Thursday, October 19, 2006

We're not dead yet...but we're going to Hell!

It's been almost three quarters of a year since we last performed in Iowa City, but that's going to change in just six weeks. Yes, Dreamwell is back with a new show! And no we haven't found a permanent home, but you know what? We gotta put on a show anyway. We're getting bored having meetings every month and not doing, well, theater! And people keep asking if we're ever coming back. So yeah, we are returning to the stage with our first ever holiday show.

Wait.

Holiday show?

Um, this is Dreamwell we're talking about, right?

Now come on, you don't think we're going to do It's a Wonderful Life or the stage version of Tim Allen's Santa Clause movies, do you? It's still Dreamwell. And our holiday show is a little bit... different.

For instance, it begins in Hell. And there's a demon in the show. Okay, now it sounds more like Dreamwell, right?

It's Dickens' Christmas Carol story from Jacob Marley's point of view. You remember Marley, don't you? He was Scrooge's partner who died and came back to haunt the old miser before those three ghosts showed up. Turns out there's a lot more to this story that we just never knew. The show was first done at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago as a one-man show. We're doing the four actor version. This is real storyteller theater unlike anything we've down before.

So get ready for Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol starring Chuck Dufano, Karl Gronwall, Josh Sazon, and me! Ably directed by Madonna Smith, this is the one "holiday" show you just can't miss.

Oh yeah, we're doing at Old Brick because they are wonderfully kind and supportive of the arts over there. And you gotta bring a foodstuff for one of their community programs to get in. Cause it's the holidays, you know. We want to help those less fortunate than we are even if we're going to Hell.

Or maybe especially if we're going to Hell.

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