It did feel like an “if you build it, they will come kind of moment.” And it has become that for us. And again, no judgment, they make their money, but we’re ready for something fresh. I can’t go from this crazy adults experience to some family friendly Christmas Carol production, like so many other theater companies. This show has really changed how I’m looking at the rest of our programming. And to be clear, I think there’s a place for all of it, I’ve just realized that’s not my place, my place is to do some new stuff, but maybe nobody else is doing in town. These people do not go see theater elsewhere, it’s a diverse audience, it’s a younger audience, and they are thrilled to see something that they actually want to see. And we didn’t know who was going to come see it.īut we have proven, in our first show, that there is an audience for theater under the age of 60, who are coming out in droves.
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And this maybe sounds full of myself, full of ourselves, but we didn’t know how cool it was going to be. When we started this company, and we accidentally purchased a building, I’m like, “okay, I don’t want to do anything like anyone else.” So, from the artistic products to how we treat our performers, how we pay our performers, how we rehearse a show, how we relate to one another, not only is the artistic product different, but the way we have constructed it is different. I should start writing my own thing.” And so, this kind of was born from that a couple of years ago and writing things. He didn’t mean to inspire me, but it did. it took somebody, actually a hater online who was critiquing me for “changing” the intent of artist’s work on a show like Sound of Music or something. Kathleen and I both grew up here, and I’ve worked in a lot of different places and under a lot of different constraints artistically. So, it’s a highly physical show, but there’s kind of no way to not get wrapped up in like how awesome it is and what you’re seeing, you know, these people will accomplish in front of you in these really interesting sets.ĭonald: I’ve been creating in Orlando for, I’m sad to say, 20 years now.
So, we were creating sort of like in the moment with the dancers, and we just happened to have an incredible cast of dancers who have also really been pushed to create characters for themselves. Kathleen: We had six different set designers work on this. It’s either very gratuitous, which is fun, or very conservative, and we wanted to really, you know, liven things up and present sexuality in an exciting and different way, but the way you see it done in big cities. We are making a show about vampires that is completely understandable, and we want people to just love the show.” And actually, the sexual nature of the show is another thing that really, we focused on, because in central Florida, in Orlando, you don’t see sex portrayed in this way, in my opinion. So, Kathleen and I have a tendency of doing some of that highbrow, weird artsy stuff, and I said from day one, “this is us selling out. Honestly, that was kind of our North Star, was creating an experience that non theater people, non-artistic people, not only would be drawn to, but once they got here would understand it, would love it, and also get spoon-fed pieces of artistry that they would never normally encounter. We dictate a little bit more of what the audience is doing, but we still have moments of choice, really immersive moments, one-on-one, and personalized experiences, which we tried to take the best of Sleep No More, but we tried to water it down a little bit and make it very accessible to a commercial audience. I think a difference though, is I kind of viewed some of the challenges that I think people have with Sleep no More, especially on a first viewing and without context, we try to solve some of those. Donald: First I’ll say, obviously, I think every creative, post Sleep No More, draws at least a little bit of inspiration from Sleep No More, and we certainly did.
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