Opening

Photo by Carol Rosegg

Tonight is opening night (matinee) and after three full-house energizing previews we are now fully prepared to rock it for the rest of the run.

It's difficult to express how much fun it was to rehearse this. Every single person brought intelligence, sophistication and craft to their roles, and every day as characters began to take shape it became harder and harder not to break in the middle of scenes. Robert's direction is so deft and the designers so in concert that we were still laughing our heads off during tech working out musical bits, parading costumes around and making some stage magic from the set.

I have learned a lot from the last few shows and cannot wait to get out there tonight.

All details can be found here at the Roundtable website.

Here it is in print:

Goodbye Cruel World

by Nikolai Erdman

adapted and directed by Robert Ross Parker

from a literal translation by Marina Raydun

The ArcLight Theater

152 W71st St. Downstairs (1 Train to 72nd)

Jan 14th - Feb 6th

Thursdays - Saturdays @ 8pm

Saturday Matinees @ 3pm

with Paco Tolson, William Jackson Harper, Cindy Cheung, Curran Connor, Tami Stronach and Aaron Roman Weiner.

Lights and Set: Nick Francone

Costumes: Theresa Squire and Antonia Ford-Roberts

Sound and Music: Shane Rettig

Stage Manager: Henry Cheng

Assistant Director: Adam Mazer