LatherRinseRepeatShow

Lather, Rinse, Repeat

Synopsis:

An improvised soap opera for 8-10 players, with week-to-week continuity and a cast of ongoing, well-developed characters.

Hot Topics!

• LatherCastCharacterHomework

• LatherCastRelationshipHomework

  • What's the biggest event in your character's life - ongoing or impending
  • Tie each character to two locales (location or institution)

Who:

Who indeed...?

• Full-time

  • BobApthorpe as MilesFortran
  • MoniqueDaviau as MuffinStClair
  • Chris RB Fay as ParvoEscabeche
  • JasonHochman
  • KatyShea
  • RobbySlaughter as Mr. Music Guy
  • AndreaYoung

• Drop-in

  • CoreyHuinker as Dr. AsaBandage
  • Lita
  • AndreMeadows?
  • EdPiston, who is not allowed to wear a shirt, ever.

Stuff we need:

• someone willing to take shirt off (pref. male; see EdPiston, above)
• garish costumes
• host/director
• lighting improviser
• musical improviser (is this getting ambitious or what?)
• THEME SONG!

Play:

• Opening:

  • Scenes from "previous episode"
  • Montage w/theme song
  • Suggestion from audience: one of the seven deadly sins
  • Host/Director sets up scene
  • Four scenes
• Intermission:
• Revisit those four scenes
• Manufacture a cliffhanger
• Scenes from the "next episode"

Program:

We also need:

• a program w/cast of characters,
• recap of previous episodes,
• ad space for Heroes shows

Time / Schedule / Cost

First few runs: free show after Saturday night show? so as to not conflict w/No Shame.

Suggestions and Conventions:

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Pynchon-esque character and location names

This is only a sample of the Enormous Hidden (Hideous?) List:

• Dollar Welles
• Brick Blade
• Max Girth
• Muffin St. Clair (aka weak old Muffin)
• VendettaEscabeche (ex-wife of ParvoEscabeche)
• Chase Vasdeferens
• Laurel Stearate
• MilesFortran
• Dr. AsaBandage

Location is everything!

• In the sleepy town of Tipton Falls, N.H. we find
• Toast Point,
• Indie Rock,
• Norwegian Wood, and the prominent landmark
• Sean Hill (Darling, you can see the whole town from up here...)
• Map out nearby towns, arrange everything; makes cool website fodder.

Production Schedule

Timeline

• W1 6/29 - 7/5 start casting, writing
• W2 7/6 - 7/12 end casting
• W3 7/13 - 7/19 end writing
• W4 7/20 - 7/26 start rehearsal
• W5 7/27 - 8/2
• W6 8/3 - 8/9
• W7 8/10 - 8/16
• W8 8/17 - 8/23 start promotions
• W9 8/24 - 8/30 end rehearsal
• W10 8/31 - 9/6 start performance
• W11 9/7 - 9/13
• W12 9/14 - 9/20
• W13 9/21 - 9/27
• W14 9/28 - 10/4
• W15 10/5 - 10/11
• W16 10/12 - 10/18
• W17 10/19 - 10/25 end performance

Production Timeline

• W1-W3: Writing (3w)
• W4-W9: Rehearsal (5w)
• W10-W17: Performance (8w); one show per week

Promotion Timeline

• W4-W5: Develop campaign (2w)
• W8-W10-W17: Execute (2w prior, as needed during run)

Open Issues and Deadlines

(this is obsolete; lifted from other show production plan)

• Production

  • Who's available to play? W2
  • Develop characters W4
  • List plot devices, hooks, genre conventions W5
  • Develop relationships W6

• Promotions and Logistics

  • How will we sell this? W5
  • Seating/venue/pricing/run W5
  • Budget W5