Ok my avid readers lets dish.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0\u00a0 The October snow on our porch roof is almost all melted and a soft scented candle from Ikea is burning on the desk.\u00a0\u00a0 I have my old laptop sitting next to me on its side playing Lady Gaga\u2019s poker face off of an internet dance station, and I am popping vitamin C like its my job!<\/p>\n
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\u2019s Great Russian Nutcracker, I have designed about 10 weddings and I have programmed my schedule through Dec of 2012, in case you haven\u2019t been following me on twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/MichaelCWonson<\/a> that\u2019s a whole lot of stuff happening to me.\u00a0 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\u2019s abundant supply of unending support and love.<\/p>\n I am looking forward to hitting the world class theatres which are in front of me (im told, \u201csome of the best in the nation\u201d) and turning out a mean show every day.\u00a0\u00a0 Talking about every day, we are in a new city every day!\u00a0 That\u2019s two months of tour bus living people!\u00a0\u00a0 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.\u00a0 On the list are my special soap, my pillow, popcorn, coffee, computer, headphones, cell charger, poufy jacket, and 7 days worth of clothes.\u00a0 Feel free to comment and let me know if I should add anything to the list. \u00a0I am very excited to set foot on our bus and tweet out to all of you my best Lady Gaga move\u2026<\/p>\n I am also looking forward to Erik Fox taking my paper designs and implementing them in two theatres while I\u2019m on the road.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s 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.\u00a0 I am very grateful to Erik\u2019s friendship.\u00a0 Erik and I met years ago when I decided to leave grad school, and he decided to apply at North Shore Music Theatre.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n 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..\u00a0 I am still trying to branch out in the Five College Region and I would love to land an Opera for next year.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Well kids that\u2019s all he wrote for the moment, I really need to go finish a light plot, some paper work, and mail out color to Erik\u2026<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I am looking ahead to sending you weekly updates, so please stay tuned for all the crazy fun\u2026<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <3<\/p>\n ~anon<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ps,<\/p>\n see if i am\u00a0coming\u00a0to your city and please come and visit me… or send me trinkets<\/p>\n