As I said when I first started this blog... I won't blog just to blog. I'll blog when there's something relevant to MacJac moving forward with what we're doing - Hence, today's blog.
First: progress report on...
We impressed the Clark County Library System Library folks enough that they want the show to do a short run in July 2025.
Other opportunities' have opened up for 2025 as well, but I don't jinx those opportunities from happening, that's all I'll say right now.
However... within the next couple of weeks, MacJac will be posting an upcoming alliance with another Veterans organization in Las Vegas, that will benefit NOW I GET IT and the organization we'll be partnering with. STAY TUNED!
WHAT ELSE?
Well... it seems that MacJac may be expanding into film making as well as theatre making!
This is the concept movie poster for a stage play I wrote in 2000, and this year I adapted it to a screenplay.
Its a story, a true story... It's funny and poignant; as all of us are, when we travel the bumpy road of starting over after divorce, being widowed, or dealing with other peoples comments about why we're not married in what is "a very married church".
It's fact based on the 20 years I spent in and out of the Single Adult program of my faith - I'm a Latter-Day Saint.
I've been married for 20-years, BUT I still remember the first "singles dance", that's what my faith calls them, I went to.
Having always had a brain that's just a little off center. My first thought when I walked in the room was, "Dannnggg... there's a lot of hurt and angry people in here."
Fifteen minutes of overhearing conversations; and my next thought was, "This is great stuff. Comedians wait for years for this kind of material. All I did was walk into this room!".
For me, my first faith based, singles experience was the closest thing to an out of body experience one can have, without doing drugs - LOL!
And that weirdness was just as much from me as it was everybody else that was there.
The play toured LDS Singles Conferences (a ComicCon with a spiritual theme) throughout the southwest from 2000 - 2005. Interestingly enough, the play also had appeal to those who were part of the singles scene in other faiths, as well as the single scene in general.
I pulled the play back in 2005 out of concern of it "getting old".
In 2018... I was contacted by a friend who was in the original cast, and was now serving on a Singles Conference planning committee in Las Vegas.
Long story short... we did a table read of the committee, they liked it, and we did it for the conference. It was the only entertainment booked for that conference that received standing ovations both nights it ran.
In a talk back with the audience after the closing show, the audience discovered that the play, at that time, was 17-years old, AND... apparently not one thing had changed with attitudes and behaviors of the singles, AND... as of 2024. Still nothing has changed.
What that closing night audience expressed was an appreciation for something that allowed them to take a step back and stop taking themselves so seriously, and LAUGH at themselves.
Since it's opening night in Mesa, AZ in 2000, talk of making it into a film has been incessant.
That same friend that served on the planning committee in 2018, just recently introduced the idea of making A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A NIGHT AT A DANCE into a film, to a indie film producer acquaintance of his.
As a result of that, the producer and I started having conversations and now... here we are; developing a budget, planning on shooting it in Las Vegas (tentatively planned for April/May 2025), talking to potential 1st Asst. Directors and Directors of Photography - all that stuff you do to make the project happen.
As I always say, STAY TUNED... to see what happens with NOW I GET IT and the film version of A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A NIGHT AT A DANCE.
Thanks for reading my blog!
Loren
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