If
you are not an active hater of Shakespeare or of Elizabethan language (and fie
upon you, if you are), I’d have to call this a do-not-miss show. Mooney’s
rendition of two well-known battlefield speeches from <i>Henry V</i> — from
Act 3, “Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood … Cry God for Harry, England
and St. George!” and the St. Crispin’s Day speech, from the next act (“We few,
we happy few, we band of brothers”) will stiffen <i>your</i> sinews and
summon up <i>your</i> blood. What better way to leave a Fringe show than with
the hair standing up on the back of your neck? And, program in hand, once
more unto the breach, dear friends …" (Jessica Bryce Young)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The
audiences have been great. With four performances under my belt, I'm starting to get the sense of what's really funny, and where the slightest pause, or bit of exaggeration will confirm to the audience that it is "safe to laugh." I’m doing an outdoor stage appearance tonight, doing
Shakespeare Monologues By Request. Rumor has it that "Scapin" got great response
Tuesday night (no sign of a review quite yet)… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And so, it begins again. The
Nationwide School Tour is done, though I’m still fielding requests to come out
to perform here and there. (If you have a request for a residency or a performance visit, I'm carving out the time now!) I have a new play in hand ("Shakespeare's Histories") that’s getting universally positive response. There are concerns about the information going by too fast, but
those issues are pretty-much baked-into-the-cake for now. I’ve got a summer of
performing and promoting this show ahead of me, while looking for work, and
getting more writing projects underway. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The future is less defined for me than
it has been in living memory, but perhaps that’s because I seem to have
climaxed what has been and am ready to transform into what will be. I expect
I’ll continue to recount my adventures here, but perhaps this is a conclusion,
of sorts. See you on the other side.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Love,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Tim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Miles on the Escape:</b> 197,000 (Total for the tour: 541,000 est.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Temperature:</b> 86 in Orlando</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>On the I-Pod:</b> (The I-pod remains
stolen; actually “on the I-tunes on my computer): Lonely Avenue (Ben Folds and Nick
Hornby) and Pomplamoose. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>On Netflix:</b> Second pass through
“Breaking Bad!”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Discoveries:</b> However faintly and
vaguely, once you memorize something, it remains in your head, perhaps for the
rest of your life, waiting to be reawakened. * The quality of your connection
to your lines can be reflected in the time that it takes you to recite them. * Never assume those little extra “finishing touches” you add to
your character go unappreciated. * Am I chasing after “success” or "security?"
* Is it that all of my good news comes with bad news attached to it, or that
all of my bad news comes with good news to mitigate it? * Three run-throughs of
a show on a given day is the magic number. * Just like the pianist who works
endlessly on his or her scales, I continue to work the muscles needed to create
my art. * Let someone else choose your preview scene!<b> * </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">at some point, we must actually
establish that "art" is what we are about, or else we will ever consign
ourselves to self-deprecating assessments of "luck" or "hackery."</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Next Performances:</b> Sat & Sunday
(May 24 & 25) in Orlando; July 17-27 at the KC Fringe and July 31-Aug 12 at
the MN Fringe.</span></div>
tim_mooney@earthlink.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10251175800373730254noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359867.post-14610184153372583812014-01-09T06:35:00.001-08:002014-08-24T13:52:03.785-07:00The View From Here #161: Shakespeare’s Histories; Ten Epic Plays at a Breakneck Pace!<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;">
I know! You’re not used to hearing
from me so soon after a blog has just been posted! (Just two weeks ago!) But the
excitement is just to great to contain:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Shakespeare’s Histories; Ten Epic
Plays at a Breakneck Pace! </b>is going to be big, big, big! <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m having a Party! It’s a Book
Release Party on Monday, January 13 at the Oil Lamp Theatre in Glenview, IL.
Please RSVP and join me! (There are 25 RSVP’s in already, and only 60 seats in
this theatre!) The book order has been placed and it will be a race against
time to get there in time for the show! (If they don’t arrive in time, I will
personally drive copies to your home!)<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Oil Lamp Theatre is at 1723
Glenview Rd. in Glenview, IL. The party begins at 7:30 with a performance
starting around 8 pm. I’ll be performing “Shakespeare’s Histories” in its
entirety, and we’ll take a break for wine and book sales and signing, and then
I’ll climb back on stage to take requests from Shakespeare, Moliere or even
“The Greatest Speech of All Time!” <o:p></o:p></div>
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The show is free; book sales and
tips are invited. The Oil Lamp Theatre is a BYOB venue, donating their space
for this special event, with free corkage and glasses. (They usually have free
cookies too.) So, bring along your favorite something and let’s make a night of
it! E-mail me back at <a href="mailto:tim_mooney@earthlink.net">tim_mooney@earthlink.net</a>
to confirm your seat. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And, if you’re too far away to
attend, books are already available on-line! I would love, love, love to get
some reviews posted on Amazon ASAP! A few generous thoughts from my readers
would really help launch this in a powerful way!<o:p></o:p></div>
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And, if you are a Director or
Producer, you may want to give a thought to putting this show on for your
audiences! Of course, I’m going to be performing it during this, my last
semester of the nationwide tour, but it can also be produced with as few as one, or as many as 25 actors! And it provides a great introduction to these history
plays for you and for your audiences!<o:p></o:p></div>
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The book is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shakespeares-Histories-Epic-Plays-Breakneck/dp/0983181241/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389277020&sr=1-5&keywords=timothy+mooney" target="_blank">now available on Amazon</a>. ("Be the first to review this item!") Or you can get it at <a href="https://www.createspace.com/4439554" target="_blank">CreateSpace</a> (I get about $4 more when you get it through them). Or, you can <a href="http://timmooneyrep.com/sh.html" target="_blank">pick it up at my website</a> . (I get about $8 more when you buy it directly from me, and I can sign a copy
for you before sending it!) <o:p></o:p><br />
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Here are some of the reviews that have started to show up from readers and from audiences "<span style="color: #262626; text-indent: 0in;">Shakespeare’s Histories is an absolutely
wonderful new approach to an old subject which is often greeted by students
with a groan. Having a degree and
Theatre and English and attended RADA, I now teach at university level and will
certainly be incorporating this in any Shakespeare or Dramatic Literature class
I’ll be teaching. I’m sure my students’
enthusiasm will equal my own. Mooney’s
work is a delight even to those already familiar with the material." <i>Melissa Berry, Mount St. Mary's College, Los
Angeles</i></span><span style="text-indent: 0in;"> </span></div>
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I think it's a really excellent distillation of very complex
history, and the play that he's complied within it contains some of my favorite
speeches. I think the one-man show itself is really compelling, and would
make a great companion piece to any season that's doing one of the
histories… As a text it's best suited for an intro to Shakespeare class...
Its irreverent tone (which helps a lot--some of the "explanations" of
Shakespeare's history are incredibly dry) seems aimed at students who are
skeptical of Shakespeare, or at least of the histories. I can see using it
early in a semester as a way of getting students excited about the power and
beauty of the history plays. The speeches he's chosen are compelling, and
really do make you want to read the plays themselves! <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Christina Gutierrez, Ph.D. Lecturer, Northern Arizona University
Department of Theatre Producing Artistic Director, 7 Towers Theatre</i> </blockquote>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Actor/Director/Writer
Tim Mooney has once again taken dramatic subject matter that, for the most
part, is difficult to digest and made it palpable <i>and </i>delicious!
His latest, <i>Shakespeare's Histories: Ten Epic Plays at a Breakneck
Pace!, </i>combines the meticulous attention to character from his one-man
show, "Moliere Than Thou", with his vast understanding of
Shakespearean performance in "Lot o' Shakespeare" to create a condensed
version Shakespeare's History Plays--ten plays that span the lives of King John
to Henry VIII--that is both accessible and immensely enjoyable, regardless
of familiarity with the original dramas. As literature, <i>Shakespeare's
Histories </i>is a compendious look at over four hundred years of the
English monarchy with genealogical charts, biographies, and
fascinating perspectives on topics such as sexism and humanism that
become essential to the book's other purpose: performance. Mooney's
entire adapted script is presented with performance suggestions, staging ideas,
and insights into his process for choosing what key parts of each of
Shakespeare's works are included in order to best serve the narrative of
telling the story of these Kings and Kings-to-be. It is a Herculean task,
to be sure: Mooney leaves many memorable lines and scenes of the ten plays out
in order to create a show that is meant to last seventy (70) minutes in length.
What he leaves in, however, is the pathos of each monarch's journey
towards the Crown and how, through various soliloquies and
speeches, Shakespeare the playwright was able to blend regency with the
universality of the human condition. He states that it is intended to be
a one-man show, but Mooney also offers options for multiple performers to
create a production that would be suitable for any high school, college,
university, or community theatre to create with relative ease and little
expense. The implications for lesson plans and unit studies for
cross-disciplines of drama, speech, and English departments are limitless--<i>Shakespeare's
Histories </i>is versatile enough for performance at a fringe festival or
a cafetorium, and could be housed within a high school English class or a
university library. For the novice performer or the well-informed
scholar, <i>Shakespeare's Histories: Ten Epic Plays at a Breakneck
Pace! </i>is a must-read/must-own addition to any collection of
Shakespeare studies. <i>Aaron Adair</i></span></blockquote>
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Brilliant, funny and inspiring. <i>Marshall James Smith II</i> </blockquote>
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You can read the book’s
introduction in its entirety on my OTHER blog! Just click on over to <a href="http://actingatthespeedoflife.blogspot.com/2014/01/shakespeares-histories-ten-epic-plays.html">http://actingatthespeedoflife.blogspot.com/2014/01/shakespeares-histories-ten-epic-plays.html</a>
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Gearing up for the last big lap of
the country! I hope to see you all out there on the road!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Love,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Tim<span style="text-indent: 0in;"> </span></div>
tim_mooney@earthlink.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10251175800373730254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359867.post-86497002156443646942013-12-27T19:18:00.001-08:002014-08-24T13:52:52.376-07:00The View From Here #160: Fall, 2013!<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;">
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Twelve thousand miles later… I’m
back! <o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s been the busiest Fall that I
can remember, and the coming spring is shaping up as the busiest Spring, ever,
as well. Having announced that this is THE FINAL YEAR OF THE TOUR!, folks is
coming out of the woodwork… some people I never knew had an interest in booking
a show, are responding that the want to get me in while they still can. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Sure, I could whine about “Where
have you guys been all this time?” but let’s just ride the wave and be
grateful. At least I’m able to eat this year. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s impossible to know the impact that
you are having on the world. Impressions that you make in passing may be
received and transform people well beyond the circle that you encounter. Having
a “Google-alert” and a “TalkWalkerAlert” set up in my name, occasionally
information about me gets back to me. Last September a woman starting a theatre
company in Kansas City mentioned on her blog...</div>
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Theatre is a communial art –
nothing is done by one person (and when it is, it usually isn’t interesting –
unless it’s Tim Mooney)… </blockquote>
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">(Thanks for the shout-out, Amanda
B.! I’ll be watching for the “No Name Theatre Company!”)</span></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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Likewise, following my last blog
release, in September, I got lots of great feedback, notably this from Dave
Landis in Lincoln:</div>
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Congratulations Tim for making your
career up out of thin air, grit, talent, commitment and a genius for organizing
and highway driving. In your wake are books, monologues, classes, shows, and
inspired audiences and students. If that is what the last years have
accomplished, I wonder and marvel what the future holds. It will be awesome, I
expect.</blockquote>
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The Fall tour started out wth a New
York booking at <a href="http://www.harrisoncsd.org/index.php/component/content/article/104-hcsd-home/hcsd-district-offices/hcsd-news-and-info/front-page-news/676-harrison-high-school-welcomes-timothy-mooney-s-one-man-play-moliere-than-thou" target="_blank">Harrison High School</a>. I had met the French teacher,
Susie,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>at the French teacher’s conference
in Belgium about four years back. We’d attempted to arrange a booking perhaps
twice since then, and I’d pretty much given up, but this time it came together.
We made the mistake of meeting up for margaritas the night before the
performance, which was scheduled for 9 am the following morning, and my
performance-readiness was touch-and-go for a while!</div>
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From New York, I zipped down to
Maryland for yet another performance in my sister’s town hall, Claiborne,
Maryland, and this time the place was packed for the second-ever performance of
“Shakespeare’s Histories.” Again, the Claiborne folks received me very warmly,
and their resident Artist, Renny Johnson, did more fun illustrations. <a href="http://teaattrianon.blogspot.com/2013/09/shakespeare-and-moliere-on-chesapeake.html" target="_blank">One of the attendees</a>, who had just reviewed my “Tartuffe” at the Annapolis Shakespeare
Company, responded to “Histories:”</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Seeing a true thespian like Mr.
Mooney made me realize how often in this society we mistake counterfeits for
the genuine. It is only when the genuine is set before you that you realize you
have been fooled by the rest. </span></blockquote>
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It also happens that my sister,
Maureen McHugh wrote a <a href="http://claibornemd.org/cc-general-2.php?issue=cc-2013-10.jpg&pdf=Clarion-Oct-2013.pdf" target="_blank">rave review</a> in response to this performance, but given
her obvious bias in my favor, I’ll resist quoting it. (Though you can
read it for yourself at <a href="http://claibornemd.org/cc-general-2.php?issue=cc-2013-10.jpg&pdf=Clarion-Oct-2013.pdf">http://claibornemd.org/cc-general-2.php?issue=cc-2013-10.jpg&pdf=Clarion-Oct-2013.pdf</a>)<o:p></o:p></div>
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I raced down to Asheville, North
Carolina, for two shows at UNC-Ashville, but as I approached, I could feel my
sinuses starting to react to the mold, or perhaps the pollen in the air. I went
to bed early, and got up the next morning ready to hunt down some Benadril, but
discovered that overnight my passenger-side car window had been smashed in.
Someone had stolen the i-pod lying under my dashboard, and the handful of
change that was in my cupholder… but had completely overlooked the video
camera, the backup laptop, the new projector and several other valuable items. </div>
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Fixing the window was going to cost me almost as much, in money and in bother,
as replacing the i-pod! Given the number of screw-ups around Asheville, NC
(more yet to come!), a lovely city where I was reassured that auto
break-ins virtually NEVER happen, I simply accepted that this was the universe
reminding me not to start re-thinking my decision to put an end to the tour. As
much as I was enjoying the bookings, and making some good money, there were
still plenty of aspects of the driving and living on the road that I would
certainly NOT miss. <o:p></o:p></div>
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That night I performed “Lot o’
Shakespeare” at the school, and was surprised to discover Kermit Brown, a
fellow alum of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, who I hadn’t seen for perhaps
thirty years(!) was in attendance! (We got together for lunch the following
day, and I was able to show Kermit the latest proof of my new “Shakespeare’s
Histories” book, in which, I just happened to have cited HIM, along with
several of the other actors that I’d known in Alabama as being significant
influences!) <o:p></o:p></div>
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After the show, I loaded out equipment, with the bingo cage, the costume, the books and t-shirts and the
broadsword packing into the car, jammed in with all of the other props and
costumes for other shows. “Lot o’ Shakespeare,” of course, has a simultaneous slide
show, that, in this case, was being run off of my laptop. And so, as I
out-loaded the show to my car, I brought out my laptop at the same time,
setting it by the car along with all of the boxes. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And, while I made sure to pack all
of my Shakespeare stuff into the car, I spaced out my computer, sitting by my
now-passenger-side-window-less car. And as I pulled out of the parking spot, I
felt a little bump, as if the car had passed over a low curb. And as the car
continued backwards, I could see the computer bag still there, sitting on the
pavement in front of me. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I took the computer back to the
hotel, opened the bag, and turned it on… and it still worked. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The screen was cracked, but the
computer still worked!<o:p></o:p></div>
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The screen wouldn’t even have cracked,
had I not had the power adapter, which left a square indentation on the grey
computer shell, packed in with the computer. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKtOtS-pq1jvSFWbq0NLKj6yDXsvhKXlIor1wEIl36M6pypMkIpNENUma4cI29YmUWS-iPZEMkw-ILbkOKfvBY7XOD1ChQTQTcqt7VNH9GjOWAOCpuX4hNJMsAeQ8uaYpKMnms/s1600/599781_10153272592665231_1134718535_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKtOtS-pq1jvSFWbq0NLKj6yDXsvhKXlIor1wEIl36M6pypMkIpNENUma4cI29YmUWS-iPZEMkw-ILbkOKfvBY7XOD1ChQTQTcqt7VNH9GjOWAOCpuX4hNJMsAeQ8uaYpKMnms/s320/599781_10153272592665231_1134718535_n.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a>The next night, the show was
“Moliere than Thou,” and Kermit Brown came back to see this one as well!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I headed on to Columbia, South
Carolina, where the high school acting teacher had arranged a big event with
the theatre students from at least a half-dozen schools. I love doing shows
like this, with students who are already predisposed, and excited about live
performances and Shakespeare. (We managed to capture scenes on video.) The
teacher later responded, “It was GREAT… Talk about lighting up a room.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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I raced off to Florence, South
Carolina for another show that same night at Francis Marion College. This time,
my old friend, Jon Tuttle (author of “The Hammerstone”) was bringing me in to
do “The Greatest Speech of All Time,” my fifth performance in a week, and the
fourth entirely different show, having worked my way through “Shakesepeare’s
Histories” in Maryland, “Lot o’ Shakespeare” in Asheville and Columbia, “Moliere
than Thou” in Asheville and, now, “Greatest Speech.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Greatest Speech” got off to a bit
of a shaky start, as my old belt broke about halfway into the first monologue
of the night (“Socrates”). I could feel some adjustment to my clothing as I was
performing, but didn’t dare look down at my pants through the six-minute
speech. Given that Socrates was probably wearing a toga, fiddling with a belt
would have been a significant break of character. Afterwards I saw that the
point where the leather was clamped into the buckle simply pulled out, and was
fairly self-evidently broken. Fortunately, my pants were still more or less at
my waist (it’s a baggy suit), and I pulled the belt off and continued. <o:p></o:p></div>
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There was a diverse
response to “Greatest Speech,” with perhaps half of the students highly engaged,
and another half seeming fairly indifferent. (Of course, I usually only notice or remember the uninvolved students.) A month or so later, though, I heard from someone who
had been in that audience… <o:p></o:p></div>
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I enjoyed your
presentation-performance and was amazed at the amount of memorization. I have
been toying for several year with taking some of the Old Testament prophets and
take some of the best/dramatic verses and memorizing them for a live
performance... Watching you pushed me to quit thinking about it and just do it.
Thanks for the inspiration! (Thomas Wampler)</blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Dammit, Robin! I told you this was our exit!</span></td></tr>
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I had a couple of extra days to get
down to Milledgeville, Georgia for two shows at Georgia College and State
University, where I had previously performed back in 2004 and 2006. Although I
got there a couple of days early, I realized on Sunday that I had left the
costume shirt for “Moliere than Thou” back in the hotel in Asheville five days
prior! There was no time to ship it to Milledgeville in time for the show, so I
spent that Sunday driving up to Asheville and back. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Somehow, I didn’t mind the driving
so much. I knew that my “Moliere Shirt” had taken good care of me over the
years, and racing back for it was simply part of the cost of doing business. (I
was reminded of the passage from “The Hobbit” in which the archer vows to
retrieve his favorite arrow from the heart of the dragon.)</div>
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Back in Milledgeville, I did three
workshops and two performances of “Moliere than Thou.” The students had
prepared a fun staged reading of my version of “Scapin” as a prelude to my
performances. And three of the faculty e-mailed me with high praises after the
show. I was feeling appreciated. <o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
We had a brief mixup about a videographer who had showed up at the theatre to record the show… a fact I didn't find out about until right before the performance got underway. I had to restrict their recording to ten minutes, given that they were going to have control of the material without my involvement, and there seemed to be a bit of a tiff between my host and the video guy, who ended up leaving in the middle of the show. They DID, however, send me a copy of their recording, which was EXTREMELY good. Between the clarity of the video, and the sometimes-squealing, giddy laughter of the crowd, it ranks among some of the best material I've captured (below).</div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">I then retraced much of the
driving that I had just done (about three times now!), to head back to northern
Virginia for a show at the Blue Ridge School. They had hosted me about four
years ago to perform “Criteria,” and this time were bringing me back to do “Lot
o’ Shakespeare”. I had forgotten that they were an all-boy school and,
fortunately, two of the female teachers were sitting in the front row, which
was great for when I had speeches like “Are you meditating on virginity…?”</span></div>
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South yet again! This time I was on
to Fort Worth, Texas, making the trip in a single day, which gave me some extra
time to relax in advance of my second visit to Texas Wesleyan (who hosted “Lot o’ Shakespeare” last year), hosting “Greatest Speech” this
time around. They, too, were warmly receptive, and offered to keep their eyes
open for any Texas jobs that might be right for me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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I pushed on to Alberquerque, where I
had ordered a replacement screen for my computer to meet up with me. I found a
value-priced hotel in Alberquerque through Priceline, so I lingered there for
four days, working my way through most of (the astonishing) “Breaking Bad” on
Netflix. Given that the series is set in Alberquerque, I felt like I was in the
perfect place to catch up on it.</div>
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learned that the old homestead had finally been knocked down! We lived there
for about 48 years, and now somebody was beginning work on putting up a McMansion
on that lot! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Kathleen McGeever at Northern
Arizona University was hosting me for a third show, this time at a third
school! (I think that’s a record!) She had booked me on the first year of the
tour to do “Moliere” at University of Montevallo in Alabama, and then again two
years later when she was chair at Georgia College & State University, where
she hosted me to do “Criteria”. It took her nine years to book me at her new
school, but she was able to justify hosting “Greatest Speech of All Time,”
given that it had “cross-curricular appeal.” As I approached, I saw that the
school had tweeted out that </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; text-indent: 0in;">The king of the 1-man show, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/i/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FMolierelover%3Frefsrc%3Demail&sig=48e980fa4916d685a785543dd19503c75b427887&uid=123690959&iid=2f865adf-1317-4e1f-83ee-71258021b420&nid=4+1271&t=1" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">@Molierelover</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; text-indent: 0in;">,
delivers "Greatest Speech of All Time" to NAU. </span><a href="https://t.co/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2FEdQMkZgjTS&sig=163be6415806cb433c4764bee2593580b342c32b&uid=123690959&iid=2f865adf-1317-4e1f-83ee-71258021b420&nid=4+1268&t=1" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">bit.ly/1ibXfln</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; text-indent: 0in;">. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0in;"><a href="https://t.co/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2FqLAUXr7dV6&sig=5f7310db374ec31445d61f26523401ec2ee69804&uid=123690959&iid=2f865adf-1317-4e1f-83ee-71258021b420&nid=4+1270&t=1" style="text-indent: 0in;">pic.twitter.com/qLAUXr7dV6</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">A promotion! I am now “The King of
the 1-Man Show.” </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The night before the performance,
they had me addressing the theatre students on “Writing, Producing and Touring
the One-Person Show.” Since I was speaking at night, there was no class
schedule in conflict with it, and I started speaking at 7:00, and got onto a
roll, not finishing until about 10:00 that night. The next day I had a workshop
on “The Life of Moliere,” and that night I performed for a surprisingly full
crowd. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The biggest challenge of performing
in Flagstaff was their elevation of 7,000 feet, with the thin air starting to
grate on my throat. It got worse when the microphone set up for the two final
monologues, FDR and Martin Luther King (both of the electronic amplification
era), turned out to not be working. Which meant putting out even more sound,
all the way through to the end of the play. After the show I went out with a
couple of the teachers who touted the healing properties of whiskey on the
throat. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I decided it was time to tally up
the results of the last three performances of “Greatest Speech,” from South
Carolina, Texas and Arizona. The results were as follows:</div>
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Winston Churchill: 2 votes<br />
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: 6
Votes<br />
Abraham Lincoln: 11 Votes<br />
Frederick Douglass: 16 Votes<br />
Socrates: 20 Votes<br />
Mark Antony: 24 Votes<br />
Teddy Roosevelt: 34 Votes<br />
Martin Luther King: 70 Votes! </blockquote>
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Various comments submitted on the
backside of the ballots included: "awesome," "phenomenal,"
"amazing," "I got chills," "a great experience"
and "more thought provoking than watching it on YouTube."</blockquote>
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From Flagstaff, I continued on to
Idylwild, where Betty Anderson was hosting me for yet another performance in
her living room, this one being “Shakespeare’s Histories.” This time around, I
managed to get the timing of the show down to 65 minutes… Only five minutes
left to trim to make it to the magic 60-minute mark, which is the cut-off time
for most Fringe festivals. The audience was great, kicking in to the till for
“gas money,” and one viewer later wrote to Betty:</div>
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I enjoyed Tim’s performance very
much. Yes, he is amazing and talented and has a huge knowledge indeed of
Shakespeare; most impressive! I appreciated that although he
spoke quickly, each word was clearly understood. Quite rare these
days. </blockquote>
Another friend of Betty's, Marshall James Smith II, called the show…"Brillant, funny and inspiring."<br />
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performing “Lot o’ Shakespeare” at the Las Vegas Academy of Performing Arts,
where I’d performed Moliere, some eight years prior. That first time, it was
the language arts people who had brought me in to perform, with almost no
coordination with the theatre department… which was actually an irritation to
the technical coordinator at the time, who wasn't ready to accommodate my
rehearsal needs. But, the show, itself, sold them on my work, and this time, it was they who were bringing me back, and
their tech coordinator, Rebekah, took terrific care of me for my two days in
town. <o:p></o:p><br />
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I had a little time to kill, and
rather than head straight north to my next event in Spokane, I decided to swing
out to visit Kirsten in Santa Clarita, CA. She and I have been planning a
website, which is being built by my web guy, Bruce in Portland. Kirsten is working
on a performance of an almost-one-woman show (“Firecracker”), about life as a
deaf woman in a hearing world, and being caught between those two worlds. The
show, and the website, will be opening very soon!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I continued north, stopping in
Redding, California for the night, where a “GoogleAlert” that I’d set to alert
me of any appearance of the title “The Misanthrope” on the internet, popped up
to cue me to a review of a performance of my adaptation of Moliere’s
“Misanthrope” that was happening in Boise, Idaho that weekend. The review noted
that the final performance was the following night.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The trip from Redding to Boise was about 10
hours long, but the opportunity to surprise the director and actors was more
important than the bother that the extra driving might present. (It was, of
course, ironic that I had taken the long way through California, when I was
going to swing all the way back to Boise, which had been almost directly north
of my last appearance, in Las Vegas, in the first place.) <br />
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<span style="text-indent: 0in;">I arrived perhaps twenty minutes in
advance of the show, buying a ticket at a table out in front of the high
school’s auditorium. I asked them if the director was anywhere around, and they
were certain she would be in attendance, but hadn’t seen her yet. They asked my
name. I told them not to tell anyone else that I was there, and slipped them my
business card to pass along, and proceeded in to sit down in the auditorium.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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I enjoyed the first half of the
show, a modernized version of my script, and when intermission arrived, one of
the ushers came up to inform me that the director wanted to meet me.
Apparently, the woman at the box office hadn’t recognized my name, but when the
director saw my card, she understood immediately, and was “fan-girling” at the
back of the auditorium. (Which is, I believe, a gesture in which you point your
fingertips toward your cheeks and “fan” yourself… hyperventilation optional.) <o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuIgGUBrGz-SJ-G90jkpURlHaG8Wz3fqv_7E15tLwkNGAvqf9yK3BirgpiSug_wRxKGU_C3POWl16gixoHOnT5okgS3jJveWT9YSQaN9wqhElWEBL_zZTwlcxQu9NGFJKPbpTK/s1600/1456019_10153414255130161_537009220_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuIgGUBrGz-SJ-G90jkpURlHaG8Wz3fqv_7E15tLwkNGAvqf9yK3BirgpiSug_wRxKGU_C3POWl16gixoHOnT5okgS3jJveWT9YSQaN9wqhElWEBL_zZTwlcxQu9NGFJKPbpTK/s320/1456019_10153414255130161_537009220_n.jpg" height="320" width="240" /></a>We made plans for me to say a few
words to the cast afterwards, and I watched the second half of the play.
Afterwards, the word went out that the director wanted the casts (they had
double-cast the roles with two distinct versions of the play) to come out to
the auditorium afterwards. The 40 or so company members took seats in the
auditorium, thinking that they were, perhaps, in trouble for some imagined
misbehavior. <o:p></o:p></div>
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While I lingered in the wings, just
barely in sight, the director explained that they had been treated to one of
the greatest honors in the school history, as the adaptor, Timothy Mooney, had
shown up to watch the play tonight… <o:p></o:p></div>
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I walked out on stage to what I
think it might have felt like to be one of the Beatles in 1964. The cast was
thrilled, with some glistening eyes. I took their questions for about forty-five
minutes, and we took a group photo of the bunch of us. As we were exchanging
hugs and handshakes, some member of the cast had the idea to get me to
autograph their program, and pretty soon everyone had to have my autograph on a
program, or script or poster. This went on for another half-hour, and after the
cast had all gone their way, the director had me come backstage to sign the
dressing room wall.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The next day I drove to Spokane.
And, as I was driving, the director posted on her Facebook page:<o:p></o:p></div>
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This really happened: last
night I was so surprised and honored to find out that the gentleman who wrote
the adaptation of the play we were performing CAME TO OUR SHOW!! Tim Mooney drove
hours out of his way to see our production of the script he wrote. He knew
about the performance because of a review he read on Broadwayworld.com by
Teresa Linson Rodrick. I didn't tell the kids he was in the audience. I only
told them that they had a surprise after the show. We announced him, the kids
went CRAZY (I cried... A bunch) and he stuck around for an hour and a half for
a talk back, impromptu performances, and signed everything that we put in front
of him (including the wall in the makeup room, next to Brianna Mae White).
Rocky Drama is so honored to have him visit. I am beside myself, proud of my
kids, honored to have this man's time and attention and happy to share it with
all of you.</blockquote>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXgJHIlCiZve_ZzxlAaJHHLM7t7dgoIjuBYYuGEYMHvfPrDkt3TSJnxqc6v1ZAQ7JNYIcpB0FQEYQRhC7NYXE_6dVrc4rfnxDYc29lafWw9IHD1yQ5MjcfBoN-jWxmGZPdF50i/s1600/1384293_10153414255695161_1208394403_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXgJHIlCiZve_ZzxlAaJHHLM7t7dgoIjuBYYuGEYMHvfPrDkt3TSJnxqc6v1ZAQ7JNYIcpB0FQEYQRhC7NYXE_6dVrc4rfnxDYc29lafWw9IHD1yQ5MjcfBoN-jWxmGZPdF50i/s200/1384293_10153414255695161_1208394403_n.jpg" height="200" width="149" /></a></div>
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Not long after, I received this note
from Laurel Rengo Lewis…</div>
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As a
parent of one of the leads in the modern play, that drive you did to see the
play made many many students LIVES!!! Such an awesome experience that will
surely throw many of them into this career or continued experiences that only
Drama can bring. What you did for the students/teachers and parents of the
Drama department of Rocky Mountain high school will forever be remembered. I
hope they also made a mark in your heart.</blockquote>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The casts of "The Misanthrope" at Rocky Mountain High School</span></td></tr>
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<br />
Gonzaga University was bringing me
in for a return visit (Eight of my visits this fall were return visits… nine,
if you count Northern Arizona!), and this time, I would be performing both “Lot
o’ Shakespeare” and “Moliere,” and giving two workshops as well. Long after
booking the performance, and just a couple of weeks before the show, I learned
that Gonzaga was also looking for an Acting/Directing teacher for the coming
year, and the possibility of showcasing my work in advance of applying for a
job was appealing. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I was getting into a rhythm of
applying for about two jobs per week, and a couple of my references were
gracious enough to share their generous recommendations of my work. To date, I
have put out perhaps nineteen applications with three “passes” (we don’t call
them “rejections”) coming back so far. Alas, I will not be Artistic Director of
the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. </div>
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This visit featured the some of my
higher highs and, also, some of the lower lows of my tour thus far. The morning
of my first workshop, I arrived early, sitting off to the side to review my
notes on Moliere’s life before working my way into my big “Life of Moliere”
presentation. The department chair, a lovely woman who was incredibly
supportive through the visit, came over to say hello and check in on plans
before the workshop got started. As the time to start came up, I got back up,
and just as I was heading for center stage, she noted sotto voce, “By the way…
check your zipper.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Yipes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The workshop itself went great; the
performance of “Lot o’ Shakespeare” that evening went great. Joe Jacoby from
North Idaho College brought several students out to see the show, and he and I
met up for a drink afterwards to celebrate my Birthday.</div>
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The next morning, I was back at it,
with a presentation of “Acting in the Classical Theatre” for the theatre
students. This, too, went well, and the Theatre Chair gave me a tour of the
campus afterwards. (We also discussed the faculty opening that they had coming
up.) We stopped out for lunch and, though we were having a great conversation,
I made the mistake (that I sometimes make) of trying to talk and eat at the
same time. I suffer from what seems to be an occasional acid-reflux reaction,
which sometimes keeps me from swallowing completely, leading my stomach,
sensing the obstruction, to send acid to attack the obstruction. Once it has
started this process, it often will not stop until my stomach is completely
empty. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This was one of those instances. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I headed back to the hotel, where I
lay in bed, occasionally running to the bathroom to evacuate my stomach. The
process had to conclude at some point, but every time my stomach seemed to have
settled, there was further irritation. There was a tech rehearsal scheduled for
4 pm, during which I had to continuously break away for the bathroom. We made
contingency plans for announcements, and pauses in the action which might enable
me to leave the stage, and, around 5:30, I finally managed to relax in a
darkened dressing room, which seemed to recover my sea-legs before the 6:00
show-time. <o:p></o:p><br />
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The department chair made a cautious
introductory announcement requesting the audience’s indulgence, should the
performer need to exit the stage at any time, and I started the show. While my
voice, to me, sounded as ragged as Tom Waits, I was relieved that my heightened
energy did not seem to have renewed my stomach upset. By the time I got through
the first in-character monologue, I was fairly certain that the show would
continue without a hitch… and found my voice losing its gravel as I proceeded. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The North Idaho College Acting Class</span></td></tr>
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By the end, no one in the audience
had realized the condition I was in, and assumed that the opening announcement
had been a part of the prevailing joke of the performance, given that the
central joke driving the action is Moliere’s cast having gotten food poisoning.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I returned to the hotel, having
dodged another bullet, and the next day I dropped in on the Theatre Chair’s
History class, in which they were discussing Moliere and Shakespeare.
Afterwards, I continued to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, where, the following day, I
dropped in on one of Joe Jacoby’s acting classes, putting together an impromptu
lecture-workshop. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Joe Proctor and I</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Mary Linn (Snyder-Swanson) Crouse</span></td></tr>
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I pushed, slowly, west, dropping in
on Joe Proctor in Missoula, Montana and swinging through Helena, MT for the
first time, to say hello to Mary Linn Crouse (Formerly Mary Linn
Snyder-Swanson), a fellow SIU alum, who I hadn’t seen in some 30 years. (We had
appeared together in “Diana, the Spartan Comedy.”) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Next stop: Jamestown, North Dakota,
with a performance of “Moliere than Thou” at the University of Jamestown. It
seemed to be a Convocations Committee that was bringing me in for this show,
and my e-mail contact was not actually present when the show came about, which
always throws me a bit off. The host wrote later to explain that “Everyone who
was there told me it went great.” And the representative for the convocations
committee wrote to send me the evaluation results, tabulated from audience
responses filled out following the show.</div>
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The tabulation results themselves
are always a bit humbling, as, even when there may be 20 respondents who rate
my work as a “5” on one of the criteria, there are usually a couple of “1s” at
the other end of the scale. The only criteria that was universally positive was
the response to “I was able to hear and see the speakers/events.” (Nailed it.) <o:p></o:p></div>
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I worked my way back to Chicago,
with a show at Geneva High School.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The French teachers at Geneva had
brought me in about seven years ago for a performance, and were, actually,
going to bring me in last year, but had to cancel, late in the process, due to
some unanticipated conflict. They, did, however, go ahead and pay me for the
performance, with the understanding that I would credit them for the
performance this year. Which meant that, I would be receiving no check at the
end of this particular performance, which can feel like a bit of a letdown. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Titus</span></td></tr>
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The show went very well, and I
caught about five days back in Chicago, launching into what I am hoping is my
final e-mail booking campaign, with yet another 15,000 e-mails to go out in a
very short window of time. (I wanted to catch as many teachers as possible
before they headed off for Christmas vacation.) <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU1HN9wvCjNk7ccJ_ejoMhVUqTX7aPma0LinTXVu93dXa7cFTOzh253i6nUZArqUwE3uvjDRA6owl0nF40SmoiqIy152yCiWrZvvPvGb7OpvRT70q8kuLV0hNbKQZgF7OYkG5K/s1600/IMG_1982.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU1HN9wvCjNk7ccJ_ejoMhVUqTX7aPma0LinTXVu93dXa7cFTOzh253i6nUZArqUwE3uvjDRA6owl0nF40SmoiqIy152yCiWrZvvPvGb7OpvRT70q8kuLV0hNbKQZgF7OYkG5K/s320/IMG_1982.JPG" height="320" width="215" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Hamlet, with a "Sharpie" as dagger</span></td></tr>
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I broke off the booking campaign to
head on down to Texas, with a series of eighteen workshops in the three days of
the Texas Thespians conference. These workshops were a mixed bag, with some
very low attendance, and some crowded with 40 or 50 students. Two of them,
which had been scheduled over the lunch and dinner hours, ended up with no
students in attendance, and I gasped for a much needed breather.</div>
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I don’t really have an “off-switch”
in these sessions, and the first day found me doing eight workshops, which left
me at the point of borderline fatigue/illness by the end of the day. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij_XBMTkz6OunGun-xC8NyfnX5KOiJBNDChrSnguSk6gZhYGalGAGKh66EXKhiMUssqpT2N-vvQE_-AwVYlW-gGyYrOknyiVjEt2eL94ZJrCO0_jKCN8p5qRZzgt4Zeedl5TJA/s1600/IMG_1963.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij_XBMTkz6OunGun-xC8NyfnX5KOiJBNDChrSnguSk6gZhYGalGAGKh66EXKhiMUssqpT2N-vvQE_-AwVYlW-gGyYrOknyiVjEt2eL94ZJrCO0_jKCN8p5qRZzgt4Zeedl5TJA/s320/IMG_1963.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a>The second day was much lighter, and
that night I took a walk out to the “grassy knoll,” to absorb some of the
energy from that day’s 50<sup>th</sup> anniversary remembrance of Kennedy’s
assassination.</div>
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The third and last day found me back
in the thick of performance, hoping that my voice would hold out, and one
particular student, who, it seems, had attended four or five of my sessions,
left me with a lovely note after my last workshop. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
I truly enjoyed all of your classes
(if you couldn’t tell). You had a very fun approach to Shakespeare, and I
appreciate your sharing it. You also had a fun, magnetic personality, and your
passion was clear. Truly, your passion was a breath of fresh air for me… [and
more stuff that I can’t retype without getting overly embarrassed.]</blockquote>
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Another student followed up with a
very kind e-mail a few days later:</div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
I just wanted to say thank you so
much for coming down to Texas for the Thespian Festival! I really enjoyed your
workshops and I really appreciate you taking time out of your day to work with
me on my Shakespeare monologue. It helped so much! After going to your
workshops, I have finally made the brave decision to focus on classical theatre
next year in college. Thank you for helping make that decision. You are such an
incredible inspiration and I am so blessed to have met and worked with you.</blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Mask shopping, with Kate Mura</span></td></tr>
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I was reinvigorated with the notion
that, however much it might take out of me to do it, I was having a positive
impact, and, as seems to be my recurring theme this time around, I will only ever
hear anecdotal evidence of what impact I may have, and here, in my last year,
it’s starting to come back at me in a rush. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The next day I was off to New
Orleans, to catch the final day of the New Orleans Fringe Festival, with a
performance by Bremner Duthie, another performance by Facebook friend, Kate
Mura, and the closing night party. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Bremner and Kate were both very
good, and we met up at a bar at the end of the night for the Fringe closing
night party. The conversation was lively, and I dreaded to see that there was a
band setting up at this crowded, smoky bar. I figured on waiting them out
through a single song before pushing on for the night.</div>
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But the band came on, not with roaring
guitars, but with percussion, horns, and amazing vocals. The foot began to tap,
the hips to sway, and I hung around for one more song, and another and another,
through the rest of the performance. Standing back by the sound board, I was
shocked to see that there was really no one running the board. Whatever they
were doing, they were creating that sound live and in person. It was like
watching the Talking Heads during their Funkadelics phase, (but before they had
become famous).<o:p></o:p><br />
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I got the name of the band (“Sweet
Crude”) and watched for their big upcoming release, “Super Vilaine,” a 5-track
EP, which I recommend highly. (Available on “Bandcamp” at <a href="http://sweetcrudeband.bandcamp.com/">http://sweetcrudeband.bandcamp.com</a>
)<o:p></o:p></div>
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After another day of visiting in New
Orleans, I pushed on to Orlando, staying at the Pergande’s house while Al flew
out to pick up Gale, and bring her back from her annual excursion to Maine. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I resumed the big e-mail campaign
while working up “Lot o’ Shakespeare” for three performances at Seminole State
University. The folks at Seminole State were enthusiastic. One of the teachers
there had caught my show at the Orlando Fringe a few years back, and, bumping
into me at a thespian festival, had the idea for booking me for a short run at
the tail end of their semester. <o:p></o:p></div>
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While the audiences were fun, they
were pretty small, with perhaps 40 per night, as well as a lively workshop. Carl
F. Gauze came out to see the show, and <a href="http://blogs.ink19.com/archikulture/2013/12/07/lotto-shakespeare/" target="_blank">published his review</a>: “This show may not improve your English lit grades but
it’s a pleasant way to fill in the corners in your cultural education.” </div>
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I finished off the e-mail campaign
in record time, and the response to this “Final Tour” announcement was so good
that I had to eliminate the Dakotas and the New England states from the
campaign, knowing that the time available to divert into those areas had almost
entirely evaporated. Making a booking work for those states would be almost
double the work, and drain valuable energy which would be in short supply in
the coming Winter/Spring semester. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Me & Aunt Evelyn</span></td></tr>
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Somewhere in there, the Orlando
Fringe Festival hosted their annual lottery for fringe performers, and I am
“in” once again! And while I was working on yet another draft of “Shakespeare’s
Histories,” I dropped a note to the Literary Manager at Samuel French Publishing,
and she agreed to take a look at the book for possible publication and
licensing! And, with a moment to actually concentrate, I went over to
Healthcare.gov and arranged a really sweet deal on insurance for the coming
year, which saves me over $300 per month!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I gave myself a few days “off.” As
much territory as I had covered over the past year, I had never made it down to
the southernmost point of the U.S. Mainland, and, hiding out from the winter
weather that was waiting for me in Chicago, I ducked down to Key West, visiting
my Aunt Evelyn (still going strong at 93!) along the way. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The farther south you go, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">the smaller the people get...</span></td></tr>
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The drive to Key West was sunny and
in the 80s, but moments after my arrival, just as I went to unpack the car, the
clouds opened up with pouring rain, the temperature dropped 10-20 degrees, and
the island stayed cool and cloudy for the remainder of my visit. (The sun came
out and the temperature rose, just as I was leaving!) I got more work done on
my book.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I dawdled in Orlando for a few more
precious days, starting up an e-mail campaign to find a literary agent (getting
a subscription to writersmarket.com), and finally setting off north. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I visited with Sabra and Paul in
Chattanooga on my way north, enjoying an impromptu party, before pushing on to Chicago
the following day. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi68mAa_ykLTUQvSpHNo-gNQy8Ru_fucY2UzK9xnt6lvly_pUatahAb-ZtAp0b4Nhbb38cswn0FLwkFpxvTxYhhiTdD-XknRaX06Easm7fNzUIVYtBXoV4X3qA4DmICBnu56mYZ/s1600/988769_10153449358915231_160536775_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi68mAa_ykLTUQvSpHNo-gNQy8Ru_fucY2UzK9xnt6lvly_pUatahAb-ZtAp0b4Nhbb38cswn0FLwkFpxvTxYhhiTdD-XknRaX06Easm7fNzUIVYtBXoV4X3qA4DmICBnu56mYZ/s320/988769_10153449358915231_160536775_n.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a>So, here I am back in Chicago,
enjoying Christmas with Dad, Kevin, Sue, April, and the kids. I’ve got the
seventh draft of “Shakespeare’s Histories” in transit from the printer. (#8
should be the last before I’m ready to publish). And, there are some sixteen
job applications pending, with another five or six to send out in the coming
days. The Winter/Spring tour will start up in the middle of the month, and keep
me busy well into May. And, maybe I’ll pick up a few job interviews here and
there… I’ve laid out a map of “places applied to so far…!” Are YOU in any of
these neighborhoods?<o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
And, finally, I'm looking to set up a Book Release Party for "Shakespeare's Histories; Ten Epic Plays at a Breakneck Pace," complete with a performance of the one-man show. We're looking for venues here in the Chicago suburbs for Monday January 13! Check back in with me if you'd like to attend!</div>
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<b>Miles on the Escape</b>: 178,662<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>On I-Tunes</b>: Cara Emerald<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>On “Bandcamp”</b>: “Sweet Crude”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Discoveries</b>: Just ride the wave and
be grateful. * It’s impossible to know the impact that you are having on the
world. Impressions that you make in passing may be received and transform
people well beyond the circle that you encounter. I will only ever hear
anecdotal evidence of what impact I may have. * Limit one margarita on nights
before early morning performances. * Rather than getting pissed off about all
of the crappy stuff that might happen on the road, see it as a gift from the
universe of a reminder of all of the things that you will not miss when this is
done. * Some stressful crises are simply “the cost of doing business.” * What
may be a burdensome extra few hours on the road to me may well mean the world
to a young student. * If you do a good job the first time, quite often they
will invite you back… and by the time twelve years have gone by, about half of
my business is return business! * One area where I consistently excel: “I was
able to see/hear the speaker.” * <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Next performances</b>: January 16 at
Northwestern College, Orange City, IA; Jan 22-23 in Laredo, TX; Jan 27 at
Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN…</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the interest of not burying the lede (or "lead"): </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto;">The previously-mentioned drawing of me performing at the Claiborne Community Center… Illustration by Renny Johnson... (Another Claiborne performance coming up September 27!)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">My best laid plans have me living in
a constant state of rewrite…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">About half of the plans I was
outlining in my last “View From Here” have shifted in the last several months,
which’ll take some ‘splainin’… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From California last April, I flew
back to Fort Worth and drove down to New Orleans, where I performed “Lot o’
Shakespeare at a little theatre not far from the French Quarter. It was my
first performance in New Orleans, not counting Karaoke at the Cat’s Meow!
Audiences were tiny, but the coverage was pretty good. I got a nice preview
article on <a href="http://www.nola.com/arts/index.ssf/2013/04/lot_o_shakespeare_timothy_moon.html?fb_action_ids=10152713529015231&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_ref=s%3DshowShareBarUI%3Ap%3Dfacebook-like&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582">NOLA.com
</a> (with video, from my tech rehearsal,
embedded in the article). One audience member posted a brief review on his
blog:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">INCREDIBLE! The fact that he
knows not only a monologue from EVERY. SINGLE. SHAKESPEARE. PLAY., but can
perform them AT RANDOM, at the drop of a hat, is nothing less than
spellbinding. Throw in some great crowd interaction and insane manic energy
from Mooney, this show was absolutely unbelievable.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">From New Orleans, on to Chattanooga
with another terrific Pathways weekend, and then back to Chicago, performing
“The Greatest Speech of All Time” at my dad’s retirement village, to an
enthusiastic crowd of a hundred or so! Lots of friends and relations in the
audience, so tension was high, but all went well. We captured perhaps my
favorite picture of my brother Kevin and I after the show… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I continued to finish up my Big
E-Mail Campaign, and got word from Paul Doniger in Connecticut that his
presentation of my “The Learned Ladies” at Pomperaug High School had won the
“Halo Award” (“Celebrating the best of Connecticut High School Theatre”) for
“Best Play!” A number of my shows have gone on to State Finals here and there,
but this was, I believe, the first time one had actually won a top prize. (It
also won for best original program design/artwork and best costume design!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZflHbc9c5amsODVPUIZFkiNUoxaIfq4h7zgisMK5JjABlmUnHphC6ba0cIdef9bkWCtK4MYDf5RYgCY9pEPB4SiB82dHQldRBU0wugB5d8_0FR3OkhZdfUvsG_f9tOjioqRVW/s1600/Shakes+Hist+Front+Cover+D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZflHbc9c5amsODVPUIZFkiNUoxaIfq4h7zgisMK5JjABlmUnHphC6ba0cIdef9bkWCtK4MYDf5RYgCY9pEPB4SiB82dHQldRBU0wugB5d8_0FR3OkhZdfUvsG_f9tOjioqRVW/s320/Shakes+Hist+Front+Cover+D.jpg" height="320" width="213" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Other recognitions: Playscripts,
Inc. is publishing one of my monologues from <i>The Misanthrope</i> as part of their <i>Monologues for Women</i> collection. And I just got a request from
Cognella Academic Publishing to use ten pages of my <i>The Big Book of Moliere Monologues</i> (the section on <i>Tartuffe</i>) for an upcoming Intro to
Theatre Text. Oh! And Southern Illinois
University ordered 122 copies of my <i>Tartuffe</i>
for use in their Intro to Theatre class! (This was actually a key factor in the
BIG decision made, below…)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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memorized for the new show, <b><i>Shakespeare’s Histories: Ten Epic Plays at a
Breakneck Pace</i></b> I hit the road again, heading for the International
Thespians Festival at the University of Nebraska. This time around, my display
had 18 different books for sale, t-shirts and now: Moliere Coffee Mugs! I even
bought a flat-screen TV and a bookcase to support it (which held more books
below). Moliere coffee mugs have gone out to upcoming and potential bookers,
and most of the porcelain cups arrive with the handle still attached! You can
order them on the <a href="http://timmooneyrep.com/mug.html" target="_blank">TMRT Website</a>! (<a href="http://www.timmooneyrep.com/mug.html" target="_blank">Click here to get your own mug!</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is why you should be a Facebook
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, there I was in Lincoln,
Nebraska, doing the Thespian Festival, and there’s a note on my Facebook page,
from Jon Tuttle (from South Carolina): “Hey Tim, are you in Lincoln, Nebraska?
Cause I’m in Lincoln, Nebraska!” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOeKRpNUnFAzzXXatMb3CltC3qPZZi1k5Xcv3BeLN-UfhHa1hyphenhyphenRfYutu-_MAAGixvl3qEgtwxRm7ac-Lrasp4X39NDk4X2s15gdMqUxiVuPKYn7k-24RXvgLeU3PU883xoIizp/s1600/IMG_1206.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOeKRpNUnFAzzXXatMb3CltC3qPZZi1k5Xcv3BeLN-UfhHa1hyphenhyphenRfYutu-_MAAGixvl3qEgtwxRm7ac-Lrasp4X39NDk4X2s15gdMqUxiVuPKYn7k-24RXvgLeU3PU883xoIizp/s320/IMG_1206.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jon was in town for an entirely
DIFFERENT conference: Honors Program Coordinators, or somesuch, but noticed (from
the photo I’d pasted on Facebook, above) that I was in Lincoln! So, we met up
for drinks, at “Barrymore’s,” of course. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsBBwKRGZngLKWwPVpfBBbeRNQ9nCfTUGkbhx6L_od95TgzGcH_iCfkKmnuFIQpx45ZNkLmiGe33n-mJzVDdqY6-b0GfPTUvDbpn51HgthwAAVeqBttYtDrp4Tae7dWx_BKUqK/s1600/IMG_1215.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsBBwKRGZngLKWwPVpfBBbeRNQ9nCfTUGkbhx6L_od95TgzGcH_iCfkKmnuFIQpx45ZNkLmiGe33n-mJzVDdqY6-b0GfPTUvDbpn51HgthwAAVeqBttYtDrp4Tae7dWx_BKUqK/s320/IMG_1215.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And Jon Tuttle arrives mentioning
that there’s another fellow he met up with at his conference, from Windsor,
Canada, who was an Actor-Professor, who’s coming to join us, and who he’s sure
I’ll get along with very well. That guy turns out to have recognized me from my
YouTube clips…! And while we’re a couple of drinks into the middle of a really
fun conversation, a guy at the next table (the joint has by now filled up
without us noticing), leans over to say “Are you Tim Mooney…?” It turns out
that THIS guy hosted one of my performances about seven years ago at the Las
Vegas Academy of Performing Arts, and in the 30 seconds before we go back to
our respective conversations, we agree that late October will work out great
for another event in Las Vegas this fall! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, there we are, four guys, from
Chicago, South Carolina, Windsor, and Las Vegas, descended upon Lincoln, NE
between two adjacent tables. (There’s a quote from mountain climber William
Hutchinson Murray, that is often confused as a direct quote from Goethe, that
sums up these “coincidences” that I find myself falling into time and again…
Just in case you haven’t seen it before, here it is:)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the
chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative
and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills
countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits
oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that
would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the
decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings
and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his
way. I learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets: “Whatever you can
do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Begin it now."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[In other words, the decision to throw
myself onto the road, and into the theatres of all of these teachers and
professors along the way have put me into the vortex of a series of
coincidences, alignments, and “good breaks” that, every once in a while,
manifest themselves in ways that never would have come up, had I stayed back at
home waiting for the phone to ring. ]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From Lincoln, I was off to Kansas
City (visiting Alan and Sandy), and angling down through Arizona (visiting
Kathleen McGeever, who was booking “Greatest Speech” for this fall, and
stopping in on Betty Anderson in Idyllwild, where once again, she hosted me in
a living room performance, this time doing a really fun “Lot o’ Shakespeare.”
(Betty & Pete are no longer an Ampersand-Connected-Couple, but I did get in
a nice visit with Pete while I was in town, too.) <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From there, it was on to Fresno,
where my good friend Jayne Day (director of Fresno’s Rogue Festival) was going
to host me in a combination of “Lot o’ Shakespeare” along with my first-ever
attempt to perform “Shakespeare’s Histories” (mostly) off book! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">The way it worked: I performed “Lot o’ Shakespeare”, but if a History Play came
out of the bingo cage, the audience got to mark it off on their IAGO card, but
had to wait for the second act to see it performed, as part of the full
“Shakespeare’s Histories” program. I took an intermission and came back after to
perform the narrative of the all ten Shakespeare History plays in what ended up
taking 67 minutes! (I am working to get
it down to 60.)</span></div>
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felt shaky, but the small audience found it fun and very educational. One young
boy, who’d won a copy of one of my scripts was very happy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From Fresno I
raced over to San Jose, where Isaac was spending the summer with his mom. I
packed Isaac up in the car and we headed north to Ashland, Oregon, for the Oregon
Shakespeare Festival, where I was presenting “Lot o’ Shakespeare.” This was my
second time presenting “Lot o’ Shakespeare at OSF, and they were responsive
once again. The Bookstore has been carrying “The Big Book of Moliere
Monologues” as well as “Acting at the Speed of Life,” and while I was in town,
I convinced them to add “Moliere than Thou” to their collection. The bookstore
manager is always fun to visit with and she’s also expressed interest in the
new “Shakespeare’s Histories” book, giving me added incentive to have the book
version ready to release by the time I start presenting the show! (I’ve been
pushing on the book all summer long: Proofs are now ordered!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The show that night went well, and I got to hang out with my old UNL friend,
Cil Stengel, again. She saw the show, snapped a photo and posted: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tim Mooney on stage at the OSF green
show tonight. This man's brain holds endless Shakespearean monologues and
performs them as they are randomly picked from one of those spinning things used for Bingo. He was brilliant. We knew each other back in the day...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Isaac and I headed back to San Jose
the next day and I swung up to catch the Marin Shakespeare Festival, while I
was in the neighborhood. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This has turned into a Shakespeare
Festival summer for me: checking out the Nebraska Shakespeare Fest (where the
director wants to book the new “Shakespeare’s Histories” show this November),
the Heartland Shakespeare Fest, the Oregon Shakespeare Fest and the Marin
Shakespeare Fest. I also saw the Annapolis Shakespeare Fest, but more about
that in a moment…!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I pushed back across the country,
having come to a sudden conclusion!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>THIS IS THE LAST YEAR OF THE BIG
TOUR!</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I <i>KNOW</i>! Didn’t see that one coming!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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had just driven about 8,000 miles in about three weeks. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But a number of other things had
begun to come together in my thinking. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Having put over a half-million miles
on the car since this tour began, I really have to count myself lucky. And I
can’t count on that luck forever. I think I have one more year of luck in me.
After that… I’m not so sure. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And, by the way, Moliere, himself,
toured for 13 years total… before settling down in Paris and performing for the
king.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had resisted plotting out my Fall,
2014 tour. I had only just posted it on line, and as of yet, had only one
booking. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I spotted a job notice at a school
(where they know me and already like my work) that started up in Fall, 2014. (In
fact, somebody from this school had only recently commended me on the Facebook
posting that I’d put up regarding the sale of 122 books to SIU!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Normally, I stumble across job
notices that I like at a time in which I’m already booked up for that semester,
but this was the perfect amount of lead time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And, bookings for the coming year
needed a boost. I could make a big hoopla out of announcing the “Farewell Tour”
and benefit from a few last-chance bookings from people who have been waiting
for the time to be right.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And so, when I got back to Chicago,
I started sending out announcements: first to the people who were on my “maybe
list.” Then to the “past performance list.” And then to the Mega-Mailing list:
about 15,000 people. I had only barely finished the previous e-mail campaign in
May, but here I was at it again…! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I finished the campaign in record
time… Even as I was simultaneously…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Driving out to the East Coast:
I was attending the Alliance for Theatre and Education conference. But first, I
raced out to Annapolis to see the Annapolis Shakespeare Company performing my
“Tartuffe” in the courtyard of a tavern, with a tiny cast of six actors
double-cast up to the hilt! (Tartuffe, himself, also played Madame Pernelle!)
They were brilliant; the director had done a terrific job and were very
receptive to me. [The Tuesday-only run has been extended through October 1! I’ll
be in the audience for the September 24 show! Yipes! That’s tomorrow already!] <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From there it was back through
Chicago, and on up to Minneapolis for the Minnesota Fringe Festival. I had been
on the Fringe “Waiting List” for months, and I had resigned myself to just
performing my new 10-minute monologue (“Electric Eye”) as part of the “Fringe
Orphans” lineup… But just in case, I threw my “Greatest Speech” suit into the
car. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was having a great time in Minneapolis,
hanging with some old Fringe friends from Orlando, Indianapolis and Fresno,
enjoying the light responsibility: working the e-mail campaign in the day and
seeing shows (and pub-crawling) at night. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Day 5 of the Fringe, my phone rings.
It’s the Executive Director, Robin Gillette. </span></div>
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had somebody with a family emergency have to drop out of the Fringe at way past
last second, and, well, we knew you were in town, and were still on the waiting
list…?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I’ll do it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first performance of this run
was supposed to be that very night, but I did need about 24 hours to work the
show back up in my head, and on my tongue, but suddenly, I had a challenge!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am told that no show has ever been
added to the Fringe line-up five days after the festival has already begun!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(That’s one of those things I
appreciate doing, just because someday I know I’ll want a legit “war story” to
tell about my days in the trenches of acting… like performing five entirely
different one-man shows over the course of five performances at the Orlando
Fringe Festival in 2012.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And, following the first
performance, which had thin attendance, either due to the last-minute nature of
the show, or the sudden thunderstorm, the remaining performances actually had a
decent audience of 50-60. Given that this was my sixth appearance at the
Minnesota Fringe, I did have a few followers, who come to see all my stuff.
(One, Kale Gannan, helped to set me up with a podium via the Geek Preservation
Society! Thanks Kale!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And, one of my favorite parts of
Minnesota is the great on-line reviews:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Each One Was the Greatest Speech</b>… A fantastic selection of eight speeches,
brilliantly acted, with historical context provided. …Brilliant! Students of
all ages and degrees need to hear these and other memorable speeches! <i>Marie Cooney</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i></i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Brilliantly Done…</b> I thought this was going to be boring. Boy, was I
wrong! Tim, a master of his craft, does a phenomenal job of bringing these
brilliant words to life, and showing us that the more things change, the more
they stay the same. I definitely recommend checking this out. <i>Angela Polk</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i></i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The Greatest Fringe Show of All Time…</b> A consummate performer, delivering top-notch
material with extraordinary energy and discipline... this is priceless. <i>Dave Stagner</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i></i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>You need to HEAR these…</b> Great speeches - well chosen for our turbulent
times. It's not enough to read the text; see them presented Live, by a
performer who loves every word. Memorable! <i>Kay Kirscht</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i></i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Relevant and riveting!</b> These are not just speeches that contain sound bytes
we've heard before. Some are funny, some are meant to inspire the audience,
some are intended to poke a sharp stick at them. Tim brings the words alive,
lifts them from the history books and burns them into your mind. This is a
great show, if you don't see it you're really missing out! <i>Kelly
Crandall</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i></i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Wow</b> There is nothing quite like being mesmerized by a great orator, Tim
plays 10 of them. I was astounded by how apropos the words of dead men were
when spoken again by a true orator. Truly riveting. <i>Nate Farley</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i></i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>So THAT’S how that would have sounded.</b> There are many historically relevant speeches that
aren't even photographed, let alone recorded and filmed. After taking my high
school history class this year, this one-man show really brought clarity and
vision to what I have learned. <i>William Bauer</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
guy loves the literature, and he performs with thought and passion, and both of
those traits were on display in some of the great speeches in history. …A great
show. <i>Patrick Phundstein</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i></i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A
perfect arc through history. The speeches resonate with todays society, often
chillingly so. Tim performs with energy and enthusiasm and brings these words
to life. <i>Aisling Doherty</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From the Minnesota Fringe it was on
to the Indy Fringe, and while my reviews at this Fringe were the last ones to
show up on-line, when they finally came, they were good, and I started to sell
some decent tickets…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you were
fortunate, you had a teacher or professor who made learning delightful… Timothy
Mooney achieved the rare feat of giving his audience a tour of the history of
rhetoric while amply entertaining them. In his introduction, Mooney said his
goal was to knock down the walls of time, “untangling the spaghetti of the
speaker’s syntax.” …He manages to recreate the energy of these pieces, bringing
them to life for a contemporary audience… Leaving the theater, I felt I’d had
my cultural knowledge expanded, and there were no Cliff Notes required. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Judy
Kenninger, Indy Fringe Blogger</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i></i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A truly inspiring,
reflective and enjoyable show that will lift your spirits and warm your
heart. <i>Wendy Carson, “PenGwenity”</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Informative, thought-provoking, and moving... with oratorical skill and
presence. ...hearing them spoken live, in person, is hugely different from merely
reading them or even listening to a recording of them. I cried during the
recitation of Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address” and during Martin Luther
King Jr.’s “I’ve been to the mountaintop.” …The speeches are presented in
chronological order, so you really do get a sense of history passing as you
listen. </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hope Baugh, “Indy Theatre Habit”</i> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mooney captures the context in which each speech was spoken and the
character of each speaker. The program collectively highlights what makes a
life worthwhile and what makes a worthwhile life... Mooney delivers on his
intention "to give life to the words for emotional connections." Mark
Antony is his most powerful presentation; Churchill most chilling in terms of
its consequences. <i>Rita Kohn, NUVO Alternative Weekly</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There were even a few celebrities
who came to the Indy shows… The Mayor of Indianapolis showed up for my opening
night performance. For my second performance, a show that was happening in the
Frank and Katrina Basile Stage, in the front row were none other than Frank and
Katrina Basile! More than that, upstairs from the stage I was performing upon
was the Lavinia and Steve Russell Stage, and sitting across the table from
Frank and Katrina Basile were Lavina and Steve Russell! The four of them led
the standing ovation at the end. (It was a really good show.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I got a chance to catch up with the
Basiles as well as the Russells after the show, and all expressed their
enthusiasm: Steve Russell said: “I thought your show was F.A….! You know what
that means?” [No…] “F*ckin’ Amazing!” [Can I quote you on that?] “Absolutely!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> There were a couple more shows
after that, with great audiences (old friends, Alan and Betsy
Cooprider-Bernstein), some video captured, and at least one really adorable
little girl in the audience who came up to give me a hug after the show. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The Greatest Speech of All Time</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And so, I was on back to Chicago,
with a few more e-mails to get out before the end of August, and about 15 days
to dig in to get some hardcore work done on “Shakespeare’s Histories; Ten Epic
Plays at a Breakneck Pace!” I had the script written and memorized, but I’m
doing something that I’ve always wanted to explore: I’m putting the script
itself ONLY on the right hand pages, while filling up the left-hand side with
notes, anecdotes, portraits of the various kings and the relevant family trees
that have so much impact on the plays’ action. If anybody out there thinks of
these things the way that I do, it should be kind of fascinating. And I think
it’ll break some real ground in terms of making sense of these plays. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s taken some long days, but the
first major phase of that work is done! I’m back on the road already, and the
first wave of proof copies will meet me in a couple days! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The plan is to work and re-work this
one quite a bit while now rotating four different shows through the course of
this fall tour. I have lots of bookings lined up, for everything from “Moliere
than Thou,” to “Lot o’ Shakespeare” to “The Greatest Speech of All Time” to
“Shakespeare’s Histories”! And keeping them all in my head throughout the
course of the semester will be a big challenge! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And so, I’ll do tweaks here and
there through the course of the Fall semester, perhaps to actually publish them
over the winter break… but if you can’t wait that long, let me know and I can
arrange to send you an advance review copy of one of my proofs. I think this
one’s going to be kind of important, and I want to make sure I get it right. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">AND… as I was getting ready to hit
the road, I made one last check of the post office box and notice that my copy
of “<a href="http://www.setc.org/images/publications-resources/southern-theatre/Fall2013ST-toWeb.pdf" target="_blank">Southern Theatre</a>” has arrived… with a RAVE review of “Acting at the Speed
of Life!” Here’s a couple of quick quotes to close out this edition…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A gem of a book that
demystifies the acting process by mixing common-sense instruction with
practical exercises. It ought to have a place on every actor's and director's
bookshelf. Not that it ought to stay there. Keep it handy for audition
preparation, classroom studies, rehearsals and sometimes simply for a good
read....</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is much to discover in this
book about the freedom that can be achieved through a disciplined approach to
the craft and art of acting. It is clear that mooney is passionate about what
he does. He inspires his readers with a clear common-sense approach,
eye-opening analyses of familiar texts, and wise advice that encourages
newcomers and veteran actors to grow into the best they can be.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Discoveries</b>: When that moment
arrives that leads me to upend my life as it has proceeded over the last 12
years and rewrite my future, I somehow just know it all at once. * “The moment
that one definitely commits oneself, providence moves too.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Miles on the Escape</b>: 167,000<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Next performances</b>: Harrison High
School, Harrison, NY; Claiborne Community Center, Claiborne, MD (Shakespeare’s
Histories), UNC Asheville, Asheville, NC, LoS & MTT)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The new books are out! The new books
are out! </span></h3>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpr0V3W0gFIq1Y5jre7JrQlSfBt5icxkzdhETZ_SJOmhnHV93EJQlrlYI90mMPjMSD-iqMfXR3oE67Bq-beZzgAJhO2BfifqUnbjSDeiwwHPgXeYAnMCuikgs0Y0t1q3EgVRke/s1600/Criteria+Front+Cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpr0V3W0gFIq1Y5jre7JrQlSfBt5icxkzdhETZ_SJOmhnHV93EJQlrlYI90mMPjMSD-iqMfXR3oE67Bq-beZzgAJhO2BfifqUnbjSDeiwwHPgXeYAnMCuikgs0Y0t1q3EgVRke/s320/Criteria+Front+Cover.jpg" width="213" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After two years of releasing books
in February (<b><a href="http://www.timmooneyrep.com/criteriabook-aoa.html" target="_blank">“Acting at the Speed of Life”</a></b> in Feb 2011 and <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Big-Book-Moliere-Monologues/dp/0983181217/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1366167396&sr=8-1&keywords=big+book+of+moliere" target="_blank">“The Big Book ofMoliere Monologues”</a></b> in February 2012), I was beginning to feel like some kind
of a slacker, not having anything to show for the Winter of 2013. I had several
projects “in the pipeline,” but didn’t have anything ready to go for this year.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But then I started to think about
some of the one-man plays I’ve developed which have a strong “fan base”
already. Perhaps having them available in book form would make them accessible
to the next generation of one-man-play actors, who could take them into
production… Or perhaps they would provide yet another marketing angle for
venues that might stumble across me through Amazon. And perhaps these (very
shiny) books, might add some professional polish to the operation, serving me
as another very elaborate “business card.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Given, especially, that I’d recently
performed a very rare showing of <b><a href="http://www.timmooneyrep.com/criteriabook-aoa.html" target="_blank">my one-man comic sci-fi thriller, “Criteria,”</a></b>
and the words, actions and activities were very clear in my memory, this was a
chance to capture the excitement of that play while it was still fresh. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And so, in ADDITION to my ongoing
projects: The vast booking campaign, editing Shakespeare’s “War of the Roses,”
drawing up my next one-man play, “Shakespeare’s Greatest Hits: The History
Cycle” (all ten history plays in one hour!), as well as the “Greatest Speech of
All Time” study guide, I began editing my way through “Moliere Than Thou” and
“Criteria.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whereas, in the past, the scripts
were laid out for technicians, this time around, I was writing to explain the
action for someone who was NOT seeing them live, but who would want to get as
close to the full experience of them simply through the written word. At the
same time, I didn’t want to spell out every little gesture or inflection, given
that another actor might actually, one day, work to make these characters his
(or her) own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Newberry College (in South Carolina) was booking me for
a record fourth time (each time with a different show!). They’ve booked almost
all I have to offer, but still have not booked “Moliere Than Thou!” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This time they were hosting “The
Greatest Speech of All Time,” and they’d arranged for the big, beautiful local opera
house as my venue. It was a full day, as that morning I gave two different
radio interviews (one on the phone outside of the studio of the other, before
walking inside to do the second interview), prior to a Q&A with a student audience about public speaking. (The rare, improvised session with the
students can be viewed <a href="http://client.stretchinternet.com/client/newberryadmin.portal#" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a> (Alas, you have to go to "on demand" scroll down to "The Transofming Power of Rhetoric" and register, and THEN they let you watch it!) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The teacher had requested that I
include two additional speeches I’d been working up, by Emma Goldman and Dwight
D. Eisenhower. I was a little nervous, given that Eisenhower and Emma Goldman
both sound like revolutionary anarchists, railing against the military
industrial complex (in South Carolina!), but nobody quite freaked out. All together, there was a very
strong turnout for the show, with some 150 students and locals in attendance,
as well as some terrific technicians running the sound, lights and slide show. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I pushed from South Carolina on
toward Texas, with a stop in New Orleans, just in time for the kickoff of their
Mardi Gras celebration. I visited with Bremner and Lisa, who just moved down to
New Orleans last Fall, and they brought me along to a party and the “Krewe du
Vieux” parade, where more friends were made and much more fun was to be had. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuDk_L3neN1AwurJNQ-8cofbi0jUlknhqjwkMyOcmI2wX1h9uX3PTOGflPmI4taR8cIfNMfZkIBlhlJqvt0CreYB-Do_ISXq5YwmecCYDWjUMk69STqXLOnP8tK3-x9YSNvTJz/s1600/553564_463402387052153_1840654890_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuDk_L3neN1AwurJNQ-8cofbi0jUlknhqjwkMyOcmI2wX1h9uX3PTOGflPmI4taR8cIfNMfZkIBlhlJqvt0CreYB-Do_ISXq5YwmecCYDWjUMk69STqXLOnP8tK3-x9YSNvTJz/s400/553564_463402387052153_1840654890_n.jpg" width="264" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In Texas, I stopped to visit cousins
Kathy and Larry, before proceeding down to Laredo, where the Community College
was hosting “Moliere Than Thou.” (In our last issue of “The View From Here,”
the director of this program showed up at a rollicking performance at Texas
State last fall, and decided to book me.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My hotel in Laredo was barely a half-mile from the border, and more than once I
was warned not to cross over to the Mexican side, where light-skinned Yankees
driving American cars are bait for blackmail and ransom. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I played it safe, and the show went
very well, and my host was graciously enthusiastic, hoping to book “Lot o’
Shakespeare” on a subsequent pass. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcNK_Ney1i6EF-BlkLjBuqFihrzg3kJITrNuwte97SV0xs_vYKK7GqHP1XXuR-M7v_8TNEeR3U5apxWi6Wk7AsmlXSVntF4J26CSg0gynniRc93cSGcriyBR-Kr-FCgxRB2-bQ/s1600/775146_10152409773425231_1749008751_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcNK_Ney1i6EF-BlkLjBuqFihrzg3kJITrNuwte97SV0xs_vYKK7GqHP1XXuR-M7v_8TNEeR3U5apxWi6Wk7AsmlXSVntF4J26CSg0gynniRc93cSGcriyBR-Kr-FCgxRB2-bQ/s320/775146_10152409773425231_1749008751_o.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I zipped back up to Houston, and
spent four days amid the excitement of the Texas Educational Theatre Festival. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This time around, I was both an
exhibitor and a guest artist at the festival, presenting “Moliere Than Thou”
and “The Greatest Speech of All Time,” along with my acting workshop. In
exchange, the folks from TETA were covering my hotel, giving me a booth, and
generally treating me very nicely. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I got to hang out with some terrific
friends at the conference (a couple of dear old friends came out to see the new
show), and this time around, I began to discover the value of RAFFLES. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whereas, in the midst of my exhibit
hall sales pitch, I might forget to ask someone who stops by to sign in, it’s much easier and smoother to capture their info by offering them a chance to win a
fabulous shiny new book or a t-shirt (while they are spinning my bingo cage and
testing my memory of Shakespeare monologues). I walked away with over 70 e-mail
addresses. Most of these were student e-mails, but someday they, too, will be
running their own theatre companies, or teaching high school and college… and
will be looking to produce Moliere and Shakespeare, and will remember me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From Houston, it was on to Hill
College, where, way back in 2006, they’d booked me to do “Moliere Than Thou,”
and this time around were hosting “Lot o’ Shakespeare.” Even though they had a
new Theatre teacher this time around, she had already read a copy of my book,
and was eager for me to present my acting workshop.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The show was extremely well
received, and they threw a reception afterwards, during which all expressed
their profound astonishment at my memory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My billeters from the Kansas City
Fringe Festival, Alan and Sandy, were once again opening their home to me for a
week of downtime (prior to a show at Johnson County Community College), which
enabled me to work through a couple of fresh drafts of the new books. The
biggest challenges were actually the “front and back matter,” those odd pages
that have all the legal mumbo jumbo, the ISBN numbers, the contents, the
introductions (and the advertisements for all the other fine books proudly
presented by the TMRT Press). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7dYqLQdVoXi9YupBQUjoUZilf9M9XzuMAMEq1HPOjIy7LdjtCh4ZCJ2JTgzvMzsKSTLXleh_ZouaxxOUOhVf2m8F_uE87Vh9r-vEjk1fDXyB3-kFKQs5LBvb0EbKLteqg1CKJ/s1600/MTT+Front+Cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7dYqLQdVoXi9YupBQUjoUZilf9M9XzuMAMEq1HPOjIy7LdjtCh4ZCJ2JTgzvMzsKSTLXleh_ZouaxxOUOhVf2m8F_uE87Vh9r-vEjk1fDXyB3-kFKQs5LBvb0EbKLteqg1CKJ/s320/MTT+Front+Cover.jpg" width="212" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Perhaps most fun (and most
frustrating) were the covers of the books. My previous trend was to place the
photos and illustrations over a red “gradient” (a characteristic which made the
Acting text and the Moliere Monologue book go well together), the nature of the
illustration for <b><a href="http://www.timmooneyrep.com/molierethanthoua.html" target="_blank">“Moliere Than Thou,” </a></b>which had some white patches peeking
through the Moliere curls, necessitated a much lighter background. While I’d
been tempted to go with a blue backdrop (in honor of the French flag), it was a
bright orange-gold-yellow background that really clicked for me, which couldn’t
help but remind me of Moliere’s patron, King Louis, the “sun king.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And, given that this choice was
going to break the pattern of the “red gradient,” I could explore new options
for <b><a href="http://www.timmooneyrep.com/criteriabook-aoa.html" target="_blank">“Criteria,”</a></b> and found a great red/purple combination which brought new life
to the “tattooed hand” of the “Criteria” illustration. This book cover gave me
the greatest struggle as I kept adjusting and readjusting the illustration to
get it centered on the cover… (every time I adjusted the position, the layout
artist at the printer would compensate the positioning in the other
direction), which delayed the release of the book by several days. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I made an early run over to Johnson
County Community College to pick up flyers to share with a few of my Kansas
City friends, and while I was there, I wandered “backstage” to use the bathroom. While I
was back there, one of the students caught my eye and asked, “Are you Timothy
Mooney?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Why, yes…” (Suddenly, I felt very
self-conscious about holding a dozen flyers in my hand.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I’m a big fan of your book.” (He
had recognized me from my book cover!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The JCCC Bookstore!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I’ve mentioned before, Johnson
County Community College was the first school to begin integrating my book into
their curriculum, and the students there were well versed in my theories
already. When I returned a few days later to give my workshop, they already
knew the answers to many of the questions that I ask in the course of my
exchange with them, and we were able to open up the floor early to some more
nuanced questions, such as: “What do you mean by ‘Currency’?” and “Can you
explain the ‘Steering into a skid’ analogy?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also noticed a bit of a murmur that passed among them every
time they caught me smiling. It took a
while for me to realize that they had long identified me with the photo that
they saw on the back cover of my book, where I sport a bright, happy smile. I
guess people build up expectations about the author that they see on the back
cover, and look for that same persona to emerge when they meet him in person. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The attendance for “Moliere Than
Thou” and “Lot o’ Shakespere” was thin, but amongst the attendees were a bunch
of Kansas City friends who had not caught “Moliere” before, as well as the KC
Fringe Executive Director, who has always been so busy when I was performing at her
festival that she’d never seen me perform before. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After the show, I sold a bunch of
books and t-shirts, and I made good use of one of those smart-phone attachments
which enables me to take payments via credit card. (It’s WAY easy.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From Kansas City, I headed on to a
workshop and a performance of “Lot o’ Shakespeare” at Newmann University in
Wichita. The professor and I got into several good conversations about the
Shakespeare Authorship Question <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sweet-Swan-Avon-Woman-Shakespeare/dp/1463671873/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1366001546&sr=1-2&keywords=sweet+swan+of+avon" target="_blank"><b>(I’ve come to believe that the works of“Shakespeare” may well have been composed by Mary Sidney)</b></a>, and whether “Edward
III” belongs in the canon (which means I’ll now have more to memorize!). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Neumann had brought me in on my very
first tour, back in 2002, but had constructed a new theatre building and added
an actual theatre department since that time. Which means, that they might not
need to wait ten years before the next time they bring me in! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A Chicago booking had cancelled, which meant that I headed
directly East to my next booking at Xavier University in Cincinnati. The French
teacher at Xavier had booked me perhaps three years back, and was once again
teaching “Laughter is the best (Moral) Medicine: the Comedies of Moliere.” This
time, she asked me to come in and work with her class (made up mostly of French
students) on their performances of scenes by Moliere, featuring
English-language translations of “The School for Wives,” “Tartuffe” and “The
Precious Young Maidens.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A couple of days later, she asked her students what they
had gotten out of the session, and they replied with several comments that I
had seemed to hit upon several times: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“What is the joke of this particular
scene?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“How might body language reflect the action?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“How does the scene change its direction and emotion
as it progresses?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“What is the impact of the character background and societal
level?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“How does line rhythm affect the comic tone?” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think they just provided me a good
outline for a class on performing comedy. (Although I think “The Rule of
Threes” will need its own chapter.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Similarly, the teacher from Johnson
County sent me copies of the quizzes that she gives her students. It’s great to
check out the things that teachers expect their students to get out of my
material, as it reveals to me what the value is that people are seeing in the text.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The French Club Officers</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I performed the show that night with an enthusiastic response from the French students.
Afterwards, my host took me out for dinner, along with the four officers of the
French Club, and we had a fun dinner at an Italian restaurant. The restaurant
seemed a little crowded for a weeknight, and I realized that several couples
were out celebrating Valentine’s Day. Of course, as is sometimes the case, all four of the French Club officers and their teacher were female, and I realized I was enjoying a 5-way Valentine’s Day date with five gorgeous women (see
photos). At least one of the restaurant patrons high-fived me on my way out. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I stopped for the weekend in West
Virginia, where Meaghan Macey, a college student who has been a fan of my work
since high school, had offered to do some clean-up and refashioning of the wigs
that I’ve been hauling around for the last 10 years…! (Which have gotten pretty
ratty over the years.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Meaghan Macey</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I continued on to West Virginia
Wesleyan University, for my third performance there. (This semester seems
to be a “greatest hits” of return performances... seven out of nine performances were for repeat hosts.) It was a somewhat last-minute
booking, and when we realized that it was going to fall on President’s Day, we
decided to go with “The Greatest Speech of All Time,” which, of course,
featured Lincoln, Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The “last minuteness” of the arrangements
for this performance made for some shy attendance, but the hosts gave me
terrific technical support, helped fix a glitch in the slide show, and were
gracious and enthusiastic, talking about doing another event again soon. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From West Virginia, I made a run out
to Maryland. A booking on Long Island for Feb 22 had fallen through, which
meant cooling my heels for about a week before my upcoming show at Duke
University. And so, I dropped in on Maureen and Tim once again. Whereas last
fall, I’d performed “Greatest Speech” at their local community center, this
time Maureen scheduled me for a performance of “Moliere Than Thou,” once again to
great acclaim. (I was a little distracted when one of the locals arrived late,
sat to the side and seemed to be doing some sort of paperwork through the
course of the show, but afterwards discovered that he had been sketching my
performance, throughout... We'll post a copy of that, here, soon!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Subliminal Messaging</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Perhaps my greatest discovery of
this leg of the trip was during my stop at a local micro-brewery, where Maureen
and I discovered “B-More Nuts.” These were, essentially, peanuts covered with a
potato chip coating, a delicious nugget that satisfied two cravings at once! These
will be a serious threat to my waistline for years to come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I raced down to Durham, NC, with a
performance at Duke University. The folks at Duke took terrific care of me,
with fancy on-campus lodging. The professor took me out to dinner the night I
arrived, and to lunch on the day of the show. I spoke to her class about
Moliere, and, while I wasn’t explaining any biographical details the teacher
didn’t already know, she expressed regard for my delivery, which captured
Moliere’s style, and the drama inherent in his biography.
Afterwards she insisted that she wanted to bring me back again whenever she
teaches this course.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That night, I was performing
“Moliere Than Thou” in the “Warehouse,” a flexible conference-room space set up
as a theatre venue. They set up perhaps 100 chairs in the space, and seemed to
fill 90 of them. And while the crowd was enthused throughout, there was one
older gentleman in the front row who seemed especially difficult to win over. I
couldn’t seem to get him to crack a smile. After the show, I made mention of
him to my host, and she insisted that he had enjoyed himself immensely… which
just goes to show, I guess, that I may be the worst judge of how any individual
performance is being received. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The host had arranged for a
reception after the show, and I went out to shake hands and visit (while
enjoying a glass of wine). The server at the reception was very attentive,
refilling my wine glass whenever she saw it emptying. And when I went to pack
up my trunk, she brought out an unopened bottle for me to take back to my room.
(Rock star treatement!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had another week of down-time, and
took a swing back through South Carolina, stopping in Greenwood, where I’d done
“The Misanthrope” about four years back, visiting with several old friends. I went
to see “The Music Man” at Greenwood Community Theatre, and tagged along for
their cast party afterwards (surprising a number of people). I swung through
Georgia and Tennessee, on my way to what was, I believe, my FOURTH appearance
at Northern Kentucky University, just a few miles south of Xavier University,
where I’d performed just three weeks before. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was performing “Moliere Than Thou”
in an afternoon appearance for the French Department, and this time I had a
“fan” in the audience… Sophie was a student who had performed in my “Tartuffe” at a nearby
high school, who was now attending the university. It was a fun show, as she,
very generously, helped me out with the “Doctor in Spite of Himself” volunteer
scene, and joined me for a bite to eat afterwards. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The next day, it was a short hop to
Louisville, Kentucky, where this year’s Southeast Theatre Conference (SETC) was
going on. This was intended to be the year that I was going to skip SETC, given that I’d scheduled myself to be on the west coast. But I was surprised to get a call from the SETC vice-president,
asking after my newest show, “The Greatest Speech of All Time,” wanting to
include it in their annual “Fringe Festival.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Given that I’d performed “Lot o’
Shakespeare” in the previous year’s Fringe Fest, I’d assume that it would take
a year or two before they’d let me back in… but with the chance to perform in a featured slot
once again, I redrew my route and booked a booth in the exhibit hall. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYoI1nwRXVi-1aGprznzK4h2uvmpWdh2dz-_9J1_L8Khkek1eoGdS8uLfXCf2vbcteRhQXkiPAFPT5bc45GIgPX9Ubp8qattmeJcalkJLRfYnHaPGLg2sl0DIo1i9XY0GRQ30N/s1600/885038_10152596650090231_997522614_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYoI1nwRXVi-1aGprznzK4h2uvmpWdh2dz-_9J1_L8Khkek1eoGdS8uLfXCf2vbcteRhQXkiPAFPT5bc45GIgPX9Ubp8qattmeJcalkJLRfYnHaPGLg2sl0DIo1i9XY0GRQ30N/s320/885038_10152596650090231_997522614_o.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I set up the bingo cage at my booth,
April drove down from Chicago, to meet me up with the new copies of the
published “Moliere Than Thou” and “Criteria” scripts, and I was surprised to
discover how many of the students actually purchased copies of “Criteria.” I
assume sci-fi beats Moliere with that crowd. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Greatest Speech” was extremely well
received, with perhaps the strongest reaction to the comic relief of the “Teddy
Roosevelt” speech I’ve ever gotten. I was feeling the crowd of fifty or
so punctuate that speech with laughter, and I rolled with the
timing of that laughter in to feed the absurdity of subsequent passages. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have started giving the audience the
opportunity to “vote” on their favorite speech (another opportunity to capture e-mail addresses), and this was the closest that
any speaker has come close to edging out the Martin Luther King speech as the
“Greatest Speech of All Time.” (Dr. King edged out Teddy Roosevelt, twelve
votes to nine.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Glenville Canyon</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The next day, I was on my way once
again, this time trying to catch up to the west coast dates I’d scheduled prior
to rerouting. Snow College in Ephraim, Utah had brought me in some three years
before to perform “Moliere.” This time I was performing “Lot o’ Shakespeare,”
and 300 or so students mostly filled up the auditorium. I’d alerted the host to
make sure that students actually sat in the front row, given the amount of
interaction that I have with the crowd, and he’d encouraged the theatre
students forward… and they ended up being extremely good for my
audience-involvement pieces. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was one of the very rare occasions
in which I let the technicians hook me up with a body mic for the performance
(they were videotaping the show, too), and I ended up being quite glad of that
fact, given that the thin, high-altitude air seemed to have sapped the moisture
out of my throat. Pushing my voice to the back of the hall would have left
me hoarse for the next day’s performance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I travelled three-quarters of the
way across Nevada that night, and continued on to Sacramento early the
following morning. I pulled in at around 11 am for an afternoon appearance at
Sacramento State University. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Driving around the school, I started
to have flashbacks, and realized that I’d performed here some six years prior,
in 2007. (In the past, I have had difficulty remembering what the venue looked
like, or what a given teacher looks like, but this time
I had spaced out the fact that I had performed at this school at all!) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">500
performances down the road, the brain begins to unravel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This show was going over very well,
but halfway through the Tartuffe seduction scene, amidst boisterous laughter, I
caught a glimpse of a woman sitting halfway back, with a seeming scowl on her
face. Was she disturbed by the sexy fun of “Tartuffe?” I found myself
ratcheting back on the sexy fun. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the end of the show, I checked in
with my enthusiastic host to see if I had, perhaps, crossed some line, given
that there were high school students in attendance, citing the woman I’d
noticed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Oh, I know who you’re talking
about. No, she scowls at everything.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Coincidentally, that same night, a
high school less than a mile from Sac State was producing my version of
“Imaginary Invalid,” and had invited me to see the show and address the cast
afterwards. I sat down amidst a packed house, and was introduced during the
director’s pre-show speech. The audience applauded and I stood, only to say, “I
hope you still feel that way AFTER you’ve seen the show!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Invalid" Poster... with autographs</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The show was terrific. The director
had cast a female in the role of Argan, the invalid, and the audience laughed
at everything. The play ended with an explosive finale, which included a
confetti cannon. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had about a half hour to address
the actors, and tried to balance my honest enthusiasm for the quality of their work
with my encouragement for areas for their continued growth. Even so, when we shifted
over to “asking questions,” the actor playing Argan still asked… “So… did you
LIKE the show…?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The actors headed off to their cast
party, leaving myself, the director, the
scene designer and a couple of the faculty, and the director broke out a couple bottles of wine, as we chatted on well into
the night. Even universities don’t usually allow alcohol on campus… but
apparently this private (Catholic) high school, was quite comfortable with it. (And had a special stash...)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I headed to Idaho, backtracking many
of my steps from Sacramento, halfway across Nevada, before
turning north to Twin Falls, Idaho, the scene of a performance I’d given some
ten years prior. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’d kept in touch with Brenda, one of the teachers who’d
attended that performance, and she was now working on her own adaptation of
Homer’s “The Iliad”. She and I took some
time on Sunday to work through the opening scene of her script, and her
husband joined us on a walk through the Snake River canyon (the place where
Evel Kenivel had attempted his famous jump). We even bumped into a fellow
jogging along that path who I’d met after that same performance ten years
prior!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sunday night, several of Brenda’s
friends joined us for a dinner party, and I gave each of them the option of
selecting one of my performance pieces (from Shakespeare, Moliere, or “Greatest
Speech”) for post-dinner entertainment. They chose Richard III, Teddy
Roosevelt, Tartuffe and Hamlet. (I was working the crowd to inspire a booking
for my next pass through Idaho.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Very early the next morning, I was
off to the races once again, through Utah, Wyoming, South Dakota, Minnesota and
into Wisconsin (stopping in Milwaukee to visit with Lisa, a new friend I’d made
at the Texas Educational Theatre Association back in January) before continuing
on back to the Chicago area. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I threw myself into the big Spring
e-mailing project. For once, I was able to begin the process of writing to the
ten thousand or so faculty members that I send out to twice a year, well BEFORE
they were running off to summer vacation. I spent about a week chasing down
bookings in Illinois, Oregon, Washington and Texas, all the while working on my NEXT big one-man show, "Shakespeare's Greatest Hits: The History Cycle."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was working to tell the story of
Shakespeare’s ten history plays, from King John through Henry VIII in the
course of a single hour. The idea was to take those already-memorized monologues
(from “Lot o’ Shakespeare”) and to augment them with additional monologues and
narration from each play. I was reading my way through, each time trimming two
or three minutes from a script that I managed to shrink from 84 minutes down to
61. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I knew that, when I
got tired of hearing the sound of my own voice, that there was more room for
editing, and when all of my theatrical instincts were telling me that I should
be racing toward a climax of sorts, but was, instead finding myself bogged down
in Shakespeare’s quieter, more lyrical monologues, I knew that I needed to cut
to the chase. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Oregon Shakespeare
Festival, wanting to book a return performance of “Lot o’ Shakespeare,” for their
“Green Show” on July 12! I dropped a note alerting the OSF Guild Gift Shop that
I was coming (given the fact that they were now carrying both “Acting at the
Speed of Life” and “The Big Book of Moliere Monologues” on their shelves), and
I happened to mention my “History Cycle” project to the bookstore manager. She
wrote back that she’d love to take a look at it once I got it published, and I
realized immediately that this was a one-man show that might well have a
literary appeal independent of the performance. The reading audience could get a quick introduction to
Shakespeare’s Histories, and be in a far better positon to comprehend any given
one of those scripts in reading or performance. For the first time I was
contemplating publishing a one-man show, even before I’d ever performed it!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the meantime, I was eyeing the
months of May and June, when I’d have down-time from my tour, and would have
some serious memorization time available. If I could finish this project this
summer, then perhaps I would be able to add it to my repertory in time to make
it available in the 2013-14 school year. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was also flirting with the idea of
taking my venture “Not-For-Profit.” After eleven years of touring this
material, with hundreds of school performances testifying to its educational
value, I was beginning to realize how much support I was shutting myself off
from by keeping this project as a “sole proprietorship.” Just about all of my “profits”
have always been eaten up with gas, hotels, promotional expenses and
administrative costs. And yet, many of these operational costs might be
supported through grants, which would enable me to earn a “normal” salary… This
may be another big effort this summer, and I’m also looking to bolster that
with a “Kickstarter” campaign to support a project in advance of the NFP
designation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eventually, it was time to pack up
and race off again, and I pushed on down to Arkansas, performing my acting
workshop at John Brown University, where I’d performed about eight years ago,
and continuing on to Fort Worth, where a fellow who’d booked me for a workshop
in San Antonio was now working at All Saints Episcopal School. Whereas his
former school could only afford the workshop, James had convinced the new
school to start a guest artist/guest speaker program, which would host me as
its first guest. While there were only about a dozen students present for the
workshop itself, they were extremely talented, and some of the best
cold-readers I’ve encountered. (The ability to get your eyes up off of the
page to recite the lines invariably makes one actor look much more appealing in
the casting process when up against another actor of equivalent talent.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">About 90 people showed up for the
evening performance, and the response was terrific. At the end, a bunch of the actors, followed by the whole audience, stood
for an ovation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This completed the “Spring Tour,”
and while I am still anticipating <a href="http://www.timmooneyrep.com/no/" target="_blank"><b>performances in New Orleans</b> </a>(April 18-21 at
the Shadowbox Theatre, 9 pm) and in Chicago (where I’m doing “The Greatest
Speech of All Time” at Dad’s senior living community, <a href="http://www.themooringsofarlingtonheights.org/" target="_blank"><b>The Moorings</b></a>, on May 10),
there were no more school bookings on the schedule. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With a “week off” prior to New
Orleans, I caught a flight to L.A. (after less than three hours of sleep, getting
up in time for a 6 am flight out of Dallas). Thus, I have spent the last week
in L.A., visiting with Kirsten, enjoying her recently installed hot tub… and
e-mailing faculty of Louisiana, Pennsylvania and Florida schools. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We did manage to break away to catch a performance of "Boeing, Boeing," which Kirsten had sponsored at the local theatre... and where I managed to capture a photograph with a woman from the cast... and five of her friends...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My strategy for this year’s spring
e-mail campaign is to “jump around” the map. Whereas in the past, I might have
knocked down individual states in alphabetical order, or in geographical
proximity, this time I decided to hit just one or two states in a given region,
and move on elsewhere, before doubling back to neighboring states. That way, if
I have a sense that NOBODY from a particular state has responded, I can
allocate the bulk of that time over to a neighboring state, and restructure the
route as I go. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have officially declared the
Winter-Spring of 2014 as my “Sabbattical” from the frenzied tour, opening up
blocks of time for longer residencies. I already have one “taker” with
Westshore Community College of Michgan offering to produce “The School for
Husbands” in March, which gave me the idea to promote this as the “School Semester,”
suggesting productions of “School for Wives” and “The Critique of the School
for Wives” and “The Rehearsal at Versailles” as options: all four of which are
thematically related, and all of which still seem to be awaiting their
“breakthrough” production. Perhaps some concentrated work will enable me to
continue to tweak the scripts and become better reminded of the selling points
of each. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And, once again, I’m volunteering as
a Group Leader for a <a href="http://www.pathwaysseminars.com/" target="_blank"><b>Pathways</b></a> event! This one is coming up in Chattnooga, April
26-28 shortly after my New Orleans performances. Come “change your world in a
weekend!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Miles on the Escape</b>: 150,500<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Discoveries</b>: It’s a lot of fun
seeing shiny new versions of scripts that I’ve been working with for years. * A
raffle is a terrific way to enhance the sales-pitch! * People build up
expectations about the author that they see on the back cover, and look for
that same persona to emerge when they meet him in person. * Seven of these semester’s nine
performances were re-bookings from schools that had booked me at least once
already! * I may be the worst judge of how any individual performance is being
received. * I may book more “Moliere” with the teachers, but I sell more Sci-Fi
with the students. * When I get tired of hearing my own voice, that’s a clear
clue that the show needs editing. * It’s possible that my new one-man show might
have every bit as much literary appeal as theatrical. * Putting
off applying for Not-for-Profit status cuts me off from support that people
might otherwise be enthusiastic about giving. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>On the Nightstand</b>: “Currency” my "self-help book" (publishing Winter of 2014?)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Temperature</b>: Mid-70s in L.A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Next Performances</b>:<b> <a href="http://www.timmooneyrep.com/no/" target="_blank">“Lot o’Shakespeare” at the Shadowbox Theatre in New Orleans</a></b>, April 18-21, 9 pm, and
“The Greatest Speech of All Time” at The Moorings in Arlington Heights, on May
10, 7 pm. Also, I’ll be the featured Green Show performer at the <b><a href="http://www.osfashland.org/" target="_blank">OregonShakespeare Fest</a></b> on July 12!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Tour Schedule</span><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">(Available dates in CAPITAL LETTERS; Already-booked
dates in <b><span style="color: green;">GREEN</span></b>;
Pending bookings in <b><span style="color: #7030a0;">PURPLE</span>; Festival opportunities in <span style="color: red;">RED</span></b>) </span><b style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 9.0pt;">MTT</span></b><span style="font-size: 9pt; text-indent: 0in;"> = “Moliere than Thou”; <b><span style="color: green;">LoS</span></b> = “Lot o’ Shakespeare; <b><span style="color: green;">GSAT</span></b> =
“Greatest Speech of All Time”</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">4/18-21 Shadowbox Theatre, New Orleans <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">4/25 TENNESSEE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy Christmas, everybody! Or,
Happy New Year’s... I’m starting this blog entry on Christmas Eve, but I’ve got
a lot of ground to cover, and lots of pics and video to process…! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With the start of the Fall tour, I
raced off to Oklahoma, with stops to visit Cousin Peggy in St. Louis and Dave
& Helga in Tulsa. I performed “Lot o’ Shakespeare” at the University of
Central Oklahoma, where I’d directed “Tartuffe” a year prior. I got a quick
chance to drop in on a few old friends but, alas, they called a rehearsal of
“Henry V” on the same night that I was performing the show (which included a
performance of the “Saint Crispan’s Day” speech from the very show that they
were producing), so the people who might have most benefitted from the show
were the very people who could not attend. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966;">With a brief stop in Kansas City
(Hi, CAT, Alan and Sandy!), I headed back north to Valpairaso, Indiana with a
performance of “Moliere than Thou” at Valpairaso University. They were terrific
hosts, and in a very full day, I did a workshop, a lecture about my life on the
road, a dinner with several of the faculty and a performance of “Moliere Than
Thou.” A few days later, I got a nice note back from one of the teachers,
suggesting that I come back again next year to do “Lot o’ Shakespeare,” and a
nice article appeared in their paper, under the headline, “</span><a href="http://www.valpotorch.com/arts_and_entertainment/article_2efe23c8-0f17-11e2-a241-001a4bcf6878.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Moliere than VU</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966;">,” which noted:</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Each character was different, ranging from a husband who believed
his wife was having an affair, to a servant, to Don Juan himself. Each of
Moliere’s plays reflected political commentary on the issues of the time,
particularly the corrupt aristocrats or deceivingly ethical elite such as
doctors, lawyers and priests. Mooney as Moliere transformed into each character
by merely changing his wig, putting on a hat or making very small costume
changes. With each minute change in detail, however, a new character stepped
onto the stage.” (Colleen Bulow)</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966;">Next was a return to Lewis
University, where a few years back I’d done, “Moliere than Thou.” This time:
“Lot o’ Shakespeare,” and another workshop, where the teacher announced that
they were going to start using my book, “Acting at the Speed of Life” (</span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Acting-Speed-Life-Conquering-Theatrical/dp/0983181209/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_y" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">which continues to get great reviews on Amazon, by the way</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966;">) as a text for their acting classes. Lewis U is just a short drive from Chicago,
and several local friends: from grade school, from Stage Two, from a show I directed 20 years ago, from Pathways, and even my brother, Kevin, showed up to see the
show (one that I almost never get to perform in the Chicago area). Fortunately,
I didn’t know Kevin was in the audience until after the show (I have enough to
be self-conscious about), which had been one of my better performances, with
both “Henry V” and “Julius Caesar” coming out of the
bingo cage.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And they make great presents, too...!</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966;">Speaking of book-success, it was around this time that </span><a href="http://www.playscripts.com/play?playid=2526" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Playscripts, Inc.</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966;"> agreed to carry "</span><a href="http://www.playscripts.com/play?playid=2526" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">The Big Book of Moliere Monologues</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966;">" in their catalogue, and "Acting at the Speed of Life" showed up as a "Recommendation" on </span><a href="http://www.aact.org/bookstore/index.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">the website of the American Association of Community Theatre</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966;">. My old grad school buddy, Mike Pearl added yet another review for "</span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Acting-Speed-Life-Conquering-Theatrical/dp/0983181209/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_y" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Acting at the Speed of Life</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966;">" on Amazon. And yet another teacher, who is using "Acting at the Speed of Life" for her acting classes, forwarded me a review:</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"<b>Acting at the Speed of Life</b> is the next best thing to have Tim Mooney right there in the classroom with you! Because he had just done a live workshop with us, I could hear his voice in my head as my students worked through exercises in the book. His techniques energize performance with specific choices that bring words to life and connect with the audience." (Rebecca Baker, Cedarville University)</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966;">I raced off immediately after the
show, with a long day of driving to follow, pulling into Americus, Georgia late
the next night. I was attending the Georgia Theatre
Association conference, doing six workshops over two days. I always enjoy
meeting theatre people at these things (and sharing copies of my books), and I
got some great comments from the attendees, including (photographer, of the series above) William Searcy’s comment
that:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> “The best workshops I attended this weekend
were given by Tim Mooney.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(I also got to pose
with Karan Kendrick, one of the performers
from the highly successful “Hunger Games,” who happened to be a Georgia school
success story.)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From Georgia, I headed up to
Maryland, to catch my sister, Maureen and her husband Tim in their swank new
home in Maryland (on the eastern coast of the Chesapeake). They just moved in a
month prior to my arrival, and set up a performance of my latest show, “The Greatest Speech of All Time” at their community
center. I was surprised to see a full house, and very excited to see how affected people are by this show. (I think it made
for a nice ice-breaking event, introducing Maureen and and Tim to their new</span>
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966;">neighbors.) </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Millersville, Pennsylvania, with a return performance of “Moliere Than Thou” at
Millersville University. It turned out to be a small audience of about 20 in a
lecture hall/auditorium, but the teacher seemed very pleased once again, and the
school paper even posted a review, headlined, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">“One man show ‘Moliere Than Thou’
is highly interactive and hilariously engaging.” </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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anecdote from last summer</b>: Some may recall that I attended the Association
of Theatre in Higher Education conference in Washington D.C. in August. It was
a fairly typical conference, but as I was unloading the car to set up my booth,
I discovered a business card tucked into my driver’s-side window. A brief
glance revealed it as the card of a lawyer, and, not needing a lawyer, I tossed
it into the passenger seat without much thought. It wasn’t until several days
later, on my way out of Wasington, that I looked closer, noticing that the name
on the card was “John P. Moliere.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;">It seems that a lawyer by the name
of “Moliere” had noticed my “MOLIERE” license plate and perhaps thought he was
introducing himself to some long-lost branch of the family tree. I dropped him
a line introducing myself, and the particulars of my engagement with his great
ancestor, and several days later, the phone rang, with JPM on the line: he was
fascinated and excited. He had checked me out on line, and, surprise-surprise,
he happened to be a big Moliere fan… which I suppose would be inevitable. He
said something to the effect that my performances were “a F-ing riot,” and in
gratitude, I sent him a copy of “</span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Big-Book-Moliere-Monologues-Performance/dp/0983181217/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1356730144&sr=1-1&keywords=Big+Book+of+Moliere+Monologues" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">The Big Book of Moliere Monologues</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;">.” He was
gracious enough to write up a review. And so, here is what the actual J.P.
Moliere had to say about my book:</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I like Shakespeare, but I love Molière much more because I
believe that comedy, especially poking a stick in the eye of silliness by
showing the absurdity of a given common issue known to all is marvelous relief.
For those that do not read, speak and especially, understand French, Tim Mooney
has created an elegantly simplistic highway of understanding from the basic
description of iambs to the delivery of easily understood, and laughed out loud
at, skillfully constructed verse.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The key to excellent verse is the simultaneous application
of cleverness in a most academic and streetwise manner. Tim does this expertly.
Double entendre is a staple by which we all find ourselves thoughtfully smiling
or laughing out loud. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Merci,
Jean-Baptiste.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Much of Tim’s
experience shines through in a scholarly manner... <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Big Book</i> is a must read for any serious French teacher or
student of French. To understand Molière is to reach down into our inner being
so as to discover and understand ourselves when not fettered by silly political
correctness...or assisted by a shrink!</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> “Tim’s Big Book facilitates this in a very American, in your
face way. If you don’t like Molière or Mooney when you have completed this
book, you could not have liked Mad Magazine or the edginess of the old Saturday
Night Live… So if you are of that ilk, I trust you have read this review before
buying it, so my advice is, don’t bother, you are incorrigible and not worthy.
If however, I’ve piqued your interest, dive into it...naked, with a glass of
red wine and savor it. After you’ve done that it will be the morrow; so shower,
don your clothes and read in earnest! You will be delighted, fulfilled and even
a bit smarter in the timeless clever ingenuity of Molière and Mooney’s genius
manner of bringing this genre to life!”</span></blockquote>
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High School in Connecticut had previously produced my “Imaginary
Invalid,” and were now working on my “Learned Ladies.” While the audience was
relatively small for this Saturday morning show, they were packed in tightly to
the small thrust theatre, and all seemed attuned for the intended tone of the
humor. One particular gentleman with a raucous laugh infected all of
the rest, making for a boisterous, lively event.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was a quick race east afterwards,
with a stop at the University of Michigan to check out my son, Isaac’s new dorm
surroundings. I was due the next day in Green Bay, Wisconsin with my third
performance at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
This was another small audience, and a much bigger challenge to win over, but
by the time we got into the volunteer scenes I felt they were entirely on
board. When it came time to bringing up a volunteer for the “Doctor in Spite of
Himself” scene, the French professor started pointing at students in
neighboring rows to encourage them, but I picked up on her gesture as if she,
herself, were volunteering, and the audience got to enjoy their teacher in the
hot-spot. (It looks like I’ve also recruited her to write a review of “The Big
Book of Moliere Monologues” for the French Review!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of “Moliere” at DePaul the following day, along
with a workshop for the French students. The professor had brought me in to
perform perhaps six years previously, and once again, I would be presenting the
show in a challenging lecture hall space. The
good news was that the prof had recruited several students to usher, directing
the 200 or so students up to the forward rows, and managing the lights and
video camera. It turned out to be one of the best
shows, as the students immediately “got the joke,” and the volunteers were
excellent. A professor from the classics department came up to
congratulate me, buying a copy of the “Big Book.” </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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finally getting my FIRST FLAT TIRE of the tour! Ironically, I had just replaced
my first set of tires on the “new” Ford Escape, racking up perhaps 5000 miles
on the new tires before a piece of plastic in the road poked a hole in the rear
tire, just as the first snow storm of the year began to fall. I barely noticed
any change in the ride, although the sound of the fluttering rubber finally got
me to pull over. I was still about two hours away from my destination, in
Bookings, SD, with about three hours before my</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> scheduled workshop. I fumbled
around, trying to figure out the whole spare-tire/jack thing, as the wind and
snow swirled about me. I decided to let Triple-A handle it, and called to alert
my host to the possible delay. Triple-A was out ahead of the promised
“half-hour,” and I was back on my way with just one stop for gas, arriving at
South Dakota State University with about 60 seconds to spare. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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a professor I’d met on a pass through Reno, but UN-Reno never had the money to
bring me in. The South Dakota session was a big success with talk of scheduling
a show in coming years, and reports of inspired students really “going for it”
in their final performances this Fall. (She’s also adding my book to her Acting
curriculum!)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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West, with my third performance at Mount Hood Community College, and
another stay at my favorite hotel, “McMenamin’s
Edgefield.” Once again, Mount Hood was bringing me in to do both
Shakespeare and “Moliere Than Thou,” but the audience seemed a little bigger
this time. The hosts (French and English teachers) had also reached out to the
Theatre Department for support, and brought in more lighting instruments to
illuminate the otherwise dim lecture hall. I had one “fan” who’d discovered me
through a mutual friend on Facebook, who raved unabashedly about the
performance afterwards. Her review later that day started with </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“We’re still
just thrilled about the event today…”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and got more enthusiastic from there.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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in on brother, Pat, in Salem, Oregon, and the coordinator of the Oregon
Shakespeare Festival “Green Show.” (I also talked with the manager of the OSF gift shop, which is now adding 10 copies of "The Big Book of Moliere Monologues" to their shelves!) I pushed ahead to my next booking in
Cupertino, California and, coincidentally, the I-Phone that I’d ordered while back
in Chicago finally caught up with me on the road in Cupertino (home of
everything Apple). <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After Cupertino, I took a couple days off in Fresno, visiting "Airplane Jayne," responding to 130 or more Facebook messages, and attempting to learn my new phone. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFIQdja1XS13HgFEKdw_-baNTOdYDl999cNA16fPq8HurnfeeBbJYOP9nf7cH1y-h-k5nRBFvnMOPprpG4Jq3hZVKvqrsjrQxU0_hAff_CJblAiYj6qt05kDKPI9-fNXi_6NQF/s1600/Cupertino+Pic@0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966;"></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The workshops (“Acting” for the
theatre students; “Moliere” for the French students) and the show “Moliere Than
Thou” were all well received. The students presented me with a generous bag of
goodies that I snacked on for about two weeks following the show, and a
photographer stopped by to take some photos, both before and during the
performance. I stumbled across them during one of my odd moments of “googling
myself,” and found one that I really liked. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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California to perform, once again, in Betty & Pete’s living room! Betty and
Pete had moved into a new house in their gorgeous Idylwild setting, about 6000
feet above sea level, and, sight unseen, invited a bunch of their neighbors to
join us for a presentation of “The Greatest Speech of All Time.” (Coincidentally,
a day in advance of the election!) It was a bit of a tight squeeze to perform
the show, along with the slide show, with some 15-20 also squeezing into the
living room, but it was well worth it. The intimate setting made the speeches
feel incredibly immediate, and the slightest modulations of my voice were
resonating through the crowd. While I could feel all of the speeches “landing”
with this group, the FDR “Fear itself” speech was particularly poignant, and I
could see people starting to cry almost from the moment I introduced Martin
Luther King’s “Mountaintop” speech. Pete later wrote, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">“The performance knocked us all out...top
orators of history standing before us in our living room, impassioned, ALIVE,
and made come-to-life--it was so moving and timely that I'm surprised Obama won
without most of the electorate having seen this performance...!”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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again in the direction of the rising sun, I
caught a few fun photos on my way down the mountain (this time with my
new i-phone camera), stopped in Flagstaff to visit a former host from schools
in Alabama AND Georgia (who was now teaching at Northern Arizona U.), and to
watch the election returns. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The one comment I "tweeted" after the election results came in was that "Four years from now, there will be 8-year-old children who will never have known of a white man being president. "You mean they let white men do that too?"</span><br />
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first-ever stop in beautiful Santa Fe, where Desert Academy was hosting a
performance of “Lot o’ Shakespeare.”</span></div>
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four shows in tight rotation is that I probably recite five or six passes
through each play for every one time I perform them, and the whole
working-the-thing-</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">up-to-performance-readiness leaves me more and more conscious
that my voice is not exactly where it could be. I enjoy the showing off that
goes with the ability to fill a room with my voice, but I’m getting to think
that it’s time to draw the line, and rely on a body-mic for “Lot o’
Shakespeare” and “Greatest Speech”. The Desert Academy crowd was packed and responsive
(the whole school crowded into their central foyer), but my voice was operating
on “fumes.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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up my fourth of four consecutive plays (following Moliere, Shakespeare and
Greatest Speech), as I prepped a rare college performance of “Criteria,” my
one-man comic sci-fi thriller, and looked forward to a meet-up with a bunch of
“Pathways” friends in the Houston area. Last
summer, I’d been chatting with folks from Lone Star College about setting up a
Moliere/Shakespeare event, but given the themes of their current semester, the
professor asked if I had something touching on “Fear and Horror and Future.”
I had the perfect piece for them, and while the lunchtime audience was thin,
the reaction was terrific, and it got me thinking about finally publishing an
edition of “Criteria” for sale on-line.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGD6WF64szhAH2NnHK3nOUmDD3M3aMkPlmx173Ep80ohe7LJ5G8VXCyecOuprPni5OYICXU6NpPciK1p4HCJkwtZsi8LzOuiDvpk9N9YoSxynUegaogrrjn_tS-NcI2LS7kfaP/s1600/Criteria+Pics+001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966;"></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From Houston, it was a quick hop
northwest to a performance at Texas State in San Marcos, where they’d brought
me in for a show back in 2009. Again, I was back to do “Moliere Than Thou” for
the French faculty, as well as a session with the French students who were
presenting a series of French-language scenes in performance, giving them
feedback and direction from a theatrical perspective. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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packed theatre, laughing raucously throughout. There was one group of jock-ish young
men in the front row just off of stage left, who seemed reluctant to let go and
enjoy the event, and during the “Don Juan” scene, I saw one of them texting on
his smart phone. Without breaking character, as Sganarelle, I walked over and
grabbed his phone out of his hands, shaking it in the air as Sganarelle says
“And from the court the courtiers export the fashion, which is subject to caprice,
which, of the soul is but the slightest piece!” (They paid better attention
after that.) There was also a producer in the audience who’d come up all the
way from Laredo, TX (about 5 hours south) with an interest in booking me for
the coming year… which may have given me a little extra inspiration. (They’ve
since booked me for January 22!) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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much again Tim for a great show! I can't wait to see the result of your
suggestions in the Acting French class and I would definitely be interested in
transforming this brief session into a workshop of some kind!” </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Fringe Festival was happening as I worked my way from Texas to Florida, and I
made a swing through to visit with several good Fringe friends (Bremner, Melanie, Kurt…) and get a taste of Fringe
spirit(s) in the midst of November.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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district-area Thespian Festival, setting up a
table in their exhibit area and encouraging students to give my Shakespeare
cage a spin, performing the monologues that the machine spat out. It turned out
that the folks at the table next to mine were from Seminole State College, and
one of the teachers had seen (and loved) “Lot o’ Shakespeare” at the Orlando
Fringe! We spent most of our time that day negotiating a series of performances
at their school for December of 2013. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had a couple of weeks of down-time
spanning the Thanksgiving break and camped out for a week with the Pergandes and another week with Albear, both of
whom have put me up at past Fringe Festivals, and I buckled down for two weeks
of intense e-mail campaigning, writing to my huge list of 12,000 teachers
across the country. (I’m still not quite done…!) Every time I do these
mailings, I seem to have a new show or a new book to promote. This time,
however, I’m steadfastly refusing to plot out any dates for the Spring of 2014.
I’ve carved that time out of my schedule as a “sabbatical,” during which I’m
hoping to get one or two Guest Artist gigs, and to spend significant down-time
off of the road. I’m also hoping for the side benefit of schools squeezing a
year of potential bookings into the single Fall semester, thus making more
money in a shorter time.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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back on the road, with a workshop in Elon, NC – giving them the quick, one-hour
explanation of “How I Came To Do What It Is That I Do,” before continuing on
north, dropping in for a quick visit in NYC with Melanie Gall (from the fringe
circuit), and catching up with Maureen and Tim for a walk around Central
Park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I took the terrific
Central Park photo on our walk that's at the top of this blog entry, and Tim
noted that he never seems to find his way into the pages of “The View From
Here,” so here he is!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The next show was my first
performance of “The Greatest Speech of All Time” for a high school crowd, and
the speech teacher at Proctor Academy noted that
his sophomores all have to give a speech in the spring semester, so they had a
motivated reason to pay attention. Here, I began the process of integrating a
microphone into the performance, as the last three speeches (FDR, Churchill and
ML King), were all originally performed at a podium with a microphone. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From my first entrance, I felt this
would be a tough house. They were not going with the evident laugh-lines or
applause moments with the instinctive spirit of fun that my previous crowds
had, and several students were clearly distracted from the outset. (I watched
with astonishment as a fellow in the third row seemed to be having an elaborate
conversation about his shoes with somebody ten feet away.) I responded by
pushing the intensity of my performance, and my volume, and gave what felt like
an extremely impassioned performance. By the end of the show, I absolutely
NEEDED that microphone in support of the Martin Luther King speech. Watching
that show almost a month later on video (it took me several weeks to clear room
for it on my computer), it came out much better than I remember it. The noise
was minimal, and while the audience didn’t laugh in the “laughing places,” they
did break into sharp, full applause at the end of each piece. Afterwards, we
did a “Q&A” session, and they captured a bit
of me “unscripted” on video:</span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I spent much of my drive back to Chicago making plans for a study
guide, to help teachers prepare their students for “Greatest Speech.” What this
performance had seemed to be missing, and what previous performances had, was
an audience that was already attuned to the “tension implicit in the process of
the speaking.” While contemporary high school students may have a working
knowledge of Abraham Lincoln or Martin Luther King, I can’t count on any common
frame of reference about Socrates, Mark Antony, Frederick Douglass, the
Roosevelts, or Winston Churchill.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And so, that’s added to the long
list of many things on my to-do list… Those projects include:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finishing the winter “booking campaign”</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Editing Shakespeare’s Henry VI (Parts 1, 2, 3)
and Richard III down to an hour apiece</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Publishing “Criteria” and “Moliere Than Thou”</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Doing “Kindle” versions of “Acting at the Speed
of Life” and “Big Book of Moliere Monologues”</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Recording an audio version of “Acting at the
Speed of Life”</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Memorize two more speeches for “The Greatest
Speech of All Time”</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Write and Memorize a new one-man Shakespeare
show: “The History Cycle”</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Edit and develop my self-help book, “Currency”</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finish the Shakespeare study guide, and the
“Greatest Speech” study guide</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And three other projects that aren't coming to mind at the moment… like cleaning out my e-mail inbox, or designing the “Moliere
Than Thou” coffee mug…!</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Even if I had no other commitments…
like driving around the country, and performing shows, these projects would
take me over three years to complete all by themselves. But what I’ve got is
about two weeks! Following a quick drop in on Isaac, I’m back in the Chicago
area, squirreled away in April’s basement. It’s been good to visit with
folks-from-home and celebrating Christmas while chipping away at the long list of projects. (We just had a reunion of a bunch of grade school comrades last night!) I race
through the list for two weeks before jumping back on the highway mid-January.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the meantime, I’ve got some great
opportunities coming up: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’m looking at performances at the Texas
Educational Theatre Association, where I’ll be a Guest Artist.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I got a call from SETC, requesting a performance
of “Greatest Speech” for their March conference.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’m talking with the folks at the Oklahoma
Shakespearean Fest about some extended Guest Artist work with them.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I’ve renewed my conversation with the Oregon
Shakespeare Fest about performing in their Green Show. (They’ve also renewed
their order of the Acting text, and initiated a new order of “The Big Book of
Moliere Monologues.)</span></li>
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on the Escape</b>: 136,436<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Quite often, the people who would most benefit from my performance are the
people who are tied up the day/night of the show with other activities;
Somehow, I need to drive home the value that these performances deliver… * I
keep forgetting that the people I interact with on a daily basis are my best
source for reviews of my work (and it helps them bolster their publishing
credentials, too). * Effective audience management (through volunteer ushers)
can make up for any number of flaws in the auditorium itself. * As much as I
like to demonstrate the power of unamplified speech, that particular lesson
needs to take a back seat to the survival of my vocal cords. * While I work
relentlessly to present “memorized performances” in each of my one-man shows,
sometimes I come off even better when I just improvise in intereaction with
students. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">On
the I-Pod</b>: Ben Folds, “The Best Imitation of Myself”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Night-table</b>: “Asimov’s Guide to Shakespeare”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966;"><b>Upcoming
Performances</b>: “Greatest Speech” at Newberry College, Newberry, SC (1/15),
“Moliere Than Thou” at Laredo Community College, Laredo, TX (1/22), “Greatest
Speech” and “Moliere” at the Texas Educational Theatre Association, Houston, TX
(1/24-27) and “Lot o’ Shakespeare” at Hill College, Hillsoro, TX (1/28)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Tour Schedule</span></h2>
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Pending bookings in</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #7030a0;">PURPLE</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">; Festival opportunities in </span><span style="color: red;">RED</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">) </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 9.0pt;">MTT</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">= “Moliere than Thou”;</span> <span style="color: green;">LoS</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">= “Lot o’ Shakespeare</span></span></span></span></h1>
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/ SOUTH/NORTH CAROLINA</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">1/15<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Newberry College, Newberry, SC (GSAT)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">1/28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Hill College, Hillsboro, TX (LoS)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">2/1-2<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEVADA /
S-IDAHO / UTAH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">2/3-4<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WYOMING
/ COLORADO / NEBRASKA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">2/5-6<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEBRASKA
/ IOWA / MISSOURI / KANSAS</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">2/7<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">2/8<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KANSAS </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">2/9<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Newman University, Wichita, KS (LoS)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">2/10-11<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSOURI
/ ILLINOIS / IOWA</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">2/12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Geneva High School, Geneva, IL (MTT)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">2/14-15<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>INDIANA
/ KENTUCKY / OHIO</span><span style="color: #660066;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660066; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">2/14-15<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">2/16-19<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WEST
VIRGINIA / TENNESSEE / VIRGINIA / D.C. / MARYLAND / DELAWARE / S-PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">2/20-21 NEW JERSEY / PENNSYLVANIA / NEW YORK / NEW
ENGLAND</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">2/22<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SUNY-Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">2/23-25 NEW
YORK / NEW ENGLAND / PENNSYLVANIA / NEW JERSEY /WEST VIRGINIA</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">2/26<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Duke University, Durham, NC<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">2/27-28 OHIO
/ INDIANA / MICHIGAN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">3/1-5<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS
/ WISCONSIN / MINNESOTA / KENTUCKY</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 11.0pt;">3/7-9</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="color: green;">SETC (GSAT)</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">3/9-12 Driving</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">3/13<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sacramento State, Sacramento, CA (MTT)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">3/14<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEVADA /
UTAH / SW-COLORADO</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">3/15<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Snow College, Ephraim, UT (GSAT)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">3/16-17<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>S.
IDAHO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">3/18-21<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WASHINGTON
/ OREGON <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">3/22-25 N. IDAHO / MONTANA / ALBERTA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">3/26<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NORTH
DAKOTA / SOUTH DAKOTA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">3/27-29<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MINNESOTA
/ WISCONSIN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">3/30-4/1 IOWA / MISSOURI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">4/3-4<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEBRASKA
/ KANSAS / OKLAHOMA / COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">4/5-10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OKLAHOMA
/ TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">4/11<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ARKANSAS
/ LOUISIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">4/12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSISSIPPI
/ ALABAMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">4/13-15<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TENNESSEE
/ GEORGIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">4/16-17<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">4/18-21<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>World
Health Organization: Croatia <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">4/22-24<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA
/ SOUTH CAROLINA / NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">4/25<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TENNESSEE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b>SUMMER, 2013</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Late May-Mid July (?) Oklahoma Shakespearean Festival<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">6/18-23<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>International
Thespian Festival, Lincoln, NE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">7/11-14<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>AATF,
Providence, RI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">7/18-28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KC
Fringe Festival<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">8/1-4<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ATHE,
Orlando Florida<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">8/1-11 Minnesota
Fringe Festival</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b>FALL, 2013</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">9/3-7<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WISCONSIN
/ ILLINOIS / MICHIGAN / IOWA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">9/8-9<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MICHIGAN
/ INDIANA / OHIO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">9/10-14<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>PENNSYLVANIA
/ NEW YORK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">9/15-19<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW
ENGLAND</span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;"> </span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">9/20<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Harrison High School, Harrison NY (MTT)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">9/20-23<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW
YORK / NEW JERSEY / PENNSYLVANIA / NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">9/24<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MARYLAND
/ DELAWARE / D.C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">9/25-29<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>VIRGINIA
/ WEST VIRGINIA</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">9/26-30<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EdTA
Conference, Minneapolis, MN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">9/30-10/2<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NORTH
CAROLINA / SOUTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">10/3-8<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA /
FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">10/9-12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SOUTH
CAROLINA / GEORGIA / KENTUCKY / TENNESSEE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">10/13-15<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>ALABAMA / MISSISSIPPI / LOUISIANA / ARKANSAS</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">10/16<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Texas Wesleyan University, Ft. Worth, TX (GSAT)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">10/17-21<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>TEXAS
/ OKLAHOMA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">10/22-24<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NEW
MEXICO / ARIZONA / COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">10/25-28<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>UTAH /
NEVADA / CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">10/29-11/2<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">11/3-5<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OREGON /
WASHINGTON<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">11/6-10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IDAHO
/ UTAH / MONTANA / WYOMING<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">11/11-13<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NORTH
DAKOTA / SOUTH DAKOTA / MINNESOTA / WISCONSIN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">11/14-16<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>ILLINOIS / IOWA / MISSOURI / NEBRASKA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">11/17-20<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>WYOMING / COLORADO / KANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">11/21-27<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>OKLAHOMA / ARKANSAS / OHIO / TENNESSEE / KENTUCKY</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">11/28-12/1<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>THANKSGIVING BREAK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">12/2-4<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NORTH
CAROLINA / SOUTH CAROLINA / GEORGIA / FLORIDA</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">12/5-7<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Seminole State College, Orlando, FL (LoS?)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">12/8-10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ALABAMA
/ MISSISSIPPI / ARKANSAS / LOUISIANA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">12/11<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS /
OKLAHOMA / KANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">Alert! CHICAGO AREA PERFORMANCES coming up this fall!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;"> </span><a href="http://www.lewisu.edu/news/newsarticle.htm?PArticleID=8973#.UFkirY6UFUQ" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">“Lot o’ Shakespeare” at Lewis University </span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">October 9!
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">“Moliere than Thou” at DePaul</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;"> October 23<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span>[6 pm; Schmidt Academic Center, Rm 161, 2320 N. Kenmore, Chicago, IL 60614]! I don’t get to do these around
Chicago often, and this may be my first local public performance of “Lot o’
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here’s the video that I alluded to
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Thespians Festival. Watch for me at :28 and :45 seconds into the video!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back in Chicago, for once the
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least… just in downtown Chicago. (Usually I have to travel halfway around the
country or even halfway around the globe to get to this one!) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In addition to the usual booth, I
was also enlisted to join a panel discussion about booking performers for
educational events, which allowed for a wide-ranging discussion, and I was
particularly interested in the perspective represented from the panel member
from the Ravinia Festival, which seems to be extremely supportive of such events.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I did my usual session showcasing
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former member of the AATF staff who I’ve been hanging out with socially for
about seven years now, who finally got to see my show, if only because she had
no obligations to the organization to keep her from attending this year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Magnifique!... I thoroughly enjoyed this most
entertaining session. What an amazing actor!”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Awsome performance. Super entertaining.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Extremely entertaining. Wonderful
way to share Moliere’s work with students of all ages.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Excellent! Merci!”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Fabulous! Truly brings Moliere
& his work to life—very engaging!”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Excellent Bring him back!”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“His usual brilliant presentation...”</span></blockquote>
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in a week of follow-up notes to faculty met at International Thespians as well
as the Teachers of French, all the while gearing back up for a presentation of “The
Greatest Speech of All Time,” this time for a full run at the Kansas City
Fringe Festival.</span></div>
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the home of a couple that I had run into at three Fringe Festivals in the past:
the Montreal Fringe, the Orlando Fringe and the Minnesota Fringe. Between the
many times that they’ve changed homes and their proclivity to vacation at Fringe Festivals, we’d found our paths crossing many times. This time, they had
moved to Kansas City and, noticing that I was on the schedule, offered up their
cozy guest room. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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their big preview event, and they had opened up the event to all of the
companies in the festival… which meant that about 55 companies were doing 5
minute previews. … Do the math. I didn’t get on stage myself (we were drawn by
lottery) until about 10:45, when most of the crowd had already gone home. And
yet, the initial reaction was still very positive.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The KC Fringe had grown from past
years, and the late night events were much more popular then the handful of
out-of-towners who hung out at the makeshift bar. This time a real bar had been
established as the Fringe late-night hangout and twenty to fifty people were
coming in to hang out each night. I was recruited by the Fringe to host one of
the late-night “Variety Shows,” pictured.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first performance of my show, in
a very small theatre (“The Fishtank”) was packed to standing room only.
(Actually, it was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">sitting</b> room only;
they had pillows on the floor in front of the first row of seats.) I could feel
the enthusiasm radiating from the outset. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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popularity, I gave myself a break from the relentless flyering that comprises
most Fringe Festivals. If I had sold out my tiny house on the first
performance, surely the word of mouth would carry me the rest of the way. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In fact, I had good houses for the
rest of the run, but I didn’t sell out any more performances. My guess is that
my first great audience was from people who had seen me in past years, and/or
who saw me at the Fringe Preview. They were making a point of catching me at
the outset.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">The response was amazing.
In each performance, the audience was laughing from the opening video, which I
cued up 8 minutes before curtain time. (see below)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the reviews were near perfect. Perhaps
the most quotable items were from two mainstream reviews, this one from
<a href="http://kcmetropolis.org/issue/august-1-2012/article/kc-fringe-2012-greatest-speech-is-a-great-history-lesson" target="_blank">KCMetropolis.com</a>:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Greatest Speech” is a
great history lesson</b> </span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A video of a passionate yet laughably executed stump speech
is projected as the audience takes its seats for Timothy Mooney’s <i>The
Greatest Speech of All Time</i> on this year’s Kansas City Fringe Festival.
Thankfully, Mooney’s <i>Greatest Speech </i>is very well executed in a
delightful blend of humor and history. </span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Mooney features eight iconic speeches in his engaging and
ambitious hour-long show. Moving chronologically from Socrates to Martin Luther
King, Jr., Mooney gives life to words that hold significance in our shared
human history. He attempts to examine why these particular orations have
transcended eras and how they may affect us now in the twenty-first century.
Heady stuff, but Mooney achieves this with charisma, energetic pacing, and
interesting anecdotes about each speech and speaker, keeping the audience
riveted. Often I felt transported to the times and places of these speeches,
aided by historically related images projected behind Mooney. </span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Mooney doesn’t cheapen his interpretations of the speakers
with exaggerated accents, although he does embody their characters fully and
believably. His inflections and projection are strong and clear, and the sheer
amount of memorization for <i>Greatest Speech</i> is staggering. Mooney
admirably and impressively rises to the occasion.The individual messages of each speech are expressed
successfully. The profuse irony in Socrates’ <i>Apology</i> speech, the
indignation towards slavery in Frederick Douglass’ <i>The Hypocrisy of American
Slavery</i>, and the willfulness and absurdity in Teddy Roosevelt’s <i>The
Leader and the Cause</i> (he had just been shot, but insisted on delivering his
speech) are unmistakable and tangible. </span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The highlights for me, in addition to those by Douglass and
Teddy Roosevelt, are the First Inaugural Address by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s <i>I’ve Been to the Mountaintop</i>. FDR’s
depression-era address is astonishingly timely to today’s political and
economic climate in the United States, and it elicited spontaneous applause
from the opening-night audience at key moments. King’s inspirational eloquence
in <i>Mountaintop</i>, delivered in Memphis the day before his assassination,
is a fitting and moving conclusion to the show. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The opening performance of Timothy Mooney’s <i>The Greatest
Speech of All Time</i> was sold out at the door. This show is appropriate for
all ages. (Kristen Shafel Omiccioli)</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">And then, this one from “<a href="http://www.pitch.com/kansascity/fringe/Content?oid=2948246" target="_blank">The Pitch</a>,”
culled from a full page article about a lot of plays that the reviewer had
caught in the opening weekend of “Fringing”:</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I got an
earlier start Saturday, beginning with a 6 p.m. show... The theatre filled to
capacity for "The Greatest Speech of All Time" edited and performed
by Timothy Mooney, who brought historical figures to life, and relevance
through their own words. It was a powerful performance, and it proved impossible
to top as the high point of the evening. (Deborah Hirsch, <i>The Pitch</i>)</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">Audience responses that showed up online, included:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Tim
Mooney's acting, content, and arrangement were top notch. The entire audience
responded with enthusiastic applause at the conclusion of every speech, as well
as at the end of the performance. Mr. Mooney's inspiring delivery connected the
audience to international historical personalities... His choice of images,
displayed on the backdrop while he spoke, kept me attentive and focused on his
oratory… A wonderful show for a mature audience of high school or undergraduate
students, or people interested in history and/or public speaking.
Enthusiastically recommend you don't miss this one! (<i>Susanders</i>) </span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Tim Mooney
undertook selecting speeches and excerpts from famous speeches that stood the
test of time and still play well for today's audience. The amount of material
memorized and presented culminates a monumental undertaking as Mooney rapid
fire talks for one solid hour, delivering outstanding orations from times
past.. The show is well worth seeing, especially for those who may have studied
those characters and read or heard some of their speeches. (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">BobEvans</i>) </span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Great
speeches performed by a great orator This is Tim's third year at KC Fringe and
probably his best. If you enjoy history and love great speeches, this should be
the next play you see. (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">alanskoalas</i>) </span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Some of the
lesser-known speeches are particularly interesting: Frederic Douglas's address
to the "women's anti-slavery sewing circle" of Rochester, NY, and
MLK's address to the sanitation workers of Memphis still stun today. I wanted
to replace all this year's campaign ads on television with FDR's address on the
roots of the economic problems of the 1930s and how to fix them. His excerpts
of one of Teddy Roosevelt's one of campaign speech for the Bull Moose Party
brought moments of humor to an otherwise serious and moving experience. Highly
recommended. (“<i>badbarbie</i>”)</span></blockquote>
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promote the plays. I talked my Fringe Friends, Katherine and Phillip into videotaping my
show, in exchange for tickets, and spent my final days in Kansas City
assembling some video to put up on YouTube, and dropping it onto my promotional
DVD, along with my clips of Moliere and Shakespeare. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I raced across the middle of the
country to Washington D.C. and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
Once again, I had a booth in the lobby, and was handing out flyers, stickers
and DVDs as well as selling a few books. I was meeting a lot of people who have
been receiving my e-mails over the years, and catching up with people I knew by
reputation, though I’d never met them in person. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8ien09lOkcfg0tSAj000H3ZFZfl0ZN-3possGMqOOUxtTCHNeoqLSYz9Wq7cwlHhapu-UwY86h-5opkq7lZFMy6HQSWJUHRCeH9_l_sLCgtoHy_XO64zHaW6nj8Sdo5u8MkKF/s1600/I+Heart+Donkeys.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At one point, I stopped in the gift
shop of the hotel I was staying at and noticed this particular key chain. I
can’t help but think that maybe it doesn’t quite send the same message as the
designer of this particular trinket intended.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From there, it was on to Minnesota
and the second weekend of the Minnesota Fringe Festival. My lottery number had
not been drawn when the Fringe slots were chosen, so I didn’t have a full play
at this festival, but a Fringe Friend was producing a collection from “Fringe
Superstars’” short pieces that couldn’t sustain a full hour-long performance,
called “<a href="http://www.fringefestival.org/2012/show/?id=2301" target="_blank">Fringe Orphans</a>.” He invited me to join them, but I’d already given up
and scheduled myself for ATHE. Still, he was willing to incorporate me into the
show just for the final weekend, and so I shared a short story that I had
written: “The Dog that Doesn’t Bark.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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appearances, I got some nice responses: </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">“This was my first exposure to Tim Mooney. I thought his
monologue was captivating… (Mark Mikula) </span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">“There were the stellar bits, with Tim Mooney, phillip low,
and Jesse Richards/Jena Young…” (Publius McGee) </span></blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The big, wide, Mississippi</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">“…However, the standout was Tim Mooney, and if you still
haven't seen Fringe Orphans, you owe it to yourself to see the last
performance.” (Cato Brutus)<o:p> </o:p> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">“…My favorite was Tim Mooney's monologue "The Dog That
Doesn't Bark". As if a salesman at a business conference he talks about
how the political game is played through manipulation and cash. Brilliant!”
(David Rust)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">One guy approached me at the closing night party saying,
“Your monologue was like one big rolling-pin massage of truth!”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">And yet, filed under “you can’t win
‘em all”…</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">“The biggest let down was “The Dog that Doesn’t Bark.” Just
couldn’t completely grasp the point being made here… “The Dog that Doesn’t
Bark’s” message was lost in a sea of long-winded-ness. I felt like I was in the
middle of a college professors preaching rant.” (Will Taylor)</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">But you can judge for yourself:</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The good part is that even though I was just coming in for a couple of days, I still go to go to the closing night party with all the fun people.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back in Chicago, I was working out
of April’s basement (or mostly on her dining room table), and working through
yet another e-mail campaign.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Somewhere in there, Dad broke his
wrist while playing tennis! I found myself making the occasional trip over to
“<a href="http://www.themooringsofarlingtonheights.org/" target="_blank">The Moorings</a>” to check in, and help him with some of his left-handed
activities. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Somewhere in there, Isaac started
college! (U of Michigan!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Somewhere in there, Amber started
college! (SIU!)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Somewhere in there, a bunch of my old </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>grade school</i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> friends held an impromptu reunion!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While I usually restrict myself to
two e-mail campaigns each year (Dec/Jan and May/June), I suddenly found myself
with these great reviews in hand, and a new show that nobody really knew about
yet. I decided that it was time to get the word out. Meanwhile, I knew that
teachers were just now getting back to school; perhaps a big changeup in
schedule could catch some of them as they were starting to think of content for
their classes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Webmaster, Bruce, had supplied me
with some content feedback that his wife, a school teacher had provided him,
pointing me exactly to the “<a href="http://www.corestandards.org/" target="_blank">Common Core Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy</a>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was clear that those
standards applied almost directly to my new show. I copied them into a long
footnote at the end of my letter to teachers and got to work. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In addition to my promotional work,
I was continuing my ongoing project of Shakespeare’s “The Henriad,”
Shakespeare’s tetralogy of “Richard II,” “Henry IV, Parts 1&2,” and “Henry
V.” I discovered that I was able to edit an act or two each morning while
riding the exercise bike, and I managed to do three passes through all four
plays, carefully trimming and sculpting them down to the tightest shape I could
get them into. While they started out, collectively, at 164 pages, over the
past year I have trimmed them to 100 pages, 90 pages, 80, 70 and, now, 60
pages. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hour each. Plays that tend to run over ten hours collectively, could now be
performed in the course of four hours total. This could work for a Shakespeare
festival, for a college, or as individual one-hour events for high school
performance. <b>(If anybody wants to read a copy, drop me a line!)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And, now that I’ve done that, I can
hear the other “tetralogy” (“Henry VI, Parts 1-3,” and “Richard III”) calling
to me, and now that these plays are finally coming within my grasp, all sorts
of other possibilities are presenting themselves to me, including a one-man
show focused on the History plays. (“Shakespeare’s Greatest Hits: The History
Cycle”)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lot o' Shakespeare: "King John"</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s been a lean summer, without a
lot of money coming in, but I’m gearing up to set out on the road again in a
couple of days, with a busy Fall, featuring a succession of performances that
should have the ship righted fairly quickly. And, given that I’ve just
completed yet another big mailing, there are all sorts of new performance
opportunities presenting themselves. When will I get to work on all these new
projects? Perhaps Winter break will present me with a whole new set of
possibilities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Miles on the Escape</b>: 121,000<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Discoveries</b>: I have barely scratched
the surface of the networks of support that are out there and available! *
Never take audience turn-out for granted. Selling out the opening night only
means that you have sold out opening night. * Changing up the anticipated
rhythm of mailing campaigns catches some people in moments when they might be
more amenable to chasing down a booking. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Temperature</b>: Following the hottest
summer ever, with every day of the KC Fringe festival hovering near or over 100
degrees, we’re now back to highs in the comfortable mid-60s. (Pack long sleeves,
Tim!)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>On the i-pod</b>: <a href="http://www.amandapalmer.net/" target="_blank">Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra: Theatre is Evil</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>On the night-table</b>: “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Iliad-Penguin-Classics-Deluxe/dp/0140275363/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1348018370&sr=1-1&keywords=the+illiad" target="_blank">The Iliad</a>,” “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Asimovs-Guide-Shakespeare-Understanding-Enjoying/dp/0517268256" target="_blank">Asimov’s Guide to Shakespeare</a>,” “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Trial-Socrates-I-F-Stone/dp/0385260326" target="_blank">The Trial of Socrates</a>.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>On the TV</b>: “<a href="http://www.iontelevision.com/about/leverage" target="_blank">Leverage</a>” and “<a href="http://www.iontelevision.com/about/flashpoint" target="_blank">Flashpoint</a>”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Next performance</b>: <a href="http://bronze.uco.edu/passport/england/index.html" target="_blank">University of Central Oklahoma</a> (Sept 25), Valparaiso University (Oct 1), <a href="http://www.lewisu.edu/news/newsarticle.htm?PArticleID=8973#.UFkirY6UFUQ" target="_blank">Lewis University</a> (Oct 9)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">FALL, 2012<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">12/3<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Elon, NC: Elon University (Workshop)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">12/2-5<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW
ENGLAND / NEW YORK / PENNSYLVANIA / NEW JERSEY<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">12/6<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Proctor Academy, Andover, NH (GSAT)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">12/9-12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OHIO
/ MICHIGAN / INDIANA / ILLINOIS / IOWA / KENTUCKY / WISCONSIN / MINNESOTA<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WINTER / SPRING, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1/5-7<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Available for Kansas Thespians<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1/10-12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Available for Missouri Thespians (St. Louis, MO)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1/11-12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Available for Tennessee Thespians<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1/7-12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1/13-14<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA
/ SOUTH/NORTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1/15<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Newberry College, Newberry, SC<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1/16-18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GEORGIA
/ ALABAMA / MISSISSIPPI / LOUISIANA / TENNESSEE / ARKANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1/19-21<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>LOUISIANA
/ TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1/22<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Laredo Community College (MTT)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1/23<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1/24-27<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TEXAS (TETA) (Houston)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1/28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Hill College, Hillsboro, TX (LoS)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1/29<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>N-TEXAS<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1/30-31<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW
MEXICO / ARIZONA<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2/1-2<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEVADA /
S-IDAHO / UTAH<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2/3-4<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WYOMING
/ COLORADO / NEBRASKA<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2/5-6<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEBRASKA
/ IOWA / MISSOURI / KANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2/7<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2/8<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSOURI
/ OKLAHOMA / KANSAS <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2/9<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Newman University, Wichita, KS (LoS)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2/10-13<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSOURI
/ S-ILLINOIS / W-KENTUCKY / TENNESSEE<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2/12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Geneva High School, Geneva, IL (MTT)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2/14-15<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>INDIANA
/ KENTUCKY / OHIO<span style="color: #660066;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #660066; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2/14-15<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2/16-19<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WEST
VIRGINIA / VIRGINIA / D.C. / MARYLAND / DELAWARE / S-PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2/20-24<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW
JERSEY / PENNSYLVANIA / NEW YORK / NEW ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2/25-26<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OHIO
/ INDIANA / MICHIGAN<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2/27-28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ILLINOIS
/ WISCONSIN / MINNESOTA<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3/1-2<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NORTH/SOUTH
DAKOTA / MONTANA / NE-WYOMING<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3/3-4<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MONTANA
/ IDAHO / WASHINGTON<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3/5<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WASHINGTON
/ OREGON<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3/6<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OREGON
/ N-CALIFORNIA <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3/7-12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CALIFORNIA
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green;">(Rogue
Performance Festival 3/7-9)<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: green; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3/13<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sacramento State, Sacramento, CA<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3/14-15<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEVADA
/ UTAH / SW-COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #660066; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3/15<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Snow College, Ephraim, UT (GSAT)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3/16-17<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>COLORADO
/ OKLAHOMA / ARKANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3/18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>OKLAHOMA
/ N-TEXAS / ARKANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3/19<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>LOUISIANA
/ MISSISSIPPI / ALABAMA<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3/20-23FLORIDA
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">(Available for
Florida Thespians)</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3/24-27<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FLORIDA
/ GEORGIA / TENNESSEE<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3/28-29<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSOURI
/ IOWA <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3/30-5/12 GUEST ARTIST OPENING<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4/18-21World
Health Organization: Croatia <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SUMMER, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5/15-27<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Orlando
Fringe Festival<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6/18-23<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>International
Thespian Festival, Lincoln, NE<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7/11-14<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>AATF,
Providence, RI<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7/18-28<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>KC
Fringe Festival<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8/1-4<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ATHE,
Orlando Florida<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">8/1-11<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Minnesota
Fringe Festival<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">FALL, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">9/3-7<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>WISCONSIN
/ ILLINOIS / INDIANA / MICHIGAN<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">9/8-9<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MICHIGAN
/ INDIANA / OHIO<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">9/10-14 PENNSYLVANIA
/ NEW YORK<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">9/15-19<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW
ENGLAND<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">9/20-23<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NEW
YORK / NEW JERSEY / PENNSYLVANIA<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">9/24<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MARYLAND
/ DELAWARE / D.C.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">9/25-29<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>VIRGINIA
/ WEST VIRGINIA<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Conference, Minneapolis, MN<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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CAROLINA / SOUTH CAROLINA<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">10/9-12<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SOUTH
CAROLINA / GEORGIA / KENTUCKY / TENNESSEE<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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/ MISSISSIPPI / LOUISIANA / AKANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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MEXICO / ARIZONA / COLORADO<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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NEVADA / CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span>CALIFORNIA<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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DAKOTA / SOUTH DAKOTA / MINNESOTA / WISCONSIN<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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MISSOURI / NEBRASKA<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span>OKLAHOMA / ARKANSAS / TENNESSEE / KENTUCKY<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span>THANKSGIVING BREAK<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">12/2-4<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>NORTH
CAROLINA / SOUTH CAROLINA / GEORGIA / FLORIDA<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">12/8-9<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ALABAMA /
MISSISSIPPI / ARKANSAS / LOUISIANA<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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OKLAHOMA / KANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SPRING, 2014 <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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TOUR. AVAILABLE FOR GUEST ARTIST/VISITING PROFESSOR RESIDENCIES!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SUMMER, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">July:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>International
Community Theatre Festival, Venice, FL</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--EndFragment-->tim_mooney@earthlink.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10251175800373730254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359867.post-52647583684833009722012-07-03T11:29:00.001-07:002012-09-19T09:25:23.079-07:00The View From Here #155: CA, TX, TN, SC, IL, NJ, MA, ME, NY, MN, FL<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4 Months and 20,000 Miles later…</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This seems to be the longest span
between <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">View From Here</i> releases, as
the last official update came out on February 20, 2012 (just over four months
ago… maybe longer by the time I actually publish this). I did put out a
“<a href="http://timmooneyrep.blogspot.com/2012/04/happy-birthday-shakespeare.html" target="_blank">Shakespeare’s Birthday</a>” blog post in response to a website that was hosting
greetings to Shakespeare, but my drive to assemble this posting
has been curtailed by at least two influences:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';">
</span>I’m busier than ever. As I’ve diversified my work into
new plays, new books, more projects and desperate attempts to get booked, I
generally don’t find myself with an extra day, or three, on my hands to
assemble all of the goings-on of the past months, the website links, the photos
and videos that will bring us fully up to date.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';">
</span>I have an increasing number of outlets for expression.
Social networking has almost made the publication of a blog beside the point,
as I can upload info, updates, photos and videos almost instantaneously. I can
now, often, simply flip through Facebook “history” to recapture where I was,
what I was concerned about, or what I was accomplishing on a given day. Added
to Facebook, we have the seldom-used Twitter account. And, now my Blogger
account is patching into “Google+”, which is vying to be its own competition to
Facebook… who needs to hear from me yet again? (If you’d like to tune in to
Facebook updates, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/Molierelover" target="_blank">just “friend” me</a>.)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And yet, reading back through my
February post, I am reminded that this forum enables me to contemplate larger
sweeps of decision-making processes, philosophical choices, nuanced,
incremental developments of understanding, and resolve, once again… WTF.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In anticipation of the impending
trip, I wrote a brief article for “<a href="http://kingsriverlife.com/02/28/timothy-mooney-lot-o-shakespeare/" target="_blank">King’s River Life</a>” a Fresno-area paper where
I would be performing at the coming Rogue Festival. It’s a kind of a speed reader’s introduction to the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">View From Here</i>, so if you want to get caught up on what’s happened
the last 10 years (!), you might <a href="http://kingsriverlife.com/02/28/timothy-mooney-lot-o-shakespeare/" target="_blank">check it out</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Packing up my stuff once again, and
leaving a few extra boxes with the Pergandes in Orlando, I was back on the
road, driving west, passing north of New Orleans on Mardi Gras, to Lafayette,
LA, and then on to Fort Stockton, Texas, Phoenix, AZ (visiting with Kristen Barner, friend from Virginia, who has now moved to South Carolina), and
Valencia, CA to Kirsten Moomey’s house. (Coast-to-coast in four days!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO4-ZtIv5BS27IoDm8blNooy06BS06H00DAN-Kau6F7l7N8gfFx-xGMUJs7uEvNC1pfDrQoBB563mbVdzQPx0SEgNiTxCgOa4o8wpx1fnKmTDBmbldx3Q11GwfqjbJ9uDv89M2/s1600/AZ+State+Line.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO4-ZtIv5BS27IoDm8blNooy06BS06H00DAN-Kau6F7l7N8gfFx-xGMUJs7uEvNC1pfDrQoBB563mbVdzQPx0SEgNiTxCgOa4o8wpx1fnKmTDBmbldx3Q11GwfqjbJ9uDv89M2/s320/AZ+State+Line.jpg" width="320" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At Kirsten’s house, I reunited with
the “official” version of my new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Big-Book-Moliere-Monologues/dp/0983181217/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1341361191&sr=8-1&keywords=big+book+of+moliere+monologues" target="_blank">The Big Book of Moliere Monologues,</a> which I had ordered to meet me along the
road. There were still a couple of fixes I wanted to make to the cover design,
but at least now I had copies to distribute.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The teacher at Oak Ridge High School
was making my Acting book required summer reading for her students. I’d
performed here, just outside Sacramento, CA, some seven years ago (simultaneous
to the San Francisco Fringe). This was the school where my technical assistant
asked if I would marry her as I was on my way out the door. (This performance must have been back in the
days when my dreams were more infectious, because two students who’d met me at
that same performance showed up again this night after the show, noting how
tempted they’d been to follow me around the country.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Oak Ridge show went great, and I
headed to Fresno, for the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rogue Theatre
Festival</i>. Jayne Day has been bugging me for years to do the Rogue Fest, and
I’ve resisted, largely because it overlaps with the Southeast Theatre
Conference, where I line up legit bookings for the coming year. This time
around I plotted out a path whereby I could do the first weekend of the
festival and then take off hell-for-leather for SETC. (Also, I’d assumed that
the festival was not likely to be competitive with some of the better Fringes
in the US: Minnesota and Orlando.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Given that I was only around for a
single weekend, they stacked me up with four performances in two days in what
seemed to be their best venue, adjacent to the Starline Lounge, a regular
fringe hangout. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Saturday audiences went from 60
to 80, and the Sunday shows from 60 to 40. I made about as much as I do in the
course of a 10-day fringe festival in just two days!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the audience
response was terrific. I’ll paste, below, all of the on-line reviews, even the
one (anonymous) “blasé” one:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I just saw Tim
Mooney’s amazing tour de force show, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lot
O’ Shakespeare</i>. He was brilliant, a must-see for this year’s Rogue!”
(Jennifer Hurd Peterson (of the Woodward Shakespeare Festival))</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brilliant show!
Brilliant performance! We plan to go again and bring friends!! (Janette)</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saw show last
night- FABULOUS! Timothy not only delivers a profoundly articulate selection of
Shakespeare’s best but provides a context and the an interpretation through his
performance that throws you into the scene in a flash. Brilliant and
entertaining even if you are not a Shakespeare fan! (Laurie Tidyman-Jones)</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Amazingly fun
and brilliant! Very entertaining and interactive. Love Shakespeare and he
brings all the good quotes from so many stories! Shame he didn’t have time for
them all, we had a blast! (RRogers31)</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">gosh, I feel awful saying I found his show to be kinda
blase. His command of the language is terrific, but his acting skills and voice
are mid-range and kinda off-putting. But he does really ‘get’ the language and
makes all the right puns and double entendres work. I give this show a 6 on a
1-10 scale. (Guest)</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was amazed at
Tim’s performance of Shakespeare. Tim’s acting, command of the tongue, and his
instant recall to perform any and all of Shakespeare’s work at any given time,
had me in awe. (Annette Ash)</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of the best
this year. What energy! (Jessica Reedy)</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Donald Munro of
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fresno Beehive</i> reviewed the show:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There's a <a href="http://roguefestival.net/Rogue2012/?p=63"><span style="text-decoration: none;">'Lot o' Shakespeare' </span></a>crammed
into the crevasses of<a href="http://timmooneyrep.com/"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> Timothy Mooney's</span></a>
brain. The wonderful part of his novel show is just how fun it is for the
audience to take a guided tour.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mooney has memorized one
monologue from every Shakespeare play plus a bunch of sonnets, and he can spill
them out on command. The Bard was a showman, and Mooney is, too, devising an
ingenious structure for his one-man production: He sets it up as a bingo game
-- each audience member gets an "Iago" card -- and he uses a bingo
cage, filled with 44 ping-pong balls, to pick a monologue or sonnet at random.
(Mooney wrote <a href="http://kingsriverlife.com/02/28/timothy-mooney-lot-o-shakespeare/"><span style="text-decoration: none;">an article </span></a>about
his process for the local online publication kingsriverlife.com.)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mooney, in period attire and
jester hat, bounds onto the stage with an explosive energy that never lets up.
He delivered almost 20 monologues and sonnets in the performance I saw -- no
two are the same, obviously -- and it was fascinating to watch him slip in and
out of character so briskly and thoroughly. From the stirring battlefield
speech in "Henry V" to the sex-runneth-over monologue ("Virginity
breeds mites, much like a cheese") by Parolles in "All's Well That
Ends Well," the text and nuance was impeccable.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Saturday afternoon show I
attended also produced what's sure to be one of my favorite moments of this
year's Rogue. When Mooney picked "Measure for Measure," he asked for
a volunteer from the audience as a scene partner, and he picked local thespian
Brooke Aiello. When she got on stage, he asked her name and if there was a show
she wanted to plug.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Yes," she said.
" 'Hamlet,' opening April 13."</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Who are you
playing?" he asked.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Hamlet," she
replied. Big laugh. (It's true. Aiello stars in the title role in the <a href="http://newensemble.com/"><span style="text-decoration: none;">New Ensemble production </span></a>at the Broken Leg
Stage.)</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mooney and Aiello (reading
cold!) then proceeded to offer a steamy version of the "Measure for
Measure" scene, with Aiello playing up her character's sensuality to the
hilt -- so much so that it put Mooney at a temporary loss for words. (He had to
grab the script from Aiello to prompt his next line.) They ended in a close,
torrid stance. It was a great moment.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some shows at the Rogue get lots of buzz, and this is
definitely one of them. But since Mooney is only here for the first weekend,
there isn't much time left to see him. He has just two more performances. My
advice: Get thee to the Starline.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Heather Parish
of “<a href="http://kingsriverlife.com/03/03/rogue-reviews-2012/" target="_blank">King’s River Life</a>” gave me one of my best reviews ever (even if it was too
late to impact my attendance):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When a slightly built Tim Mooney comes out in Elizabethan
puffy pants and a jester’s cap and bells, the audience has no real idea of what
they’re in for. There is no way they can anticipate the whirlwind of emotion,
voice, language and sweat that Mooney can deliver inside of one hour with
Shakespeare. His Bingo-Game-o’-the-Bard is one of the simplest, but most
effective Shakespeare themed shows I’ve seen.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His bingo game is actually a game of “Iago” where the
audience plays along on cards marking off each monologue as it is randomly
called from the bingo balls he draws. And yes, he even gives prizes for winners
(always a way to win over audiences!). But truthfully, the prizes are just the
cherry on this sundae of Shakespearean proportions.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mooney is obviously an accomplished actor. His
expansiveness of language, use of structure, and sideways entries to the
language of Shakespeare’s characters makes his monologues so clear and precise,
after just an hour the audience finds they understand all of that Early Modern
English like they’re listening to a Shel Silverstein poem.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The energy and verve Mooney brings to Shakespeare’s
language obviously stems from a love of his craft and it is completely
infectious to the audience. There’s something here for everyone: Shakespeare
enthusiasts will love the variety and vivacity he brings to this muscular language;
Shakespeare novices may discover that there is far more alive than dead about
Shakespeare’s characters, right here at the Rogue Festival.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now in a really good mood, I raced
off for Texas!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Texas Wesleyan Dean of Arts
& Sciences was a French Professor at Auburn University-Montgomery, which
had booked me a couple of times in the past. When he moved to Fort Worth, he
brought me with him, this time to do an acting workshop and perform <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lot o’ Shakespeare</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of my old grade school friends,
Bridget (Bossheart) MacGregor, now living in Dallas, came to see the show, and
we caught up over a beer afterwards. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The next day, I was racing off
again! The SETC exhibit hall was already open in Chattanooga, and April and
Kirsten were watching over it for me while I was racing to the event. I pulled
into town late that evening, and the next day featured my workshop and a
performance of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lot o’ Shakespeare</i>. In
anticipation of the very busy conference, I had printed up postcards that April
and Kirsten could hand out, which listed my show and my workshop information. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There seemed to be lots of interest,
but when I got to my workshop, I was disappointed to find that there were only
about four people in the audience. I plunged in anyway, and when it was over, I
had to make an immediate transition into performance mode, loading in the show
and getting into costume. Standing backstage, I was reminded of a phone call
that came in while I was in the middle of my workshop (I had apologized to my
audience and let it go into voicemail). Waiting to go on, I checked my
voicemail out of curiosity, and discovered that the call was from the workshop
coordinator who was wondering when (or whether) I was going to arrive to
perform my workshop.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They had changed the location of my
workshop to something other than the location I’d listed on my postcard, and I
never doublechecked the location in the program. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fortunately, the show went very
well, with about 70 in the audience. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When the conference was done, I
finally had an extra couple of days on the road to make a pass through
Greenwood, SC, and visit a couple friends there, and amongst the flow of ideas,
Bess Park (Director of the Greenwood Community Theatre) and I discussed the possibility
of a performance of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Twelfth Night</i> at
the GCT in the coming year. (during the actual “Twelfth Night” in January of
2013). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On to Charleston, South Carolina,
with a repeat performance of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Moliere than
Thou</i> at the College of Charleston, once again as the guest of the French
Department. Four years before, when I’d performed here, the show had been fun,
but the attendance by the theatre folks was minimal. I dropped a note to the
various professors, and decided to drop in at the theatre office. I poked my
head in to the Theatre Chair’s office, apologizing for the interruption and
introducing myself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Deadpan, the fellow behind the desk
answered “Oh yes… I know who you are.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Great. Just wanted to say hi…” I
remarked, drifting back out the door, and wondering whether I or he were the
rude one in this odd exchange.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The show, itself, went well, and I
worked my way back to Chicago. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Somewhere in here my son, Isaac,
announced his decision to attend the University of Michigan! Whoo!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had a long break, and while I was
staying over with April and Amber, we got word that Amber had been accepted to
my alma mater, Southern Illinois University (with a full scholarship!). She was trying to decide between
SIU and a few other schools, and I was gearing up for a performance at the
“other SIU” (SIU-Edwardsville), and so I suggested that I could go down early
and give them a tour of the campus. A former design professor of mine, Darwin
Payne, <a href="http://thesouthern.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/university-museum-shows-work-of-darwin-reid-payne/article_d62f7d22-79f3-11e1-bbdb-001a4bcf887a.html" target="_blank">had a retrospective showing at the SIU Museum</a>,
and so it made for a good excuse to kill about three birds with one stone. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I had predicted, Amber
immediately fell in love wth the SIU campus, and I showed off all of the places
I rememberd from undergrad years: Thompson Point, Quatro’s Pizza, the Crab
Orchard Spillway, Giant City. They returned home confident in their decision,
and I continued on to SIU-E, giving a couple of workshops and performing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Moliere than Thou</i> to a fun crowd. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From there I raced on to a workshop
at Rider University in New Jersey (they’ve already asked me to come back for a
visit next year), a workshop at Cushing Academy in Massachusetts and a
performance on “Shakespeare’s Birthday” at Mt. Desert Island High School in
Maine. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the way to Mt. Desert, I managed
to stop for a couple days’ visit with Eric Peterson and Kristen Langilier, old
friends from SIU. Eric had directed me in my first show at Southern (which
Kristen was in), and we’d remained in touch on-and-off for the last thirty
years, though we hadn’t seen each other at all. But when we met up again, it
felt like there had been no time lost at all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mt. Desert Island was part of the
Acadia National Park, a gorgeous area surrounded by tiny islands, although
they were in the midst of a cold and rainy season, and it poured rain most of
the time that I was there. The teacher and the students, however, had already
performed one of my Moliere scripts, winning their regional competition with
“Sganarelle.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From Maine I raced over to Keuka
College, in the midst of the Finger Lakes region of New York, performing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lot o’ Shakespeare</i> for a fellow I’d been
negotiating a visit with for practically the entire ten years that I’ve been on
the road. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This presentation had been arranged
last-minute, and the host had no idea how many people were likely to show up. When
the set-up of the slide show was such that it could only be completely seen
from the middle of the audience, my host pulled out the extra chairs that
wouldn’t have a perfect view, leaving perhaps forty chairs in the midst of the
audience platforms. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That evening, the curtain was delayed
as people were coming in late, and my host noted that they had set up several
more chairs, including an added row in the front of the audience. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The place was packed! There were at
least a hundred chairs, all filled, with another several standing in the back. I
felt completely in control. Following a very fun performance of Mercutio’s
“Queen Mab” speech (from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Romeo &
Juliet</i>), one woman sitting near the stage got up to make an early exit from
the audience. I looked at her and asked, with regard to Mercutio’s naughty
double entendre, “Was it the ‘dew dropping south’?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Spring Tour was not quite yet
done, but I had already begun the “Summer E-mail Campaign.” Counting up the
number of days that I had available to work my 12,000 e-mail mailing, I
realized that the semester would run out very early, and teachers would go home
for the summer well before they heard from me. And so, rather than wait, I
decided to chip away at the project early this year. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The final stop on the tour was a
return visit to Central Lakes College in Minnesota, where another old friend,
Patrick Spradlin, who’d had me in to perform two years before, was having me
back to do <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lot o’ Shakespeare</i> this
time around. Patrick’s assistant, Dwayna, had created a really cool flyer for
the show. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The show was a blast, and Patrick
and I got to visit a bit, talking about the possibility of getting me up to
direct a show in the coming year or so.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had been working up the new show, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Greatest Speech of All Time</i>
ongoingly through the spring tour, reciting speeches over and over and over
again as I drove, pushing my voice to the edge of what I could manage between
performances. In addition to the new show, which was slowly working toward
fruition, I was also reviving four other shows! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since I wasn’t entirely sure that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Greatest Speech</i> would be ready in time
for full presentation at the Fringe, I decided to revisit the entire “Timothy
Mooney Repertory” over the course of my first four fringe performances, and
then do a “World Premiere” presentation of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Greatest
Speech</i> to conclude my run. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At this point, I was finally working
on the last speech of the series. It turns out that I had more than enough
material to fill the hour, but was trying to determine how to approach Martin
Luther King. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unlike most of my other speeches, Martin Luther King’s voice would
be well known to my audience, and any attempt to replicate his sound felt flat
and uninspired. I might capture a fraction of the tone of his voice, but imitation
was, of necessity, a narrowing of the richness of Dr. King’s emotional palate
(and perhaps a sign of disrespect). What was more important was that I work
towards a belief in the words, and let the sound take care of itself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had put off studying the speech
until every other speech had already been memorized. And while “I have a Dream”
was the most popular, it felt too well known. I went, instead, for “I Have Been
to the Mountaintop.” And while I’d heard the climax of that speech many times,
I didn’t realize that Martin Luther King spent the opening of that speech
entertaining a broad vision of history, touching on the periods, and even many
of the individuals (Socrates, Lincoln, Roosevelt) whose speeches I had already memorized.
(He even quotes Roosevelt’s “Fear itself!) In other words, without any added
effort, Martin Luther King was taking my audience back through an overview of
most of the history that they had just witnessed. It was the perfect
conclusion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or so it seemed, and seems, to me,
at least.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But for now, I was trying to store
new words in my head. While trying to gain confidence with recently learned
words from the rest of the show. (I had only tested out a couple of these
speeches on trial audiences, and had no idea what quirks of performance energy
might overtake me as I spoke something out loud for the first time to an
audience which might actually REACT to my speaking.) Also, I was trying to
revive two plays that I only tended to perform about once-a-year, if at all,
along with reminding myself of the words of two other plays. The process of
revival was one which found me reciting again and again, and there were several
days that found me reciting words aloud for about eight hours. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh, and I was also trying to MARKET
all five of these plays to an audience that had to be sold anew on each play,
none of which would benefit from the “buzz” of the audience who saw the show
and spread the word (unless they had, in fact, seen these shows years before). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was staying with a new host in
Orlando (Albear), who lived a bit farther from the Fringe site, given that the
Pergandes were full-up with two performers who were without cars for the course
of the festival. Albear lived near to a walking trail, and I found myself
walking it on a daily basis, drilling lines as I went. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With good weather and a new Artistic
Director, attendence was better than ever at the Orlando Fringe, though
attendance at my shows seemed much more limited. Given that four of my five
shows had been produced there before, even the fans of those particular shows
had a greater commitment to “seeing the new stuff,” and I averaged about 40
people per performance (though there were a couple of people who did come to
multiple shows this time around, and one fellow who was in attendance for all
five)!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was doing substantially less partying
at this fringe, given that I was doubling and tripling my preparation time
prior to each performance. (While I’m glad that I managed to pull this off, if
only to be able to say that I did it, this is clearly the last time I try to
pull off this parlor trick!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eventually, on the last night of the
festival, with the four established shows behind me, I performed <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Greatest Speech of All Time</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had no idea how this would go
over. I had tested my Socrates and Frederick Douglass speeches for select
friends, and the Mark Antony speech was a staple of my Shakespeare show, but
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Teddy Roosevelt’s “Speech after Having Been
Shot,” FDR’s “Fear Itself,” Churchill’s three WWII speeches and Martin Luther
King’s “Mountaintop” speech were all a blank slate for me. What’s more, the
show was barely coming in under an hour in my rehearsals at home. I had no idea
how much time playing to an audience might add.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pre show: The hoped-for YouTube link
to the Phil Davison Campaign speech didn’t work, and was jettisoned as we (silently)
let the audience in the door. (Attendance for this new show jumped to about 75
people!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Introduction: The intro was rocking!
The audience was laughing at my jokes and even applauded an especially lengthy
sentence that I’d spiraled my way into, during which I explained (with
reference to my Mark Antony and Henry V speeches):</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“These
were, of course, fictionalized versions of actual speeches, but there was
something about the life-and-death stakes of the speech, the intense commitment
of the speaker, and the rhetorical heights into which the speaker would spiral,
using irony and hyperbole to tease and toy the attention of the audience,
ripping them out of their passive indifference and whipping them into a state
of fury and frenzy, grasping the shared goal that stood before them all,
understanding its contextual significance and launching them into bold and
decisive action.” (Applause.)</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At that point, I knew that I “had
them.” They were applauding sentence construction! If they liked what I was
saying, personally, just wait until I moved into some of the greatest sentences
ever constructed!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I did, however, make one crucial
mistake: Having inserted one gratuitous joke into the narrative (because I just
can’t resist saying that I have “ruthlessly cut some of these monologues down
in length… Ruth not being available to make the cutting…”), the audience
laughed at some length. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hyper-aware of how little extra time
I had built into my performance, I actually raised my hands to put the “brakes”
on their laughter, noting that I had a lot to get through in our limited time.
Immediately I knew this was a bad choice. Never chastise your audience for
responding! (I could feel them going a little bit cold on me for the next
speech or two.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Socrates: My Socrates speech is
probably the one that I’m now the most confident with, given that I’ve been
working on him for about 10 months now. It comes out very naturally, and with a
certain easy charm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mark Antony: While I’m exceptionally
confident in this speech, I found that the slowdown in the intro to the show
already had me behind the changing simultaneous slide show. The new
introduction to this piece (different from the way I present it in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lot o’ Shakespeare</i>) found me rattled,
and a bit awkward. The speech itself went well, but I was trying to make up
time, and resisting the full throated “MUTINY!” that usually ends this speech,
given that I had much speakin’ yet to do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Frederick Douglass: Here, I was hitting
my stride again. This is a speech that almost no one knows, but which
manipulates rhetorical devices in an astonishingly effective manner, and it,
too, was established well enough in my delivery to come off very well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Address” suffers from over-familiarity. Clearly, there are people in the
audience who know this one very well, and even have it memorized already. And
yet, this show could never quite work without it. (After the show, I received
notes from one audience member who suggested several changes in emphasis, such
as that “OF the people, BY the people and FOR the people” should go “of the
PEOPLE, by the PEOPLE and for the PEOPLE.” Another insisted that this speech
should end the show, given it’s inherent popularity and power… even though that
would break the chronological through-line of the piece.) People feel
possessive of these things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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relief” of the show, and it worked terrifically. The greatness of the speech
itself is not its composition, but the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">fact</b>
of the speech, in light of his having gotten shot, moments before its delivery,
and his repeated insistence on delivering the speech anyway. Roosevelt refuses
to take his injury seriously, and neither do we. Late in the speech, I have the
slides shift to a smug photo of Roosevelt I’d found on-line with the caption:
“I don’t always get shot during the middle of a speech… But when I do, I finish
the damn speech.” The timing of the slide shifts were pre-programmed, and I was
focusing on remembering my lines, but I could tell that the slide had changed
when I heard the audience laughing boisterously at an otherwise serious moment
of the speech.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Franklin Delano Roosevelt: This was
another speech I feared would suffer from over-familiarity. I had made some
recent cuts to the speech to tighten up the evening overall. This was the only
speech in which I actually needed the podium. (Roosevelt had been stricken with
polio nine years prior, and was holding himself up at the time.) To some
degree, I was (uncomfortably) “cheating,” as I put the text on the podium
before me, and glanced at it from time to time, if only to save myself
“thinking time.” But while “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”
resonated well, it was the late assertion that “There must be a strict
supervision of all banking, credits and investments; There must be an end to
speculation with OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY!” led the audience to break into
spontaneous cheers and applause. In that moment the two worlds of Roosevelt’s
audience and my audience overlapped, and it felt like theatre magic. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Winston Churchill: I do cuttings of
three of Churchill’s best-known speeches: “Blood, toil, tears and sweat,” “We
shall fight them on the beaches” and “This was their finest hour” in the course
of about five minutes. They seemed to go well enough, and at least one audience
member cited them as his favorite. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Martin Luther King: This was my
last-memorized piece, and perhaps the most effective. I introduce this speech
with the brief reminder that it was delivered on April 3, 1968, “the day before
Dr. King was assassinated,” which created a level of irony surrounding what was
to follow. This was an emotional (rather than comic) irony, as King describes a
knife attack that he’d suffered in a brush with death years before, and moves
on to his assertion that “Like anybody, I would like to live a long life;
longevity has its place…” It was around this time that I’d instructed the
technician to begin what was almost the only real “cue” in the course of the
play, which was to slowly fade out the audience lights, which had remained on
for the entire play. It had the effect of isolating King in space and riveting
the attention of the audience on the climax of this particular speech. It
doubled the awareness of the impending loss that was to follow. Afterwards, I
heard from several people that this scene had brought them to tears. (People
don’t usually report being brought to tears by my performances... this was a
new experience for me.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had given the audience space in
the program to comment on the show and, in addition to the notes on Lincoln’s
“Gettysburg Address” and two requests for Kennedy’s “Ask not what your country
can do for you…” were these:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Thank you <u>so</u> much for your <u>amazing</u>
performance. I’ve never been interested in speeches or memorization before, but
watching you has made me want to read more speeches and learn more about the
people who gave them.” (J.O.)</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Thank you for paying so much homage
to language and to our history. Come to Valencia College and inspire our
students…” (Tess Nater)</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“This show moved me and you
expressed such beautifuly said words by the original speaker, so well said by
you.” (Anon)</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Amazing! It could be longer!”
(Syreena)</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Fantastic! I would encourage you to
continue promoting the great orators.” (Rob Orwiler)</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before the night was out, there was
actually a review in the Orlando Sentinel. I had assumed that the Sentinel
wouldn’t bother with a review this time, considering that there was only one
performance being given, and no chance to promote the event to another
audience. But…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Longtime Fringe performer
Timothy Mooney took an unusual approach to the Orlando Fringe Festival this year. Under the umbrella title "The Compleat
Repertory," he presented one performance each of his various shows from prior Fringes in his time slots.<br /><o:p></o:p></span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sunday night, though, he debuted
his latest show, titled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Greatest
Speech of All Time</i>. Mooney knows something about great writing: Previous
shows have seen him reciting Shakespearean monologues and the writings of
playwright Moliere.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Greatest Speech</i>… Mooney mines the words of great historical
figures from Socrates to Winston Churchill. In other words, his source
material is strong.<br /><o:p></o:p></span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In a shrewd move, Mooney
mixes in surprise offerings with the speeches we've all heard before. I
realized to my chagrin I had never heard Frederick Douglass’s powerful 1852
anti-slavery speech. Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" may be much more
commonplace, but how does one do a show about great speeches without it?</span></blockquote>
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doesn't try to mimic the famous speakers —
rather you get a hint of the speech's tone and inflections, a tinge of Southern
drawl for Martin Luther King's "I've been to the mountaintop" speech,
or that vaguely patrician accent for Franklin Roosevelt's "fear
itself" speech.<br /><o:p></o:p></span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can
tell it's a new work — the projected backgrounds weren't always in sync with
the speaking, and Mooney uncharacteristically stumbled a few times. Yet he was
always brought back on track by the power of those great words. (Matthew Palm,
Orlando Sentinel)</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thankfully, I had my dear friend,
Tisse Mallon (proprietor of the fantastic new “<a href="http://www.facebook.com/thesporkcafe" target="_blank">Spork Café</a>”), at the show with
camera in hand, taking a number of shots that came out looking great. I
e-mailed my favorite photos on to Marcus Fernando in Croatia (who had done my <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lot o’ Shakespeare</i> photoshopping), and
he responded with another terrific amalgamation. This one, which introduced
this particular blog entry, repays close examination. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I gave myself one more day in town
before I was off to the races once again… I headed straight back to Chicago,
determined to finish the big e-mail campaign (now with new reviews to quote for
the new show). <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had one quick pause to see <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxZXeiRgdXQ" target="_blank">Kirsten performing</a> with the North Shore Chamber Music Festival. She performed the sign language interpretation to a violin/narrative interpretation of "Ferdinand the Bull," totally charming the audience, and leading me to dub her as "America's premiere sign language performer." After twenty years of raising her son (who is now off, studying in New York), Kirsten is ready to get back into performing in a big way. (The performance at the Chamber Music Festival has already won her invitations to perform in Spain and Croatia.) </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I interrupted the project to make a
side trip to Detroit with my Dad (newly moved back to Arlington Heights), where
we attended my son, Isaac’s graduation from high school. While I suppose I
should not have been surprised, I caught my breath a little when they read out
his name at the graduation ceremony. Following the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">name “Isaac Arthur Mooney,”
they announced, with weighty resonance “Diploma cum laude.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Subsequent to his graduation, Isaac
has been named an “<a href="http://www.inswim.net/aabacad2012.html" target="_blank">Academic All American</a>!” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A week after my return to Chicago
(where I finally finished the mega e-mail campaign!), I was off again, this
time with April to celebrate Sabra Steurmer’s 50<sup>th</sup> birthday in
Chattanooga. (She’s a gorgeous 50!) We’d managed to keep secret from her that I
was coming along on this trip, and I was delighted by the excitement that
bubbled from her when I popped out from around the corner for the surprise! She
may have been turning 50, but she was as ebullient as a little girl. Two days
later, when April continued back to Chicago, I made one last dash to Edmond,
Oklahoma to pick up the stuff that I’d left behind in storage (last October)!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In Chicago once more, I knuckled
down to prepare for the coming conference season, drawing up new flyers that
incorporated the new show, as well as another big banner, both of which
prominently feature some of the great photoshopping that Marcus has done. I was also working with my <a href="http://myenvoy.com/index.php3" target="_blank">webmaster</a>, Bruce, on adding the new show to <a href="http://www.timmooneyrep.com/" target="_blank">the website</a>, which has had yet another facelift. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Somewhere in there, I started this
blog entry… and paused to race off to the International Thespian Fest in
Lincoln, NE.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was up at 4 am to make the drive,
arriving early enough to adjudicate the individual events monologue
competition, and settle in to my booth in the Leid Center lobby. Once again, I
seemed to be in the middle of one of the more fun nooks in the lobby display
area, as students were constantly drawn to the table past mine (which had great
theatre chachkis for sale), and the tables across from me, which featured a
couple of fellows who’d developed an improvisation app for the i-phone, and a
booth which promoted an orchestra backup music program… a system which fills
out your orchestra with the instrumental parts that they cannot cover (<a href="http://www.rms.biz/" target="_blank">Realtime Music Solutions</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We all became fast friends in our
corner, and I, once again, encouraged students to spin my bingo ball cage,
performing whatever Shakespeare monologue came out. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first night of the festival, I
went to see the production of “Tarzan” that was happening in the Leid Center,
the 2000+ seat venue filled with enthusiastic students. There are always
announcements that delay the start of these shows, and this particular night
they were showing a video, introducing the crowd to the <a href="http://schooltheatre.org/" target="_blank">Educational Theatre Association</a> (the parent company of the Thespian Festival). And as they narrated
over clips from past festivals, they ran major captions of the missions of the
festival: “Advocacy,” “Teaching” and “Performance.” I was startled to see
myself featured (twice) prominently over the caption of “Teaching,” in the
midst of one of the workshops that I’d given the previous year. The video is
not yet available on-line, but I’ll post a link to it on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/Molierelover" target="_blank">my Facebook page</a>, and
add it here, when it is ready. (My friend Linda, from Dramatic Publishing, may have been the only one in the crowd who actually recognized it as me... but I knew it was me from the <i>Lot o' Shakespeare</i> t-shirt I was wearing!) AND, <o:p></o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also got to grab coffee with Laurie (Martinez) Lessman, who has been living in Lincoln pretty much since I was in grad school there in the 80s! (I was extremely grateful to be caught up with news of other old school friends.)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The traffic was on-and-off, and
there were long, dull, boring phases of manning the booth, but there was also
some genuine interest. There were students who had seen me perform live at various points around the globe, and also people who had already read my book. One student's mom noted that her husband was also an actor, and when he was struggling with a role, her son had provided him with a list of ideas from my book to help him focus on his character. He now has those thoughts framed and hanging on his wall! (I've asked for a copy...) </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I currently estimate that the Festival appearance may lead to another
half-dozen bookings in the coming year. Add this to the many bookings for the
coming fall (about 11 confirmed, still two months out from the fall semester),
and I should be doing pretty well in the coming year. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Miles on the Escape</b>: 116,500<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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not<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of the bonsais! Anticipating the new disc from Producers (“<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Made-Basing-Street-Producers/dp/B007UPP8FU/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1341337063&sr=1-1&keywords=made+in+basing+street" target="_blank">Made in Basing Street</a>”), featuring all-time favorites Lol Crème and Trevor Horn (getting rave
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to get the word out more quickly, but without the in depth contemplation and
perspective that the blog allows me. * The growing diversity of my work (two
books, three major shows…) leaves me with less time for the “extras” that I
used to be able to dash off. * Ten years of touring seem to have curtailed the
excitement around my tour. I inspire fewer people to run off and join the
circus than I used to. * Part of what works about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lot o’ Shakespeare</i> is the combination of “structure” with “sideways
entries to the language of Shakespeare.” I pick up these monologues in the
midst of what grabs my idiosyncratic sense of what intrigues me, but then I
express them within a structured vision of how the monologues are built. * Double
and triple-check every schedule! * The nature of my tour schedule is such that
I end up doing most of my marketing when most of my potential clients are on
vacation (Summer and Christmas breaks). The ability to get some of the work
done during my “busy season” enables me to catch my best customers when they
are “home.” * Sometimes it’s more important to focus on a belief in the words,
and let the sound take care of itself. * Sometimes, it’s simply the ability to
construct an elaborate sentence and make it work that lights the audience up. *
Never chastise the audience for responding! * Occasionally the present world
and the theatrical world overlap, resulting in theatre magic. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next performance: Moliere than Thou at the <a href="http://www.frenchteachers.org/convention/" target="_blank">American Association of Teachers of French</a> (Chicago, IL), July 6, 2012 and <a href="http://www.timmooneyrep.com/kc/" target="_blank">The Greatest Speech of All Time at the Kansas City Fringe Festival</a>, July 21-28!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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tim_mooney@earthlink.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10251175800373730254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9359867.post-81585391680194500232012-04-28T11:36:00.002-07:002012-04-28T11:42:57.636-07:00Happy Birthday, Shakespeare!<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks, Shakespeare, or whoever you are… too humble, too
noble, to take a bow without bringing shame to your family… or attention to yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks to you, I have a job today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks to you, maybe 20% of the actors in live theatre are
able to sustain careers. Your existence is the closest thing we have going towards
an “Actor Full Employment Act.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks to you, perhaps, the live theatre exists as a going
concern… as something other than a relentless parade of musicals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks to you, perhaps, the English language exists as a
going concern. 450 or so years ago, you gave us a language upon which we could
hang our hats. Words that cemented thoughts in place… Thoughts that cemented
characters in place… characters that cemented ideas in place… Ideas that put a
frame around life as we have known it for 400 or so years.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today I got to recite a bunch of words to an audience that
DID NOT CARE that they had been spoken a million times before. I got to pretend
that I was the first guy who ever thought of phrasing these ideas this
particular way… and the audience laughed and gasped and sighed as if they were
the first audience that ever heard these particular words… understood these
particular thoughts… recognized these particular characters or grasped those
particular ideas. They put a frame around life that was unimaginable before
those lights came up, and that moment realized itself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And they walked out tonight understanding themselves better,
having seen a perfect deceit, witnessed a perfect murder, battled a perfect
enemy, mocked a perfect fool, scorned a perfect knave. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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character, or a particular trait or foible brings these plays into a space in
which they resonate with the collective unconscious. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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represent all indecision and ambivalence, just as Othello has come to represent
all all-consuming jealousy, Macbeth all “vaulting ambition,” R&J all
“star-crossed lovers,” Bottom all ham actors…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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embodying a prototypical ideal, that one wonders whether, had there been no
Shakespeare (or whatever his name was), would we not have created these
characters all over again by ourselves… assuming that the theatre of this
alternate universe had survived the creation of the movies, TV or the internet.
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have more closely resembled the infinite number of monkeys with their infinite
number of typewriters trying to bang out “King Lear.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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near as good as the one that you helped us to realize.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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