Vote! Bloomington Press Photos

Press Photographer Cory Harbour took some great pictures of Vote! for Sunday's Indiana Daily Student follow-up article on the Bloomington production. View the entire album here.

Muffin and Company

Mark sings "Ambition"

Visit the Vote! website.

Vlogging Vote! - The Musical

Katherine Duffy, who was one of the cast members of Vote! Bloomington, has her own video blog. She produced a terrific three part video detailing the entire Bloomington Vote! experience, with lots of interviews with the cast and crew, plus creator Ryann Ferguson. She even chatted a bit with her humble director... me.

The first part is posted below, and here are the links to part two and three.

Katherine's Blog is pretty cool and it reminds me of my friend Andrew Keenan-Bolger's blog. Andrew is a young actor and he blogs about his many exciting performances. His blog on the Vote! NYC reading was seen by Eric Anderson, who after learning about the show, produced it in Bloomginton. Read that full story as told by Ken Davenport.

Vote! Opens Tonight

Vote!, the musical, opens tonight in Bloomington, Indiana. We've been workshopping the show here for over a month and we've learned so much from our terrific cast.

We've gotten some nice buzz, from a great article on Broadway World, to a nice write-up in The Indiana Daily Student.

Tickets can be purchased here. We've got a performance Friday & Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 2pm. I'll post some pictures from the production and begin blogging for real again when I return to NYC on Monday!

Dicktation

One of the best things on television last year was the Australian comedy series Summer Heights High. Chris Lilley created the series and plays three of the characters including Jonah Takalua, a kid who tags everything with Dicktation.

Last night Kevin and I were out on the Bloomington town celebrating his 24th birthday and I came across this graffiti in the bathroom of Upstairs, a local college bar. Cool to see Jonah's tag has made it all the way across the world to an Indiana straight bar.

Oscar Night

Yesterday, to catch up on Oscar-nominated movies, I went to see three - The Reader, Doubt, & Revolutionary Road. One of the great things about Bloomington is that movies only cost $5, so my entire day at the theater cost about as much as one NYC ticket.

I enjoyed all three of the films, but I truly LOVED The Reader. I feel sorta ready for this year's Oscars, but I never did get a chance to see Frost/Nixon. Other than that, I'm in pretty good shape.

Nate Silver (the statistician who called the 2008 election nearly perfectly) has Oscar Predictions based on a mathematical formula. I think he's right on everything, except Best Supporting Actress, which I think will go to Viola Davis in Doubt.

I'm looking forward to Mickey Rourke winning tonight. The Wrestler was AMAZING and one of my favorite films of the year. I would have nominated it for Best Picture and Director. I'd also have nominated Wall-E and The Dark Knight for Best Picture. Slumdog Millionaire was damn good, but paled in comparison to the similar City Of God. Now that's a fucking movie.

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10PM Odds & Ends

I'm starting to feel better, from whatever coldy allergy thing that I'm dealing with here in Bloomington. Someone told me yesterday that, "If you don't have allergies before you come to Bloomington, you'll have them after." Well, I had them before. So, I guess I have them doubly now.

-- NY Times - Is the conservative Supreme Court out to abolish the Exclusionary Rule?

-- Another liberal pushing for a return of The Fairness Doctrine. This is one dumb issue.

-- Bob Burnett makes a case for the separation of civil unions and religious marriage. No one has ever explained to me what business the state has issuing marriage licenses. Federal civil unions for all. Get married in your church.

-- Wild visualization of Walmart's growth.

-- Focus On The Family spent six-times as much money on Prop 8 as the Mormons.