So
there was this state theater festival, really, no foolin’, Washington state, in
Bremerton, a fabled land strewn with festive naval ship parts and (I kid you
not) street-corner art of a fish fly-catching a fisherman. And a puppet museum near my hotel. It’s like the gods saw me coming, grabbed me
by the ankles, dangled me upside down, and took all my discretionary cash.
But
mainly there was a theater festival that was so good, we mispronounce words to
indicate how good it was – it was UH-mazing; it was fan-TAS-tic; it was
HUH-larious; it was Rana-lana-drama-ding-dong-diddly-well
done. (Y’see Rana Tan ran the festival;
that’s why that’s funny. Oops –
explaining my jokes, that’s not a good thing.
Forget I did that – move it along, nothing to see here folks . . .)
So on
WSCTA’s fb page and other places you can find the Plays Going to Regional
(Bremerton Community Theater’s The Thread
Men and Spokane Civic Theatre’s The
Turn of the Screw) and the winners of the Adjudicator awards (do you expect
facts in every parenthetical statement?
Disappointed much?) and the member-voted WSCTA Betty Wills Treasure
Award (Bremerton Community Theater’s The
Thread Men) and the Ralph Eaton New Horizon Award for First Time Entry to
the Kaleidoscope Festival (which went to The Changing Scene Theatre Northwest,
which previously went to the festival ten years ago . . . yes, there’s a future
board meeting where I have some ‘xplainin’ to do . . .), so I won’t waste any
time going into details about this, except to give you the FULL SKINNY (just
noticed that’s an oxymoron) on the results of my favorite award: the WSCTA Magic Moment Award.
Pretend (it’s a theater association- you should be familiar with the
concept of pretend) you didn’t go to the festival. OK, maybe less crying. Hey, don’t rend that shirt, you’re gonna need
that – not the LAMP, it’s part of a set!
Not a theatrical set, I mean it matches the other lamps. ALL RIGHT ALL RIGHT, stop pretending. Yeesh, last time I use that “pretend”
set-up. So listen to me explain to you,
who didn’t attend, what theater is.
We create
memories. We pour hours of time into
creating for audiences moments that will become memories. To the band of happy few who were at
Bremerton last weekend, we share these memories, and as we reconnect over time,
we vibrate with the special friction that is common experience. For those who were not there, we have a
record of amazing moments.
The
WSCTA members get to vote for the Magic Moment award, where each member chooses
their favorite moment from the festival.
We handed an award to the one that got the most votes (that’s the one in
bold below), but to give you the
slightest inkling how SPEC-TAC-U-LAR (whoops, that’s how that’s actually
pronounced) this festival was, here’s a list of EVERY MAGIC MOMENT in our vote
box.
Because
I think our members captured the event better than I could (and you can find me
trying in whimsical synopsizes on fB.)
So
without further ado, THE MAGIC MOMENTS of KALEIDOSCOPE ‘13, according to those
who were there and voted, alphabetically-ish, with (shows in parantheses),
unless the whole dang show’s a moment (happened twice!) and (no-duh) SPOILER
ALERT:
Adolfo
(The Drowsy Chaperone)
Death
by Chopstick in Neck; “Misfortune” (Didn’t
See That Coming)
Death
of Miles (The Turn of the Screw)
Dropping
the Cell Phone in the Flower Vase (God of
Carnage)
Elevator
Drop (The Thread Men)
Eric
Spenser, actor (The Thread Men)
Exercise/Gym/Treadmill
Segment (Seriously Menopausal)
God
of Carnage
John
Collins Breaking Down (The Thread Men)
Man
in Chair’s Delight in Sharing Music (The
Drowsy Chaperone)
Monkeys!
(The Drowsy Chaperone)
Nurse
Carrying the Baby Stage Left (The Long
Christmas Dinner)
Opening
the Elevator That Was Not Supposed to Work (The
Thread Men)
Telegram
Revealed When Sam Dies (The Long
Christmas Dinner)
This
Property is Condemned
Wrong
Record Played/The Emperor’s Nightingale (The
Drowsy Chaperone)
Shoulda been there.
Unless
you were. Remember all that? Yeah, me too.
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