June 28/07 Café

June 28

This was Shtev's last café before he moved to France. Our rehearsals beforehand were a great way to spend time together. Shtev and I (KP) worked out the choreography for Mike's cafe version of "The Charleston" and had some hilarious moments doing that. Hot times in the summer trying to rehearse it with the gang at the house Andrea was sitting.

DaBig Ensemble number flambéed a la table

Garry suggested we play with ways to deliver our performances using the table top as the stage vs. us full-bodied actors. To somehow really bring the size of the stage down to the table top: Imagine a scene from "Taming of the Shrew" between a salt shaker and a knife.

Mike serves up a serious monologue mode

The Café itself was a really nice evening. And I mean nice in every sense of the word. Some good friends showed up, along with new faces and although it wasn't packed like last month, it was a great giving/intereacting, not-too-crazy pace (though we do like that as well!).

Sher and Kim finish serenading Keeling with "Well Did You Evah?"

We all had moments of busy-ness along with lulls, but the best thing was that Shtev got to do a wonderful cross-section of the performances he has on the menu. Extra-special because his mum was able to finally make it to a Café.

Paul and Steph enjoy Shtev as Gustav

Shtev had people laughing their pants off as Gustav, thrilled with his newly created Happening, numbers reprised his lyrical piece Stopping, Not Ending from DaPoPo's "Apocalypse 2006" and accompanied so many of us for musical numbers

Shtev, Garry and friend present a DaPretentious Song

Shtev is living and loving in France as I write this and we do miss him.

Kim and Shtev perform an excerpt from Apocalypse 2006

During the whole thing, Andrea - who was more lulled than the rest of us - slid into backstage wrangler mode and kept us on track with orders in and out and priorities. What a huge help!

Bedtime story for patrons Lee, Meghan, Gina, Michael & Elizabeth (+friends)

And a professional photographer, Rob Fournier, was in attendance and took some fantastic candid shots throughout the evening. All of the photos on this post are to his credit. Thanks Rob!

Garry leads the monologue series from "Four Actors in Search of a Nation"

We've been asked by our main man at Mollyz, Doug Melanson, to put on an extra cafe next month for Halifax Pride Week. DaPride Café it is! July 19...