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