Posted by Bryan Hong on February 12, 1999 at 01:06:49:
Week of: Monday, 7 February 1999 posted by Bryan Hong on February 12, 1999 at 00:55:24:
So last week was the run of the UCSD show, Big Love. It was this year's Quinn-Martin production, which basically is the last big shindig for all the 3rd year grad students who will be graduating in March.
It went very well, and I must say, I will really miss seeing these 3rd years around. They are some of the most talented, entertaining, and unforgettable people I have ever met in my entire life.
This show got great press, and it got an even better review in the San Diego Reader.
I mean, the UCSD Department of Theatre and Dance is just so high caliber. It is ranked #3 in the nation among graduate drama programs. These guys here are the best of the best. The people that work in the shops for the La Jolla Playhouse (winner of the 1993 Tony Award for best regional theatre, with artistic director Michael Greif of Rent fame) are the same people that the UCSD students work with, and we share all the same facilities. We have an incredible faculty here with some very famous people, all of whom have, and still do, work professionally.
It's just awesome.
It's just kinda sad though. Because when I think about it, I will probably never work with this caliber of people ever again in my whole life. Oh well.
As I said, the show went great. It was a work-in-progress play, brand new, by Chuck Mee, one of the great living American Playwrites. Many of his plays are in the public domain and are available for download at http://www.panix.com/~meejr/.
Big Love isn't on there yet. I wrote him some e-mail and he actually wrote me back. I keep opening up my Eudora just to see "Chuck Mee" in my inbox. It's totally cool.
It's the end of week 6 and I still haven't missed a class yet. I am so amazed at myself. I actually have motivation. It is totally sickening.
Apparently, Zac and Karen have set a date for their wedding, April 22, 2000. And I've been asked to be a groomsman. How cool.