WWC Theatre Alumni Blog

Picture of Nate as Count Youskovitch, the villian.

Hi Lorna, Casey, and Miles,
Yes we just closed our show last weekend. It was well received. It was a pretty good show inspite of the fact that it was almost all first year students. Nate was in the show and played the villian. The audience loved him and gave him an ovation every night when he left the stage. He did a great job. The students have a lot of talent. Now I need to do a series of performances with the singing group. I have arranged a program for them I call "Songs of Youth". It is a bunch of childhood songs with movement. I plan to perform it for elementary schools and senior citizen homes and anyone else interested. Miles? Are you making plans to come down this summer? We would want you here by May 15. What is the status?

Billy

Hey Everybody!
This blog looked a little barren for the month of October, so I thought that I should post one since I haven't in about a year or so. I was awarded an internship this last summer at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center with the Cody Firearms Museum. I did various jobs for them which got me some good experience in the museum world as well as earned some college credit. I am now working on my last smester at University of Wyoming and will FINALLY graduate this coming December with my bachelors degree in history!!!! It is about time, sometimes I thought the school and book-reading would never end! As far as doing things in theatre, I was in a Cody Community Theatre production this last summer of "The Fantastiks", where I played "Henry" the old British actor. It was pretty fun, but nothing like the fun of doing one of Billy's shows. Other than that, nothing really interesting has been going on where I am, just trying to keep up with school so that I don't fail anything on my last semester and not graduate. I am also beginning to look around for graduate programs at different schools. Does anybody know any good graduate programs for history that they would recommend? That is probably a stupid question to ask on a theatre blog, but oh-well. Congrats on your master's degree Dan! Have fun remodeling your theatre Lorna Lu! Billy, what kind of rain did you get down there with the Hurricane and all? I know that you are farther inland, but those hurricanes can move a long way before they run out of gas. Well, talk to you all later.
Miles.
P.S. Nate, how is the TD job at Cisco going?

Nate and Billy: I figured you guys must be close to doing your show and so I looked on the cjctheatre.com website and saw that you perform this week. Break a leg!

I've been busy with school. I like my classes. My intellectual property classes are great and I'm learning a lot about copyright and trademarks. I just saw Lisa a couple days ago. I was invited to be on the board of directors with her for the Syren Modern Dance company. It looks like it will be a good opportunity for me. Lisa seems to be doing well.

I went and saw a new Broadway production of Sweeney Todd last week. It had only been open here for 3 days. It was a lot of fun. They did something that you would do Billy; they cut the cast down to a minimal number of people--10--and then had them play instruments to accompany the show. It was really cool. They had a few chairs on each side of the stage and most of them started out there with their instrument and as the story unfolded, they would get up and move about the stage. Sometimes, they'd play and sing at the same time. Others would move and play at the same time. I had so much respect for them--especially after this summer.

How is the fence coming? Have you had time to work on it at all? Is it finally starting to cool off down there?

Casey