It’s been a few weeks, and I don’t think better photos are just going to miraculously appear so I am going to just have to post what I’ve got.
You probably already know that I have found myself with two jobs. If I can even call my second a job, for don’t you have to actually earn some money for what you do to be called a job? Otherwise, isn’t it actually called volunteering? I teamed up with my friends Kye-Won Kopko and Doug Burney to give Northern Virginia an alternative children’s theater company. We successfully completed our first community-wide musical a few weeks ago. And by successful, I mean our ledger ended in black.
When I work on a show, I can’t just produce. I have to get my nose into the Design of the show. I obsess over the LOOK. I insist that the PR material, the sets and the costumes complement the tone of the script. You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown was an easy show to clarify stylistically. I drew the sets based on a rather obsessive study of Charles Schulz and his style.
Thanks to one amazing woman, Carol Hostetter, and her husband, Joe, I am very proud of the way the sets turned out:
If I get more photos, I will add them. Next time I will be sure to take some of the stage lit but without actors.
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Well Denise, you have such great talent and a good ‘eye’ for design as seen in the set, programs, posters and everything else in the show. I was very impressed, and I’ve been part of about 450 productions in my life so far. All of you made this show something the Cramer Center could point to as how a children’s theatre production should be done. Thank you! Job well done!
Thank you so much, Steve! I can honestly say, that was one of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me!
*Note for Readers* Steve owns the theater where we performed our show.
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