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|Director = {{Unbulleted list | [[Audrey Rachel Sansom]] | [[Julie Gillis]] }} | |Director = {{Unbulleted list | [[Audrey Rachel Sansom]] | [[Julie Gillis]] }} | ||
|Producer = [[Gnap! Theater Projects]] | |Producer = [[Gnap! Theater Projects]] | ||
|Cast = {{Unbulleted list | [[Alex Dobrenko]] | [[Amy McKenna]] | [[Ashlee Medlin]] | [[Ashley Lowe]] | [[Audrey Sansom]] | [[Emma Holder]] | [[Eric Heiberg]] | [[Julie Gillis]] | [[Kevin Miller]] | [[Nick Jimenez]] | [[Nicole Beckley]] | [[Odin Amador]] }} | |Cast = {{Unbulleted list | [[Alex Dobrenko]] | [[Amy McKenna]] | [[Ashlee Medlin]] | [[Ashley Lowe]] | [[Audrey Rachel Sansom]] | [[Emma Holder]] | [[Eric Heiberg]] | [[Julie Gillis]] | [[Kevin Miller]] | [[Nick Jimenez]] | [[Nicole Beckley]] | [[Odin Amador]] }} | ||
|Run = Oct/Nov 2011 | |Run = Oct/Nov 2011 | ||
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Revision as of 15:56, 11 June 2013
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| Theater | Salvage Vanguard Theater |
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| Produced by | Gnap! Theater Projects |
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| Run | Oct/Nov 2011 |
Cover to Cover was a longform show inspired by the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys young-adult mystery novels.
Show Structure
Cover to Cover opened with the audience suggestion -- for this show, this meant that an audience member came onstage to pick a book off of an onstage bookshelf. The cast had come up with a collection of plausible-sounding Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys titles, and created a set of book covers with those titles on the spine. Ideally, they got a child in the audience to pick the book, but defaulted to picking an adult theatergoer if necessary.
Each performance of Cover to Cover opened with a classroom scene. One of the directors (Julie or Audrey) would play the schoolteacher, and most of the performers for the night would play middle-school-aged versions of themselves. A few performers sat out this section; they would be either flex players or play the protagonist (in the case of Nancy Drew) or protagonists (in the case of the Hardy Boys). Each performer got a turn as the lead.
The teacher would assign chapters to the students for a book report. Then, each 'chapter' would open with the student working on their book report, and then transition (à la "Typewriter") into that student narrating the next chapter of the story. The teacher would narrate the final chapter of the story -- this chapter would begin and end back in the classroom, and would close the show.
History
After its mainstage run with Gnap!, Cover to Cover had a special benefit show on 12/5/11 for the Austin Children's Shelter.
Media
- Publicity photos by Steve Rogers, with art by Courtney Hopkin.
- Photoset by Steve Rogers of their 10/21/11 performance ("The Unknown Portrait").
- Photoset by Steve Rogers of their 10/22/11 performance ("The Secret of Viking Cove").
- Photoset by Steve Rogers of their 11/4/11 performance ("The Broken Locket").
- Photoset by Steve Rogers of their 11/12/11 performance ("The Mystery at the Masquerade").
- Photoset by Steve Rogers of their 11/19/11 performance.
