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Tuesday, March 02, 2021
Stove becomes stage in Playful People's interactive cooking class with theater twist
Datebook: Broadway actor and San Jose native Aaron Albano had his stage set: garlic, onion, distilled white vinegar, soy sauce, chicken legs, spices and a rice cooker. And it was important to have a rice cooker filled with good rice — none of that “cheap garbage rice,” he instructed his audience in advance.
4 comments:
Alexa Janoschka
said...
I love this because I love cooking. It is so cool to see what professionals do outside of their work. To see the behind the scenes of the lives of performers and crew members. I think that cooking is such an amazing way to connect with others and create an amazing community. We all eat so do be able to create and make food for others has been a recent hobby for me and I love sharing and showing others how I care by cooking food. I wish that I knew about more of these events, not that I would have time to watch sadly. Something that I have enjoyed about the pandemic is being able to cook more. I don't think that I would have had the time to develop my understanding of cooking if it weren't for the sudden shift in free time and oppurtunities. Cooking has been a safe and productive way to spend my time as we wait for the industry to open back up :)
I love this! I think it’s such a fun idea to get people to bond virtually over cooking. Before the pandemic, the only thing I could really make was a killer grilled cheese, but with all the new free time on my hands at the beginning of the lockdown, I started to find recipes on the internet and give cooking a go. I found that I actually love being in the kitchen, especially with family, friends, or roommates hanging around while I cook. I had some great bonding time with my mom as we cooking dinner for the family together, something that I never used to do while cooking at least. I love working in the scene shop because I love to stand back in the end and look at the work that I helped put together, and I suppose that love is slowly starting to seep over into the cooking world. I’m always so excited when I cook something, and it turns out tasting amazing! I’m thinking of possibly joining one of these zoom shows and learning a new recipe to try.
Reading this article I couldn't help but laugh a little at the thought of an actor bursting into a rendition of “Proud of Your Boy” while I watch over Zoom trying desperately not to burn my chicken thighs. This is a very interesting choice to marry cooking show and cabaret. I am absolutely in no place to discount it before I’ve eleven tired it. But as an amateur cook I think I might find it incredibly stressful to have to split my attention between a performance and not fall behind in making my marinade. I am curious to know if this production came to be because this specific actor wanted to cook for an audience or if this company had this idea and found an actor who could do both. Either way, I praise the ingenuity! I literally never would have thought of this in a million years. I would really like to hear an honest first hand account to see how well performance and cooking were blended in this class.
This sounds like it was an amazing class for the pandemic times! I also gravitated towards cooking to keep me busy, trying to make pasta from scratch! Albano seems like a great teacher- witty and personable, which I feel was probably important when you hadn’t been within 6 feet of people in months. Albano’s culture seems to be a big part of him. When I looked into his Broadway work, his Filipino heritage came up a lot. I’m glad he was able to share some of that through cooking class. Of course, I’d also be interested to hear the theatre stories he shared in class. Broadway has so much glamour to its name, and sometimes it can be easy to forget that the actors and the theatre itself are also just that- people and an organization. I’ve seen videos from an actor, JJ Niemann, that also make Broadway and that part of theatre seem realistic. I also found that one of his first listed stage credits is for the show Miss Saigon, performed at the one and only Benedum! It’s cool to see how interconnected the world of theater is.
4 comments:
I love this because I love cooking. It is so cool to see what professionals do outside of their work. To see the behind the scenes of the lives of performers and crew members. I think that cooking is such an amazing way to connect with others and create an amazing community. We all eat so do be able to create and make food for others has been a recent hobby for me and I love sharing and showing others how I care by cooking food. I wish that I knew about more of these events, not that I would have time to watch sadly. Something that I have enjoyed about the pandemic is being able to cook more. I don't think that I would have had the time to develop my understanding of cooking if it weren't for the sudden shift in free time and oppurtunities. Cooking has been a safe and productive way to spend my time as we wait for the industry to open back up :)
I love this! I think it’s such a fun idea to get people to bond virtually over cooking. Before the pandemic, the only thing I could really make was a killer grilled cheese, but with all the new free time on my hands at the beginning of the lockdown, I started to find recipes on the internet and give cooking a go. I found that I actually love being in the kitchen, especially with family, friends, or roommates hanging around while I cook. I had some great bonding time with my mom as we cooking dinner for the family together, something that I never used to do while cooking at least. I love working in the scene shop because I love to stand back in the end and look at the work that I helped put together, and I suppose that love is slowly starting to seep over into the cooking world. I’m always so excited when I cook something, and it turns out tasting amazing! I’m thinking of possibly joining one of these zoom shows and learning a new recipe to try.
Reading this article I couldn't help but laugh a little at the thought of an actor bursting into a rendition of “Proud of Your Boy” while I watch over Zoom trying desperately not to burn my chicken thighs. This is a very interesting choice to marry cooking show and cabaret. I am absolutely in no place to discount it before I’ve eleven tired it. But as an amateur cook I think I might find it incredibly stressful to have to split my attention between a performance and not fall behind in making my marinade. I am curious to know if this production came to be because this specific actor wanted to cook for an audience or if this company had this idea and found an actor who could do both. Either way, I praise the ingenuity! I literally never would have thought of this in a million years. I would really like to hear an honest first hand account to see how well performance and cooking were blended in this class.
This sounds like it was an amazing class for the pandemic times! I also gravitated towards cooking to keep me busy, trying to make pasta from scratch! Albano seems like a great teacher- witty and personable, which I feel was probably important when you hadn’t been within 6 feet of people in months.
Albano’s culture seems to be a big part of him. When I looked into his Broadway work, his Filipino heritage came up a lot. I’m glad he was able to share some of that through cooking class. Of course, I’d also be interested to hear the theatre stories he shared in class. Broadway has so much glamour to its name, and sometimes it can be easy to forget that the actors and the theatre itself are also just that- people and an organization. I’ve seen videos from an actor, JJ Niemann, that also make Broadway and that part of theatre seem realistic.
I also found that one of his first listed stage credits is for the show Miss Saigon, performed at the one and only Benedum! It’s cool to see how interconnected the world of theater is.
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