After three months of intense coverage of the white
hot Miami Heat Champions, with the Three Kings including LeBron James, my last
two weeks of photography assignments have been extremely mundane.
No moving subjects. I’m typically greeted at the
door of my next assignment with, “OK we’re here, what do you want us to do? Another,
I have to create something out of nothing for a section front display, urgh!
Covering Wednesday’s press conference with NBA Ray
Allen and Rashard Lewis was a good break when the Heat signed two players who
have made a career out of spreading the floor and knocking down 3-pointers.
“You’ve got to double-team LeBron. You have to
double-team Dwyane Wade. You’ve got to double-team Chris Bosh. And then you
think they’re going to leave Ray Allen open?”
Lewis said.
Next
season will be phenomenal but in the meantime back to reality with an
assignment from fellow staff photographer Carl Juste who’s on rotation working the desk. Shoot the dress rehearsal of a theater performance at the Adrienne
Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, no flash allowed.
My
expectations are low until I walk into - THE
DONKEY SHOW – a spectacular phenomenon that blends a crazy
circus of disco music hits, go-go dancers, roller skaters, feathered divas and
a full active bar becoming the ultimate party extravaganza! The floor show is
inspired by William Shakespeare’s classic comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
It’s New York’s Studio 54 set in a club on the Ziff
Ballet Opera House stage; the piece lets theatergoers get their groove on as
the story unfolds in scenes all around them.
Well I’m a disco baby from the seventies so this
was a blast from the past. Even Harry Wayne "K.C." Casey of the KC
Sunshine Band, joined the audience on the dance floor.
Guests can live their own fabulous disco fantasy as the opera house
stage is transformed into a mirror ball dance floor starting July 13 in Miami.
‘Donkey show’: Shakespeare + disco
The big event of the Arsht’s summer season is a wild immersive theater experience.
BY CHRISTINE DOLEN
CDOLEN@MIAMIHERALD.COM
Diane Paulus is a hot director with a prodigious imagination, creativity she has brought to her work on pieces about war-protesting hippies, the beauty and pain of life on Catfish Row, and a dazzlingly transformed Shakespearean romantic comedy.
Her 40th anniversary reinterpretation of Hair for the Public Theater, her first stab at Broadway, won the 2009 Tony Award as best musical revival. Last month, her reworking of a towering American opera classic — dubbed The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess — won the 2012 best musical revival Tony. She has staged the new touring Cirque du Soleil show Amaluna and is working on a fresh production of Stephen Schwartz’s Pippin for the new season at the Harvard-based American Repertory Theater (ART), where she has been artistic director since 2008.
But in 1999, a decade before the fame and greater visibility of the past few years, Paulus and her playwright-husband, Randy Weiner, generated theater world buzz with a wild immersive theater experience called The Donkey Show. Read More Here
