There are those of us who need weeks to brainstorm, plan and execute a major project.
Then there are others whose best work can only be created under the pressure of extreme deadline.
Attendee’s of Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre’s first event of the 2024-25 season, the 24/7 Play Festival, will experience the latter on Saturday, Aug. 17.
That’s when seven new plays will hit the stage, less than 24 hours after the playwrights were given common prompts (a starting line, a prop and a situation) and the gender and age compositions of their assigned cast at 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 16.
Armed with that information, the playwrights are sequestered in writing chambers that they can only exit after they’ve completed a 10-minute play, or at 4 a.m. on Saturday, whichever comes first, according to a news release.
Three hours later, at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, seven directors and 28 actors will be introduced to the new scripts, roles and assignments, to be performed at 7 and 9 that night at Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre, 738 N. Fifth Ave., at the Historic Y.
Both shows will feature all seven plays in what Scoundrel & Scamp describes as a celebration of the theatrical creative process.
A mini awards ceremony will be held to honor the audiences’ and artists’ favorite works.
The 90-minute shows are for ages 18 and up. Tickets are $25 each through scoundrelandscamp.org.
If you ever wondered what the green dress from "The Wiz" looked like up close, the colorful look of the Ziegfeld Follies costumes, or wanted an extensive view on the elements that make a groundbreaking musical, then the newly opened Museum of Broadway is for you. Broadway's first museum opened this week and provides fans with a combination of history, memorabilia and education. "Showboat," Rent," "Company," and "A Chorus Line" are but a few of the shows that have elaborate displays that let fans get up close and personal. Museum Co-Founder Julie Boardman says one of the hardest parts of setting up the museum was figuring out the story they wanted to tell. "There's so much history. So how are we going to organize it and make it in a way the people you know, really with the guest experience in mind? So we've landed on this idea that we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. So had all these people not pioneered, broken ground, taken risks along the way, we would never have the art form and the art that is created today."
