Thanks to Kristen Hertzenberg Satterwhite, who invited me to photograph for her extremely informative blog called Broadway Vegas, I was able to shoot the behind the scenes as well as the show. Two wonderful men who's names have unfortunately passed me, helped me to get settled when I first arrived during the rehearsal. Thanks to them I was granted my very own platform where I was able to set up my tripod and shoot the entire event in the middle and back of the room, but above the audience. I felt like a queen with a third eye.
When I first began shooting all the performers getting ready I must admit that it made me miss Chicago and Mass a lot. The energy and vitality of everyone reminded me of all the people I have been fortunate enough to meet along my path. The behind the scenes has always been, but since I moved here to Henderson I have experienced minimal amounts of active, vibrant, and youthful artists and performers. It was a wonderful feeling to know it exists here and I hope to surround myself with people who are active in making beautiful art and performance happen.
I especially enjoy as much flamboyance and weirdness as possible so I love love loved the Cirque team. There was a very familiar energy within that room that I fed off of. It reminded me of the Jimmy Johns Boys in Chicago: Lance, Mo, John, Chuckles, Russ, Darcy (we were the boys too so it still counts as boys), Izzy, Transmission Gallery and all the rest of the adventure. It made me want to be a part of what they were doing. Not to mention they were entertaining my camera so vividly; I had to hold in my laughter in order to get the shots. For those of you who know that I want the Cirque shows to get involved in my Recycle Paper Sculpture Project know I was going crazy with visual plans of how I will cast everyone together. It will be so much fun! My mind was going wild! Experiencing these specific performer's energy made me think its a little more possible then I thought before.
The Sopranos were there as well. They always crack me up because of my own ghetto mouthed upbringing from Massachusetts. Of course the accent and mannerisms they're replicating is different then Mass, but its more similar then the Chicago or here. Not to mention that when they really go on their f-bomb rampages and picking on one another during their show it sounds like the regular vocabulary that goes back and forth between my mom and sister.
It was great to finally hear Kristen sing; even though it wasn't Phantom and it only lasted a few seconds. Phantom will be one of the next shoes I see. The Phantom performance at Easter Bonnet was awesome. The costume for the performer wearing the bonnet was by far the hottest one. I loved their bonnet. The whole performance was bad ass in a nice neat package.
Well, I think I've finished my excited rant for now. There are endless possibilities for another revise, but we'll see. I hope you enjoy the photos.
That was before the show. Woh!
And that's it.
Art of Love won the competition, close call because there were 3 ties for 2nd place and 2 ties for runners up. Congrats to everyone.
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