2003 PA state thespian conference

this past weekend, joe and i went down to bucks county, pennsylvania for the 2003 pennsylvania state thespian conference, held at pennsbury high school.  we arrived to enjoy two and a half days of a wide range of high school theater, some of the best in the state. 

one of the highlights of my weekend was seeing pennsbury's own production of stephen sondheim's merrily we roll along, a show that's near and dear to my heart primarily because lashonhara productions directed our own version back in 1996, my senior year in college.  i have to say, their production was, in some ways, better than ours — though, to put it in perspective, pennsbury's director is a fifty-year old who teaches theater full-time while we were twenty-year old students who directed the show in our spare time.  still, i grew a little nostalgic for the chance to do it all over again...

the other highlight of my weekend was sitting in on joe's workshop sessions, both friday and saturday.  joe's workshop was called "theater as a social voice."  the pictures above are of him being all teacher-like.  sexy!

the best part of the weekend was that the pennsylvania student thespians raised $1700 for broadway cares/equity fights aids.  whoo hoo!

Posted by jason at December 15, 2003 05:00 PM