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Anonymous Theatre
One of the Portland theatre community's big annual events was earlier this week - the 6th Anonymous Theatre!
Picture this...auditions are held. Private auditions.
The show is cast secretly. Not even the actors know who is in the show with them.
Rehearsals are run on a one-on-one basis. No one meets anyone else, but work with the director alone.
More than 600 people fill the theatre. No names are listed in the program. The overture plays. The cast is known only when they make their entrances - from the audience - upon their first lines. Hilarity ensues.
Monday was AT's first attempt at a musical. The chosen work - "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum". It was a blast! Three people I've worked with were in the show, and I knew more. It was a train wreck at times, but the most entertaining train wreck you've ever seen!
see you at the zoo
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