Ok my avid readers lets dish.

I am coming to you from the king sized bed in our bed room, wrapped up in a white cabled turtle neck sweater and newspaper leggings, hiding under a pile of blankets and afghans.   The October snow on our porch roof is almost all melted and a soft scented candle from Ikea is burning on the desk.   I have my old laptop sitting next to me on its side playing Lady Gaga’s poker face off of an internet dance station, and I am popping vitamin C like its my job!

In the past few months I have been all over the New England Region, I have become the Resident Lighting Designer For Seacoast Repertory Theatre in Portsmouth Newhampshire, I landed the East Coast Lighting Design position for the Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker, I have designed about 10 weddings and I have programmed my schedule through Dec of 2012, in case you haven’t been following me on twitter https://twitter.com/#!/MichaelCWonson that’s a whole lot of stuff happening to me.  I have been living in Boston, Northampton and NYC, and I am very humbled by the generosity of my partner putting up with my crazy schedule, my friends for giving me beds, kitchens, and everybody’s abundant supply of unending support and love.

I am looking forward to hitting the world class theatres which are in front of me (im told, “some of the best in the nation”) and turning out a mean show every day.   Talking about every day, we are in a new city every day!  That’s two months of tour bus living people!   With that in mind I am looking around my house and thinking about the minimal things I could want to make this new living experience work.  On the list are my special soap, my pillow, popcorn, coffee, computer, headphones, cell charger, poufy jacket, and 7 days worth of clothes.  Feel free to comment and let me know if I should add anything to the list.  I am very excited to set foot on our bus and tweet out to all of you my best Lady Gaga move…

I am also looking forward to Erik Fox taking my paper designs and implementing them in two theatres while I’m on the road.   It’s humbling to know that while I am away entertaining thousands of people a night my name, ideas, and aesthetics will be going up around Boston and New Hampshire.  I am very grateful to Erik’s friendship.  Erik and I met years ago when I decided to leave grad school, and he decided to apply at North Shore Music Theatre.  We both collided and he Master Electricianed 3 of my shows, and from that moment on we have been inseparable helping each other lift to the next level of our design experience.

I am looking forward to vacationing with Clay at the end of the tour, and returning home to continue to fill the small gaps in my production schedule..  I am still trying to branch out in the Five College Region and I would love to land an Opera for next year.

 

Well kids that’s all he wrote for the moment, I really need to go finish a light plot, some paper work, and mail out color to Erik…

 

I am looking ahead to sending you weekly updates, so please stay tuned for all the crazy fun…

 

 

<3

~anon

 

ps,

see if i am coming to your city and please come and visit me… or send me trinkets

http://www.nutcracker.com/your-city

Posted by Michael Clark Wonson, filed under Life. Date: November 8, 2011, 5:11 pm | Comments Off on My bags are packed, and I’m ready to go, So kiss me and smile for me, and tell me that you’ll wait for me… or how I will try to update once a week from the road on my bus….