Saturday, September 12, 2009

Nuts in Sayreville

It's been a long time coming ... with my having been away from "serious" theater (of the dramatic kind and not the fluffy musical kind) for many years, actually ... I've had the great fortune of working on a local community theater's production of Tom Topor's play "Nuts" ... at the Main Street Theatre Company (www.smstc.org).
One of the more exciting and fulfilling moments in all of this was seeing my DW take on a dramatic role ... she's known in these parts much more for her musical theater prowess and character roles than in the more contemporary, serious, non-musical ones.
I was so proud of her! And indeed proud of the entire cast.
My role was as producer - which in the world of community theater means the schlepp that has to get things done - mostly tasks that are no fun (like run around the town putting up signs or searching for props or mopping the stage floor). But even though it wasn't an artistic adventure for me, specifically, it was a very fulfilling one.