Fight Evil!

photo credits: John Taflan

tonight

in a few hours, in fact

we have teched

we have previewed

we have been tightening, changing, working, cueing, re-writing, watching, learning…

wilson wants to open-

here we go.

Check out this hot interview with Wilson director Michael Rohd which appear in the RedEye this morning.

Answers quite a few questions about the show that… most of you might still have even after following along on this blog for weeks!

No picture here.

No video clip.

No link.

Just a thought on what we are coming out of as a team; tech.

Such an amazing thing, to watch literally dozens of people in a dark room working with a single goal…tell the story. Bring it to life. Shape the most potent and joyful event we can, using the tools we have at our disposal.

And of course, we can’t really know how the shaping is coming until we add the most important piece of the puzzle- the audience. So we guess. We problem solve, we cajole, we shove, we cry, we keep going…just to get to the point where we can see how what we’ve done lives ‘with’, not just ‘to’.

We have lots of work to do, but i can feel the beginning of that need, that desire, to tell the story and learn what the story still needs.

So please- get ready to come on down and help.

Wilson is almost ready.

by michael rohd

so, steve jobs has clearly been sitting in on our design meetings

and learning, from us, how technology will function in the year 2040

his ideas aren’t as advanced as ours

but still

i think its poor form for him to unveil his little device without so much as a mention of its obvious source

ah steve- we’ll let it pass this time

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/01/27/apple.tablet/index.html?hpt=T1

in this image, part of our story is committed to film…and we take on step closer to the world of wilson…

i am at Ana K’s house with her generous family
Lucas is with me
carolyn is on the way

awesome.

making it happen

by mike smith, cast member

MONTAGE!

If you look up the word montage, you get a pretty lengthy and
confusing definition. I think Team America sums it up perfectly.

team america

Here at the House, we put montages in our plays all the time. Each
play in the Valentine Trilogy had a montage sequence at the end of Act
I. We used a montage to tell the story of Emily Book’s first day of
school and then a contrasting montage to show The Sparrow’s first day
in the hallways of Spring Farm High.

Wilson Wants it All has a great montage scene. I think it’s the most
elaborate montage sequence in House history! I can’t wait for you to
see it! In the mean time… what are some of your favorite movie
montages?

Here are a few of our favorites:

The beginning of WALL-E and UP — leave it to Pixar to have you
tearing up within the first 5 minutes of a movie.

Superhero movies almost always have some sort of montage… my personal
favorite it the “I’m Spiderman no more” sequence in Spiderman 2. That
freeze frame shot at the end is brilliant!

Here’s a classic from The Naked Gun.
Nked Gun

And a real classic from Citizen Kane.
Citizen Kane
What are your favorites?

By Emjoy Gavino, Ensemble member (aka “peeps”), Wilson Wants It All

The Truth Machine: I’m a few chapters into it, but it deals with much that has been discussed amongst the ensemble — truth, ethics, the decline of America, politics, the justice system, international diplomacy, a specific technology and its effect on mankind. I look forward to submerging myself into this future we seem to be creating from both logic and curiosity.

The Philosopher’s Apprentice: This is one I’m starting as soon as I finish the first one. It concerns advances in medical technology, with ethical complications along the way… A scientist comes across a girl who was born with no morality — only to discover there is also a sister with a similar predicament. Or something? I overheard people talking about this on the train and I immediately put this on my must read.

by Chris Burnham, House Company Member

Jack Kirby was the greatest comic artist of all time and co-created Captain America, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Hulk, the Avengers, and hundreds of others.

Bam! Thor versus Galactus? Sign me right the %^&* up!

In 1969, at the height of his creative powers, he did costume designs for a theatrical production of Julius Caesar. Wild!

http://www.kirbymuseum.org/caesar

Here's a Roman Garrison soldier as rendered by Jack Kirby. Awesome and ridiculous.

by michael rohd

An American Leader

Today is Martin Luther King Day.

One of the things our show explores is leadership in America.
Wilson spends years preparing the country for Hope.

So i’m thinking about King, and what he accomplished- wondering who helped him that we’ll never know, wondering what moments led him to greatness..and remembering his massive accomplishments.

happy MLK day.