Jeremy Bloom's video: THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN rehearsal and thoughts

a RADY&BLOOM world premiere presented by Ice Factory 2012 at the NEW OHIO Theater August 1-4, 2012 - 7pm Tickets: http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=gir0BA&ss=1 http://www.radyandbloom.com/ words/ direction by JEREMY BLOOM music/ additional words by CATHERINE BROOKMAN, ELLEN O'MEARA & JOE WHITE sound/ additional music by LUCAS SEGALL featuring *CATHERINE BROOKMAN, STARR KWOFIE, *TOM HENNES, ELLEN O'MEARA, BRIAN RADY, LUCAS SEGALL & JOE WHITE adapted from the 1911 novel by David Belasco *these Actors are appearing courtesy of AEA, equity approved showcase lighting design by JEANETTE OI-SUK YEW costume design by KATHLEEN DOYLE set design by BRIAN RADY assistant director, DANA O'BRIEN assistant lighting designer, SHELLY RODRIGUEZ assistant set designer, ANDRE SGUERRA dramaturgy by SHANNON DEEP associate producers: HANNAH WOLF, DAPHNA WEINSTOCK, MAIA SAFANI Exploding onto the frontiers of uninhabited California, the only female in the entire Gold Rush town of Cloudy Mountain sets up her saloon. Mythologized in David Belasco's grandiose 1911 novel and canonized as one of the great spaghetti westerns - a play turned-novel-turned-Puccini-extravaganza - this modernized golden paradigm is a new music and soul-filled ode to the unexplored and untouched expanse of our nation's forgotten periphery, and the baffling potential successes of what could've been. "In those strange days, people coming from God knows where, joined forces in that far Western land, and, according to the rude custom of the camp, their very names were soon lost and unrecorded, and here they struggled, laughed, gambled, cursed, killed, loved and worked out their strange destinies in a manner incredible to us of to-day. Of one thing only are we sure—they lived!" -David Belasco's epigraph to "The Girl of the Golden West"