GGLAM And The Shadow Lord
Hello All!
I’ve taken the time to create some news posts for the ever-happening events in my life as an artist and Senior college student during an unprecedented time in our nation’s history! Who knows how things will shake out? Certainly not me.
I won’t lie: it’s been a bit disheartening to have classes suddenly cancelled, alongside all the theatre department’s performances. More than anything, I was so looking forward to our national college premiere of Freedman and Lutvak’s A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder. We were expecting Tony Award-winning original and touring costumes, an elaborate set, an orchestra, and some incredibly talented cast and crew work. We were about to begin tech rehearsals on the stage, and performance time was practically palpable. Instead, we were informed it would be impossible to present Gentleman’s Guide, and we had to part ways with a brilliant show that was almost—but not quite—complete.
In addition, our university was under attack from a very unexpected source: The Shadow Lord. That’s right. The Shadow Lord, an anonymous figure who hacked into the computers and held the Wifi of our school for ransom, demanded a reckoning for his dastardly deed. All jokes aside, it was very ill timing; what with the pandemic beginning to become a real threat in the United States and students just returning to school from spring break. We were stuck with no shows, no classes, and no wifi. Quite the predicament for the spring of my junior year!
Despite the odd circumstances, saying adieu to the spring musical, and looking at future theatre with uncertainty, everyone has done a great job remaining positive and keeping a good outlook. Professors have been proactive in taking the students’ health seriously and have begun devising innovative ideas for theatre performances in the time to come. I feel that though we’re in a time that is proving dangerous and quite polarizing, theatre will not only survive but thrive. Albeit it may become a sort of new and improved version of itself, theatre and the performing arts have undergone change and hardships only to come back stronger than ever. We just have to keep the faith.
Above is a rehearsal reel of A Gentleman’s Guide as it stood before rehearsals were cancelled. If you’d like, feel free to watch and get a taste of the work we were graciously granted some time to do.
