From Zeus to Seussical

Look everyone! Aphrodite, Persephone and Dawn were spotted in Seussical at the Town Hall Arts Center in Littleton. It runs through December 30th. "Oh the thinks you can think when you think about Seuss".

Early Costume Sketches

We've been dressing up our latest performance package to submit to several music theater festivals and I ran across some early costume sketches for the lead roles in Sisyphus. We'll plan to add them as eye candy in the character sections. It's fun to put them side-by-side with the final costume.

Sisyphus Photo Scrapbook

We've been gathering up all the various pictures people have for Sisyphus and we now have a link to a scrapbook of photos. It starts all the way back with our first reading and ends with our final performance at the Aurora Fox Theater. There are all sorts of photos of the event and the process we took getting there.

Sisyphus scenes on YouTube!

The Sisyphus YouTube channel is up and running with a lot of the scenes from our recent performance run at the Aurora Fox Arts Center. Consider subscribing to our channel and please let us know your thoughts.

How'd they do that?

In the opening of "No death do us part" Aphrodite, played by Alison Vance, slowly plays her music box. The haunting melody was custom made for a mechanism similar to the ones used in some toy player pianos. Each note was punched from long sheet of paper and taped together so it could play continuously.



The initial prototype was created from a bar utensils holder. A lot of things had to be synchronized each night to pull it off, starting with the beginning position of the melody roll.

Check out the "Music Box Scene" on our YouTube channel.

Live Sisyphus performance excerpts

Excerpts from our June 11th live performance at the Aurora Fox Arts Center

Sisyphus Program

Here's an electronic version of our program.

Our 11 x 17 poster proof

Here's our official "Sisyphus the Musical" poster. We printed it at C&D Printing near I25 and Tennyson. Let us know if you want a copy!

Opening night in 30 days

Here's our first major advertising promotion. We wanted to celebrate what a great cast we have and that our opening night is now only 30 days away!  Get 50% off tickets prices - One Day Only.

Cast Announcement

Here's our official cast announcement. There's a lot of good chemistry here on so many different levels. I really enjoy seeing a cast come together and hearing how the voices blend and everyone interacts with each other. Shout out to Brandon Bill for putting this team together!

Character matrix

Here's a matrix showing a headline between each character. Read the chart left to right to form the sentence; for example, the first row second column reads, "Zeus accepts Dawn".

Final table read...Check!

On Saturday the 25th we had our final table read in the basement of First Baptist Church across from the state capitol. It's important to get the work out of your head and hear how professional actors read the parts. It wasn't all work though, we had a lot of fun too, which is always a good sign of things to come!

Audition date and times announced

Want to join the cast? We are on track for a June run of Sisyphus! Learn more at our website.

All the specifics are on the audition signup form.

Six main roles and eight extras:

Female:
Dawn: Cursed to fall in love with mortal men
Aprodite: Goddess of beauty, love, pleasure

Male:
Ares: God of war, battle hardened and manly
Sisyphus: An opportunistic politician, too clever for his own good
Zeus: King of the gods, maintains all order
Thantos: God of death, Zeus’ trusted companion

Extras include: citizens, workers, Spartans, handmaidens, etc.

Note: Rehearsals start in April.

Final Sisyphus logo options

Here are the two finalists for the Sisyphus logo. After the last round we ask the designer if we could see a version with a ribbon instead of beads. It seems like red works better with the ribbon and yellow for the beads, but at the end of the day, we need to select one logo over the other and we'd appreciate your feedback!