Thursday, December 03, 2020
Just Me and the Music and the Green Screen
The New York Times: “Are you making a kissy face, Max?” Shereen Ahmed is blushing as she leans into her Zoom window to ask a question of her co-star, Max von Essen.
“Yeah, I think I am going to close my eyes,” he replies. Then he leans into blank space with puckered lips.
She does the same, becoming half of a Norman Rockwell valentine, and the primal act of musical theater, the ingénue kissing the juvenile, has taken place — only with the actors hundreds of miles apart, locked down in their apartments, acting into their iPhones, while the rest of us in the cast watch from our own muted Zoom squares.
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I love coming across articles like this! Now that we are in the heart of pandemic season and have spent some time sitting with this new norm, I feel like a lot of people and companies have found ways in which they can continue remotely and although it may not be exactly the same, it’s still something, which I think is a really admirable and difficult mentality to upload. Given the “show must go on '' mentality, the theatre world has especially a difficult task of tackling the obstacle that is creating live magic via zoom. I think this production of “Meet Me in St. Louis' ' did an amazing job at creating a realistic world and set design for their vistrual production. The pictures that they provided in the article look very convincing and I really appreciated the effort that was put in by the entire cast, including the younger members, to really make these green screen false backgrounds work.
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