Monday, August 27, 2012

Une Vie De Chat...Miaou ^-^

Une Vie De Chat
Miaou...

A Cat in Paris
Meow...









 
Official webpage...
http://www.catinparis.com/









 
FlipArt (all 3 of these images) from Official Webpage...
Thank you CatinParis.com!!










my fav view of Paris...rooftop view, anywhere, of Eiffel Tower?!

Animated Movie Trailer...
http://youtu.be/H7e07c52VWg

Internet Movie Database...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1673702/

"In Paris, a cat who lives a secret life as a cat burglar's aide must come to the rescue of Zoe, the little girl he lives with, after she falls into a gangster's clutches."







 
The French Movie Poster...

There's a Wiki page even...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Cat_in_Paris

"The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Along with Chico and Rita, it became one of two foreign-language films nominated for Best Animated Feature in one year, an Academy first that many observers considered a surprise. The film has also received a nomination for the Cesar Award for Best Animated Film in 2011."

The New York Times Movies Review...
http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/movies/a-cat-in-paris-the-animated-french-film.html?_r=0

Titled...

"Ignoring Laws of Physics as they Run Across Roofs"

my note:
(Rooftops in Paris - aren't they already 'magical') OK--maybe true, but it's animated so you can 'believe' & it's a cat, the ones with nine lives so there...

reviewer wrapped up with this...

"As are adults, since there is very little of the noisy, sentimental pandering that is too often a feature of kid-targeted entertainment nowadays. This movie is graceful, subtle and sure-footed, much as its English title implies."

Rotten Tomatoes Review...
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_cat_in_paris/









The English Movie Poster...

read here on this review that...

Movie DVD is out in October 2012 - yeah - will be buying this one, for me (but thankfully I have 2 G-Baby Girls as an excuse?!)

Movieline Review by Stephanie Zacharek...
http://movieline.com/2012/05/31/review-a-cat-in-paris/
note: it was here I read that there are 2 versions of the movie - whad - an English version, aka dubbed & then there is the original French version with English subtitles (which is how I saw it, which is how you should see a film--in it's orig language?!)

Facebook page for Cane Fire Film Series - where this w/e they played A Cat in Paris...
http://www.facebook.com/CaneFireFilmSeries

Zvents listing for the Cane Fire Film Series Screening in Lafayette, LA at the LITE Center...
http://www.zvents.com/lafayette_la/events/show/275159785-screening-a-cat-in-paris

movie image of a black bird in the winter that the cat in Paris may or may not capture
as he's done with all the poor little lizards in the summer (but I'll not give the mystery away)
photo credit: borrowed from the splog/blog below...

Commentary: Processing Onward (about A Cat in Paris)
from the artists working at Michael Sporn Animation, Inc...
http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/?p=3032

*note: tomorrow/Monday I will write more about when I went to see this movie Saturday night at 7:30pm at the LITE center in Lafayette, LA - this as a hurricane pounces (meow) on FL, then LA--btw, where I am living right now...


 

Poster - Film Affinity.com - Image Gallery: A Cat in Paris


Wait--it was Monday when I was typing the above around 2am...coffee, yes I love you but...sleep gets in the way...

This is 'not' a review...

A Cat in Paris is the English name for the movie, which when it started I saw the French title Une Vie De Chat - am guessing that's more like A Life of a Cat...in other countries I've lived when they would translate the titles to something totally different that didn't really ring true in it's original language it would bother me to irritation (as in most cases it was from English to Spanish or English to Arabic or English to Norwegian - as those happen to be the 3 foreign countries I've lived in that involved translations...)


 

yet another poster image - folks are having lots of fun with this & the cat...
from Theiapolis.com

But as the local powers that be have brought this original movie in French to Lafayette, LA with English subtitles then I'm OK with that--because I have no desire to watch the English version with dubbed voices, even in animated characters, this still bugs me...in the original there is a chemistry of details that just works as it's suppose to work, as those that made the movie wanted it to work - voices & all, so I try very hard to watch original versions of movies because of this (or when they remake the entire movie in another country than the original, that also bugs me to no end & I often refuse to watch it ie The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo...but maybe that's just me & nobody else has a prob with that--it's one thing if the movie is a 100 yrs old maybe, but not a current movie that Hollywood or others decided to redo to re-reap rewards...I don't contribute--there, end of rant...)


 

A Cat in Paris - sleeping cat...
http://freeplaymovies.com/a-cat-in-paris-2012.html

(note: you can, it says, watch the movie online here & in HD, hmmm...I feel naughty, I cannot do it & I will not pay to get into this after the Free Spell is over--but I paid for a real ticket already to watch it at the LITE Center, so I'll wait until it's release in October...maybe...no, I will...but others of you may not be as strong willed as I am...carry on...)

There is so much quirk & fun & a story actually in this animated movie that adults can find it as interesting as the kids can find it fun--the audience laughed quite a bit, so am guessing they enjoyed it... that some of the audience were French Immersion students that got given free tickets from a donation that I missed the name of was even more fun - as you knew they could understand the French & only those of us language challenged ones in the audience had to read subtitles...which if everything is done well then you don't notice that you've been reading the whole time, as in hours?!


 

A Cat in Paris movie photo still from a review on Ireland.com...
http://www.ireland.com/leisure/film/a-cat-in-paris/648486
(note: a fav scene with the cat in Paris, as they do in real life, coming to bring it's beloved owner a prize--in this case a lizard...now later you'll have 2 views of what folks may think of this, one from her mom & another from the nanny--who may or may not be a bad guy or bad girl but I loved her reaction to this kitty kat lizard gift when the little girl shows it to her...)

The movie was intro'd in both English & French, by a seemingly beloved French Immersion Teacher from I miss what school--back in the day it use to only be Prarie Elementary that did this...hearing him speak French after the English I knew he was 'not' just repeating what was spoken - this use to make me feel bad when I would try so hard to learn a foreign language & was just left out unless they started talking slow 'baby talk' to me...and sure enough it still makes me feel bad that I could just not conquer another language, though I love hearing them & love visiting many a country that speaks many of them as well...especially France, especially Paris & so especially French?! Is there Adult French Immersion...

Before the movie everyone was charged up, not just with waiting & Waiting--past the 7:30pm starting time...just like in a foreign country, as there are definitely differences in what time means to each & every one of them...we were also given a pre-show sweet treat from Indulge--where I have been to their shop for a coffee & a chocolate & then a chocolate treat I'm sure too, but this time they had made - for the kids I think - marshmallow mice on a stick covered in sweet icing or in my case it was sweet as I don't have kid tastebuds anylonger...but free water cooler of lemonade helped cut that sugar some, nothing like having the sweet with the sour?!


Link to Indulge Sweet Spot in PARC Lafayette...
http://indulgesweetspot.com/

note: across the street from River Ranch I tell folks...on the backside where the park/fountain is - only if you go for the coffee it's the same coffee that they serve at Johnston Street Java, so don't expect different blends or different Baristas either...really it's all about the chocolates & pastries there or that's the feeling I get - with so much space inside their 'sweet spot' that you wonder when's the big party they're going to be catering showing up...I did though enjoy the fun/luxury of the corner white sofa and chairs with the little end table rather than the small metal round tables like an old ice cream parlor might have - but this has all been awhile as I went when they were first open to help support the local cause (as I do not need too many sweet treat temptations in my life any more--when they gave me a free one I knew I was in trouble?!) All in all it would be a fine place to go make a lovely chocolates or pastry gift basket...really it was a surprise to see them bring their sweet treats out for this animated film, so don't know what the connection was--French maybe? or the Cane Fire Film folks know somebody at the shop...still it was sweet from a sweet spot, so thank you for the little marshmallow mice Indulge (even if I'm not a kid, as that old saying goes we're all kids at heart?!)

About marshmallows...


Marshmallows - typical US brand - Jet-Puffed by Kraft...
Photo Credit - found on their Facebook page, under product photos...
http://www.facebook.com/jetpuffed

I could not find a photo going thru a bunch of Google Images of a marshmallow on a stick that was decorated with a little mouse (or cat) face =^-^= in blue - so forget it...I am also not going to attempt to recreate one either, as I really don't 'love' marshmallows enough to do so...

It is - I know this - possible to also make Marshmallows from scratch, like a cake...but again--I'm not going there & I doubt the Sweet Shop did either for 25-50-100 of 'em...

Look Bon Appetit Magazine/online even can tell you how-to make Marshmallows, at home...
http://www.bonappetit.com/recipes/2008/07/homemade_marshmallows

I give up--you cannot copy a photo of a homemade marshmallow, it's ridiculous...
(everybody is so _fill in the blank_ proud of their recipes that you can't copy the photos of these creations it seems...)

Distracted by Marsh - a - mallows, as well as a Hurricane headed our way - am thinking maybe I should of gotten a bag of Marshmallows/Jet-Puffed possibly for our Hurricane Prep Box...next hurricane I guess, as there is always another one a comin' sometime during Hurricane Season every year or tis true in the South/Southern Louisiana...



 


Wait--I didn't give up, I found a photo afterall...of my friends homemade marshmallows...
so you see--these don't look right, they're not all perfect little (commercial) puffs
am not saying they don't taste just as marshmallow-ly (again not my fav taste)
it's just you 'can' tell the difference, so am guessing these were not the marshmallows on the stick that we had for a sweet treat from the sweet shop here in town at the Une Vie De Chat/A Cat in Paris
(note: photo credit: Fonda--Thank You Very Much or I should say: Tusen Takk?!)

OK--back to Topic--A Cat in Paris...

Link to GKids.TV...
http://www.gkids.tv/index2.cfm

note: from A Cat in Paris Facebook page thru Mail Chimp--you can register for a newsletter & receive free stickers from GKids.TV - or this is what I'm hoping will happen, otherwise this little kid in me will be stomping & yelling (obsenities) so they best do what they promised?!


 

this poster image from A Cat in Paris Facebook page - when they received 2,000 likes!!
J'adore ce chat?! (btw thanks Google Translate for that) :o)

note: am reading that October 9, 2012 the movie will be released on DVD/BluRay & such...
(warning: everyone on my 'I've been good list' will be getting one of these for Christmas!)


 



Free Coloring Page from OnColoring.com of A Cat in Paris - Nico & Zoe & Cat across the rooftops (of Paris) - from their Movie Coloring Book Section...

Link to the webpage to find this one that you can color online...
http://www.oncoloring.com/a-cat-in-paris-nico-and-zoe-and-the-cat-across-the-rooftops-coloring-page_7895.html

note: how cute is that, I never knew there were such webpages...I've got G-Baby Girls who love to color & what a Fab activity to keep them busy at Mooma's house when visiting (you know--once in a blue moon?!)

Monday, August 20, 2012

#BeastMe


Welcome to the Bathtub
http://www.welcometothebathtub.com/
the "experience site"

Scroll over the bubbles, they are not bubbles...
Aurochs, Universe, Animals, Heartbeats...
(gems from Hushpuppy)

Beasts of the Southern Wild
http://www.beastsofthesouthernwild.com/


Quvenzané in her (OK, her Daddy's) fantastical real boat

Live Stream the Beasts Soundtrack...
http://www.beastsofthesouthernwild.com/news/hear-the-music/

Find the Beasts on Twitter...
#BOTSW
@BeaststheMovie
@theBathTubber

(where you'll find the likes of Oprah jumping in the 'BathTub' with a splash?!)

Boo...uh--Lucy Alibar Beasts Screenwriter...
http://content.foxsearchlight.com/inside/node/5234

Meet Court 13 - featurette - players behind the scenes of Beasts...
http://youtu.be/jcQpkMkwqpA

Beasts Director on CBS This Morning...
http://content.foxsearchlight.com/inside/node/5208
Filming started on day BP's oil rig blew up - how they worked around that?!

U-Stream Q & A with Beasts Director...
http://www.beastsofthesouthernwild.com/news/botsw-director-ben-zeitlins-ustream-qa/
(on Vimeo - 49:36 min's...another day y'all I will listen to it all)

Meet the Aurochs (aka Beasts - or are they?!)
http://content.foxsearchlight.com/inside/node/5219

This may be my all time fav still shot from the film, even more so than the girl running with the 2 roman candles in her hands...






Quvenzané & an Auroch - can you spell Brave?!

I've seen pot-bellied pigs...these are 'not' them - or 'not' their real size at least & then those horns/tusks... no matter they were spectacularly awe-some?!

And she did 'not' show that strong beast her weak heart either!!

The Aurochs have a trailer? Who knew...
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/beastsofthesouthernwild/

The Standard - Culture - Interview of Beasts Director...
http://www.standardculture.com/posts/6796-THE-STANDARD-INTERVIEW-Beasts-of-the-Southern-Wild-Director-Benh-Zeitlin-

Magical-Realist film...

Benh Zeitlin says...

"Celebrated the holdouts...
Music it's my first language...
It’s a great thing for an actor: When they go into a house and open a drawer there’s something in it
People here are judged on their joy. It’s like, How much joy do you have?...
We had a story we wanted to tell and we told it however we could...
What’s happened with this movie it’s that people want to see something they didn’t know they wanted to see..."


Quvenzané on fire...in so many ways?!

note: another fav line in the movie is when she says something like: this is my favorite thing...to be lifted - she's in her Momma's arms being held while she's dancing, then comes a visual memory of her as a new born baby being held/being lifted by her Daddy...such a sad sweet realization that in her short baby to girl life she's only been lifted/been held/been hugged perhaps such a few times - it makes your heart ache to just think about it...and it makes you want to hug your kids/your G-Babies/ your little dogs too at least a half dozen times or more before the day is out?!

Local...

The Independent - Glen Pitre - This 'Beast' is No Burden...

Where Traveler - New Orleans - Mobile/Digital - August 2012 issue...
or the real/paper/hold in your hand Printed Magazine & read The Sundance Kid on page 14...

Beasts Director Answers these Questions:

"In interviews elsewhere you've said that you want to continue to live and make movies here forever. Why New Orleans?"

"Name New Orleans' most cinematic spot."

"Let's test your New Orleans/New York loyalties. Saints or Giants?"

"PizzaDelicious (a twice weekly Bywater pop-up restaurant) or the Joint (pg 26)?"

"Bagels or buttermilk drops?"

(my note: I had never heard of buttermilk drops before?! There is a real bakery - it's in Treme - read more about them here on their webpage... http://www.buttermilkdrop.com/ my next trip I 'must' find them, somehow/someway... I must experience a buttermilk drop?! The Buttermilk Drop Bakery & Cafe, Seventh Ward, 1781 N Dorgenois St, New Orleans, LA70119 Now I have a feeling it may be a donut hole, but I will go & be surprised no matter what?!)

"You chose to use local talent over professional actors. Why?"

"What's the best place in New Orleans for character research."


Lafayette, LA - Showtimes

2315 Kaliste Saloom Road, Lafayette, LA
7:15 pm, 9:30 pm

08/05/12 Sun 11:50AM Theatre 10 Matinee - I watched, nay experienced, this movie with tears rolling down my cheeks & a big grin on my face... I will watch it again & would again...I was gobsmacked (as the Auzzies are fond of saying--awesome sauce doesn't seem to cover it?!)
 
<3 Thank you Universe--I needed this movie, we all 'need' this movie?! <3
 


Monday, August 13, 2012

You know what they say? When the Wolves come out of the walls--it's all over?!

You know what they say?
When the Wolves come out of the walls--it's all over?!

How it happened that I got to help backstage...

Went to another production at Theater 810
Saw the Wolves in the Walls book by Neil Gaiman on the bookshelf
Heard about the play in the making of - that local screenwriter Cody Daigle wrote the adaption for
And that local graphic artist Rob Guillory was going to make the original art for the play's poster



Rob Guillory Graphic Artist orig art



 
Burt Durand Graphic Artist poster lettering


Off to Barnes & Noble to buy said book, read it once, read it again
Loved the story, the illustrations, tell the theater people/powers to be that I want to Help
I Volunteer--I don't know what for, but tell them just Call Me & I'll be there


 
 
photo credit: BarnesandNoble.com webpage

Found the local Kickstarter - became a Backer & made the 1st comment I think as well, was so excited - later when it got down to the wire & was worried following it over on Twitter that they weren't going to make it I became a Backer again--Whew...they made it, so there would be a play/puppets

 


Program - an Extra Special Thanks to the Kickstarter Backers...some were left anonymous (like me, for some reason--didn't remember doing that, but it's OK I'm over on the Production Credits page & so muich more fun actually doing it than seeing my name in print & really am feeling like I should be the one saying Thank you?!)
Here Started via Kickstarter - Funded June 14th - Goal $3,000 Pledged by 84 Backers $3,293
(note: I pledged twice so don't know how they figure that counting--no matter there will be a show?! SharoninaVolvo rides another Kickstarter to being Funded once again--YeeHah?!)

Link to Kickstarter - Wolves in the Walls by Acting Unlimited...
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1913053501/wolves-in-the-walls




Link to Acting Unlimited Inc...

The text from Kickstarter...

An original theatrical adaptation based on Neil Gaiman's "The Wolves in the Walls" (c. 2003).

"Acting Unlimited (AUI) and Wanderlust Theatre Co. are teaming up with the UL-Lafayette Performing Arts Department to present an exciting addition to the Lafayette, Louisiana summer theatre calendar: WOLVES IN THE WALLS, a world premiere adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean’s award-winning children’s book “The Wolves in the Walls”.

Lucy is hearing strange noises in the walls – noises she believes to be wolves. No one believes her… except her puppet, Pig. Then one night, Lucy discovers that the wolves in the walls are real. And they’re coming out to play…



 
Adapted for the stage by local playwright Cody Daigle, WOLVES IN THE WALLS will feature a spectacular puppetry design by Brady McKellar and Elsa Dimitriadis, artistic directors of Wanderlust Theatre Co., incorporating a host of puppetry techniques. The show will be a visually rich and exciting theatrical event filled with puppetry, pandemonium and the dark fantasy world of Neil Gaiman.



“The show’s designed to be something local audiences have never seen,” said Daigle, the production’s playwright. “We want to dazzle audiences with puppetry and theatre magic they’ve never seen before, but we also want them to be emotionally swept away by the story. It’ll be a really unforgettable evening.”

The production will also receive support from the area’s vibrant visual arts community. Rob Guillory, local artist and an Eisner-award winning creator of the comic book series “Chew,” will supply the poster art for the production.

Gaiman and McKean’s “The Wolves in the Walls” was first published in 2003, and it won awards for the New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book (2003), the IRA/CBC Children's Choice (2004) award and the British Science Fiction Association award for Short Fiction (2003). This production has the blessing of Gaiman and his team, and it will be the only time this version of the show will be performed anywhere.



Recreating the amazing world invented by Gaiman in WOLVES IN THE WALL is a scary and exhilarating prospect, and we need your help. Your donation will help to create the puppets and set for the show, and ensure that the show we create will be a unique and exciting one for Lafayette."

***
Working backstage or is it onstage/the set...

So I got a text, showed up & found a paintbrush in my hand for about 2 days I think it was - 1 of faux brick wall making & another of faux floors creating & really a quick part of 1 more with a faux painted wall using a feather duster & yellow paint




3 rolls of paint & masking tape & voila--a faux brick wall...
tricks of the stage manager--that I shall not divulge here




it's just plywood--what a great illusion...
again with 2 brushes of paint & a dry brush, plus some floor mop
and another voila--a faux old wood floor for the bedroom

(note: somewheres there's a photo of me with paintbrush in hand going back & forth--more than once across these plywood boards...proof that I was working on a real set--never have before & what fun to see it become something & then to see the play acted out on it all is even more satisfying--until you have to take it all apart again, don't know how they stand that part after all those days of work?!)


 
eggshell yellow wall done with yellow paints & a feather duster
all those textured paint tricks never tried in any of my many homes, but I've seen it done on TV & in magazines



then that white window trim easy enough, it's just white paint (later will add the cotton cut out lace curtain valance from the inside on a rod--because I thought a girl's bedroom had to have 'girlie curtains' right?!)

Program - Cast & Production Credits...

 


Eee...there I am, first time ever on a program (I think) under Set Construction & Set Decoration -
I love it/loved it/what fun...they were so nice to include me, was only volunteering to help & then I learned something & had fun doing it & got to "play" decorator & then have my name on a play program (& here below - see photo - Cody Daigle was excited to see his name on a T-shirt, that will Never Ever Happen for me but am still excited for him - it's the fun little things in life to enjoy, right?!)




 
Show T-shirts
we got first dibs on ordering sizes being on the crew/cast
but you could also buy one at the show, taking chances on sizes left
(note: sent one to my expat friend from Japan who saw the design on Facebook & wanted a T-shirt too, so just sent her one after the last shows & hope she'll send a photo of her in her T-shirt soon, for the record kind of thing...)



artcard of the orig poster art by Rob Guillory made into a magnet
to support/promote the play, but with the size of my car door coulda used the whole big poster
(but oh my the magnet sheets that would of used up?!)


 
devil in the details
so not just the faux painting going on backstage
(nevermind the puppet factory & costumes--I didn't take photos in that creation chamber)
but there's decorating to be done on stage

after the stage manager brought in the children's room white framed bed & nightstand/bookshelf with the little lamp & flowers - came the children's books, that I brought a bucket of them from home for the shelves ...including books about wolves - Peter & the Wolf for one & the Three Wolves & The Pig another - plus of course Wolves in the Walls soft & hardcover books too

but these 2 framed pieces/pages from a book were put up after going thru different frames & a different mat & taking apart a coffee table (sale) book about wolves, since keeping with the 'wolf' theme going on...

here on the left Little Red Riding Hood & her wolf from an old children's tale book & on the right a real wolf photo in the snow in a blue frame to go with the white furniture & blue flowers on lamp/in vase on the nightstand


 
in the living room there is a cabinet with nothing on it, but a stack of Rob Guillory books
(that Marie borrowed from the Graphic Artist, so he has another touch-besides his poster art)
Now there was a fake plant in the vase that was on top of the cabinet
but it did not cover up the hole in the curtain
so brought in one of my fake plants from home that was bigger
then the shelves were empty, so off to Goodwill/Salvation Army
find an old yellow candle/glass holder, basket, another smaller frame
to add to another frame - both empty
so back to clipping in the wolf coffeetable book to find yellow field flowers for the small frame
and for the bigger frame--a perfect family photo, wolf people in clothes, possible Victorian age
but no matter, there is a Mom, a Dad & a Child (I know not 2 but it could be brother before sister right...)

My Oh My the backstory fun & the hidden 'wolfie' details abound?!

Oh to be a Set decorator too, for more than a day or two--I could maybe put up/out a handful of pieces & I would be whipped & challenged & my house/garage would be an even worse mess & then to have a timeframe to boot to work with & to have to put it up & then days/maybe a few weeks later then take it all down again (I have a feeling the fun would be gone only too fast?!)

***
Link to KATC - Good Morning Acadiana
Video with Walter talking about the production of Wolves in the Walls...

http://www.katc.com/news/the-wolves-in-the-walls/

Barnes & Noble Bookstore
Reading & Shadow Puppet Making
Mouse & Rat Soldier



Link to Book Fair, Children's Event, Storytime...
http://store-locator.barnesandnoble.com/event/3465418

"There are sneaking, creeping, crumpling noises coming from inside the walls. Lucy is sure there are wolves living in the walls of their house! Join us for a reading of the book and a shadow puppet workshop with Acting Unlimited/Wanderlust Theatre Co"




Link to The Times of Acadiana/The Advertiser article - Wolves in the Walls shows spirit for arts by Matthew Sigur...
http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20120804/LIFESTYLE/208040326/-Wolves-Walls-shows-spirit-arts

Link to The Ind newspaper articles...

Kickstarter Campaigning Under Way for Wolves...
http://www.theind.com/arts-a-entertainment/86-aae/10620-kickstarter-campaing-underway-for-wolves

Puppets, People & 2 Plays in One Show by Dominick Cross...
http://www.theind.com/arts-a-entertainment/86-aae/11002-puppets-people-and-two-plays-in-one-show

Link to Troupe Slates Wolves drama article in the Advocate newspaper - Baton Rouge..
http://theadvocate.com/home/3110432-125/troupe-slates-wolves-drama

About Waderlust Theatre Company (that got their start in NOLA...) - Elsa & Brady brought all these puppets alive & with countless hours of building, cutting, sewing, making, deconstructing/ remaking, designing, sweating, loving, forgetting to eat, I just cannot imagine making such creations & taking a few photos & leaving them behind...ugh...as they belong to ActingUnlimited/Theater 810 & go off to storage after the 2 weekends of shows...



"...To create the wolves and the other puppets, Diaz brought in Wanderlust Theatre Company, which is a Gulf Coast based company that specializes in using nontraditional elements such as puppetry in its performances.
Wanderlust Cofounder Elsa Dimitriadis said the performance will feature puppets ranging from shadow puppetry in the Greek tradition, which uses painted puppets instead of silhouettes, to a Chinese kite-style of puppetry, which will involve a large bat that will move along a zip line.
The performance will also feature traditional hand and rod puppets and body puppets, which will have large “platformed” feet, extended hands and headdresses.
All the puppets will be built in Burke-Hawthorne Hall by Wanderlust crew members and volunteers.
“Were trying to implement as many styles as possible into the show,” Dimitriadis said.
Dimitriadis and Wanderlust cofounder Brady McKellar are both Gaiman fans. McKellar is a “comic book geek” who has read Gaiman’s comic books and Dimitriadis said she loved the author’s fiction.
“So we were completely psyched about it,” Dimitriadis said..."



Link to Wanderlust Theatre Company - aka Elsa & Brady (or to me 'the puppet people')...
http://www.wanderlusttheatre.com/

Link to Acting Unlimited Facebook page to find more photos of Wolves in the Walls...
http://www.facebook.com/AUI.AURA?sk=wall&filter=2
(note: 41 photos of Wolves in the Walls play in an album)

Ahwhoo....

Link to YouTube of Howling Contest Entry - Howl for tickets to Wolves in the Walls...
http://youtu.be/FjBeAyEwsFg

Link to Neil Himself - about Wolves in the Walls project begun as a Kickstarter...
http://www.twylah.com/neilhimself/tweets/202448220373258241

Link to KRVS Radio - event listing - Wolves in the Walls/The Book of D - Collaboration of Wanderlust Theatre/ Acting Unlimited (aka Theater 810) & ULL Performing Arts...
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/krvs/events.eventsmain?action=showEvent&eventID=1267321

KRVS Radio - Neil Gaiman's Wolves in the Walls at UL Lafayette - LISTEN...
http://krvs.org/post/apres-midi-july-16-neil-gaimans-wolves-walls-ul-lafyette

"First segment--Classical" (30:05)

"Second segment--Interview with Brady McKellar and Elsa Dimitriades of Wanderlust Theatre about their puppetry in Cody Daigle's adaptation of Neil Gaiman's "Wolves in the Walls" that will open on Thursday July 26th in Burke Hall Theatre (and local events calendar)" (28:46)

Note:  pretty funny when Interview lady says Cody Daig instead of Cody Daigle - perhaps he does or doesn't think so too (Opps) - at least Brady repeats the correct name soon after...

Link to Acadiana Theater Blogspot...
http://acadianatheatrehappenings.blogspot.com/

Tuesday July 31, 2012 - Review (AUI/Wanderlust/ULLafayette)...



The Book of D - show before the Wolves in the Walls show...

"...Wolves in the Walls was paired with another show by Cody Daigle, The Book of D, which was performed first. It was a cute, quirky show designed to give more stage time to some of the actors who were helping with Wolves. The Book of D is essentially a tale of acceptance and friendship, but the story has an unfinished, rushed tone, more like a draft than a finished product. Problems like a family divorce are mentioned once and never again, and the friendship between the lead character D and her friend Blu was not long enough to establish that they were best friends. Still there are some promising thespians in the bunch, and they need shows like this to hone their skills."
The magic of the puppets in Wolves in the Walls...

"...When the audience focuses on the puppet and not its master, you’ve conjured a lovely bit of magic. When a young boy at the Wolves in the Walls performance reacted to seeing the wolves walk by menacingly with scary noise effects, he whispered loudly to his mother, “I heard it too!” I knew then the magic had worked." - Vincent P. Barras

Sunday July 22/ Tuesday 24, 2012 - Performance...

Support Line - Wolves in the Walls - Junk Yard Arts Blog (for Kickstarter project)...
http://junkyardarts.com/art-news/support-line-wolves-in-the-walls/

(note: a new blog I didn't know about - along with rediscovering Acadiana Theater's Blog)

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