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I invited Caroline Chehade (featured in the CNN report below) to tell our MasterWorks theatre students how she was able to win a Stradivarius violin on loan. Our theme this year was "Smashing Idols", and I was surprised how much her story matched our theme. I told our students that they ar...
07.20.11 11:15 AM - Comment(s)
Indescribable

I played Frederick Lehman in the film Indescribable, which tells how my character and his kids wrote the hymn "The Love of God." I'm the Papa to nine children, and my beloved bride, Joyce, played the Mama beautifully.

I also got to coach the man playing Rabbi Lazer on hi...

07.20.11 03:16 AM - Comment(s)

I'm on the set of Indescribable ( http://IndescribableTheMovie.com) coaching Keith Pilkington on his Hebrew as he plays Rabbi Lazer.

07.19.11 06:24 PM - Comment(s)
On the final day of MasterWorks we erected a pile of rocks commemorating the decisions we'd made throughout the month.

07.17.11 07:49 PM - Comment(s)
From our MasterWorks production of Cyrano de Bergerac.

07.16.11 07:46 PM - Comment(s)
The schnoz Brandon Langeland used for the title role of our MasterWorks production of Cyrano de Bergerac cast a long shadow.

07.16.11 07:37 PM - Comment(s)
http://www.youtube.com/embed/srkBPrvW6o4
This performance is by the MasterWits. See Cyrano de Bergerac July 13-15: MasterWorksFestival.org/Performance-Calendar-.html

Credits listed at RichDrama.com/Moth.
07.09.11 01:05 AM - Comment(s)

Our second master class instructor, Colin Harbinson, preached to the whole MasterWorks community this morning.

He used the story of Lazarus to talk about the death of a vision, and how the Lord resurrects greater things if we choose not to live in our woundedness. The stories he used as illustrations...

07.03.11 04:26 PM - Comment(s)

Curt Cloninger (http://CurtCloninger.com) is the first person I ever saw doing a one-man play. He shared his story at MasterWorks (http://RichDrama.com/MWFTheatre2011), and then blessed us with his play Witnesses.

07.03.11 04:26 PM - Comment(s)
I will never read those portions of scripture the same way.
--Alana Pritchard Carithers
Violinist for Richmond Symphony
and Oberon Quartet in Residence at St. Catherines School

After seeing Paradise Lost at the MasterWorks Festival
07.03.11 11:13 AM - Comment(s)
These shots are from our MasterWorks performance of Paradise Lost:
07.02.11 10:05 PM - Comment(s)

Wednesday at 8:27pm Dr. Patrick Kavanaugh was abducted by a giant slow loris. Brandon Langeland was named as the interim Festival director. His first order of business was to conduct a Town Hall discussion and vote on whether or not Chewbacca's belching should initiate a ban on extra-terrestrial be...
06.30.11 01:32 PM - Comment(s)

The MasterWits are prepping for our improv tonight with some brewskies: microbrewed cream soda and ginger ale.

06.29.11 08:09 PM - Comment(s)

Our theatre program was well represented in Sunday morning's service with Brandon Langeland's sketch, "Bear Witness". Actors, from left to right, are Josh Knox, Danny Cornett and Brandon Langeland.



06.29.11 01:28 AM - Comment(s)
Just before MasterWorks started this year I took a four-day course on Whole Brain® Thinking. I used some of what I'd learned with our MasterWorks students to help them understand how they and the characters they played think.

06.27.11 07:30 PM - Comment(s)


We just wrapped week one at MasterWorks, and what a great group of actors! We have half of Cyrano de Bergerac blocked, honors recital audition prep is coming along, and we are on the eve of the arrival of our first master class artist, Curt Cloninger, the first actor I ever saw doing a one-man play...
06.25.11 06:55 PM - Comment(s)
This is the card I sent my dad. The main photo is him as Capt. Zapp, an air show clown. From the left to right the other photos show him at a race in college, smudging in his orchard, and flying a gyrocopter he invented.

You've been a huge inspiration, Dad! Have a wonderful Father's Day.
Love,...
06.19.11 08:26 AM - Comment(s)
Lindsey Fredrick wrote up our program notes for our theatre production at the MasterWorks Festival this summer: Cyrano de Bergerac
06.11.11 11:25 PM - Comment(s)
Terry Ewell, bassoon instructor at MasterWorks and Towson University, composed music to accompany excerpts from John Milton's epic poem, Paradise Lost. We performed the piece at the International Double Reed Festival in Tempe, AZ, and we had many positive responses. While walking around the campus ...
06.08.11 03:21 PM - Comment(s)

  Terry Ewell, who composed and produced our recent performances of Paradise Lost just wrote a devotion for his church: Be a Good Example.
06.08.11 03:04 PM - Comment(s)

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