"The Variety Show", "An Evening with The Sonnets", "Felicia Rose"

Well, it's almost time for "THE VARIEY SHOW". I'm so excited to be back on stage in Lil Rhody. Working the boards with old friends and new. I am so grateful for Rich Morra and everyone at the Artists Exchange for their welcoming spirit. It's going to be such a great show!! Improv, sketches, music, fun for all!!
Please come down to 50 Rolf Square, Cranston, RI. Saturday Night June 20th at 7pm $10for more info give us a call 401-489-0429.

Now, next weekend is also a weekend full of creative endeavors.

Friday and Saturday June 26th and 27th at 7pm in the Black Box at Artists Exchange, we will be presenting "An Evening with the Sonnets", come down and share in Wills poems of love and life.Call 401-490-9477.

If you do the sonnets on Friday then you can spend Saturday night enriching your spiritual self at a magical night of music at Concordia Center For Spiritual Living. The amazing singer Felicia Rose will be sharing her gifts with our spiritual community. This is going to be a special event, so you should check it out. Saturday June 27th, $10 advance tix, $15 at the door Call 401-732-1552 for reservations and info.

As an unperfect actor, upon the stage....

Where? Not here! We're all so good at what we do! Bob Frank, Me(Julie Bragg), Geoff White and Mike Kinnane bringing the funny to you!(photo by Tom Rock).

What good is sitting alone in your room?

Come here the music play, and get on with you funny selves!! Are you feeling funny, you can take something for that, take 2 hrs of comedy and see me in the morning, but seriously...why do comedians say that "but seriously".... seriously people I want you to prepare a "Zombie monster musical" audition piece, seriously, be as funny as possible,seriously.....but seriously we are creating a seriously funny show for the First official "A Rose Production", "The Variety Show". Saturday,June 20th,7pm $10, in The Black Box Theater @ the Artists Exchange in Cranston, Rhode Island. Song, dance, comedy and everything in between.
Oh it's so good being on the stage again! This is our first variety show since returning to the Rhode Island theater scene. Quiet a different cultural environment than St. Augustine. Oh,we produced some great stuff, with some talented people. I'm hoping some of them will be joining us in the future.
"What's in a Name", that which we call "A Rose" (Productions)by any other name would still smell as sweet. Well, I think we do. And you will too!! From Shakespeare to Sondheim...and everything in between! Join us, leave your fields to flower....peace

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments

Oh the Sonnets, I have been fortunate enough to be back in the sonnet world, teaching, reading, preparing for performances. I've bee writing, rehearsing, creating new things with old friends. I've been learning while I'm teaching, and growing with love each day. Delving into Wills words of love, unleashing my passion for his words, rolling trippingly off my tongue. I've been able to be me. I am living in the flow of creation. I have an abundance of friends and love being showered upon me. I am living in the light. I am in the spotlight, it is my time to shine. Shine with me. Peace.

All the world's a stage

Yes, and I was so happy to be back on one yesterday. No I was not rehearsing for my upcoming productions. I was doing something I rarely do, I was "Auditioning". I sometimes jokingly tell people I started my own company so that I wouldn't have to audition anymore. Well, I guess that's partially true. I started my company so that I could produce my own work, and to choose whose work I want to do. It's not that I feel I'm above auditioning, it's just to put yourself through that emotional rollercoaster is only part of the decision. Now, as an actor, I am always being judged by my audience. But in performance, I feel I am in control. I think when you spend hours preparing an audition piece a thousand different ways , to put yourself into the characters world for just a moment, with the hope that that moment turn into a lifetime. Because once you take on a role, it is part of you forever, that is one of the most wondrous parts of being an actor. You take on a character, and you become them and then when the curtain goes down, they have become you. Why did I audition, sing a song I thought I knew until I had to learn it for real. Sing it over and over and over, until it's the only thing I hear (besides my screaming kids, nothing drowns them out).The answer is simple, a Director (Rich Morra) whose work I greatly respect and admire, asked me to. Oh, did I mention it was for the role of Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar. I have wanted to play this role for as long as I can remember! Even just having the opportunity to sing "I don't know how to love him" in front of anyone is a dream come true. So that is why I do what I do. Because even though now I must endure two weeks of waiting to find out if I got the part or not, I enjoyed singing that song. And I know I will again, someday soon, I hope.

ARTISTS' EXCHANGE-THE BLACK BOX THEATER

Let's go on with the show! And we will, and with Will in mind we are putting up:

DESDEMONA: A PLAY ABOUT A HANDKERCHIEF

BY PAULA VOGEL

JUNE 24, 25 7pm JUNE 26 2pm



THE BLACK BOX THEATER @THE ARTISTS' EXCHANGE
50 ROLF SQUARE CRANSTON,RI


A ROSE PRODUCTIONS ALSO PRESENTS:

THE VARIETY SHOW

COMEDY, MUSIC, IMPROV, SKETCHES, POETRY, DANCE

FEATRUING OUR BAND OF MERRY PLAYERS
AND SURPRISE GUEST STARTS

SATURDAY NIGHT @THE ARTISTS' EXCHANGE

JUNE 20th, JULY 18th, AUGUST 15th @7pm


What's in a Name has transformed into A Rose Productions. We are so excited to be working with the great folks at the Artists Exchange, in Cranston. It's a great space and these people are doing great things everyday!! Rich Morra, the Director of The Black Box Theater, is a brilliant director. His last production," Twilight", was an amazing accomplishment. It's the perfect space to put up "Desdemona". This is a wonderful show that I feel in love with 12 yrs ago and have been passionate about putting it up since then. As a director and as an actress it is a complex, yet, fun piece. I still have to read it thru a couple more times and then I'll decide which great role I want to play!! I change my mind daily! The show is the other side of the wall of "Othello".
I'll get into more detail as time goes on....
Now back on stage, the comedy and musical stylings of Julie and some of her closest and most insane friends. Watch them create ridiculous sketches, musical parodies and show off their amazing Improv-abilities!! This is a true variety show. All arts are welcome and displayed. Each month you will see some of Lil Rhody's favorite, singers, dancers, poets, and musicians sharing all of their great talents with us all!! And the best part is you can join us. You can show off your talents or be part of merry band, all you have to do is ask Julie, and she'll say Yes!! Let's have some fun!!

The quality of mercy is not strained

They changed Poetry.com to something else!! It's kind of the same site, but no more Haiku contest!! I know I can still write haikus on my own, it's just after 10 yrs I was upset it was taken from me.

Taken, Lost,Released...

Also, this week, a piece of my soul went to the spirit. only with me for a few weeks, but in my heart forever. I have written a haiku to honor my loss...


When the tiny heart
falls in the abyss so dark
we are truly sad



Taken, Lost,Released


Anger, denial, bargaining,depression, acceptance...sad, so very very sad...


Taken, lost, released

Love. love, love

And So It Is