“You should take an improv class!” Nope. Not really what anyone wants to hear. In fact, it’s not something I would say, even though I am teaching Improv classes. I learned a long time ago to not should on people. HA!! I also know that improv can be scary, I also know that in improv, you are not alone and it can change your life. Sometimes I think there is absolutely no gray area when it comes to Improv. Some…
One Woman. 10 Characters. Teetering on the edge. Written by Brenda Lucy and Janelle Ranek – Directed by Nancy Michael – Performed by Janelle Ranek For over two decades, I have been performing, “Letters To Santa” in many iterations at the Bryant Lake Bowl! Every year features letters from a delightfully bizarre cast of characters—and as any regular attendee can tell you, these aren’t your run-of-the-mill, “I want a pony” letters. Oh no. These folks have requests (and issues) that’ll…
One of the things that I love best about the theatre is the element of magic. Every person involved in any aspect of a performance understands the amount of stress and the levels of minuscule adjustments that go into creating a show. When the audience comes and settles in ready to be entertained, that is what they expect, an evening of absolute magic. They don’t care about every ounce of work put in to make that happen, nor should…
What an opening night it was!! “Letters to Santa…UNMASKED” opened on Saturday December 3rd and was a smashing success! What an amazing crowd! I gotta tell you, Brenda and I write this stuff and it’s funny to us. That’s our criteria, if it makes us laugh, we figure it will make others laugh too. We hope it does, sometimes we have a very twisted view of the world! So, therein lies the risky tightrope walking act of both writing and…