This is exactly why you don't tell people stuff before you are sure. It is like, to put it delicately, putting your foot (or even your whole fist) in your mouth.
We went to the Lincoln Center. The Room is called the Allen Room. Google it. It is gorgeous, seats 400 some odd people. But for us a one night engagement was going to mean we would do our best to stuff 3,000 in that room. The show we did in Philly intimately seated 90. We sold out the first night, only to find out we hadn't really sold out. The second night we sold over 100 tickets.
As I tend to do, I digress...
So the lady gives us the figures and we like "cool". She was set to give us the final cost a few days after our visit. To put it mildly we were "outbid". The Allen Room requires the staffing of a handful of UNION 1 stagehands to lock and load set pieces, etc. Set pieces which Any1Man could carry himself. The price that we were originally quoted for the use of the space was a little more than 1/3 or the price for usage once the UNION 1 stagehands were included.
Ixnay on the Incolnlay.
So, now we have a new location and it is as definite as the birth of a baby to a pregnant woman. Meaning, you can't (or shouldn't) name it yet, but you know it's coming because well, you can see it. July 30th and 31st be in Manhattan.
That's what Jon Genius, technical director says. "I need to see the space." I mean, I feel him. I need to see the space too. Who knows what is going to happen once we walk into the the Allen Room in the Lincoln Center tomorrow at 3pm? That's a real question...
First thing's first. We have table work, of the paper kind, to finalize. Once ink and paper have made holy matrimony, then we can begin to start sticking our necks all the way out there. I say that in the most confident of ways. See, we started this whole thing out in the Rialto Center, in Atlanta, Georgia. The Rialto is home to such long runs as Menapause: The Musical (with whom we would go on to share a stage again in Philadelphia's Winter months) and has its most recent movie credits in "The Gospel". So we are not new to making mole hills out of moutains. But this time, it's the Lincoln Center. It may as well be the Bellagio to our Ocean's 11.
Spent about 3 hours with Angela (Director) today. We never even got on our feet. Other than my impromptu read of Bishop, we sat and worked through the dramaturgy of the script. She had several interesting takes, moreso questions. She underscores every piece she is a part of with a common goal. That is to "frame the work in the context in which it was created." I need to sleep on that.
You'll be hearing from others here, but for now...
2.0
Our deepest apologies. Not because we were wrong, but because we know how difficult we have been making it for you to reach us. Many of you have written letters and emails expressing interest in us, and for that we are humbly appreciative.
Allow that we share what we have been doing. The first time that we ever spoke in front of people was in Atlanta way back in 2005. We didn't expect that the response would be so overwhelmingly supportive. With that support came a barrage of questions about us that we hadn't anticipated. As five seperate people, we had to decide as individuals what our answers to those questions were. This we had to do before we could share a stage as a collective, again.
We have decided, as individuals. We have decided that we are ready to tell our story.
-Any1Man 2.0
