Role in Boeing-Boeing, and public reading for Mrs. Loring!

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I have two cool pieces of news for my career in the theater!

I've gotten a role in a professional show with Zero Point, the theater company I work for, called Boeing-Boeing. It is a silly, not totally tasteful but funny comedy show about a Parisian bachelor who juggles three flight attendant girlfriends because their flights call them away at different times, but is finding that faster jets means his schedules are starting to collapse into one another. I am playing Gabriella, the Italian girl with Alitalia. That means I have to practice my Italian accent! This is a very different sort of show than I usually do and I like this cast a lot, and I'm really excited to have gotten into a professional show. It's going up in the First Church of Boston downtown October 17th-20th. I hope you'll join me to hear my cheesy accent and see me look cute in a sixties stewardess uniform.

Also, Zero Point is giving me an opportunity to have a staged reading for my new full-length play, Mrs. Loring! It's the play I wrote for my thesis, inspired by and a prequel of sorts to The Tailor of Riddling Way. The summary:

"Young society wife Elizabeth Loring had everything she ever wanted, until her husband's death in World War I left her too emotionally shattered to live her life or care for her now-fatherless newborn daughter. At a loss, she has come to convalesce is an upscale mental hospital that provides comfort but traps troubled women in a cage of their own helplessness. But when she meets a young woman named Ginny in danger of being consumed by both her illness and the hospital itself, Elizabeth finds a new identity as a force of independence and strength in the face of an oppressive institution."

It will be going up in the Arsenal Center for the Arts black box in Watertown at 8PM on Thursday, August 29th. I'm still in the process of casting and assigning parts, but I do know that Elizabeth Loring will be read by the phenomenal Caitlin Patridge, and Ginny by the talented Samantha LeVangie, and I am extremely excited about that. I hope you will come and hear this piece presented by these talented actors. I've got rehearsals to arrange and editing to do, and I am determined to make this piece the best it can possibly be. Come out and help me develop this new piece!

Comments

[laura47.livejournal.com]

Boeing-Boeing!!! I saw that on Broadway actually, I'd love to see it again, I laughed myself sick. The maid or whoever she was was played by Christine Baranski. :)

[laurion]

I love that black box!