Season Kick-Off
Posted by Jay Geneske on 10/03/2007
On October 1, over 400 subscribers, annual fund donors and multi-ticket buyers attended the 32nd Season Kick-Off Celebration. Guests joined ensemble members Martha Lavey, Amy Morton and Eric Simonson as well as casting director Erica Daniels for a conversation about the upcoming season. Sylvia Ewing announced the 2007-08 Traffic line up, which includes acts like David Sedaris, Tatsu Aoki and The Pocketbook Monologues. After cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and a backstage tour, guests explored behind-the-scenes stations that showcased Steppenwolf’s production department, multimedia features, Visiting Company Initiative and Steppenwolf for Young Adults.
We all piled into a giant van after four hours of rehearsal on Sunday afternoon - all five members of our cast, our lighting designer, our stage manager, and our technical director. The entire experience felt an awful lot like the class trip we all took to Washington, DC (or Six Flags, maybe) in middle school. Another van met us in NY and took us to each of our respective apartments (all separate) in New York. I haven’t heard from Lauren or Kobie yet, but Amy says she feels like Doris Day in hers. Tomorrow is a twelve hour day - thank god - since we have an audience the very next day. This experience is destined to feel like a race - although I think we all feel more ready than we ever did over the summer after only six days of rehearsal. Still, I’m sure we’d all appreciate as many prayers and blessings as possible this week!