It's time... for show and tell

Tonight's the night! No more rehearsing and nursing our parts!

The premiere performance of the Aureality Project is nigh. Tonight, I and my castmates will be getting on stage before a theatre full of people (of 80 seats) and performing the first episode of Magellan's Children for them. May the Force have mercy on us.

Actually, I think we're in reasonably good shape for this show. And to let all you hypothetical readers know, the studio version of this "ashcan edition" episode will be posted here no later than Friday, April 25th. Anyone's free to download the episode and I'm working on how to get both the performance and the BTS podcasts I've been doing posted to iTunes as well. So here's hoping...

A little teaser for the future of the project. This summer I'm hoping to release a "Director's Cut Digitally Remastered" version of Episode 1 of Magellan. Also, in keeping with the mission of the project, I will start work on adapting and producing classical works for release as well. Shakespeare's definitely on my list, but which play first?? We'll see. The real trick is selecting works that work on an aural level. You probably won't hear a lot of physically-based drama in the Project's works... unless I figure out how to really pull that off.

Here, to make it easier for you... and for me to get motivated, I'll draw up a quick list of what things I'm looking at:

• A re-staging of the entire Shadow radio series (pending rights and things, etc.)
• More episodes of Magellan's Children
• The plays of William Shakespeare
• Goethe's Faust (this one could get interesting)
• War of the Worlds (for sentimental reasons)

That's a good start. It's certainly enough to keep me occupied for several years to come. I also want to do plenty of original works as well, so if you have something you think might sound good, I'd be open to hearing about it.

Talk to you again soon, campers!