10 days!

We have ten more days until we open in NYC for our Off-Off Broadway debut! We are more than a little excited!

We spent yesterday evening at an alumni cocktail party, welcoming new SU Drama Department Chair, Ralph Zito. Ralph is a wonderful man and the department is very lucky to have him. The girls and I are a little jealous that we're missing out on him as head of the department. However, we were fortunate enough to have Ralph in our opening night audience in Edinburgh and are thrilled to be connected to him as recent alumni.

We had a meeting last night after the alumni gathering to update each other on the latest happenings from each of our ends.

Holly was pleased to report that Ann Clarke, the Dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, is giving us the box office earnings made during our time at The Fringe. This is more than generous. We are so grateful, blessed and inspired by Ann and her continuously giving spirit.

Laura and I, having talked with Lisa Nicholas, an SU alum and the Tepper Semester coordinator, were inspired to make follow up calls with the industry. This meaning that we will each take some of the contacts we have sent mass emails/mass mailings to and give them a follow up call so that they can hear our voices and know that we are really interested in having their eyes - or their assistant's eyes - at the show.

The seats are filling up FAST, which is really encouraging. We have Friday and Saturday nights sold out and the other days are at least half full - if not over half full! We're so pleased to find we will have strong audiences!

We also made a schedule for the time between now and when we open that will go something along the lines of:

A line through on Sunday, September 19th. Get into the space on September 20th to tech with lighting and the muslin piece of canvas we use as a back drop. We will rehearse 7-11pm on Monday and 7-11pm on Tuesday. Wednesday we will do one final run from 6-8pm before we open the show on Thursday, September 23rd. :) Lots to do...!!

That's the latest. Thanks for reading and hope all is well with you!

Jana for the Tempest Ladies xx