Hi, everyone. Like all of you, everyone involved with City College Theatre is adjusting to the "new normal" of hunkering down and staying home due to the mandate by the governor, as well as common sense and decency to keep from contaminating anyone else.
We've had some disappointments in the last week. The fifth annual New Play Festival closed early, and the cast only got to do four of its six performances. And our spring production of Urinetown will not open in April. The cast had put in five weeks of incredibly hard work, and we're hopeful to be able to do the show in the fall. Stay tuned.
Theatre is a three-dimensional art form. Part of the joy of theatre is its ephemeral nature. No two performances are alike. That's why watching a filmed version of a play is just not the same as seeing it in person. Audience members are in communion with one another, all seeing the same show unfolding in real time.
Theatre without a live audience feels very strange, but it's what we're grappling with these days.
But we want to hear from you, our community members! What are you doing these days? Are you watching any great plays online? Reading great scripts? Practicing your monologues? Connecting virtually with other theatre friends? Please respond in the comments below.
In today's Union-Tribune, the Artistic Director of the Old Globe Theatre, Barry Edelstein, wrote a moving tribute to theatre all over the world during this challenging time; here is the link.
Stay healthy--we'll be back soon!
